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NEWS

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+2014-05-22
+Version 4.0.4, "Not the comfy chair", a maintenance release.
+* 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
+* 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
+* 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
+
+2014-01-27
+Version 4.0.3, "It's tomorrow, ask me now", a maintenance release.
+* Fix copy via context menu on Views into Charts Category
+* Fix Tab sequence in Name Editor
+* Fix citations gramplet into media view
+* Fix unhandled exception when inspecting media
+* Fix Citation sidebar filter for python3
+* Fix add link to a "Html code" note
+* Fix message on backup dialog
+* Fix space for selection lists
+* Fix spell with myspell and LANG
+* Fix changes root cursor to hand
+* Recent file parser now gives the file location
+* Fix vertical overflows on check and repair-tool dialog
+* Fix custom key/value (data item) on Database difference report
+* Fix unhandled exception in media exif information under Windows OS
+* Fix person selector in searchfilter under Windows OS
+* Starting Gramps without console is now possible under Windows OS
+* Specific OS handling
+* Common fixes and changes with 3.4.7.
+* Updated translations: ca, de, fi, fr, ru
+
+2013-11-08
+Version 4.0.2, "Welcome to our humble abode", a maintenance release.
+* Citation merge works better for all objects with citations
+* Fixed citations attached to family events
+* Fixed several crashes, hangs, and data corruption scenarios
+* Fixed bugs in determining whether a person is alive, potentially resolving private data leak via export or report
+* Fixed bugs on proxies
+* VCF export/import now support gender information
+* Several bugs with filtering fixed, most filters now support regular expressions
+* Fixed bug in Hebrew calendar date calculations
+* Fix some regressions on GEDCOM file format export and enhancement on CONT/CONC handling
+* Multiple fixes and improvements on gramplets
+* Multiple fixes in the narrated website and web calendar reports
+* Enhancements on date and calendar
+* Some fixes and improvements of the webapp
+* Fix on Database Differences module
+* Enhancements of the citation tree view (Sources category)
+* Improvements on User classes
+* Polish and consistency on Gramps XML export
+* Bump XML schema to 1.5.1
+* Fixed several long-standing problems with report generation
+* Better support of RTL locales (Arabic, Hebrew, etc.) in GUI
+* Better support for selected lang on some reports
+* Better way for displaying missing dependencies
+* Better Spell support
+* Platform-specific fixes for Mac and Windows
+* Add printing functionality for all geography views
+* New date handlers for Arabic and Greek
+* Translation updates (ar, cs, de, fr, lt, nb, nl, ru, sv) and translation-related fixes
+* Repaired and enhanced tests broken since 3.3.x, resulting in overall reliability improvements
+* Add a support for AppData
+
+2013-06-24
+Version 4.0.1, the "What is washing when we are on the verge of a great scientific breakthrough?", a maintenance release.
+* Gtk3: fix menu on person editor and Geography views, convert deprecated code for the indicator in entryfield
+* Gedcom: Fix crash on export when there are addresses, fix space on ID
+* Disallow bookmarking a source in the Citation Tree View
+* Better RTL support on Pedigreeview and position for gramplets
+* Fix bad scaling in address editor
+* Fix crash on ancestor chart report
+* Fix navigation issues with selected line
+* Fix size of the 'Tip of the day' dialog
+* Fix right-click on tables in Quick Views
+* Fix cursor corruption on Pedigree view
+* Improvements when exporting via CLI
+* Reports: Various fixes on dialogs, output file formats and cleanup on error messages
+* MacOS: Fix bad filename on Gramps URL, osm-gps-map revision, image paths, resource-path file, maclocale
+* Move the HTML resources from gramps/plugins/webstuff to Data and Images
+* Alternate Names in Person Details Gramplet (patch by Heinz Brinker)
+* New holidays, date and relationship handlers for Ukrainian
+* Enhancements for testing localized Relationship handlers (contribution by Fedir)
+* More names and events on data.gramps sample
+* Translations updated: cs, de, es, fr, hu, nb, nl, ru, uk, and new support for Arabic
+
+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