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Version 5.2.2 - a new maintenance release, has been released 2024-04-06.

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Changes since v5.2.1:

• Updated translations: cs, de, de_AT, es, fi, he, hr, nb, nl, pl, ru, sk, sv, tr.
• Hebrew relationship calculator not loading. Fixes #13251.
• Narweb: Person object has no get_father_handle. Fixes #13207.
• Package Gramps 5.2.1 on macOS.
• Restrict CI workflow to run on a single branch.
• Don't show Navigation when we print a page. Fixes #13160.

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Version 5.2.1 - a new maintenance release, has been released 2024-03-24.

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Changes since v5.2.0:

• Updated translations: de_AT, fi, fr, ga, he, it, nb_NO, pl, sk, sr, tr, uk, zh_Hans.
• Fix error when installing an addon that will not be registered. Fixes #13233.
• Allow experimental and beta plugins to be registered. Fixes #13232.
• Tidy up the README file.
• Fix fan charts on HiDPI screens.
• Replace PIL with Pillow in the README. Issue #10016.
• Fix the Tag.is_empty() method. The Tag.is_empty() method was returning the inverse of the expected value. Fixes #12579.
• Cannot create Place with coordinates via Geography. Fixes #13228.
• Fix place title when place names use open spans. Fixes #13222.
• Fix the addon translator language for core translations. Fixes #13221.
• Update AIO minimum Windows version requirement to 8.1 64-bit.
• Prevent unwanted output in unit test logs.
• Fix unit tests when run with Python 3.12. Fixes #13212.
• Revert Death fallback symbol from Latin Cross to "+".
• Change the cross mark and check mark symbols used in the Addon Manager Requirements screen to be valid characters on Mac. Fixes #13194.
• Fix display of invalid dates in editor citation tabs. Fixes #13192.
• Include metainfo rather than appdata 'its' files.
• Update AppStream MetaInfo file to conform to latest spec.
• Fix filter rules missing the use_case parameter. Fixes #13187.
• Rename metadata file to follow spec.
• Add release information to appdata.
• Package Gramps 5.2.0 on macOS.

Version 5.2.0 - a new major release, has been released 2024-02-23.

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• Updated translations: ca, cs, da, de, de_AT, en_GB, es, fr, hr, hu, id, it, nb, nl, pl, sk, sl, sv, tr, uk, zh_CN.
• Update development status to production.
• Remove the Trove classifier "Natural Language :: German(Austrian)".
• Emit a "plugins-reloaded" signal when a new addon is installed. This ensures that the user interface will be updated to include the new addon. Fixes #13021.
• Fix Windows AIO build.
• Update GitHub actions to latest versions. Some actions are deprecated.
• Package Gramps 5.2.0-rc1 on macOS.

Version 5.2.0-rc1, a release candidate.

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Whilst we don’t anticipate any major problems with this release we still urge caution.

It might be unwise to “upgrade” your main/real Gramps family tree into 5.2.0-rc1. In general, we recommend you make a copy of your family tree instead (typically by doing a “gramps XML” export), then try 5.2.0-rc1 on the copy. (You can keep things really separate by using the GRAMPSHOME environmental variable, if you want.)

We are interested in your feedback, especially if you discover any bugs or problems which we haven't noticed.

