v4.2.3

Version 4.2.3, a new maintenance release, has been released.

Think on backup.

https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=How_to_make_a_backup

Changes since '4.2.2':

• Creation of the "graphic calendar report" failed
• Fix "TypeError: 'tuple' object does not support item assignment
• Fix experienced an unexpected error
• Unable to build narrated web site
• [NarrativeWeb report] Places index and Media index are incorrectly sorted
• Error when trying to create narrative report (residence event)
• Fix filter set by default on selector, 'Show all' button
• Detailed Ancestors Report has ? for locations when [private data is excluded]
• Age in the event family view column is wrong.
• Crash when dragging multiple media items to clipboard
• vCal Export File format invalid
• Error occurs for Complete Individual Report -- complete database
• Narrated Web Site Report: places page is no longer sorted alphabetically
• Narrative web: html elements emitted in different order
• Narrative web: "errno: 1, operation is not permitted" when creating archive.
• Narrative Web report further stops in error.
• Fix multiple lines for firstname on gramps XML file via import or export
• fix scrolling in persons view after typing some letters
• Location on geography view could not convert string to float
• setup.py: make typeout more accurate
• Searching in people view when surnames are collapsed
• Fix error when changing database in new locations gramplets
• Error loading Participants add-on in French locale
• Restores setting the stdout encoding to sys.getdefaultencoding() for Python3
• Fix comment about getting the right encoding for stdout.
• Date format does not match system.
• Make US English a special-case locale, where en_GB is the default for english based locales
• Enhance the Locations gramplet
• New "Encloses" gramplet to the display places that the active place encloses
• Individuals with incomplete names, not updated when name completed
• Children gramplet in Family view does not get updated when a birth/death events are added to a child
• Non-image media objects don't appear in the main window gallery.
• Pressing tab stops at element in gui places
• Double-clicking on a source in the citation gramplet causes exception
• "Find text in record" filter crash
• Fix vCard Export
• Notes used in the "To Do" gramplet are found by the Remove Unused Objects tool
• Unable to select Unicode
• Cannot import gedcom generated by RootsMagic custom place details ignoring PlaceName()
• Fix people sorted by surname view
• Complete Report about person (whole database) - PDF - crash
• Update for travis
• Only consider the values of LC_ALL, LANG, and LANGUAGE, in that order, when choosing the default locale.
• New Icelandic date and relationships handlers
• Fix Finnish translation in keywords of desktop entry
• Update translations: cs, de, el, fi, fr, hu, is, it, ru, sl, sv, uk

v4.2.2

Version 4.2.2, a new maintenance release, has been released.

Think on backup.

https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=How_to_make_a_backup

Changes since '4.2.1':

• "Show all" checkbox of "Select Family" window not unchecked when the filter is cleared
• Name of user defined filter is not shown
• ErrorDialog and GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent
• 'Find' is broken when used in the Family selector
• Fix default selection in selectors
• Comment currently-unused bogus wiki URL pointers
• Fix counter for filtered entries and indentation on TreeBaseModel
• Faulty headline in start up screen
• Check that gramplet is in notebook before setting tab label
• Fix creation of focus change events
• Interactivesearch gives "TypeError: unorderable types: str() < NoneType()"
• Put tag selection list in alphabetical order
• Remove redundant code
• Fix delete error in undoable entry widget
• Fix deprecation warning
• Re-enable selection in MultiTreeView on a grab_broken event
• Add validation to gender field
• Unhandled AttributeError when db.get_tag_from_handle returns None
• ReferencedBySelectionProxy can forget some referenced tags
• Remove encoding on stdout and stderr
• Handle citation objects in glocale.trans_objclass
• Locality data in address was not imported
• Can not download new or updated add-ons
  • Don't check SSL certs when fetching addons
  • Catch urlopen TypeError when context arg isn't supported
  • Fix undefined variable error
• ValueError: underlying buffer has been detached
• LaTeX backend crashes
• Geography: performance issue due to bad initialization and performance issue when selecting the events or places views.
• Narrated Web Site Report: html elements emitted in different order
• Unused *_init.jpg are created in the narrated website
• Some media files are not exported to the NAVWEB report
• Narrative web report: add author to citations
• TypeError: unorderable types: EventRef() < EventRef(), events list and family list are differents between two reports
• Permission denied: change mtime to origin instead of destination
• Thumbnails html file missing in the narrative web
• Narrativeweb: Place title based on current date not that of the event
• Webcal: make the month name clickable in the year overview page
• 'Narrative' word not translatable
• 'Unknown' spouse uses an harcoded string name on Simple Descendants textual report
• Father/mother's age attributes are not translated on reports
• Improve Russian date handler and unittests
• Mars month instead of Marzec on Polish locale (Date Editor)
• Translations update: cs, de, fr, fi, nl, pl, ru, sv

