Version history for Gramps for Mac OS X (Intel)

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Changes for v5.1.1 - v5.1.2

• Narweb: Private notes for home, intro and contact. If the notes are private,
• we can't use them in these pages.
• Referenced regions problems. When image width > 800, the referenced
• regions are incorrectly placed
• Ancestor's tree display looks weird Solves the following:
• Person boxes overlap
• Some person boxes partially visible or hidden
• some cleanup in ancestortree.css
• ancestor tree and long names.
• Adapt ancestor tree css file for all themes
• dates not localised in place pages
• Mainz problem with short text in one note, Issue occurs on the homepage
• and introduction page.
• bad event links on media pages
• Navweb: Don't use media regions in some case:
• If we don't show families
• If we don't show events
• Don't show the media regions for a thumbnail
• WEBCAL: home link translated to lowercase
• Wrong web calendar title on home page. This solves the possibility to
• have ">", "<" in the title
• Update LDS Temple list
• Make GuiDestinationOption Folder Icon start in users directory
• Allow import file filter to accept case insensitive extensions
• Fix db to warn/prevent opening newer schema versions
• Fix Progen import dialog and progress meter for correct parent window
• Fix Progen import to correctly handle AKA surnames
• Fix ExportPkg so errors are not lost, and has progress bar for media
• Fix Export Assistant so error messages get correct parent window
• Fix GEDCOM import when family is missing; import created a missing note
• Fix Dashboard for adding Gramplet crash in Slovenian
• Update cs, ca, fr, uk, he, fi, hr, de, sv translation
• Update date parsing for czech locale
• Fix Spanish translation for dates
• fix private proxy tagref support. Add missing code for event, repository,
• source, citation and place
• [Tree doc Tex] fix "-" char on place name "-" can lead to confusion,
• generating text out of the box with PDF file format
• [Tree doc Tex] fix typo on custom size
• Fix duplicated "døde døde" Norwegion Translation for libnarrate
• Fix up Event Editors Place display for bidi text with Gramps ID
• Fix issues with RTL languages and LAT/LONG
• Fix display of GPS coordinates in Places view for RTL languages
• Fix place editor lat/long entry for RTL languages
• Fix GEDCOM export to avoid translated GrampsType strings
• Allow Tools with Notbook tabs to expand to fill the window
• Limit Age Stats gramplet settings to appropriate values.
• Max ages should be divisible by 5 to avoid out of range errors.
• The chart width should be greater than 45 to look right and
• avoid division by zero errors.
• Fix the Preferences 'Age display precision' value getting lost
• Fix Window family tree title for non-ASCII chars on Windows
• Fix Preferences/Genealogical Symbols when only one font is present
• Fix various Entry fields so Undo/Redo works
• Fix tag colors on PedigreeView
• Fix Gramps -v error when Gtk is not present
• Fix for PedigreeView not reflecting changes to birthday or death
• ODF DOC - Fix improper escaping in odt output for TOC/Bookmark etc.
• Fix CLI parser to accept negative integers as valid
• Fix Descendant Tree report for HandleError when no parents on family
• Fix Reorder ID tool so subsequent db additions used next possible ID
• Upgrade export VCalendar to v2.0, so can export all utf8 characters
• Fix Preferences so PageUp/PageDn doesn't stick on Dates tab
• Graphs: Escape for name, dates and places in graph reports with XML
• illegal characters
• Fix 'Go' menu direct object selection, goes to wrong place

