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* 26 Jul 2010: release Freeplane 1.1.0[https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/files/freeplane%20stable/archive/1.1/1.1.0/], which seems to be the oldest one found in freeplane stable/archive[https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/files/freeplane%20stable/archive/]
* 26 Jul 2010: release Freeplane 1.1.0[https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/files/freeplane%20stable/archive/1.1/1.1.0/], which seems to be the oldest one found in freeplane stable/archive[https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/files/freeplane%20stable/archive/]


The early history can be further investigated/reconstructed from Freeplane's old wiki[https://www.freeplane.org/oldwiki/index.php/Home] (which runs MediaWiki wiki engine) as well as from SourceForge forums. For instance, wiki page "Relationship to FreeMind" was "Imported from wikispaces" on 31 Jul 2009[https://www.freeplane.org/oldwiki/index.php?title=Relationship_to_FreeMind&oldid=77].
The early history can be further investigated/reconstructed from Freeplane's old wiki (which runs MediaWiki wiki engine):
* https://www.freeplane.org/oldwiki/index.php/Home ([https://web.archive.org/web/20230812155427/https://www.freeplane.org/oldwiki/index.php/Home Wayback Machine])
For instance, wiki page "Relationship to FreeMind" was "Imported from wikispaces" on 31 Jul 2009[https://www.freeplane.org/oldwiki/index.php?title=Relationship_to_FreeMind&oldid=77].
 
The early history can be also investigated from SourceForge forums.


Information on what happened in which release can be found in the history file, e.g. history_en-1.13.3.txt[https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/files/freeplane%20stable/archive/1.13.3/].
Information on what happened in which release can be found in the history file, e.g. history_en-1.13.3.txt[https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/files/freeplane%20stable/archive/1.13.3/].
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This reservation seems to apply to folders 1.1 - 1.3.
This reservation seems to apply to folders 1.1 - 1.3.
The version identifier "1.2.4u1" above is not a mistake in this wiki page; it is so in the original source and was probably intended to mean 1.12.4update1.


==Preview version list==
==Preview version list==
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==Security issues==
==Security issues==
Freeplane reported two security issues here:
Freeplane reported two security issues here:
* https://docs.freeplane.org/attic/old-mediawiki-content/Fixed_security_vulnerabilities.html
* https://docs.freeplane.org/attic/old-mediawiki-content/Fixed_security_vulnerabilities.html ([https://web.archive.org/web/20221027031922/https://docs.freeplane.org/attic/old-mediawiki-content/Fixed_security_vulnerabilities.html Wayback Machine])
However, that page is in some kind of attic. It is not clear whether the issues were reported in Freeplane SourceForge bug tracker, in part since that bug tracker seems no longer accessible (Freeplane moved to GitHub).
However, that page is in some kind of attic. It is not clear whether the issues were reported in Freeplane SourceForge bug tracker, in part since that bug tracker seems no longer accessible (Freeplane moved to GitHub).
Two two security issues:
* https://docs.freeplane.org/attic/old-mediawiki-content/Groovy_scripts_and_formulas_can_escape_sandbox.html says page not found, but see [https://web.archive.org/web/20220917002259/https://docs.freeplane.org/attic/old-mediawiki-content/Groovy_scripts_and_formulas_can_escape_sandbox.html Wayback Machine]
* https://docs.freeplane.org/attic/old-mediawiki-content/XML_External_Entity_vulnerability_in_map_parser.html ([https://web.archive.org/web/20260827082031/https://docs.freeplane.org/attic/old-mediawiki-content/XML_External_Entity_vulnerability_in_map_parser.html Wayback Machine])


See also:
See also:
* https://docs.freeplane.org/scripting/Security_considerations.html
* https://docs.freeplane.org/scripting/Security_considerations.html
Freeplane does not seem to have a centralized security report (or does it?). For FreeMind, [[Security]] is being created.
==FreeMind features not in Freeplane==
FreeMind features not in Freeplane:
* [[Collaboration]] on a mind map: this was introduced in [[Release 1.0.0]]. By contrast. Freeplane does not seem to support online collaboration (one item substantiating the idea is the existence of an add-on at [https://github.com/seb4stien/freeplane-collaborative-addon freeplane-collaborative-addon], github.com.)