v4.2.1

Version 4.2.1, a new maintenance release, has been released.

Think on backup.

https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=How_to_make_a_backup

Changes since '4.2.0':

• Support for Retina and HiDPI Display, added 24px icons
• Fix verification tool with "Estimate missing or inexact dates"
• Fix missing link in hourglass graph report
• Sort custom place types in editors
• Allow Easter calculation with python3
• Fix crash on Descendants-detailed report
• FanChartDescendants View should at least have 2 generations
• Allow hyphenated gramps-id in Graphviz reports
• Complete Individual Report fails to run
• Fix broken wiki help links
• Set TextOption widget to expand vertically
• Unused Object Dialog box too small
• Short cut keys does not work in 'Change Event Types' dialog
• Update some Tips of the day
• Error when extracting place names
• Custom filters for note text repaired
• Fix Pedigreeview crash when selecting Compact view
• Set "visable_window" in GtkEventBox to fix transparency
• Faster scrolling
  • cache database access for column values
  • cache do_get_path lookups
  • speed up load access on treeviews with no filters
  • new LRU size of 1k (was 250)
  • use cache in do_get_path from siblings
• Avoid using person-centric date matching for places
• Use place title as default name in GEDCOM import
• Ensure place names are not empty after upgrade
• Fix proxy to include all referenced place objects
• Fix bug that prevented any addons being loaded onto the Mac version
• Remove copy button from family tree manager
• Consistency for name fields on Person Editor
• [Geography] Place.set_name(name) requires a PlaceName()
• [Geography] Fix and improvements on place selection
• Limit problems with existing selection in media reference editor
• Stability fixes on Mac port
• Mac port localization crash with non-standard locale (e.g. en_IT).
• Fix color on history
• Fix countries selector for holidays
• Fix missing markups into textual reports
• All sidebars with Types now show custom types in combo list
• [New] Added Places to CSV import/export
• Some fixes on installer (setup.py)
• Various improvements on gen.plug.utils
• Fix graph reports [in Greek locale]
• New date handler for Hungarian locale
• Updated translations : cs, de, el, en_GB, fi, fr, hu, is, sv

v4.2.0

Version 4.2.0, a new major release, has been released.

Think on backup.

https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=How_to_make_a_backup

Changes since '4.1.3':

• New date and language fields on place name
• Review on GtkBuilder, fix some Gtk3 warnings and move from deprecated methods
• Change icons and buttons handling methods
• Enhanced Place Editor and new Place Name editor
• New widget: use own interactive-search
• Ability to import kml data into Geography views
• Enhancement for removing multiple selected items from Views (action group)
• Add drag support on more Views, Selectors and Editors
• Add right-click "Copy all" to ListModel and all QuickTables
• Review Alternate Place handling and edition
• New 'Place' configuration keys set by user (settings)
• New filter rule: is enclosed by
• Consistency on Privacy option for reports
• Consistency on "Name-format" options for reports
• Add DeferredFilter class (a subclass of GenericFilter)
• New textual Report: Links on Notes
• Fix alphabetic index and toc bug in books
• Enhancements on Style Editor
• Enhancements on End Notes into textual reports
• Changes on Individuals complete textual report
• Changes on Ancestors Tree draw report: Include Siblings
• Add name-format option, and deferred translation on Records report
• Add deferred translation on Timeline draw report
• Enable attributes gramplet on Source and Citation Views
• New place locations gramplet
• Optimizations around index, Flat and TreeView models
• Enhanced samples files
• All importers return now an ImportInfo object
• Experimental gwplus (geneweb) import file format support
• Remove experimental HTML renderer view
• New test scripts
• New Date handler for Japanese
• Review on Slovenian and Czech Date Handlers
• Implement both "traditional" and "simplfied" Chinese (translations and dates)
• Serbian review

v4.1.3

New version 4.1.3, the Thou shalt not count to five, has been released.