Changes for v5.0.0 - v5.0.1

• Media Manager: add help button and remove ‘…’
• Edit/Preferences: add Help button
• Style Editor, Document Styles dialog: add help buttons
• Fix Select Person dialog Help button URL
• Fix Select Repository dialog Help button URL
• Relationship Calculator: Add help button
• Reorder Relationships dialog; add Help button
• Generate Book Dialog; Fix Help URL
• Manage Book dialog; add help button
• Fix Detached Gramplets Help button URL when ‘help_url’ not in .gpr
• Fix help URLs when they contain illegal characters and to match
• wiki section targetID algorithm Issue
• Update translations: hu, hr, de, ru, fi, pt_PT, fr, sv, sl
• Fix contents of enclosed_by secondary dbapi column
• (fixes scrambled places in tree view)
• Google maps URL problem
• Fix ODT reports with links when run in non-English languages
• Allow addon Reports to specify a help button URL for options dialog
• Fix Rebuild Secondary Indexes tool for dbapi backends.
• For dbapi backends, this tool will update the secondary columns that
• are used for indexing.
• Fix dbapi set_name_group_mapping to properly close transaction
• Fix Russian date handler crash when Russian language isn’t installed
• Fix Quickview for missing table data on some Gtk Versions
• Fix startup messages when command line contains a bad filename
• Restrict Place view Name col to the primary name while allowing searchbar
• to find alt and primary names
• Fix Person Sidebarfilter when using ‘Event’ and Reg expressions
• Fix Find Duplicate People; exception when deleting someone shown outside
• of the tool
• Gedcom export, upgrade OBJE handling to Gedcom 5.5.1 style
• Fix CSV import to set marriage event role to family
• Update gramps bugtracker URL in all po files
• Narrative Web:
• thumbnails bad alignment.
• thumbnails problems in some cases.
• use latest version from openlayers.
• fixes Space between place, description and the event note
• when there are many sources.
• Change the css order between print and screen. The chosen theme can erase
• prior values.
• Add a width for the source column in all themes.
• Events difficult to read (screen and mobile)
• Fix typo in CitationListModel for sort change
• Fix Adding “ToDo” note crash when no active object
• Fix Citation List view Source Last Changed Column to sort properly
• Fix for re-entrant main window close when user hits ‘x’ again
• Fix exception when closing early editor in tree of editors
• Fix ‘Generate Book’ dialog for crash on ‘x’ close
• Fix ToDo Gramplet for multiple attempts to edit a note
• Fix Dashboard for multiple copies of a Gramplet
• Fix Dashboard to recall minimized or undocked Gramplets
• Fix Statusbar update to avoid intermittent exception on closed db
• Fix FilterParser for much older 3.x custom_filters.xml files
• Fix IsDuplicatedAncestorOf filter rule to avoid crash on tree loop
• Fix StyledTextEditor EditLink for root text changed to zero length
• in the background Fixes
• Fix AgeOnDate and some reports using SimpleAccess for missing surname
• Fix crash when a filter with loop in definition is defined
• Fix HandleErrors related to LDS
• Fix ReferencedBySelection proxy for ‘None’ LDS Parents
• Fix HandleError in Citations Gramplet for lds place missing
• Change PlaceView drag from whole row to just icon during drag
• Add drag Icon to drags from DisplayTabs Gramplet lists
• Fix dialogs for ‘Help’ button closes the dialog, and non-functional ‘Help’
• Fix Family Tree manager for ‘Help’ button closes dialog
• Fix selectors for ‘Help’ button closes dialog
• Fix ‘Generate Book’ dialog for ‘Help’ button closes dialog
• Fix TestcaseGenerator for ‘Help’ button closes dialog
• Fix Selectors to enable the ‘Help’ buttons to actually work
• Avoid HandleError when dragging an Added Family from EditFamily
• Avoid HandleError when dragging an Added Person from EditPerson
• Fix Clipboard rows cannot be sorted via drag/drop
• Better default directory choices for import/export file dialogs
• Records Report: call name not underlined in HTML
• Fix InteractiveSearch for find before model is populated
• Fix Gedcom export for incorrect escaping with @#DFRENCH R@
• Fix reports for shared event attribute and note errors
• Fix Fan and Descendant Fan charts in Quadrant and Half Circle modes
• The Descendant Fan chart had several bugs:
• a bug that affected the centering of the chart for these modes
• the chart was drawn in the wrong quadrant
• the centering of the chart for printing was incorrect
• (the legend was off the page some of the time).
• the sizing of the chart for printing was incorrect
• (for very small charts of one generation, the legend would overwrite the
• chart).
• The Fan Chart for the quadrant view:
• the centering of the chart for printing was incorrect
• (the legend was off the page some of the time).
• Fixed issues in the Dutch relationship calculator
• extended the ordinal and removed lists till 50, like the English lists.
• Fixed bug in which uncles/aunts, nephews/nieces (niblings), siblings and
• cousins with an unknown gender show up as female.
• Fixed some misspellings
• Setting the year as an ordinal number in Croatian; two more reports now show
• a year as an ordinal number in Croatian
• fix name-note is not being cleared in Complete Individual report
• Fix View Column sizing so last column size setting is maintained
• Fix view so column widths are preserved when using filters
• fix the place-format option in Detailed Descendant and Detailed Ancestor text
• reports
• Fix bsddb for person sort with empty Surname list
• Webcal: link problems in some cases Year 2016 is highlighted by default
• instead of current year.
• Webcal: Missing links when muliyear unselected
• Geoclose: exception when a family has no father
• Family Descendant Tree; fix HandleError
• fix unhandled exception parsing “future dates” in some locales
• fix Julian/Gregorian calendar issue when entering only year as date when
• running gramps in Norwegian
• Fix and restore Statistics Gramplet to 4.2.x status
• Fix Check and Repair to deal with bad references empty handle string
• Speed up Check and Repair, backlinks check stage.
• Fix strings containing deprecated (Python 3.6+) illegal escape sequences
• Whatsnext: check if db is open, fixes error if not.
• Fix usage of posixpath; should be os.path for os independence
• Fix generate_checksum routine to avoid MemoryError crash
• Fix corrupted Bookmarks that can happen after Gramps crash
• Fix Merge Family when same parent is missing from both families
• Fix c in view to get selected item to clipboard
• Fix Quickview Gramplet so updates work when changing active
• Fix place reference editor for bad cut/paste on set_latlongitude
• Fix Find Database Loop Tool (bad import of _collections)
• mac/gramps.modules: Switch included moduleset to gitlab.gnome.org.
• mac/gramps.bundle: File copy doesn’t work if the glob can match directories.
• mac/gramps.bundle: Install the docs/gramps directory in the bundle.
• debian/changelog: Update the Debian changelog after the 5.0.0 release
• mac/Info.plist, mac/gramps.modules: Release Gramps-5.0.0 on Mac.

