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NEWS
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2013-05-21
Version 4.0.0, the "The Miracle of Birth", new major release.
* GEP 8: code reorganization
* GEP 26: Replace make
* GEP 29: Gtk 3 support
* GEP 31: Python 3 support
* Completely reworked localization handling
* The Gramplet view has been renamed Dashboard. This to avoid an overload of the word Gramplet, and to make it more clear to new users what can be expected in this view
* GTK 3 uses new themes, so users not on Gnome must set a nice GTK 3 theme to fully appreciate Gramps 4.0. Install a GTK 3 theme and set it. If Gramps looks ugly, you made an error in this step.
* Different sidebar navigators can be installed
* New Ancestor Fan Chart View and Descendant Fan Chart View, which offer a lot of insight in your family tree on a small space. Direct printing is available from these views.
* All wizards are reworked, so the exporter dialog, help and bug report dialog are different from version 3.4, but offer the same functions
* New To Do Gramplets listing all To Do Notes
* More reports support output in a different language than the interface language
* Narrative Web has been reworked to make it more stable.
2013-05-15
Version 3.4.4 of Gramps! "The Ministry of Silly Names", a maintenance release.
* infinite recursion bug in narrative web generation
* protection on family trees when using version 3.4 and 4.0 on the same PC (road to 4.0)
* merging notes of media with citations now works
* crash during Calculate Preview of a filtered XML export
* fix annoying errors on navigation related to citations gramplet and tag object.
* listing the Family Trees can corrupt them.
* various fix around handling Gedcom file format
* fix citations and sources import on ProGen format
* better date handling and better alternate translation support on some textual reports according to locale under windows
* avoid Errors when setting wrong value as markup for invalid dates (Preferences)
* fix paragraph layout on PDF format or print output
* New: New-Zealand holidays
* Polish and backport code on XML import (road to 4.0)
* Regular expression rules now use search rather than match, fix design issues on regex filter rules
* Disable/Enable indent spouse on descendants tree
* fix regular expressions on Place filter rule
* consistency on cli arguments (road to 4.0)
* fix call of non-existant process on references proxy, enhanced tests on proxy filter
* fix NarWeb creation via cli for some non-english locales
* Various updated translations: ca, de, fr, it, nl, pt_BR, ru, sv, uk
2013-03-19
Version 3.4.3 of Gramps! "'Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown'", a maintenance release.
* Sorting (both in the main display window, and particularly in Narrative Web output) now uses PyICU (if that module is available). Inclusion of PyICU is 'strongly recommended'. This resolves a number of bugs particularly related to sorting of non-Latin characters, and sorting on MS Windows and Mac OS X. Some changes have been made in Narrative Web to support contractions for alphabetic indices.

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RELEASE_NOTES
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$Id$
UNSTABLE Gramps 4.0.0 Beta2 release.
This is a technology preview to allow distribution packagers (and plugin
writers) to update their scripts (and plugins). This release is not
production ready, so only use it for testing!
It is recommended that Gramps 4.0.0 be used with python 2.7 since many
dependent packages do not yet have python 3 versions. A determined person
can probably download their sources and build them, however.
The dependencies for Gramps 4.0.0 are _completely_ different than 3.4 due
to the switch to GObject introspection, and the removal of autotools. So
only install 4.0.0 if you are certain you can obtain the dependencies,
see README and INSTALL.
For linux, in Ubuntu 12.10 you can install 4.0.0, but you will need to
compile and install osmgpsmap manually to have the maps working (see
http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=GEPS_029:_GTK3-GObject_introspection_Conversion#OsmGpsMap_for_Geography )
Gramps 4.0.0, the "The Miracle of Birth", release.
This is a major release, don't upgrade before verifying your system can run it.
As one of the very first big ($5.4 million), multi-platform (Linux,
Windows, Mac OS X, ...), non-Gnome GTK applications, Gramps makes the
jump to GTK 3. At the same time python 2.7 and python 3 are supported,
though the last must still be considered experimental. Gramps 4.0
further uses distutils for distribution, so the install sequence is changed.
The Gramps developers have tried to make Gramps 4.0 as identical as
possible to 3.4, so no data changes are done, nor are there big interface
changes. In other words, a .gramps backup file of version 4.0 will open
without problems in Gramps 3.4, giving users the possibility to fully try Gramps 4.0.
Don't be mistaken though, a huge amount of code is new and changed!
In order to bring this release we thank the many developers who helped
the GTK support on Mac, Windows and Linux forward. Note however,
Gramps 4.0 will only work on a top of a very recent sortware stack.
A Windows installer will probably not be available soon. In Linux current
distro's don't contain the optional packages in the form Gramps 4.0 needs.
All this should make clear you can safely keep using version 3.4 and wait
for packagers to catch up. People who cannot upgrade the required components
but want to use Gramps 4.0 should use it in Virtualbox.
Major enhancements in Gramps 4.0.0:
* GEP 8: code reorganization: http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=GEPS_008:_File_Organization
* GEP 8: code reorganization:
http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=GEPS_008:_File_Organization
* GEP 26: Replace make: http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=GEPS_026:_Replace_%27make%27_for_Gramps_build
* GEP 26: Replace make:
http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=GEPS_026:_Replace_%27make%27_for_Gramps_build
* GEP 29: Gtk 3 :http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=GEPS_029:_GTK3-GObject_introspection_Conversion
* GEP 29: Gtk 3:
http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=GEPS_029:_GTK3-GObject_introspection_Conversion
* GEP 31: Python 3 support: http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=GEPS_031:_Python_3_support
* GEP 31: Python 3 support:
http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=GEPS_031:_Python_3_support
* Completely reworked localization handling
Others changes in Gramps 4.0.0:
* The Gramplet view has been renamed Dashboard. This to avoid an overload
of the word Gramplet, and to make it more clear to new users what can
be expected in this view
* GTK 3 uses new themes, so users not on Gnome must set a nice GTK 3
theme to fully appreciate Gramps 4.0. Install a GTK 3 theme and set it.
If Gramps looks ugly, you made an error in this step.
* Different sidebar navigators can be installed
* New Ancestor Fan Chart View and Descendant Fan Chart View, which offer
a lot of insight in your family tree on a small space. Direct printing
is available from these views.
* All wizards are reworked, so the exporter dialog, help and bug report
dialog are different from version 3.4, but offer the same functions
* New To Do Gramplets listing all To Do Notes
* More reports support output in a different language than the interface language
* Narrative Web has been reworked to make it more stable.
More info in the manual
http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gramps_4.0_Wiki_Manual_-_What%27s_new%3F

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# $Id$
VERSION_TUPLE = (4, 0, 0)
VERSION = '.'.join(map(str,VERSION_TUPLE)) + 'beta'
VERSION = '.'.join(map(str,VERSION_TUPLE))
major_version = "%s.%s" % (VERSION_TUPLE[0], VERSION_TUPLE[1])