Think on backup.

https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=How_to_make_a_backup

Changes since '4.1.2':

• Fix db upgrade failure
• GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent
• [Gedcom} SUBN and SUBM record handling
• [Gedcom] Import/export round trip causes lost information
• [Gedcom] Entering a witness to an event such as marriage might be ignored
• [Gedcom] Gramps can't import estim. date period exported by itself
• [Gedcom] 1/4 and 1/2 ANSEL characters not supported on importing ANSEL
• [Gedcom] Importing file containing multibyte UTF-8 characters fails
• [Gedcom] Import fails for ANSI file under python 3
• [Gedcom] Failure importing ANSEL encoded gedcom file.
• [Gedcom] Characters ignored on a Gedcom encoded ANSI (cp1252 West Europe, USA)
• [Gedcom] NameError in importer
• [Gedcom] Event address is lost on import, i.e. disconnected from event
• Crash on geneweb export with python3
• GuiColorOption missing avail-changed event handler
• Bad generation of [timeline report] ODT files since 4.0.0
• Fix bad handle in explanation note for unknown event
• Fix spurious generation of empty 'Alternative Name' in place.merge()
• Support creating directories in various scenarios
• Attempting to add a bookmark causes an error
• Long series of "unhandled exception" popup boxes while doing a check & repair
• Crash when trying to link existing place as an enclosing place using P0001 number
• HTML view fails to load
• Relationship Graph crashes
• Python3 needs new_subpixbuf not subpixbuf
• Regression: running gramps from crontab fails
• tag_map is not initialized
• Some labels now fit better on citations sidebar filter
• Event columns in web narrative are too narrow
• Problem by start program (launcher)
• Translation string missing in Not Related tool for help and close button
• Date format month/year is not well reported at editing time [in Italian]
• Fix unknown gender relationships handler for the french locale
• Fix a handle type bug on sidebar filter
• Tidy up About dialog
• Cleanup on some man files
• Convert some remaining unicode literals
• Fix mac menubar setting
• Enable python3 to run po/update_po.py
• Updated translations: cs, de, fr, is, nl

v3.4.9

Version 3.4.9, the I am no longer infected, has been released.

This is a maintenance release for the 3.4.x branch.

Changes since Gramps 3.4.8

• Error converting python2 utf-8 strings to python3 str when loading data from database
• Gedcom input: SUBN and SUBM record handling
• [Gedcom] import/export round trip causes lost information
• [Gedcom] Gramps can't import estim. date period exported by itself
• [Gedcom] import deletes first char of notes
• [Gedcom] import of embedded notes attached to media does not work
• [Gedcom] NameError in importer
• [Gedcom] export does not export media attached to citations
• [Gedcom] Errors handling owner/submitter information
• [Gedcom] Event address is lost on import, i.e. disconnected from event
• [Gedcom] Entering a witness to an event such as marriage might be ignored
• [Gedcom] Importing file containing multibyte UTF-8 characters fails
• Event list in editors does not display content into 'Main Participants' column
• Fix 'Last Change' column into Person Selector
• Support creating directories in various scenarios
• tag_map is not initialized
• Fix bad handle in explanation note for unknown event
• Narrative website: Missing webpage for media with missing thumbnail on person page
• Enable the "default" CSS choice for the narrated web report
• Crash while scrolling in person view
• Crash when attempting to create Places Report
• Error in Session Log gramplet with no active person
• In Ahnentafel Report, Use Christening Date if no Birth Date Present
• Family with children but no parents is lost on filtered export
• Some labels now fit better on citations sidebar filter
• Can't disable box shadow in SVG descendant tree
• Descendant tree graphical report, syntax error in svg output
• Various problems with docgen.TextDoc.add_media_object
• Spurious spaces in CLI List Family Trees, tab delimited output. Print statements changed to assemble the whole line before output.
• GuiColorOption missing avail-changed event handler
• Regression: running gramps from crontab fails
• Better support for handling custom media attributes on edition
• DB lock not checked when opening database from the recent opened trees menu item
• List index out of range" on [initial CLI "gramps -t"]
• HTML View fails to load on Debian unstable
• Fix unknown gender relationships hander for the french locale
• Can't fill in calculated and estimated dates in czech locale
• Enhance Serbian date handler to handle Cyrillic dates
• Updated translations: cs, de, fr, hu, it
• Fix mac menubar setting
• Fix mac OsmGpsMaps setting
• Enable PIL with Freetype2 support on mac