==See also==
==See also==

Latest revision as of 13:42, 27 August 2026

Freeplane is a fork of FreeMind, lead by Dimitry Polivaev.

Freeplane uses SourceForge for file downloads.

Freeplane uses GitHub as a code repository and for forums and tickets; it no longer uses SourceForge for these purposes.

System requirements

  • Freeplane-1.11.4 from 28 May 2023 requires Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 11 (released on 25 September 2018) or later through 17, according to freeplane.exe launcher and per freeplaneGui.lj4.xml source code file.
  • The last version supporting JRE 1.8.0 was Freeplane 1.9.x series: Freeplane 1.9.14.

Announcements of the Freeplane fork

Announcements of the Freeplane fork in FreeMind forums:

Visuals

  • Subjectively, as per Dan Polansky, Freeplane 1.9.14 looks, let's say, not so nice: the icons, the white background color in menus, everything says something's wrong. This is so not only in comparison to FreeMind, but also, say, Notepad++.

Download statistics

  • As 9 June 2023:
    • Freeplane is downloaded about 14,000 times a week[1], whereas FreeMind is downloaded about 6,000 times a week[2]; in April, Freeplane was downloaded about 8,000 times a week.
    • FreeMind's last final release is from 12 April 2014, nearly a decade ago. Freeplane most recent release is from 28 May 2023.

Releases

Available from here:

Earliest releases:

Release classification

  • Freeplane does not use the ranks of alpha, beta and release candidate (RC). FreeMind did use alpha, beta and RC ranks, as late as of FreeMind 1.1.0 Beta2 from 2016, when FreeMind development activity ceased.
  • Freeplane has a freeplane preview file section:
  • Thus, there is the rank preview, which must be something like beta and release candidate, but not differentiated.
  • As per the "freeplane preview" file section:
    • "This directory contains the latest preview versions of Freeplane created for testing purposes almost every week."
    • "The data format of the maps saved and read by preview versions can be changed without any notice."
  • There is Release cycle page in Freeplane documentation, in "attic"; this does talk of alpha, beta and RC. This is probably no longer followed, as per the file section and as per this being in the attic.

Name spelling

  • Freeplane is spelled with lowercase "p", whereas FreeMind is spelled with uppercasee "M".

Discussion

File format

  • Freeplane file format is extended beyond that of FreeMind to support additional features.
  • Documentation:
  • File format stability: hard to assess; there is no *.xsd file in the source code tree to specify the file format. By contrast, FreeMind has a .xsd file describing the file format that seems to have been kept up to date, linked from File format page.

History

Some of the earliest events in the history of Freeplane are early announcements and first releases/versions. To the extent these items are already on this page, they are duplicated here for convenience.

The early history can be further investigated/reconstructed from Freeplane's old wiki (which runs MediaWiki wiki engine):

For instance, wiki page "Relationship to FreeMind" was "Imported from wikispaces" on 31 Jul 2009[6].

The early history can be also investigated from SourceForge forums.

Information on what happened in which release can be found in the history file, e.g. history_en-1.13.3.txt[7].

Stable version list

The following is a list of "stable" versions as per https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/files/freeplane%20stable/archive/: 

