We are starting beta tests for DiagramLite 1.2. The new features are:

Ruler control
The Ruler control provides horizontal and vertical scales that helps users measure and align diagram items. In order to use the Ruler, it must be set as a parent of the Diagram object, i.e. in XAML the <Ruler> element should contain the <Diagram> element. The control also implements a scrollable area and can be used instead of ScrollViewer.

Styling and templating
- Now the appearance of nodes is specified through control templates, and it is possible to override the default appearance via custom templates.
- Many appearance related properties are now dependency properties and can be set from styles and template bindings.
- The Pen property has been superseded by Stroke, StrokeThickness and related properties. Pen is still present for compatibility reasons.

LayereLayout enhancements
- The EnableCustomLayers property enables assigning nodes to specific layers.
- Set the EnforceLinkFlow property to force links flow in the same general direction when there aren't any cycles in the graph.
- You can get layer placement information for nodes and links through the Statistics property.
- StraightenLongLinks ensures that links make no more than two bends.

Miscellaneous
- ZoomToRect method added to Diagram.
- GetNearestSegment method added to DiagramLink.

If anyone is interested in trying the beta, please download this archive, which includes updated assemblies, help file and two new sample projects:
https://mindfusion.eu/_beta/DiagramLite.1.2.beta.zip