v4.0.4

Version 4.0.4, the Not the comfy chair, has been released.

This is a maintenance release.

Changes since Gramps 4.0.3

• Upgrade to db version 17 fails in Python 3 due to use of iteritems
• Database corrupted - TypeError: unhashable type: 'list'
• Fix bug in abandon changes and quit
• Consistency on create_id method
• Better handling for non-ASCII characters on database-path
• Better support for ANSEL characters
• 'Display as' field in Name Editor reverts to Preferences default
• Fix vcard date converter
• View does not communicate over proxy server with autorisation
• Enhanced Bookmark support
• Event gramplet filter does not have field for primary role,
• New HasDayOfWeek filter rule
• Error when leaving a Gramps type field blank in an editor
• Fix creation of events with same Gramps-ID
• Crash when opening details of a person
• Fix spacing on dialogs for some recent linux distribution
• date editor and Date class allow e.g. Hebrew dates with newyear (Mar25)
• Fix crash in fan chart view when scrolling
• Poor contrast mouse on mouse over
• Drag and drop only one data into Editors tabs
• NotRelated and Verify data dialogs appear either too small or too big
• Unable to edit citations on association
• Relationship calculator not displaying data
• Enhancements and consitency on events gramplet, selector and view
• Sometimes says 'no data exists for note' when saving
• Enhanced Citation Editor
• Do not always raise errors when some plugins are hidden
• Remove hover selection from embedded lists
• Fix update of active object after merge
• Cleanup on warnings and messages around locale directory
• Media Editor error if Path value was changed to a non existing file
• Register history objects at startup
• Avoid dumb encoding error when compiling gpr file
• Work around Py2Cairo
• Given Name Cloud Gramplet splits up given names into words
• Users should not be allowed to edit and delete 'default' style into Style Editor
• Filename Decoding Error in Graphical Reports
• Missing closing bracket in Web_Basic-Spruce.css
• Reorder tool: global name 'gen' is not defined
• the scroll windows for patchname tools didn't expand
• Fix start in East Asian language, force UTF-8 locale on Mac
• Fix apple_collation
• Spelling messages at random cause hang for a few seconds.
• Media viewer list crashes during start if one try to select an entry where the media isn't available
• 'Available Gramps Updates for Addons' window not on top
• HTML View fails to load
• Paper names and Styles values are now translated
• Sort failure using glocale.sort_key
• Improve support for collation variants
• Translate some punctuation marks
• Fix unit tests and python3 issues
• Fix Relationships handler for Portuguese
• Updated translations: ar, cs, de, fi, fr, he, it, lt, nb, nl, pl, pt_BR, ru, sv, uk

v2.2.10

2008.01.13 This release consists primarily of bug fixes and translation updates.

Version 2.2.10 -- the "Lemon Curry?" release:

• fixes for several database corruption issues and crashes (Benny, Gary, Jim)
• fixes for Gedcom, ANSEL and XML import/export issues (Jim, Benny)
• translation updates (various: bg, de, fi, fr, lt, nb, nl, no)
• various small fixes to several reports (Stéphane, Gary, Benny)