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+**Release Notes - Charts Version 3.0.0**
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+*Release Date: Sep 2, 2023*
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+We are thrilled to announce the release of Inforiver Charts Version 3.0.0, which comes packed with a multitude of enhancements and features to enrich your experience with our platform.
+
+**Charting Enhancements:**
+
+1. **Axis Breaks Improvements:**
+   - Usability enhancements and improved UI for displaying axis breaks.
+   - Axis breaks can now be applied even for negative data.
+
+2. **Breakdown Waterfall:**
+   - Ability to create custom deviations for breakdown waterfall charts.
+   - Option to suppress null and zero variances in breakdown waterfall and paired waterfall charts.
+
+3. **Canvas Customization:**
+   - Users can set the line stroke width to 0px for line, area, and lollipop charts.
+   - Individual colors can be assigned to each category for single measure charts.
+   - Default canvas size for smaller displays now displays only essential toast messages.
+
+4. **Combo Charts:**
+   - Ability to disable scrolling when all series are changed to line or area charts.
+   - Sorting and Top N functionality now extended to additional AC measures.
+   - Users can set Y axis scaling for combo line charts in the Series tab.
+
+5. **Conditional Formatting:**
+   - Introducing conditional formatting based on field values for enhanced data visualization.
+
+6. **Data Labels:**
+   - Data labels can now be displayed based on outliers.
+   - Users have the option to apply bold and italic formatting to data labels.
+   - Font size for data labels set to "Inside-Top/Center/Bottom/Right/Left" is now based on the bar width.
+
+7. **Deviation:**
+   - Custom deviation creation now supported for stacked charts.
+   - Enhanced customization for deviation colors, separate from global variance colors.
+
+**Chart Configuration:**
+
+8. **Field Tab Enhancements:**
+   - Improved text category field handling for better data categorization.
+
+9. **IBCS - All Charts:**
+   - Ability to treat non-time series as time series text for expanded versatility.
+   - Measure-based and role-based configuration for more flexibility.
+   - Introduction of passive license view.
+
+10. **IBCS-C13: Small Multiples:**
+    - Compact trellis layout.
+    - Responsive bar width inside trellis.
+    - Ability to display horizontal charts in Trellis using Scaled columns.
+
+11. **KPI Enhancements:**
+    - Enhanced KPI header options for identical settings as Trellis panel.
+    - Improved default elements configuration.
+    - Streamlined KPI toolbar with a new floating toolbar.
+
+12. **Landing Page:**
+    - Brand new landing page design for a fresh user experience.
+
+13. **Manage Measures:**
+    - Option to choose x-axis categories via axis selector.
+    - Default mapping configuration for measures and groups.
+    - Manual width setting for each series.
+    - Lock feature introduced in Manage Measures.
+    - Various enhancements for measure management.
+
+14. **Matrix:**
+    - Ranking now available for Matrix rows and columns.
+
+15. **Number Formatting:**
+    - Customize scaling units and apply colors for semantic value formatting.
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+16. **On-Object Interaction:**
+    - UI improvements for better interaction.
+
+**User Interface:**
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+17. **PowerBI Feature:**
+    - Responsive filtering for improved user interaction.
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+18. **Stacked Area:**
+    - Data point context menu now accessible when right-clicking above the marker area.
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+19. **Ranking:**
+    - Default Top 50 no longer applied for date series in Top N.
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+20. **Settings:**
+    - Relative variance marker toggle is now enabled by default and hidden from the canvas.
+    - Revamped UI for the Settings tab.
+
+21. **SideBySide Bar:**
+    - Ability to apply individual scaling for side-by-side bar charts.
+
+22. **Sorting:**
+    - Axis sorting restricted for time series, with sorting based on group, row, column, stacked, and breakdown still applicable.
+    - Measure sorting now follows AC measure behavior when swapping measures.
+
+23. **Stacked-Single Measure Waterfall:**
+    - Ability to show variance colors in stacked waterfall charts.
+
+24. **Toolbar:**
+    - Improved icon placement and configurations for better usability.
+
+**Chart Interaction:**
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+25. **On-Object Interaction:**
+    - Reading view access now available for trellis settings.
+
+26. **Toolbar Changes:**
+    - Enhancements in the toolbar configuration for Version 3.0.
+
+**Additional Features:**
+
+27. **Tooltip:**
+    - Ability to show/hide variances in tooltips for comparison charts.
+
+28. **Trellis Layout:**
+    - Lock panel height and width for consistent display.
+
+29. **Axis Label Enhancement:**
+    - Toggle button introduced to display NULL values as (BLANK) or No Label.
+
+30. **Continuous Axis for Time Series:**
+    - Improved support for continuous axis in time series charts.
+
+31. **Axis Title Pop-Up:**
+    - Option to show/hide X and Y axis titles in the title pop-up window.
+