Changes for v4.2.5 - v4.2.6

• Fix HasCitation rule in citation filter sidebar
• Fix use of regular expressions
• Date Editor had ‘Type’ and ‘Quality’ labels swapped
• Fix FamilyGroup Report
• Fix names not displayed in relationship graph
• Fix outdated Bugtracker link in reporting wizard
• Fix replacements in Ancestor tree
• Fix Default Browser Setting
• Fix linking place on OpenStreetMap view
• Fix Family Lines Report having unescaped characters
• Fix non-local character in DB name (Windows OS)
• Fix checking for “event.string” in “treeview_keypress”
• Fix invalid February 29th date in Julian dual-dated
• Fix Note on CIR when it is attached to a (preferred or alternative) name through the names dialog.
• Improve time loading for person selector in census forms
• Fix incorrect SoundEx result
• Fix Error printing on ancestor tree graphical report
• Fix custom filter creation with ‘Events occurring on a particular day of the week’
• Bug in the Name Editor / Group As
• Gramps CSV export of Places did not generate correct Title.
• Add custom Family Relations not shown in the filter siderbar
• Fix non-textual value on Tag report
• Fix ‘interface.dont-ask’ config key ignored on Note edition
• Fix Reorder Relationships dialog
• Shrink size of Break Lock (and other QuestionDialogs)
• Only selection of Active or Home person if commited
• Fix quick search exception when nothing in searched list
• Fix problem adding parents
• Fix bookmarks keybinding on Mac
• Fix failure to load default gramplets if GExiv2 is missing or too old.
• Update API doc for place displayer
• Add datestrings to Turkish translation
• Update translations: cs, de, fr, fi, hu, it, ru, sl, sv, tr