2024-02-09 Version 5.2.0-rc1

• Updated translations: ar, bg, cs, da, de, de_AT, en_GB, es, fi, fr, he, hr, mk, nb, nl, pl, pt_PT, ru, sk, sr, sv, tr, uk, zh_CN.
• Add Hebrew relationship calculator.
• Add Hebrew date handler.
• Refine Hebrew About modifiers in date parser.
• Add Hebrew to the list of user manual translations.
• Update copyright dates.
• Windows AIO:
  • Improve AIO build script to run without modifications. The build script required modification before first use to set the full path to the local aio directory. Second change is to use the -N option in wget to avoid downloading a file if the timestamp hasn't changed on the server. Third change is to avoid the script from asking for interactive input on second and subsequent runs.
  • Add pip.exe and Adwaita scalable icons to Windows AIO.
  • Fix up Windows AIO for pip, and Finnish spell check.
  • Ignore AIO build artifacts in .gitignore file.
• Addon Manager:
  • Invalidate caches after new python modules are installed. This ensures that any new python modules installed will be found by the python import mechanism.
  • Allow multiple versions in gi requirements. Enhances the requires_gi property in gpr files to allow mutiple versions of a GObject introspection module. e.g. requires_gi=[("GooCanvas", "2.0,3.0")]
  • Update a couple of strings to clarify the Addon Manager UI. Fixes #13019.
  • Fix Addon Manager help link. Fixes #13018.
  • Capitalize "python" in the Addon Manager settings. Fixes #13016.
  • Fix addon prerequisites install.
  • Make the Addon Manager available without a tree loaded.
  • Change "url" to "URL" in the project editor.
  • Set default project editor window width to 600.
  • Refresh row in Addon Manager after an addon is installed. When an addon is installed there is no need to refresh the addon listing. We just need to update the row. This also keeps the user in the same place in the list. Fixes #13001.
  • Rename "Uninstalled" to "Not installed".
  • Add an extra requirements check after installing modules.
• Verify tool:
  • Convert the Data Verify tool to display results in a tree.
  • Add 8 more data verify rules.
  • Fix some garbage collection issues.
  • Performance enhancements.
  • Also fixed a small amount of easy pylint issues.
• Fix invalid escape sequences by doubling backslashes, or making the strings raw, as is commonly done for regexes.
• Make subprocess inherit environment variables in setup script. The PATH environment variable got unset for that subprocess, thus not being able to find msgfmt.
• Fix command line progress output. The text was partly overwritten whenever the percent value was updated. Add unit tests.
• Added HasRepo rule to rule list. Fixes #13097.
• Fix references to gramps-xml file format in man pages. Change -f gramps-xml to -f gramps Fixes #9723.
• Update and fix CSV import. See discussion on the Discourse forum.
• Fix gramps example media source.
• Clarify the Tip of the Day text to indicate that it applies specifically to "Grouped People View", not the flat People View. Fixes #12897.
• Report simpler Python version string in About and Error dialogs.
• Fix DeprecationWarning for invalid escape sequence. Change to use raw string.
• Fix invalid file mode error with Python 3.11.
• Fix hyphenated surnames in name displayer. Strip spaces around a hyphen, so for example, "Smith - Jones" is cleaned up to become "Smith-Jones". Fixes #13086.
• Add year rounding option to preferences. Fixes #12422.
• Fix context menu in all family events quick view screen. Fixes #12759.
• Added option to display birth and death info in descendant report. Implements #12758.
• Update Doug Blank's email address.
• Add new event reference citations to the private proxy.
• New citations not included on the Narrative Web. Fixes #13046
• Add event reference citations to the complete individual report. Fixes #13035.
• Fix display of gramplet help URLs that start with "https://". A help_url starting with either "http://" or "https://" should be used as the full url to be displayed in the browser. Fixes #13039.
• Fix bug in narrative web when the role name contains a dash. Not enough values to unpack in sort_by_role. Fixes #13042.
• Make the narrative web support both LTR and RTL layouts. Fixes #12960.
• Minor string changes to narrative web report options.
• Sort Confidence column in source citation tabs. The "Confidence level" is sorted by confidence label instead of the internal value. The "Confidence level" text is too wide and replaced by "Confidence". Fixes #13036.
• Fix imports test for new note added to database.
• Fix GEDCOM import for SUBN record containing note. Fixes #13024, #12152.
• Use imagesize rather than magic.
• Reformat code using the latest stable version of black.
• Fix sizing of shared information in the reference editors. Sets the packing of the expander widget to depend on whether or not it is expanded. Fixes #13030.
• Fix crash when displaying settings in context menu popup of the pedigree view. A separator menu item was being added twice. Fixes #13029.
• Add help_url to built-in gramplet plugin data. Link Gramplets to new wiki landing anchor of lookup table which shows which Gramplets work in which categories.
• Add right and left margins to the welcome gramplet. Add some white space between the left/right text box borders and the text glyphs. See the topic on the Discourse forum.
• Rename "Ancestor View" to "Pedigree View" in Tip of the Day. Fixes #13023.
• Fix translated Tip of the Day entries with quote characters. When extracting strings from the tips.xml file, xgettext removes the escape sequence for the quote character (") so we don't need to add it back before we obtain the translated string. Fixes #12325.
• Fix a few deprecation warnings. Issue #13021.
• Fix report dialog error when no active person selected. Running a report from the reports dialog with no active person selected caused an error. Fixes #13020.
• Rename citation formatter from "Default" to "Legacy".
• Update width of Gramps ID fields in editors. These fields appeared wider in earlier Gtk versions. Fixes #12999.
• Replace remaining Gtk.Menu.popup calls The popup method is deprecated. The remaining calls to popup are replaced by popup_at_pointer.
• Fix positioning of popups relative to widgets. Replace popup with popup_at_widget and remove old positioning functions. Fixes #13008.
• Change the subscript key binding in the note editor. Use <PRIMARY>r for subscript. The standard keyboard shortcut for copy is <PRIMARY>c. Fixes #13002.
• Set filter editor rule list to expand.
• Fix display of help links in gramplet bars. Use display_help rather than display_url to display manual pages.
• Add more scrollbars to the Preferences dialog.
• Fix bug in endnotes citations.
• Fix bug when deleting a row from a filtered flat list view. Fixes #12995.
• Fix sizing of the surname table in the name editor. The columns were slightly too large requiring a scrollbar with the default dialog size and column widths. Fixes #12994.
• Add missing cite and thumbnailer plugin directories to build script.
• Include javascript files in installation. Fixes #12991.
• Fix black margin in project list with scrollbar. Fixes #12993.
• Package Gramps-5.2.0-beta2 on macOS.
• Fix translator date inflection comments.

Version 5.2.0-beta2, an experimental pre-release.

Make sure to backup before you upgrade.

The key word is experimental!

It might be unwise to "upgrade" your main/real Gramps family tree into 5.2.0-beta2. In general, we recommend you make a copy of your family tree instead (typically by doing a "gramps XML" export), then try 5.2.0-beta2 on the copy. (You can keep things really separate by using the GRAMPSHOME environmental variable, if you want.)

We are interested in your feedback, especially if you discover any bugs or problems which we haven't noticed.

2023-08-25 Version 5.2.0-beta2

• Updated translations: ca, cs, da, de, en_GB, es, fi, he, hr, it, nb, nl, pl, pt_BR, pt_PT, ru, sk, sv, tr, uk.
• Add option to exclude fan chart title.
• Prevent fan chart title being overwritten by the chart. Fixes #12926.
• No longer state that Gramps will close in the backup message. Fixes #12984.
• Clean up some Gdk Screen deprecations.
• Fix Gedcom import tagging a note with an undefined tag handle. Fixes #12985.
• Fix crash when printing notes during endnote creation. Fixes #12983.
• Fix trans_text keyword in xgettext. Fixes #12982.
• Fix vertical expansion of family tree manager list.
• Fix error 404 with openstreetmap map service.
• Restrict access to Stamen maps. Fixes #12971.
• Track column width settings for all editor tabs separately. Fixes #12945, #12970.
• Add support for Hebrew prefixes.
• Add Farsi and Galician to Microsoft Windows Locale list.
• Add a scrolled window to the preferences data tab. Fixes #12968.
• Addon Manager:
  • Rename "Upgrade" to "Update".
  • Fix addon settings bug.
  • Add installation status filter.
  • Add project up, down and restore buttons.
  • Add help button.
• Fix error when deleting a surname. Fixes #11744, #12626, #12629, #12963.
• Fix glocale problems on Windows.
• Fix system locale detection on MS Windows.
• Add Windows AIO workflow.
• Fixes for the Windows AIO build:
  • Convert packages from python3 to python.
  • Replace share.tgz with downloaded files.
  • Add missing dictionaries.
  • Add missing D-Bus executable.
  • Use newly available bsddb3 package.
• Improved organization of the Addon Manager filter lists. Fixes #12958.
  • Update the plugin type names and sort them alphabetically.
  • Swap the order of "Expert" and "Developer" in the audience list.
  • Reverse the order of the status list.
• Include event reference citations and notes in Gedcom export.
• Better URLs for gramplet bar help. Fixes #12957.
• Tidy up strings in preferences.
• Fix spelling mistake in Pro-Gen importer.
• Improve Addon Manager search. Fixes #12955.
• Check for Windows executables in addon requirements. Fixes #12954.
• Do not strip checksum of media object in private proxy.
• Update po snippet generation to output msgctxt.
• Save column sizes before a rebuild. Save column sizes as floats rather than integers. Fixes #12943.
• Set default column size in list views to sensible defaults. Fixes #12944.
• String improvements.
• Update authors file.
• Fix changes reverted by mistake. This restores a couple of autobackup intervals and removes bsddb from the list of backends.
• Fix bottombar not saving size. Fixes #12941.
• Fix incorrect genealogical symbols. Fixes #12937.
• Mac: Use tarball for osm-gps-map instead of git repository.
• Changes for Black integration.

