NEW IN 5.4 • Mermaid in and out: paste Mermaid text onto the page, drop a .mmd file on the window, or open one, and get an ordinary editable diagram. Flowcharts, sequence, class, state and entity-relationship diagrams, pie charts and Gantt charts are supported. Edit › Copy as Mermaid and File › Export as Mermaid… write them back out. • Gantt Chart: sections, tasks, milestones, Done and Critical marks, and tasks that follow one another on a date axis. Edit the plan in the chart's settings, and tick Weekends: Skip to count only working days. • Custom shapes: select anything you've drawn, choose Arrange › Create Custom Shape, and keep it in one of your libraries to drag out again. • Notes that collapse to a small icon and open again with a double-click. Draw a connector from a note to a shape and the note moves with it. New Documentation, Text Annotation and UML Note looks. • Bulleted and numbered lists in every place you type: use the Format menu, the Shape Properties panel, or type "- " or "1. " at the start of a line. Tab and Shift-Tab change the level. • Edit › Paste and Match Style pastes text as plain text in the style around it. IMPROVED • Pies and rings take up to 20 slices, and thin slices show their names outside on a short line. • UML boxes know whether they're a class, interface or enumeration, and show «interface» or «enumeration» above the name. • BPMN documentation of any length opens in Documentation notes and exports back. • Drag libraries into your own order in the Library panel. • Settings popovers line up as a tidy Mac form, and new charts start in softer colours. FIXED • The text cursor no longer hides under the edge of the editing frame, and stays on its line in centred text. BEFORE YOU UPDATE Diagrams saved by 5.4 need 5.4 or later to open, and a library holding a custom shape made of several parts needs 5.4 too. If you share diagrams, ask the people you share with to update.

Before you update: Diagrams saved by SimpleDiagrams 5.3 need version 5.3 or later to open. This includes older diagrams once you save them in 5.3. Shapes and connectors copied from 5.3 also need 5.3 or later. If you share diagrams, ask your collaborators to update too. NEW IN 5.3 • Start with one of 38 templates for business, processes, IT, science and more. Save your own diagrams as templates to use again. • Add labels at either end of a connector. Show UML multiplicities, role names or other details, with labels that follow their ends as your diagram changes. • Open BPMN 2.0 files and export a page back to BPMN. Pools, lanes, colours and name positions come across, with a summary of anything omitted. Process-engine settings such as scripts and forms are not retained. • Show audiences, boards and parliaments as an arch of seats in coloured groups with the new Audience shape. • Give ring and pie sections percentages to show real proportions. The new Pie tile starts with four slices totalling 100%. • Change an existing connector to straight, curved, squiggly or right-angle from its right-click menu. • Make crossings and turns easier to follow with optional line hops and rounded right-angle corners in Settings. • Export JPEG images alongside PNG, SVG and PDF. • Use solid, dashed or dotted container outlines, and find a new Trophy shape in the Biz library. IMPROVEMENTS AND FIXES Text stays readable on a white background while you edit, with its colours and highlights preserved. The highlighter now uses the shared colour dialog, including opacity and No Highlight. Clicking text that extends beyond a complex shape selects that shape correctly. Number fields select their whole value on the first click again, and tabbing through a custom library shape’s size fields preserves its exact dimensions.

SimpleDiagrams 5.2 brings a new family of shapes you can reshape in seconds, and a good many refinements. NEW SHAPES • Ring: a donut or pie chart with the sections you choose. • Flow: the steps of a process, across or down, as chevrons, arrows, boxes, circles or hexagons. • Pyramid: stacked layers, as a pyramid or a funnel. • Cycle: curved steps round a circle, as arrows or chevrons. • Gauge: a needle pointing at a value along coloured bands, with a label on each band. Click any part to colour or label it on its own, and move labels wherever you like. DATABASE DIAGRAMS • Entity Table: fields with their types, marked as primary key, foreign key, unique, indexed or nullable. • Crow's-foot relationship lines that stay attached to their fields as you add and move rows. NOTES AND CARDS • A new library of six notes: Sticky Note, Index Card, Taped Note, Tag, Notebook Page and Pinned Note. TEXT AND TABLES • Style just the words you select: bold, italic, underline, font, size, colour, alignment and a new highlight colour. • Tables have the same keyboard shortcuts as Numbers for inserting rows and columns. CONTAINERS • Proportional layout spreads the shapes inside as you resize a container, without stretching them. AND ALSO • In Dark Mode, a page with no background is now white paper, so your lines and words stay easy to see. • Each type of shape's own settings now live in a small button beside it, and in Format › Shape Settings…. • Words that don't fit are no longer lost when you save, export or print while typing. • Labels from SimpleDiagrams 4 keep their separate lines, and exported SVG keeps multi-line labels apart. • Better VoiceOver and Full Keyboard Access, and many smaller fixes. BEFORE YOU UPDATE Diagrams saved in 5.2 need 5.2 or later to open. If you share diagrams, ask the people you share with to update too.

