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What's New in RapidMiner Studio 7.0.0?

The following describes the enhancements and bug fixes in RapidMiner Studio 7.0.0:

Enhancements

Overhauled the entire user interface
Added new unified data import mechanism. So far supported: Excel, CSV, databases, and binary files.
New tutorials mechanism
New process template mechanism
Re-arranged operators in Operators panel to better fit analytic workflows
Renamed 'View' to 'Panel' and 'Perspective' to 'View'
New start-up dialog which replaces the old Welcome perspective
Moved "Synchronize Meta Data" toggle button from process panel to 'Process' menu in the top menu bar
Drastically improved performance when browsing data tables in the result view
Added support for high-dpi icons on OS X Retina Displays
Improved Operator documentation layout to increase readability
Improved Random Forest classification performance by adding a new voting mechanism
The "no result port connected" warning can now be turned off
Added option to specify a background image for a process when right-clicking on the process canvas
Changed keyboard layout: escape navigates to the parent process (if any), backspace deletes selected operators and annotations on OS X.
Added a pop-up menu item to the operator execution order mode as an alternative way to leave it
Dummy operators (e.g. from missing extensions) are now colored in red
Added a parameter for quickly downloading missing extensions for Dummy operators
The 'Generate Aggregation' operator now shows an error if the attribute filter does not return any attributes by default (can be deactivated)

Passwords for proxy server are stored encrypted now
Linear Regression now shows correct errors for coefficient estimation
Fixed an error in the ANOVA calculation that returned wrong values if the numbers of groups were equal to the number of examples
Association rules in the Results view are now displayed correctly filtered without user input
Selecting operators in the process panel no longer causes UI freezes
Rearrange operators will create only one undo step now
Fixed misbehavior of the undo action
Fixed a rare issue which prevented opening the 'Manage Database Connections' dialog
Process 'Tree' panel selection will once again navigate the main 'Process' panel
Fixed crash while starting Studio and immediately locking the computer on Windows
The view files in the .RapidMiner folder will no longer become huge due to duplicate information
Fixed re-attaching floating panels via pop-up menu
Fixed restoring hidden/detached panels sometimes vanishing
Fixed settings dialog layout when opened multiple times
Notification pop-ups (e.g. when adding unsupported operators) are now always in the correct location
Fixed parameter warning/error hint duplication when resizing Studio while the warning is being displayed
Fixed dialog size for long error messages
Fixed display of some characters on Windows 8/10 and Mac