1.13.3 	2026-07-14 
1.13.2 	2026-02-23 
1.13.1 	2026-02-13 
1.12.18 	2026-02-10 
1.12.17 	2026-02-09 
1.12.16 	2026-01-06 
1.12.15 	2026-01-04 
1.12.14 	2025-09-19 
1.12.13 	2025-08-22 
1.12.12 	2025-08-01 
1.12.11 	2025-06-01 
1.12.10 	2025-04-17 
1.12.9 	2025-02-06 
1.12.8 	2024-12-07 
1.12.6 	2024-10-30 
1.12.5 	2024-09-01 
1.2.4u1 	2024-08-19 
1.12.4 	2024-08-18 
1.12.3 	2024-08-17 
1.11.14 	2024-05-14 
1.11.13 	2024-05-01
1.11.12 	2024-04-08
1.11.11 	2024-03-01 
1.11.10 	2024-01-22 
1.11.8 	2023-11-12 
1.11.7 	2023-09-24 
1.11.6 	2023-08-22 
1.11.5 	2023-07-28 
1.11.4 	2023-05-28
1.11.3 	2023-05-27
1.11.2 	2023-05-09
1.11.1 	2023-05-03
1.10.6 	2023-01-08
1.10.5 	2022-11-06
1.10.4 	2022-09-17 
1.10.3 	2022-06-25
1.10.2 	2022-04-30
1.9.14 	2022-03-19
1.9.13 	2022-03-05 
1.9.12 	2021-12-18 
1.9.11 	2021-11-07 
1.9.10 	2021-10-02 
1.9.9 	2021-09-25 
1.9.8 	2021-09-18 
1.9.7 	2021-07-30 
1.9.6 	2021-07-25 
1.9.5 	2021-06-26 
1.9.4 	2021-06-18 
1.9.3 	2021-06-04 
1.9.1 	2021-05-15 
1.8.11 	2021-01-03 
1.8.10 	2020-11-21 
1.8.9 	2020-10-31 
1.8.8 	2020-10-04 
1.8.7 	2020-09-01 
1.8.6 	2020-06-24 
1.8.5 	2020-05-11 
1.8.4 	2020-05-11 
1.8.3 	2020-05-10 
1.8.2 	2020-04-12 
1.8.1 	2020-03-28 
1.8.0 	2020-03-07
1.7.13 	2020-02-28 
1.7.12 	2020-02-08 
1.7.11 	2020-01-25 
1.7.10 	2019-10-25 
1.7.9 	2019-06-10 
1.7.8 	2019-05-26 
1.7.7 	2019-03-10 
1.7.6 	2019-02-24 
1.7.5 	2019-02-03 
1.7.3 	2018-11-26 
1.7.2 	2018-11-18 
1.6.15 	2018-05-13 
1.6.14 	2018-03-11 
1.6.13 	2018-02-04 
1.6.12 	2018-01-07 
1.6.11 	2017-12-09 
1.6.10 	2017-11-02 
1.6.7 	2017-09-23 
1.6.6 	2017-09-03 
1.6.5 	2017-08-22 
1.6.4 	2017-08-13 
1.6.3 	2017-08-05 
1.5.21 	2017-06-16 
1.5.20 	2017-04-15 
1.5.18 	2016-12-07 
1.5.17 	2016-09-30 
1.5.16 	2016-09-17 
1.5.15 	2016-08-19 
1.5.14 	2016-08-13 
1.5.13 	2016-07-27 
1.5.12 	2016-07-20 
1.5.11 	2016-07-09 
1.5.10 	2016-07-07 
1.3 	2015-02-07 
1.2 	2013-03-24
1.1 	2010-12-06

Reservation: the above list is not complete and is the top-level list. There is for instance a sublist https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/files/freeplane%20stable/archive/1.1/: 

1.1.3 	2010-12-06
1.1.2 	2010-08-22
1.1.1 	2010-07-17
1.1.0 	2010-06-26

This reservation seems to apply to folders 1.1 - 1.3.

The version identifier "1.2.4u1" above is not a mistake in this wiki page; it is so in the original source and was probably intended to mean 1.12.4update1.

Preview version list

As per https://sourceforge.net/projects/freeplane/files/freeplane%20preview/, there are some preview versions in subfolders of the following ones: 

1.12.x 	2025-08-10
1.11.x 	2024-03-26

As of 26 Aug 2026, there are no other older versions in the above list (the list has two items).

An example download file is this[8]:

freeplane_bin-1.12.13-pre03.zip

Indicates how there are multiple preview versions e.g. for Freeplane 1.12.13 (here, it is the third preview).

However, a readme of that folder indicates that "From now on all new preview versions are available as pre-releases at https://github.com/freeplane/freeplane/releases".

Security issues

Freeplane reported two security issues here:

However, that page is in some kind of attic. It is not clear whether the issues were reported in Freeplane SourceForge bug tracker, in part since that bug tracker seems no longer accessible (Freeplane moved to GitHub).

Two two security issues:

See also:

Freeplane does not seem to have a centralized security report (or does it?). For FreeMind, Security is being created.

FreeMind features not in Freeplane

FreeMind features not in Freeplane:

See also

Links

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