Version 5.2.0-beta1, an experimental pre-release.

Make sure to backup before you upgrade.

The key word is experimental!

It might be unwise to "upgrade" your main/real Gramps family tree into 5.2.0-beta1. In general, we recommend you make a copy of your family tree instead (typically by doing a "gramps XML" export), then try 5.2.0-beta1 on the copy. (You can keep things really separate by using the GRAMPSHOME environmental variable, if you want.)

We are interested in your feedback, especially if you discover any bugs or problems which we haven't noticed.

2023-08-01 Version 5.2.0-beta1

• Highlights
  • Create new Addon Manager dialog.
  • Add support for open spans.
  • Add strikethrough and superscript/subscript support.
  • Add new gender option of "Other".
  • Add citations to event references.
  • Deprecate BSDDB, but alloCalendar gramplet: Add day names. The first day is defined according to the locale.w to be loaded with convert to SQLite.
  • Add coordinates format with description. Fixes #11248
  • Add the possibility of case sensitive/insensitive search.
  • Add source icon to editor dialogs. Implements #11372
  • Make the tab columns resizable. Implements #8767
  • Support XDG base directory specification. Fixes #8025
• General
  • Update README, INSTALL and FAQ files.
  • Update copyright dates.
  • Update Creative Commons license version to 4.0.
  • Minor string fixes. Add or remove whitespace.
  • Append full stops to ends of sentences. Remove full stops after ellipses.
  • Spelling fixes.
  • Many Pylint and other cleanups.
• Reports
  • Birthday and Anniversary Report: Add person ID.
  • Common calendar on Statistics chart. Fixes #12571
  • HourGlass graph: Add option to use genealogical symbols for events.
  • Statistics chart: Small code improvements.
  • Calendar report enhancements:
    • Added symbols for birth, marriage and death.
    • Added symbols for dead spouse in anniversaries.
    • Optionally include death dates.
    • Refactored method collect_data.
  • Added flipped text option to Graphical Report Fan Chart. This option flips the names in generations 2, 3 and 4 that on the bottom half of the fan.
  • Kinship report: change max number of generations. Fixes #12004
  • Add a new primary surname substitution keyword option.
  • Add option name_format to treedoc. Implements #12136
  • Enhance name formats in the genealogytree reports.
  • Add new output format of "graph" to the tree document generator.
  • Display leap day anniversaries every year on calendars.
  • Show index of person in ancestor tree report.
  • Enable markup in ODF backend.
  • Relationship Graph: Add option for 'offset parents' Replaces 'use subgraph' option. Fixes #11550, #11494
  • Add fanchart option with overhang. By adding an overhang to the fanchart, more space can be used.
  • Do not round rotation in SVG. When making >8 generation fan charts, the rounding of rotation becomes visible.
  • Family group report enhancements:
    • Replace Marriage heading with relationship type.
    • Remove Husband and Wife headings. These are incorrect for same-sex relationships or when the couple are unmarried. Resolves #11199
  • Complete individual report:
    • Use shorter name to reduce line length.
    • Add option that allows to use the name of the individual as title.
  • Calendar: Use the death symbol defined in preferences.
  • Add descriptions to decendant tree report styles.
• Gramplets
  • Improved Age Stats gramplet:
    • New Histogram widget.
    • Extra bucket for ages above maximum.
    • Automatic scaling to available width.
  • Image Metadata Gramplet expand metadata support:
    • Enable showing XMP and IPTC metadata.
    • Add additional metadata fields that contain tags and text descriptions.
    • Display thumbnails for XMP-mwg-rs Regions.
  • Calendar gramplet: Add day names. The first day is defined according to the locale. Fixes #12515
  • Allow gramplets to have an orientation dependent layout. Use this for the gallery gramplets. Implements #11527
  • Update Welcome gramplet.
  • Link to translated wiki pages in welcome gramplet.
  • Add a note gramplet for NoteView.
  • Show note type in notes gramplet. Also move page number next to forward/back buttons. Implements #12402
  • Add Copy All functionality to Ancestor gramplet.
  • Citations gramplet: Add date, page, and confidence. Fixes #9224
    • Change columns order and size.
    • Sort correctly by date.
  • Display the event date in the backlinks gramplet. Fixes #12230
  • AgeOnDate gramplet: Fix position of input field and button.
  • Add context menu entries for Gramplet Bar. Link to help for Gramplets and the Gramplet Bar Menu. Issue #10919
• Narrative Web Report
  • Sort events by date in the individual page. Fixes #12717
  • Clarify how to get the API_KEY. Fixes #12646
  • Solves some problems. Force place name to be "Full" names. Fixes #12821
  • Add noindex for robots.
  • Lightbox feature. Feature request: #12801
  • The latest version of openlayers doesn't work:
    • Change the location of js and css files.
    • Menu simplification and usage clarification.
    • Show in which file the openlayers version should be modified.
    • Show the config name to modify.
  • Code simplification.
  • Add a comment if invalid lat/long. Fixes #12565
  • Some fixes to alphabet_navigation. Ensure correct index letters according to normal indexing conventions by using ICU AlphabeticIndex. Fixes #12350
  • Change order of Event Reference Notes and Notes. Fixes #12356
  • Possible loop with associated people.
  • Add option to show all places. Fixes #12315
  • Don't display media, source ref for unused place.
  • Backlink gramplet problem if no back references.
  • Show image on the map only if it was collected.
  • Show the thumbnail place if already collected.
  • Add place name to birth and death dates when we use the toggle section.
  • Possible problem with RTL languages.
  • Inconsistency between the name of the link to a reference and the name of this reference for an individual. Fixes #12336
  • Translation problem + missing events on markers.
  • Addressbooklist: headers aren't translated.
  • Missing events for markers + code simplification.
