Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 01:01:12 -0500 To: lwn@lwn.net Subject: Gnumeric release 0.58 As discussed I've attached the release announcement. This release adds support for multiple views (think shared white board) and lays the ground work for non-gui usages (text or as a library). It also fixes several display glitches and a serious import problem for locales other than C. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gnumeric 0.58 aka 'Grandma rides again' has been released. This version was supposed to be for pure development. Boy was I WRONG! Some of our testers (especially Grandma Chema) went to town, reporting over 40 bugs of varying magnitudes. Coupled with reports from the rest of the community this turned into a massive drive to stability. The score so far : - 3 crashes fixed - 22 display errors fixed - 9 features fixed - 1 import bug fixed (for locales other than C) It is strongly recommended that people upgrade. NOTE : we depend on at least GAL 0.2.2 to fix a critical bug we depend on gnome-print 0.25 to fix a display problem * New features * Undo support for auto-format (Almer) * Support for the 'General' format (Jody) * Shared and unshared views of workbooks (Jody) * Export comments to MS excel (tm) (Juan Pablo) * Bug fixes, Polishing & Optimisations * Improvements and beautification of the text importer (Almer) * Fixes for odd behavior in MS excel (tm)'s VLOOKUP (JPR) * Extension of the guile plugin (Ariel) * Improvements in Bonobo support (Michael) * More work on double click fill support (Jody) * Improved toolbars (Jon K<E5>re) * Analysis Tools (Morten) * Fix popup context menus. (Jody) * Massive bug fixing spree. (Gnumeric team) * Translations * Updated: no (Kjartan), pl (Zbigniew), hu (Timar and Szabolcs), ru (Valek) ja (Yukihiro), sv (Christian), * Work to support translation of strings in xml files (Kenneth and Morten) * Availability ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/gnumeric NOTE : Please do not package or submit bug reports for gnumeric-bonobo. Bonobo is under heavy development as is not expected to be stable.