Changes for v4.2.4 - v4.2.5

• The configparser is assuming the wrong encoding
• Sorting in family tab of narrated web report
• Silence remaining PyGIWarning
• Sorting of relationships in family tab of narrated web report
• Use latest valid date rather than today
• Modify endonym handling in place displayer
• Fix house number concatenation
• Allow merging of families with one or more parents in common
• Jump to Gramps ID functionality doesn’t work
• Ability to search alternate place names when selecting place
• Fix clear map action on Geography
• Database repair tool always edit all source objects
• Database repair tool ignored some objects with tag
• “Enclosing” gramplet includes places outside valid date ranges
• Fix icon and tooltip in LDS editor
• CSV import fails
• Fix duplicated Gramps IDs on Gedcom import
• Unexpected error Preferences > Dates > Markup for invalid date format
• Fix Import Vcard, can create multiple surnames with all selected as ‘Primary’
• Fix Gedcom import in some alternate languages; improper date parsing
• Export options ‘Preview’ buttons create hidden quickreport
• Alignment radio buttons in the style editor do not work
• Select Place search & Source/Citation hierarchy should NOT be expanded
• Tweak improvement on Tag editor
• Support for Windows Python3 pythonw.exe
• Wrong parsing Numeric date format for cs_CZ locale
• Fix Icelandic and German translations
• Fix Norwegian relationship calculator
• Update translations: cs, de, fi, fr, hu, is, nb, ru

Changes for v4.2.3 - v4.2.4

• fixes for the PHON, FAX, EMAIL and WWW Gedcom tags to support Gedcom v5.5.1
• use more relative import
• Support for FTM and others Custom Gedcom Event Tags on import
• fix '_deeprelationshippath' filter rule
• Narrativeweb: some dates are incorrect in tar archive.
• MacOS: Update graphviz to 2.38 and change to a binary launcher in app bundles.
• Gramps crashes when closed while exporting
• Some events are not shown in familymaps page.
• Remove old debug bloc on place selection.
• Add GUI and CLI config option to allow easy setting
• Chinese characters are not rendered properly in pdf reports
• Support v5.5.1 OBJE/FORM/MEDI tag on embedded OBJE
• Sorting of Sources on gedcom
• Change "class xxx(object)" to "class xxx"
• Use "with open" instead of "try: except:"
• Change "raise NotImplemented" to "raise NotImplementedError()"
• Add new argument to IsEnclosedByRule
• Narrativeweb: place title must agree the references.place-auto configuration
• Improvements on CSV file format support
• update Finnish holidays
• Some strings in tools and report dialogs will not translate
• Gedcom import improvements in media area to support v5.5.1 and FTM
• Trailing whitespace
• Gedcom import of FTM .ged file containing _LINK tags not supported
• Change pycairo-python3 to pycairo.
• pycairo for python2 is now py2cairo.
• Remove pango modules from bundle, pango no longer uses them.
• Gedcom import loses spaces in text fields from FTM
• Gedcom import of FTM file containing _PHOTO tags
• Missed self.photo initializer
• Attempting to select an "Available item" for the Book Report gives an error
• Fix for either valid or invalid FTM Gedcom
• Gedcom import of FTM file with OCCU record crashes import
• crash - 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_child_ref_list'
• Family Page maps are non-functional in Narrative Web report
• Gedcom import loses spaces in text fields from FTM
• String not translated in geoplaces
• Descendant Report does not recognise auto. place title generation
• Translated text will not be printed in the program
• Geography: Attempting to print crashes (add parent to dialog)
• GEDCOM doesn't accept CR as a line terminator
• Wrong Numeric date format for cs_CZ locale
• Narrativeweb: inconsistent & incomplete display of place hierarchy labels
• Narratedweb: surname listing errors for people with multiple partners
• In "Verify" people w/ death event w/o date are not thought dead
• While starting gramps, it fails to pop up "tips of the day"
• GEDCOM import in CLI mode with .ged file containing ANSEL encoding tries to pop up gui
• fix merge conflict
• Use first matching name when generating place titles
• GEDCOM import with media files that have no path fails
• [Geography] Geoclose and mother handle
• place names empty if Gedcom ADDR record contains no street
• Tidy up place configuration options
• Use CSS to fade background colour in ValidatableMaskedEntry
• crash on GEDCOM import with empty _AKA lines
• Add inclusive option to IsEnclosedBy rule
• Saving/closing new person window with Alt-o does not find gender
• Fix to allow deferred translation of place type
• Include all place types in place report
• Allow place selection both individually and by filter on textual report
• Expand tree in selectors automatically
• Fix Encloses gramplet to display correct place references
• Update for appdata stuff
• UnboundLocalError on ODF doc backend
• Media Preview: wrong frame
• fix signals
• GEDCOM import PLAC:FORM in local mode doesn't work
• fix empty Place Alternate Names on import
• Merge unit test for PlaceCheck not working correctly
• GEDCOM import some Place Names & Titles are blank
• GEDCOM import PLAC or ADDR attached Notes etc. are lost
• Gramps not appearing in Gnome Software
• fix broken GEDCOM import PLAC:FORM handling
• Place Alt Names gets duplicated entries
• Multiple GEDCOM imports creates duplicate event IDs
• The place page in webreport is complete mess
• Gallery tab of Source view does not display .ods files
• Narrated Web report - Individual sort order not correct on the Surnames tab
• Specify required GtkSpell and GExiv2 version
• Narrated web report link to thumbnails is broken on certain pages
• Narrated Web report - Individual page sort order has changed
• Gramps reports that it can't find dictionaries.
• Turns out it was really that enchant couldn't find its backend because an environment variable wasn't set.
• Update translations: cs, da, de, fi, fr, hu, pt_BR, ru, sl

