The GRAMPS project is proud to announce the 2.0.9 ("Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!") release of GRAMPS for Linux and UNIX. The release can be downloaded from the GRAMPS SourceForge site at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gramps
This release adds many incremental improvements throughout the whole program. This includes command line, document generators, reports, tools, filters, graphical user interface responsiveness, web site generator, import and export, and many other areas with new features and bug fixes.
With this release, the 2.0.x branch goes into the maintenance stage. Future release in this branch will be made, but only the bugs will be fixed, and no new features will be added. The main development is shifting into the 2.1/2.2 branch with focus on further performance improvements.
Version 2.0.9 -- the "Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!" release:
- Incremental interface improvements.
- Automated testing added, based on the CLI functionality.
- Smaller number of supported reports.
- Report rendering improvements in OOo, PDF, gnome-print, PS, HTML,
- abw, and kwd formats.
- New filter rules: Ancestor of bookmarked/default person
- less than N generations away (Wayne Bergeron).
- Numerous web generator improvements.
- GEDCOM import supports forward-referencing named notes.
- User manual updates.
- New Checkpoint tool plugin.
- Support for running tools from command line.
- Persistent options for tools, as applicable.
- Export patronymic names into GEDCOM.
- Updates for Swedish translation and date localization (Stefan Bjork).
- Fully formalized XML format (DTD and RelaxNG schema).
- New plugin documenting command line reference.
- Memory leak in libbglade worked around.
- Limitation of 31 generations in reports removed.
- Improved responsiveness when working with large databases.
- Select from recent files on startup.
- Better support for unicode filenames
- Better support for media objects in GEDCOM output
- Numerous bug fixes.
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