  • Various fixes to user-visible strings.
  • Toggle bug for source attribute.
  • Remove the note type 'Html code' for notes. Fixes #12184
  • Add php session_start. Fixes #12135
  • Multiple languages for the narrative web and optional other additions
  • Fix letters in comment:Calendar gramplet: Add day names. The first day is defined according to the locale.
    • Insert missing letters in comments.
    • Terms to upper case (gregorian, javascript).
  • In cms mode, some inconsistent image links.
  • Incorrect place index if alternate names. The places page index doesn't show the alternate names used. Fixes #11645
  • Description message is not translatable.
  • Possibility to have more than 2 downloads. By default, I set this to 3 downloads. Fixes #11626
  • Add family map to family pages. Adapt css files to have a better look. Fixes #11614
  • Set unused media to False by default Fixes #11496
  • Center correctly the map in the web page.
  • Dropmenu doesn't work if only one year.
  • Add notes to updates and delete empty rows.
  • References enhancement on place pages.
  • Convert the years in gregorian calendar.
  • Enclosed places not correctly sorted. Fixes #11487
  • Don't use event links if no event pages + some pylint changes.
  • Map popup links must be visible for all stylesheet.
  • Add scrollbar in popup content.
  • Event type, Date and place in bold.
  • Family events shifted one column on the left.
  • ancestortree css file before narrative-screen to allow modification.
  • Adaptation for all themes. Fixes #11393
  • Allow scrolling if the ancestor tree is too large.
  • Translation of alternate stylesheets name.
  • Crash when using the family map.
  • Translate only the css title, not the file name.
  • Some minor corrections to css files.
  • Open layers optimizations.
  • Open layers and link in popup.
  • Some events missing in popup.
  • Reference date column too large.
  • Allow the place title to use the maximum of width .
  • Shift children from one column, adapt the css files to the new table, and fix some inconsistencies between the source and the css.
  • Make the drop down menu button size usable.
  • Incorrect rendering when use of alternate place name .
  • Removing the unused image heigth option.
  • Click on image link gives a not found URL.
  • Allow alternate stylesheets in pages.
  • Allow urls for images in user css files.
  • Add popup to manage markers. Fixes #11150
  • Add Stamen map. Fixes #5984
  • Correct English in narrative web report.
  • Links in notes not obvious in Narrated Web report. Fixes #12105
• Web Calendar
  • Have config files for multiple databases.
  • Best management for the narrative web link.
  • Use arrows, compress monthname and arrows adapt the css files accordingly.
  • Use arrows in one day within a year compress monthname and arrows adapt the css files accordingly.
  • Index go now to the current month.
  • Year glance + some pylint improvements
  • Incorrect width size with Mainz css.
  • Problem with Visually css file.
  • The table cell is highlighted when hover.
  • Better rendering for full year at a glance.
  • better rendering on small devices.
  • Duplicate marriage.
  • Incorrect results when divorce event.
  • Add alternate stylesheets.
  • Missing death symbol.
• Geography
  • Use path from constants.
  • Remove redundant class members.
  • Simplify popup menu builder.
  • Use Gtk.SeparatorMenuItem instead of empty Gtk.MenuItem.
  • Change Gtk.MenuItem to Gtk.CheckMenuItem for map providers.
  • Gramps crashes on import of large KML file. Fixes #11954
  • Better management when closing database.
  • Add two new icons.
  • Better handling of bad tile path. Fixes #11629
  • Add custom tiles provider. Fixes #11416
• GUI
  • Fix for panes that are unable to be resized.
  • Backup: Add a modal status popup This is used to prevent the user closing Gramps during a backup. Fixes #12846, #12475, #12538
  • Fix ColorButton size in preferences.
  • Display a tooltip warning if a window saves data immediately. Fixes #12117
  • Move privacy column in editor citation tabs.
  • Add Preferences and Addon Manager toolbar buttons.
  • Update Tip of the Day entries.
  • Provide better formatting for the import statistics. Also fix concatenation bug.
  • Enhance InfoDialog to dispCalendar gramplet: Add day names. The first day is defined according to the locale.lay simple tables
  • Add "All supported files" as file type selection. Fixes #12161
  • Date input: allow yyyy-mm for iso format.
  • Add option to hide ages for events after death.
  • Correct spelling of "vCard" in importer.
  • Add option to control display format of latitude and longitude. Fixes #11248
  • Allow entering place latitude and longitude without space.
  • Use replacement text for blank surname heading in person tree.
  • Improve description of regular expressions in filter editor.
  • Add Back/Forward labels to citation tree view. Fixes #12510
  • "Number of Parents" column in Person Views doesn't sum all parent. Fixes #12268
  • Symbols enhancement:
    • Add the possibility to set all default value to a string.
    • Gui configuration improvement.
    • Possibility to drag and drop a symbol from the symbol list.
    • Replace death symbol by buried, cremated or killed symbol depending on the event type.
  • Fix spelling of "Descendants". Resolves #12535
  • Provide an option to "hide" the LDS tab. Immplements #3872.
  • Add possibility to select the dialect of CSV export.
  • Add Abbreviation column to source and citation selectors. Implements #11710
  • Update confirmation message in the export assistant.
  • Implement calendar quarter dates as date ranges. For example, "Q2 2020" is converted to "between 1 April 2020 and 30 June 2020".
  • Use a contrasting text color in pedigree view. White text shows up better in boxes with a dark background color. Fixes #11799
  • Allow user to set default calendar in date editor. Fixes #11809
  • Update Preferences dialog. Clean up of existing Preferences tabs. Implements #12049
  • Update address lists. Capitalize postal and phone column headers.
  • Add Phone/Postal to Addresses tab of Person editor. Fixes #11600
  • Fix presumed typo in menu item "Sorts events" should be "Sort events".