Changes for v4.2.2 - v4.2.3

• Creation of the "graphic calendar report" failed
• Fix "TypeError: 'tuple' object does not support item assignment
• Fix experienced an unexpected error
• Unable to build narrated web site
• [NarrativeWeb report] Places index and Media index are incorrectly sorted
• Error when trying to create narrative report (residence event)
• Fix filter set by default on selector, 'Show all' button
• Detailed Ancestors Report has ? for locations when [private data is excluded]
• Age in the event family view column is wrong.
• Crash when dragging multiple media items to clipboard
• vCal Export File format invalid
• Error occurs for Complete Individual Report -- complete database
• Narrated Web Site Report: places page is no longer sorted alphabetically
• Narrative web: html elements emitted in different order
• Narrative web: "errno: 1, operation is not permitted" when creating archive.
• Narrative Web report further stops in error.
• Fix multiple lines for firstname on gramps XML file via import or export
• fix scrolling in persons view after typing some letters
• Location on geography view could not convert string to float
• setup.py: make typeout more accurate
• Searching in people view when surnames are collapsed
• Fix error when changing database in new locations gramplets
• Error loading Participants add-on in French locale
• Restores setting the stdout encoding to sys.getdefaultencoding() for Python3
• Fix comment about getting the right encoding for stdout.
• Date format does not match system.
• Make US English a special-case locale, where en_GB is the default for english based locales
• Enhance the Locations gramplet
• New "Encloses" gramplet to the display places that the active place encloses
• Individuals with incomplete names, not updated when name completed
• Children gramplet in Family view does not get updated when a birth/death events are added to a child
• Non-image media objects don't appear in the main window gallery.
• Pressing tab stops at element in gui places
• Double-clicking on a source in the citation gramplet causes exception
• "Find text in record" filter crash
• Fix vCard Export
• Notes used in the "To Do" gramplet are found by the Remove Unused Objects tool
• Unable to select Unicode
• Cannot import gedcom generated by RootsMagic custom place details ignoring PlaceName()
• Fix people sorted by surname view
• Complete Report about person (whole database) - PDF - crash
• Update for travis
• Only consider the values of LC_ALL, LANG, and LANGUAGE, in that order, when choosing the default locale.
• New Icelandic date and relationships handlers
• Fix Finnish translation in keywords of desktop entry
• Update translations: cs, de, el, fi, fr, hu, is, it, ru, sl, sv, uk
• Downloads

