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Latest release
  • 8.35.0.Final released
    Fri 3 March 2023
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  • OptaPlanner 9 is coming
    Tue 21 February 2023
    Lukáš Petrovický
  • Farewell - a new lead
    Tue 15 November 2022
    Geoffrey De Smet
  • Run OptaPlanner workloads on OpenShift, part II
    Wed 9 November 2022
    Radovan Synek
  • Bavet - A faster score engine for OptaPlanner
    Tue 6 September 2022
    Geoffrey De Smet
  • Run OptaPlanner workloads on OpenShift, part I.
    Thu 9 June 2022
    Radovan Synek
  • OptaPlanner deprecates score DRL
    Thu 26 May 2022
    Lukáš Petrovický
  • Real-time planning meets SolverManager
    Mon 7 March 2022
    Radovan Synek
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Latest videos
  • The Vehicle Routing Problem
    Fri 23 September 2022
    Geoffrey De Smet
  • Introduction to OptaPlanner AI constraint solver
    Thu 25 August 2022
    Anna Dupliak
  • On schedule: Artificial Intelligence plans that meet expectations
    Sat 23 July 2022
    Geoffrey De Smet
  • Host your OptaPlanner app on OpenShift (Kubernetes)
    Mon 7 February 2022
    Geoffrey De Smet
  • OptaPlanner - A fast, easy-to-use, open source AI constraint solver for software developers
    Mon 31 January 2022
  • Order picking planning with OptaPlanner
    Fri 31 December 2021
    Anna Dupliak
  • AI lesson scheduling on Quarkus with OptaPlanner
    Thu 18 November 2021
    Geoffrey De Smet
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