  • Move beta warning into the status bar.
  • Increase information in database summary text report. Add type counts for events, places, sources, citations, repositories and notes.
  • In familysidebarfilter, search on each part of name. Fixes #12023
  • Add tooltips to sidebar filter 'Find' and 'Reset' buttons. Issue #11783
  • Media view: Set new media as active.
  • Typo on variable name in navigator. Fixes #12039
  • Pedigree View: Add Help context menu. Fixes #10919
  • EditLink: When changing the link type choose the active object as default.
  • EditLink: When creating a link, prefer linking persons over places, events, ..., and images.
  • Allow filter rules to access Family filters.
  • Add a new person filter rule 'HasAddressText'.
  • New Remove tag from selected rows functionality.
  • Add 'HasAttribute' filter rule to repositories, sources and citations. Fixes #9845
  • Add tooltips for places in clean input data tool.
  • Improve CSV import to allow places that are not in enclosed order. Fixes #11407
  • Update tags: Translation for menu strings added and escape illegal characters.
• Types
  • Add new note type of "Analysis".
  • Add Stillbirth as pre-defined event type. Add Stillbirth as a fallback for both Birth and Death events.
  • Change "death cause" to "cause of death".
  • Add Godparent as event role.
• Gedcom
  • Implement the GEDCOM tag _RUFNAME.
  • Add round trip Ancestry.com _APID tag support. Implements #9925
  • Explicitly set birth name in GEDCOM export.
  • Fix GEDCOM import/export DATE/TIME creep by UTC offset.
• Improvements in the English manpage
  • Various grammar improvements.
  • Use HTTPS URLs.
  • Use Unicode trademarks and arrows.
  • Improve syntax.
• Translation
  • Updated translations: ar, bg, br, ca, cs, da, de_AT, de, el, en_GB, eo, es, fa, fi, fr, ga, gl, he, hr, hu, id, is, it, ja, mk, nb, nl, nn, pl, pt_BR, pt_PT, ru, sk, sl, sr, sv, ta, tr, uk, vi, zh_CN, zh_HK.
  • Support msgctxt in po files instead of a vertical bar in the msgid.
  • Update check_po to support msgctxt strings.
  • Add JJ/MM/AAAA French date format.
  • Add header to XML fragments file. A header containing a charset is required by xgettext.
  • Holidays: Sort countries alphabetically.
  • Add Russian holidays.
  • Add Italian holidays.
  • Add Catalan holidays.
  • Add Turkish holidays.
  • Fix Russian calendar unit test. The translation of "Julian" is hardcoded and the test and will fail if the translation is updated.
  • Give consistency to short months in Spanish.
  • Fix unit tests requiring English locale.
  • Fix invalid Persian calendar dates. Fixes #12576
  • Add Turkish Relationship Calculator.
  • Add translation context to ChildRefType. Needed for Russian.
  • New de_AT translation Based on the de translation.
  • Add German date format option for 'numeric date with leading zeros'.
  • Add context to place name strings. Needed for Russian translation.
  • Remove translatable attribute from "%s" strings.
  • Add "Translator" tag to comments intended for translators.
  • Convert old translator tags. Change the old tags "translator" and "TRANSLATOR" to "Translator".
  • Only extract comments with the "Translator" tag. Previously all comments before a translated string were extracted.
  • Remove old translation context separators.
  • Fix month lexeme translations for da, fi, sl and sv.
  • Merge translation changes from the gramps51 converting the files to the new msgctxt format.
  • Fix fatal errors in po files.
  • German relation calculator fixed issue if more then 24 generations between the two people.
  • Replace intltool with gettext tools. The build now requires gettext v0.19.7 or above.
    • Removed obsolete files: gramps.applications, gramps.keys, gramps.mime
    • Created ITS rules for holidays.xml and tips.xml files.
    • Included ITS files for shared-mime-info from a gettext v0.20.2 installation.
  • New datehandler and relationship calculator for de_AT.
  • Corrected a few relationships in pt relationship calculator.
• Locale
  • Extract win32 localatiztion to a new file win32locale.py.
  • Fix minor PyLint complaints.
  • Fix PyLint complaints about import statements.
  • Remove deprecated locale.getdefaultlocale and locale.format functions.
  • Extract translation classes from grampslocale.py
  • Correct remaining pylint issues in maclocale.py
  • Fix shadowed variables.
  • Fix unnecessary parens.
  • Fix unused variables.
  • Fix pylint line-too-long.
  • Remove unused numeric.
  • Remove unused currency.
  • Use msgctxt in Lexeme docstring.
• Technical
  • Increase minimum version requirements - Python: 3.8 Gtk: 3.24
  • Migrate code style to Black.
  • Use GitHub Actions to run continuous integration checks.
  • Attempt to derive the resource path from the package path. Intended to allow a Gramps core package to be created as a wheel and installed via pip.
  • Use setup from setuptools to allow creation of python wheels.
  • Port from GtkSpell to Gspell.
  • Add source files for Windows AIO. Remove old Windows directory.
  • Add support for thumbnailer plugins.
  • Add support for CITE plugins Provide a single default plugin that replicates the existing functionality.
  • Allow custom undo managers in database plugins.
  • Add bookmark-list-changed signal.
  • Remove redundant code since Gtk 3.24 required.
  • Fix deprecation of Gtk positional arguments.
  • Fix Gtk deprecation Menu.set_title
  • Fix Gtk deprecation ScrolledWindow.add_with_viewport
  • Fix `GObject.PARAM_READWRITE deprecation.
  • Fix deprecation GObject.GError -> GLib.GError
  • Fix Gtk deprecation Widget.reparent.
  • Fix Gtk deprecation Widget.set_padding
  • Fix deprecation on Gtk.Widget.override_font and modify_font
  • Fix garbage collection issue in ConfigManager.
  • Fix garbage collection issue in UIManager.
  • Fix garbage collection issue in Callback.
  • Color values in the range [0-1] are supposed to be floats See rgb_to_hex.
  • Save and restore standard streams.
  • Close standard streams on exit. Prevents the warning: "ResourceWarning: unclosed file".
  • Replace os.system with subprocess.call in setup.py
  • Add extra plugin properties:
    • Add 'Experimental' and 'Beta' status options.
