GraphAware Hume 2.28 is live!
The latest version brings a new automated layout, improved geospatial views and enhancements paving the way for Hume 3.0.
GraphAware Hume is a graph-powered intelligence analysis platform for mission-critical investigations. It represents your world as a network of connected entities, building a single view of siloed intelligence for rapid, powerful, and intuitive analysis.
Extended Support
Hume 3.0 is coming soon, bringing entirely new ways for analysts to organise, store, share and collaborate on their investigations.
The smoothest migration path to 3.0 is through 2.28, so we’re extending the support period for this latest version – giving you more time to prepare for the next generation of graph-powered intelligence analysis.
Need help planning for the change? Contact us to discuss your options, or see our migration guide for step-by-step instructions.
A New Layout for Generational Data
We’ve introduced a new way to explore hierarchies: the lineage layout.
Our existing sequential and hierarchical layouts already do a great job of handling a wide range of ordered and tiered data structures. The new lineage layout focuses on a more specific challenge: visualising parent-child hierarchies where generation order and clear lineage really matter.
You first define which relationship types in your data should be used to build the lineage tree. The lineage layout will then take those into account to ensure the integrity of generations is always preserved. Parent nodes will always appear before their children in clearly defined generational layers, maximising top-to-bottom flow.
You can also define same-layer relationships – spouses, business partners, or known affiliates – which will be positioned together within the same generation, without disrupting the hierarchy. All other relationships are shown off-tree, keeping the core structure clean, readable, and faithful to the underlying data.
The new layout is a perfect fit for use cases like investigative genetic genealogy, family-tree reconstruction, and follow-the-money investigations, where understanding lineage and descent is essential to the analysis.
This video shows the lineage layout in action:
Clearer Maps for Improved Geospatial Analysis
GraphAware Hume 2.28 builds on the recent improvements to our mapping engine, keeping your visualisations clear at any resolution.
Grouping Support
Grouping is a handy way to visually combine nodes and links into functional groups that users can open and close. This is now supported in both map view and split view, so you can work with network and geospatial data simultaneously.
Vector Tile Support
Hume 2.28 also introduces support for vector map tiles in the map view. Beyond delivering sharper visuals, smoother interaction, and easier customisation, vector tiles open up a wider ecosystem of map providers for your deployments. Whether you rely on commercial basemaps, open-source options, or self-hosted tile servers, Hume can now integrate more flexibly with the mapping options that best suit your environment.
Dynamic Label Placement
New label placement options give analysts more control over how text appears on the map.
Because geospatial node positions reflect real-world locations, labels in crowded areas can collide, making map views hard to read.
The new placement controls reduce these collisions by allowing labels to shift to alternative positions, resulting in clearer, more readable maps – both on screen and when exported for reports, presentations, or record-keeping.
CLI Export Improvements
Hume Config CLI is a fast, reliable way to export, migrate, and provision new knowledge graph projects. In 2.28, it now covers even more of your project configuration, expanding the set of exported components to include every object used in the exported knowledge graph:
- Resources
- Context variables
- Roles and permission groups
- Values from value lists
Together, these additions make CLI exports more complete and predictable, especially for teams working across multiple environments or maintaining complex deployments.
Other improvements
Hume 2.28 also includes a range of smaller enhancements, CVE mitigations, and bug fixes designed to improve stability, performance, and the overall analysis experience.
For a full list of changes, visit the release notes on the Hume Documentation site.
