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.

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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.