    • Add audience property with possible values: 'All', 'Developer' and 'Expert'.
    • Add maintainers and maintainers email properties.
    • Add requires_mod, requires_gi and requires_exe properties to specify addon requirements.
    • Allow help url for all plugin types.
  • Add stock_category_icon support.
  • Replace deprecated imp by importlib.
  • CI: Upgrade actions/checkout to v3.
  • Update Gramps CI workflow to run on Ubuntu 20.04 Ubuntu 18.04 became fully unsupported on 1 Dec 2022.
  • Fix package installation failures in CI.
  • Gallery tabs: Avoid signal warning during editor clean up. The signal no longer exists to disconnect from at this point.
  • Fix display warnings in unit tests Attemps to get rid of the follow warning: "Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused".
  • Add .venv environments to .gitignore
  • Migrate build from distutils to setuptools. Distutils is deprecated with removal planned for Python 3.12.
  • Remove options and disables that pylint no longer uses.
  • Enable file:/// URI paths for addons location.
  • Use ObjEntry to select a person as an association.
  • ConfigManager: Add support for embedding comments in ini header.
  • Fix incorrect title of event schema attribute_list.
  • Test: Use temporary directory to test bsddb.
  • Remove unused constant ENV_DIR.
  • Add gramps_id to repository & note text data lists.
  • Add unit test for python3 -m gramps.
  • Add __main__.py
  • Skip inspect.stack also when debug logging is disabled.
  • Wrap inspect.stack in if __debug__.
  • Replace TEMP_DIR by tempfile object.
  • Remove xdg-utils dependency.
  • Fix application id.
  • Use reverse-DNS scheme for mime file, application icon, appdata + desktop.
  • Move MIME icons together with other hicolor icons. This way, all the hicolor icons are logically in the same place.
  • Simplify looping. Index based loops are mapped to their Pythonic equalivant.
  • Fix Place.get_text_data_child_list
  • Fix Check&Repair progress meter for Duplicated Gramps_ID check.
  • Fix no_magic for dbapi.
  • Cairodoc: Correct enumerations unpacking.
  • Rework primary object Deletes in views.
  • Faster Multiple Event delete.
  • Faster Multiple Person Delete.
  • Speed up Event, Media, and Repo reference editors.
  • Speed up Place Reference Editor and Listview for enclose place. Fixes #11531
  • Speed up Event displaytab and gramplet.
  • Fix StatusBar for potential HandleError.
  • Smoother progress for Rebuid reference maps/secondary indices.
  • Skip test3b_delete_tree_constraint if $HOME is a subdirectory of /tmp. Fixes #12577.
  • Remove the "database is closed" warning. Fixes #12492
  • Note LINK support for merge of other objects.
  • Note LINK support for deletes of other objects.
  • Support Note LINKS as backlinks.
  • mac modules: Replace git with https in github URI They don't accept unauthenticated git connections anymore.
  • Fix datehandlers for round trip. Parsers should be able to parse the output from the displayer.
  • Enhance date handler tests:
    • Add tests for all languages with a custom date handler.
    • Remove some months so that the tests run quicker.
  • Enhance Date Parser Display Test debug tool. Test for both Julian and Gregorian dates.
  • Check & Repair: search and fix bad "links" in StyledTextTags. Issue #11855
  • Update shared-mime-info for application/x-geneweb and application/x-gedcom.
  • Fix tags in shared mime info file. With the switch from intltool to gettext underscores became obsolete.
  • Update _pythonmime.py When editing a Media image, display TIFF image or PNG image instead of Unknown.
  • Make gramps -v consistent with Prerequisites Checker. Issue #12770
  • Fix EditEventRef, EditPlaceRef, EditMediaRef, EditRepoRef for improperly saving objects in their object lists. Fixes #11917, #11933
  • Autobackup: Add delay after wake from sleep/hibernate to allow time for system to settle. Fixes #10953
  • Autobackup only if new commits since last autobackup in session.
  • Fix images: 22x22 to 24x24 Real picture's size from images/hicolor/24x24/actions old size: 22x22 72dpi or 90dpi now: 24x24 72dpi.
  • Use XDG pictures directory as the default media path. This is a better default for our Flatpak distribution. Fixes #12217.
  • Add place name to place in geneweb import. Fixes #12710
  • Argparser:
    • Refactor error construction into a common method.
    • Simplify handling of getops error.
    • Add unit test for handling getopt error.
  • Name displayer:
    • Correct continuation line unaligned for hanging indent.
    • Remove unused imports.
    • Correct the assumed order of the name formats.
    • Use list comprehension for name format list.
    • Simplify sorting in get_name_format.
    • Add unit tests for methods relying on name_formats.
    • Add test coverage for get_name_format.
  • Update Appdata to pass validation:
    • Fix tags. With the switch from intltool to gettext underscores became obsolete.
    • Add content-rating information.
    • Add link for translators.
    • Add release information.
    • Add translation domain.
    • Make appdata summary consistent with desktop comment.
    • Avoid using deprecated license identifier.
    • Tidy up tag order.
  • merge_ref_test: Tests update for Note rework.
  • Fix MultiSelectDialog for two issues.
  • Fix unit test for check & repair tool.
  • Limit print statement by using logging module python3 Gramps.py -d "gui.uimanager".
  • Image magic: add bmp and tiff + Readme, exception if file not found.
  • Fix db corrupted error message to make it apply to all db types. Fixes #12242
  • Test: No need to check for mock support with Python 3.3+
  • Install application icons into correct directories.
  • Replace obsolete file() -> open().
  • Remove non-existent old attribute personal for an event.
  • Use the callback parameter passed to EditEvent.__init__ by passing it to EditPrimary.__init__.
  • For all types of EditPrimary window, consistently call self._do_close() before self.callback(), during save().
  • EditRepository now stores the callback passed to __init__ and calls it during save().
  • Better code quality for within area rule.
  • Add missing get_number_of_citations method.