Changes for v4.2.1 - v4.2.2

• "Show all" checkbox of "Select Family" window not unchecked when the filter is cleared
• Name of user defined filter is not shown
• ErrorDialog and GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent
• 'Find' is broken when used in the Family selector
• Fix default selection in selectors
• Comment currently-unused bogus wiki URL pointers
• Fix counter for filtered entries and indentation on TreeBaseModel
• Faulty headline in start up screen
• Check that gramplet is in notebook before setting tab label
• Fix creation of focus change events
• Interactivesearch gives "TypeError: unorderable types: str() < NoneType()"
• Put tag selection list in alphabetical order
• Remove redundant code
• Fix delete error in undoable entry widget
• Fix deprecation warning
• Re-enable selection in MultiTreeView on a grab_broken event
• Add validation to gender field
• Unhandled AttributeError when db.get_tag_from_handle returns None
• ReferencedBySelectionProxy can forget some referenced tags
• Remove encoding on stdout and stderr
• Handle citation objects in glocale.trans_objclass
• Locality data in address was not imported
• Can not download new or updated add-ons
• Don't check SSL certs when fetching addons
• Catch urlopen TypeError when context arg isn't supported
• Fix undefined variable error
• ValueError: underlying buffer has been detached
• LaTeX backend crashes
• Geography: performance issue due to bad initialization and performance issue when selecting the events or places views.
• Narrated Web Site Report: html elements emitted in different order
• Unused *_init.jpg are created in the narrated website
• Some media files are not exported to the NAVWEB report
• Narrative web report: add author to citations
• TypeError: unorderable types: EventRef() < EventRef(), events list and family list are differents between two reports
• Permission denied: change mtime to origin instead of destination
• Thumbnails html file missing in the narrative web
• Narrativeweb: Place title based on current date not that of the event
• Webcal: make the month name clickable in the year overview page
• 'Narrative' word not translatable
• 'Unknown' spouse uses an harcoded string name on Simple Descendants textual report
• Father/mother's age attributes are not translated on reports
• Improve Russian date handler and unittests
• Mars month instead of Marzec on Polish locale (Date Editor)
• Translations update: cs, de, fr, fi, nl, pl, ru, sv

Changes for v4.2.0 - v4.2.1

• Support for Retina and HiDPI Display, added 24px icons
• Fix verification tool with “Estimate missing or inexact dates”
• Fix missing link in hourglass graph report
• Sort custom place types in editors
• Allow Easter calculation with python3
• Fix crash on Descendants-detailed report
• FanChartDescendants View should at least have 2 generations
• Allow hyphenated gramps-id in Graphviz reports
• Complete Individual Report fails to run
• Fix broken wiki help links
• Set TextOption widget to expand vertically
• Unused Object Dialog box too small
• Short cut keys does not work in ‘Change Event Types’ dialog
• Update some Tips of the day
• Error when extracting place names
• Custom filters for note text repaired
• Fix Pedigreeview crash when selecting Compact view
• Set “visable_window” in GtkEventBox to fix transparency
• Faster scrolling
• * cache database access for column values
• * cache do_get_path lookups
• * speed up load access on treeviews with no filters
• * new LRU size of 1k (was 250)
• * use cache in do_get_path from siblings
• Avoid using person-centric date matching for places
• Use place title as default name in GEDCOM import
• Ensure place names are not empty after upgrade
• Fix proxy to include all referenced place objects
• Fix bug that prevented any addons being loaded onto the Mac version
• Remove copy button from family tree manager
• Consistency for name fields on Person Editor
• [Geography] Place.set_name(name) requires a PlaceName()
• [Geography] Fix and improvements on place selection
• Limit problems with existing selection in media reference editor
• Stability fixes on Mac port
• Mac port localization crash with non-standard locale (e.g. en_IT).
• Fix color on history
• Fix countries selector for holidays
• Fix missing markups into textual reports
• All sidebars with Types now show custom types in combo list
• [New] Added Places to CSV import/export
• Some fixes on installer (setup.py)
• Various improvements on gen.plug.utils
• Fix graph reports [in Greek locale]
• New date handler for Hungarian locale
• Updated translations : cs, de, el, en_GB, fi, fr, hu, is, sv

