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