Version 5.1.6 - a new maintenance release, has been released.

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Changes since v5.1.5:

• Update copyright date.
• Narrative web: problem with small pictures. Fixes #12884.
• Implement the <CTRL>J for the family view. Fixes #12882.
• Avoid application crash on invalid user input. If the user inputs an invalid date this change keeps the application from crashing. The invalid date information is reported to the user in the log. Fixes #12658.
• Fix export where private citations are excluded.
• Fix Event Compare tool to display enclosed places properly.
• Check that view exists before calling post_create method. Avoids 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'post_create' error. Fixes #12638.
• Fix a wrong operator bug in the web calendar report.
• Revert "Enclose tree report image path and file name in braces" due to reports of regression where processing of the generated TeX file fails due to bad path specification for image files. Fixes #12437 and #12697.
• Geography View: Fix number of arguments in add_bookmark method. Fixes #12718.
• Use date-specific place in report substitution variables. Fix place title in graphical reports which have user-defined display formats to use date-specific alternate name. This impacts the Ancestor Tree, Descendant Tree, and Family Descendant Tree reports. Fixes #12763.
• Try to import berkeleydb if bsddb3 isn't found. berkelydb is usable for python >= 3.6 and required for python >= 3.10. See: https://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm
• HtmlDoc: Create a unique filename for cropped images.
• Fix corrupted NOTE tag in Gedcom export. Remove Python2 code obsoleted by Python3, which was corrupting Gedcom export of Gramps Notes text that includes multi-byte utf-8 characters. Fixes #12709.
• Fix IndexError that sometimes occurs when changing view This occurs when restarting Gramps. Fixes #12636, #12304, #12429, #12623, #12695.
• Fix crash when invalid note link. Fixes #12854.
• Fix tags with color names in pedigree views. Fixes #12866.
• Crash when invalid event date.
• ListModel: Fix multiple level paths when we use checkboxes in columns. The path was previously converted to int.
• Update Gramps CI workflow to run on Ubuntu 20.04. Ubuntu 18.04 became fully unsupported on 1 Dec 2022.
• Fix package installation failures in CI.
• Fix spouse's name and underlined call names in records. Fixes #12391.
• Update INCOMPLETE_TRANSLATIONS list. Remove: he, Add: zh_HK, zh_TW.
• Update Debian folder after 5.1.5 release.
• Mac:
  • Patch bsddb to use berkeleydb instead of bsddb3 module.
  • Patch berkeleydb configure to work on Apple Silicon.
  • Update Exiv2 download URL, moved to github.
  • Repackage Gramps 5.1.5 with Gtk updates fixing use on macOS 13 Ventura.

Version 5.1.5 - a new maintenance release, has been released.

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Changes since v5.1.4:

• Update translations: de, pl, sv, zh_CN.
• Remove Travis CI configuration.
• Fix badges in README file.
• Update copyright date.
• Strange behavior for the scrollbar in the bottombar. Fixes #12438.
• Fix place object element order in DTD and RNG schemas. Element placeobj content does not follow the DTD and RNG, expecting (ptitle? , pname+). Fixes #12500.
• Solve InterpolationSyntaxError if "%" in a string. The grampletpane module saves data in a config file for all the gramplets added in the dashboard. The python configparser module doesn't like if we have a "%" character in a string. Fixes #12423.
• '<' not supported between 2 instances of IndexMark. Fixes #12467.
• Remove debug statements in unit tests.
• Fix negative Span when dates are not Gregorian. Fixes #12525.
• Incorrect grouping if no ma/patronymic surname.
• Group As override is ignored for ma/patronymic surnames. Fixes #12395. See: https://gramps.discourse.group/t/patronymic-and-matronymic-name/1684/5
• Add comments for the lat-lon field of editplace.
• Place editor, lat and long text are swapped. Fixes #12374.
• Fix Statusbar progress being shown before use. Fixes #12373.
• Fix exception when removing a group name in Sqlite db when group name is already missing. Fixes #12367.
• Fix error when trying to close name editor during long name group mapping view rebuild. Fixes #12328.
• OsmGpsMap-CRITICAL: Map source setup called twice Fixes #12352.
• Fix probably alive function unit test.
• Use GitHub Actions to run continuous integration checks.
• Mac:
  • Update Exiv2, PYExiv2, and json-glib.
  • Repackage Gramps.app to work with macOS 12.
  • Add entitlements path to bundle-file so Gramps.app is signed with it.
  • Add python-fontconfig to the macOS build. Needed to enable using genealogical symbols.
  • Inlude fontconfig's etc/fonts in macOS app bundle. Graphviz now uses fontconfig to find its fonts. Fixes #12370.

Version 5.1.4 - a new maintenance release, has been released.