Changes for v4.1.2 - v4.2.0

• New date and language fields on place name
• Review on GtkBuilder, fix some Gtk3 warnings and move from deprecated methods
• Change icons and buttons handling methods
• Enhanced Place Editor and new Place Name editor
• New widget: use own interactive-search
• Ability to import kml data into Geography views
• Enhancement for removing multiple selected items from Views (action group)
• Add drag support on more Views, Selectors and Editors
• Add right-click "Copy all" to ListModel and all QuickTables
• Review Alternate Place handling and edition
• New 'Place' configuration keys set by user (settings)
• New filter rule: is enclosed by
• Consistency on Privacy option for reports
• Consistency on "Name-format" options for reports
• Add DeferredFilter class (a subclass of GenericFilter)
• New textual Report: Links on Notes
• Fix alphabetic index and toc bug in books
• Enhancements on Style Editor
• Enhancements on End Notes into textual reports
• Changes on Individuals complete textual report
• Changes on Ancestors Tree draw report: Include Siblings
• Add name-format option, and deferred translation on Records report
• Add deferred translation on Timeline draw report
• Enable attributes gramplet on Source and Citation Views
• New place locations gramplet
• Optimizations around index, Flat and TreeView models
• Enhanced samples files
• All importers return now an ImportInfo object
• Experimental gwplus (geneweb) import file format support
• Remove experimental HTML renderer view
• New test scripts
• New Date handler for Japanese
• Review on Slovenian and Czech Date Handlers
• Implement both "traditional" and "simplfied" Chinese (translations and dates)
• Serbian review

Changes for v4.1.1 - v4.1.2

• Error converting python2 utf-8 strings to python3 str when loading data from database
• Removing a parent place from a place leaves a dangling reference
• Error during checking the database
• Stubborn blank space in database won't be removed, fix removing rows in flat list views
• Database upgrade fails if default media path is not set
• Error converting database after upgrade to Gramps 4.1.1
• Error in a single place within the places section
• Entries from the add-or-choose selector of Place/Source/Media/Note cannot be dragged
• Enclosing places tab should work like other similar tabs, new place reference editor
• Association editor refuses dropped persons
• Error on opening twice an object from clipboard
• Incorrect spacing in export assistant file chooser
• New Event types are saved as a disordered list
• Always display main participants
• Place titles can now be generated on-the-fly by a place displayer, default is still to use the place title field
• GEDCOM import of embedded notes attached to media does not work
• Crash on Ancestry.com .ged import; consistent.
• Errors handling owner/submitter information in GEDCOM files.•Only import researcher from GEDCOM or XML if the family tree was originally empty.
• GEDCOM export does not export media attached to citations.
• The fanchart view crashes if max generation is set to 1 away.
• Sidebar Filters do not match placetypes in new placeview, two new filter rules (HasTitle, HasData)
• Fix bug when family has no parents
• Fix bad handle in explanation note for unknown event
• Some labels now fit better on citations sidebar filter
• Views in Geography should not always use the last option set by the user
• Request for keyboard-controlled zoom on Geography view
• Error geography view - Displaying main menu
• Configure screen needs a file selector to select directory for "offline mode" files
• Filter panel on geography view displays improperly
• Detailed descendant report crashes, bibliography (citations)
• Can't disable box shadow in SVG descendant tree
• Descendant tree graphical report, syntax error in svg output
• Regression: Complete Individual report has partially-untranslated output
• Events Page in Narrative Report not working
• Gramps freeze after defining a report style with German cm values
• Various problems with docgen.TextDoc.add_media_object
• Report event attribute name is not translated
• Records Gramplet uses wrong text
• Closing detached gramplet causes python to crash
• Cannot reduce size of gramplets detached from a gramplet bar
• Gramplets don't fill window when detached from dashboard
• ImageMetadata doesn't show metadata
• typo on GLib call, used by an addon only
• Fix error setting gramplet tab label
• Check for active person in session log gramplet
• Spurious spaces in CLI List Family Trees, tab delimited output.•Print statements changed to assemble the whole line before output.
• Gtk3 warning and custom undoableentry widget, see bugzilla_id 644927
• Warnings: deprecated Gtk properties and errors loading theme icon.•Fix: database manager dialog is inconsistent for older gtk+3 versions.
• Warnings: deprecated Gtk properties and errors loading theme icon.
• Fix: Error loading theme icon 'gtk-apply'
• gramps fails to start with gtk+-3.13.3
• Places in data.gramps are not in the new Place hierarchy
• Upgrade the version of some dependencies for Mac OS and Windows OS.
• Keywords entry in gramps.desktop does not work
• 'Available Gramps Updates for Addons' window not on top
• Some text not translatable in context menu fancharts
• Fix for Unit test
• date inflections in _datehandler.py, update for Ukrainian, Russian, Croatian
• Better support for Serbian and Turkish locales
• New translation: Icelandic
• Re-enable Turkish support after a major review. Thank you Ugur.
• Updated translations: cs, de, eo, fi, fr, hr, hu, it, nb, nn, ru, sk, sr, sv, uk, zh_CN