SimpleDiagrams now speaks Japanese! On a Mac set to Japanese, the menus, panels, Settings, alerts and VoiceOver are in Japanese, and so are the built-in libraries' names, shapes and descriptions. The Library finds built-in shapes by their English or Japanese names. New and improved • The Basic library has ten more shapes that arrived in 5.1.0 without a mention: Rounded Rectangle, Pill, Subprocess, Off-Page Reference, Parallelogram, Pentagon, Hexagon, Heptagon, Six-Point Star and Seven-Point Star. • BPMN and UML shapes are now sorted under small headings, such as Events, Gateways and Relationships. To see one block of shapes again, turn off Show shape groups in Settings › Library and Panels. • A new Scroll to pan setting under Canvas. Turn it off if a Magic Mouse or trackpad moves your diagram when you don't mean it to. • Labels on newly placed Word Bubbles and 3D Basic (Hatch) shapes sit in better text areas. Fixes • Presenting, printing or exporting a saved diagram now uses its name instead of "Untitled". • The Heptagon is now evenly shaped. Diagrams that already use it show the corrected drawing at the same size. • In Dark Mode, the connector pop-out is now as easy to read as the other pop-outs. • Importing an SVG file, a SimpleDiagrams 4 library or a SimpleDiagrams 4 diagram no longer takes hours when the file holds an unusually long run of repeated characters. • Damaged or deliberately malformed Visio, SVG and SimpleDiagrams 4 files are handled safely. • An SVG whose filled area crosses over itself thousands of times now imports without that fill, instead of slowing down every repaint.

SimpleDiagrams 5.1 takes you beyond simple sketches and workflows, into more advanced technical diagrams. NEW • Complex Shapes: containers, swimlanes, tables and callouts that SimpleDiagrams draws at any size. Shapes you drop into a container or a lane move with it. • Edit swimlanes in place, type straight into tables, and attach a callout's tail to any shape. • BPMN: 89 hand-drawn shapes for business process diagrams, plus a Pool, Task, Gateway and BPMN flows. • UML: actors, activity nodes, notes and packages; Class, Interface, Enumeration and Database Entity tables; a System Boundary; ten relationships; and sequence diagrams with lifelines, frames and fragments. • Open Microsoft Visio drawings (.vsdx, .vsdm, .vstx, .vstm) as diagrams you can edit, and turn Visio stencils (.vssx, .vssm) into libraries. Your Visio files are never changed. • Give shapes in your own libraries a default label and text position. IMPROVED • Big diagrams scroll and redraw much faster. • Anything locked now looks locked, with an orange outline. • The Shape Data panel shows which library a shape came from. • Emoji and right-to-left text work in library names and descriptions. BEFORE YOU UPDATE Diagrams saved by 5.1 need 5.1 or later; SimpleDiagrams 5.0 can't open them. If you share diagrams, ask the people you share with to update too.

The new Right-Angle Connector routes around shapes, adjusts when shapes move, and lets you drag or reset its segments. Connection points are clearer while drawing. Dense dotted and dashed grids run more smoothly, and library shapes are easier to see in Dark Mode. The Biz library gains 58 hand-drawn shapes for teams, funding, product work and growth. UI Flow has gained 89 interface shapes, Marker has gained textured ink, and Page Data tables can be copied with your current find, filter and sort settings. Diagrams saved in this version need 5.0.16 or later to open. Earlier diagrams still open as before.