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Changes since v5.1.3:

• Update translations: cs, de, es, fi, fr, hu, nl, pt_BR, ru, sv, zh_CN.
• Update copyright date.
• Fix probably alive if death without date.
• Place editor, copy and paste of lat and long text no longer auto-populating latitude and longitude fields.
• Fix for crash when changing views if part of toolbar is not shown because of a small screen when changing views.
• Fix bottombar always showing after restart, even when not wanted.
• Always use filtered collation names. Store the Sqlite3 collations in the __collations array to short-circuit re-creation.
• Fix issue with German relation calculator fixed issue when more than 24 generations between the two people.
• Add file logging for macOS. When Gramps is launched from macOS's LaunchServices it doesn't have a sys.stderr attached so the default stream logger goes to /dev/null. Use a FileHandler in tht case, writing the log to $TMPDIR/gramps-pid.log. This will help particularly in analyzing crashes where python shuts down as there's no crash report in that case.
• Fix libplaceview to avoid exception when mapservice is no longer present.
• Fix References Gramplet for inadequate updates when other objects change.
• Fix geofamily crash if a family has no father.
• Home Person setting does not convey in a merge.
• Fix CSV export of view to only put single CR character.
• Add Media filter rule 'HasMedia' to list of media rules for editor.
• Need to set locale.textdomain under linux. _build_popup_ui() ignores translated strings without locale.textdomain set.
• Change category of 'MatchesEventFilter'.
• Fix issue where separator between top and bottom bar of View creeps up.
• Fix Locations Gramplet (Enclosed by) to properly display certain nested places when the smallest place has undated enclosure and larger places are dated.
• Fix Family Tree Manager drop error on Windows.
• Fix exportvcalendar error is "is not" with a literal (Python 3.8 issue)
• Handle not found when copying source from the citation tree.
• Fix call to 'file' function, which doesn't exist in Python3.
• Fix write_lock_file exception when USERNAME is missing.
• Fix EditPlace so Tab key doesn't get stuck on Private icon.
• Fix Tag report for places that have a hierarchy.
• Fix exception when cancelling out of a db upgrade in GUI.
• Icon file changes:
  • Install 128x128 and 256x256 application icons.
  • Install MIME type icons into the hicolor theme.
  • Remove gnome-mime- prefix from icon filenames.
  • Install application icons into correct directories.
• Fix error in Birthday and Anniversary report. Fixes an error triggered when the first person_handle in the list has a death event, but no birth event and does not have family relationships. These conditions lead to the local variable short_name not being declared before it comes time to process death events.
• Fix graphdoc to properly escape characters in ids for Graphviz.
• Replace inspect.stack() with inspect.currentframe(). Works around Python issue #12920 which causes every call to inspect.trace() to fail because __main__ is always the starting point.
• Fix crash sorting on columns in Selectors with TreeModels.
• Fix progress bar freeze due to changes in Gtk.
• Fix svgdrawdoc for text containing XML invalid characters.
• Mac:
  • Update PyICU to 2.7.2 in macOS build.
  • Update dependencies. Includes moving berkeleydb and pybsddb over from gtk-osx.
  • Further changes for bundling with Python 3.8.
  • Set __file__ if gramps_launcher.py is run as __main__.
  • Add geocode-glib to build.
  • Note: TLS changes have forced an update of gnutls that builds correctly only on macOS 13 or later. The minimum required is still macOS X 10.9 but libsqlite3 crashes during shutdown on 10.9. This appears to be harmless: all data are already written to the database, but macOS will put up an "unexpectedly quit" message and the database will be locked at start up. macOS X 10.11 and later seem not to be affected.

Version 5.1.3 - a new maintenance release, has been released.

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Changes since v5.1.2:

• Update ca, de, fi, fr, ja, pl, ru, sl, sv, uk, zh_CN translation
• Events View: "Main Participants" column does not show the full list of participants when expanded.
• mac/gramps.modules: Use current Gtk release instead of Gtk-3.14.
• mac/gramps.modules: Upgrade pymodules for Python 3.8 compatibility.
• Fix XML export when 'Group-as" name contains XML invalid chars
• Fix NarWeb: Province place-type is not displayed
• Fix ManagedWindow so that new windows don't appear offscreen when system 'screen' sizes change in part time multi-monitor setups.
• Fix menus when db fails to open due to upgrade/downgrade etc.
• Fix issue with attach source tool, results panel
• Fix GEDCOM export; don't include ADDR when address is missing
• EditPlace: Allow Coordinates containing a comma instead of a period
• NarrativeWeb:
  • Should show patronymic in individuals. In the individuals and in surnames pages, we should show the complete name like defined in the display tab from the narrative web configuration.
  • Fix Narrated Website Google Maps Output JS Warning SensorNotRequired
  • Fix incorrect link type for osm css files
  • Fix image size limit doesn't match tooltip
• Update all translations for changes from 'Default' to 'Home' Person
• Change GUI references to 'Home Person' instead of 'Default Person'
• Use event attribute types in the event reference editor. In the event reference editor, custom event attribute types should be used rather than the default person attribute types.
• Fix Verify tool bug caused by bad change in GObject introspection
• Fix RemoveUnused tool for crash caused by Gtk introspection bug
• Fix import test for change cause by previous change which was: Fix GEDCOM import for bad source title when sources precede references.
• Fix GEDCOM import for bad source title when sources precede references.
• Fix some reports for CLI where warning message about Value not found
• Fix Genealogy Tree reports for crash in CLI
• Add uistate to tree views filter initialization
• Fix some Python syntax errors that appear in v3.8.x
• Suppress age = 0 days in events list. If the reference event date is equal to the event date, don't show the age except if the date is estimated, calculated, etc.
• Fix Dashboard Gramplets to update during db close when not shown
• Fix Windows GUI mode startup for crash with some languages
• Fix dbapi to support "Abandon Changes & Quit" feature
• Fix GrampsType for comparison bug with empty string as one value
• Fix Date Display so that it uses LC_TIME if defined
• Fix StyledText so serialize will match for style list order changes
• Try to fix exceptions on ManagedWindow close
• Fix Mac SQLite3 locale bug when locale contains non-ascii characters
• Fix issue when Person has Same date of birth and death; gives an error.
• Geography: add a popup for a bad tiles path
• Fix GEDCOM export of estimated/calculated dates with modifers

A note on the AIO; A change was made to hopefully stop windows from getting hidden behind others while active. Please report any issues in this area.

A second note for AIO; a 5.1.3-2 now includes prerequisites to allow PlaceCoordinateGramplet to work correctly.