Changes for v4.0.4 - v4.1.1

• Fix custom place types in the place editor
• Allow place type combobox to receive focus.
• Store custom place types in the metadata table
• Fix place type for places without a main location
• Fix bug adding parent places to a new place
• Prevent user creating a cycle in the place hierarchy
• Avoid infinite loop when place cycle encountered
• Prevent creation of a place cycle when merging
• Fix error when no place is selected
• Check that a place has been selected when saving.
• Use the standard place selection widget to be consistent.
• Add a new Top Level place through the Place Reference Editor
• Fix backlinks code in place report
• Backlinks for places can now also be places as well as events.
• Fix check and repair tool for empty placerefs
• Update location utilities to work with proxies
• Place report does not run
• Update place details gramplet
• Locations are now displayed in a new separate gramplet.
• Add check for empty handle in gramplets
• Check DB lock on the recent opened trees list
• Sidebarfilter gramplet does not fit well into People, Events or Media views
• Fix new event default type considering existing events with default role
• Rebuild secondary indexes after database upgrade
• Importing gedcom files containing multibyte UTF-8 characters fails
• Ahnentafel Report did not use Christening Date if no Birth Date
• [Narweb:] Missing webpage for media under some circumstances
• Fix narrated web report with gendex option enabled
• Tweak to "default" CSS choice for the narrated web report
• Invalid link for Merge citation Help button
• Fix 'todo' gramplet
• Fix path when using drag & drop to add media
• Limit the number of generations displayed in the ancestor gramplet
• Export of a subset of the tree failed
• Fix issues in python3, and bytes-string mismatch with ICU
• Fix url/uri handling with non-ascii characters under linux and mac
• Fix name format on graphical reports
• Fix name format on textual reports
• Better GUI support for embeded custom attributes list on media object
• Better keys for search under linux shells (.desktop file)
• 'Unknown' person in detailed ancestor report can not be translated
• Translations don't show in many labels
• Ensure python text domain gets the right encoding.
• Translate some punctuation marks
• Various fixes around Geography and osmgpsmap
• Allow gramplets to be displayed in the dashboard only - Update FSF address - Add Arabic-script, Islamic-date, Thai script, Married Name and more dates examples - Fix on czech date handler for calculated and estimated dates - Enhance Serbian date handler to handle Cyrillic dates - Simplify Canadian Ash Wednesday holiday - Re-enable Esperanto support (for non-Windows OS only) after a large review - New translation: Serbian - Various fixes in German and Czech - Updated translations: ar, cs, de, fi, fr, it, sv

Changes for v4.0.3 - v4.0.4

• Version 4.0.4, the Not the comfy chair, has been released.
• This is a maintenance release.
• Changes since Gramps 4.0.3
• 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
• NotRelated and Verify data dialogs appear either too small or too big
• Unable to edit citations on association
• Relationship calculator not displaying data
• 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
• the scroll windows for patchname tools didn't expand
• 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

Changes for v4.0.2 - v4.0.3

• 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

Changes for v4.0.1 - v4.0.2

• 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
• 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 language selection on some reports
• Better way for displaying missing dependencies
• Better spellchecking support
• Platform-specific fixes for Mac and Windows
• Add printing functionality for all geography views
• New date handlers for Arabic and Greek
• Repaired and enhanced tests broken since 3.3.x, resulting in overall reliability improvements
• Add a support for AppData
• Translations updated: ar, cs, de, fr, lt, nb, nl, ru, sv.

Changes for v4.0.0 - v4.0.1

• 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

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