v4.2.7

Version 4.2.7, a new maintenance release, has been released.

Make sure to backup before you upgrade.

Changes since 4.2.6:

• Fix Export View to CSV when Unicode characters are present
• Fix several intl date displayers for missing parameter
• DescendantTree report; fix crashes and Title spacing
• Fix Book XML handler to deal with unusual characters in Book name
• Add support for new genealogy tree report category
• Fix Media Preview Gramplet for closed db
• Suport FTM 2017 Gedcom tags on import
• Fix Person, Family Sidebar Filters to add custom Event types
• Fix QuestionDialog display for html like characters in title
• Fix FamilyRelationshpType _DATAMAP order to correspond with values
• Fix Gedcom import for illegal Gedcom Family Attributes
• Fix Gedcom export for bad Hebrew Months
• Change INSTALL to replace 'python' with 'python3 for script invokes
• Fix CSV importer for place event name using gramps_id
• Fix Geography view 'Find' when db is closed
• Fix interactive search for exception on click then down arrow
• Create where_is utility to locate a binary in the standard places
• Fix relationship Graph so Unicode chars on Multiple pages works
• Update authors file
• Fix Gedcom import for "1 MARR Y" issue
• Fix Export Web Family Tree for errors on file write
• Fix Citation Editor to Tab out of Confidence ComboBox
• Reset the dependencies on the new meta-module
• Use online modules
• Consolidate Python2 and Python3 meta-modules
• Use None as the foreground colour for untagged rows in list views
• Fix shading colour in relationship view for dark themes
• Fix link colour for dark themes
• Fix default foreground colour in list views for dark themes
• Fix Undo; crashes due to race in Gtk
• Gedcom import with OBJE/FORM URL on event
• EOFError [Ran out of input] in Clipboard
• Cannot drag & drop textual value via clipboard
• Fix 'DbBsddbRead' object has no attribute '_Callback__callback_map'
• Reports - Narrated Web Site Failure
• Fix link path in gramps-launcher compile instructions
• Update translations: fi, de

v5.0.0-alpha3

Version 5.0.0-alpha3, an experimental pre-release.

The key word is experimental!

It might be unwise to "upgrade" your main/real gramps
family tree into 5.0.0-alpha3. In general, we recommend
you make a copy of your family tree instead (typically by
doing a "gramps XML" export), then try 5.0.0-alpha3 on
the copy. (You can keep things really separate by using
the GRAMPSHOME environmental variable, if you want.)

It's been over a year since 5.0.0-alpha1 was released
so we are interested in your feedback, especially if you
discover any bugs or problems which we haven't noticed.

https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Using_the_bug_tracker

Please file a bug report (selecting the "5.0.0-alpha3"
version) if you find one. We want testers for alpha3,
but only if you are sophisticated and resilient enough
to know how to keep it away from your real data.

Make a backup on your old gramps first, just in case.

https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=How_to_make_a_backup

Changes since '5.0.0-alpha2':

• Fix Undo -- crashes due to race in Gtk
• Fix for deleted objects referenced in Note StyledText Links
• Strange index and surnames count in narrative web
• Missing references in narrative web
• Timestamp set to zero makes gramps crash on Windows in narrative web
• Avoid loop in narrativeweb with citation, source, and media.
• Use the default database backend for database conversion
• Remove version from the database type column in FTM
• Correct issue with exception on database change in gramplets
• Add empty role to person and family backref lists in narrative web
• Refactor narrative web report
• Fix InMemory db close error
• Eliminate unparsable "day month year" dates in Swedish
• Check for installed DB backend on DB selector
• Fix crash when import complex .gramps 5.0 current branch backup file
• Fix no-day numeric date display in y-m-d locales
• Flag three small-dialog "close" buttons to be translated
• Prevent DBAPI from nesting transactions for metadata
• Tidy database summary information
• Reorganise DBAPI plugins (add SQLite, PostgreSQL; remove DBAPI, InMemoryDb)
• Remove DBAPI settings.py file
• Date Editor has 'Type' and 'Quality' labels swapped
• Allow multiple collations per DB connection
• Fix HandleErrors with Family Merge and issues on close/open in gramplets
• Augment internal schema (title properties, source attribute lists, etc.)
• Guarantee order on DB emits
• Undo of delete person on DBAPI fails
• Fix creating new PostgreSQL database
• Use all parameters in settings.ini for PostgreSQL
• Ignore 32-bit vs. 64-bit when reporting Windows errors, and 'Distribution'
• Fix verify tool to close and save configs properly
• Open web links with /usr/bin/open on Mac and Python older than 3.5
• Flag for translation some more colons for French
• Path to Narrated Web alternate image is wrong
• Narrative web: crash using OSM when bad lat/lon
• Fix FamilyGroup crash by Python's sort routine on ICU bytearrays
• ReorderIds tool crashes with 'bytes' error on BSDDB
• Add 24x24 PNG -- not having it makes for an ugly charts toolbar in HiDPI
• 'DisplayState' object has no attribute 'set_autobackup_timer'
• Fix unnecessarily long relative paths generated on Windows
• The get_name_group_mapping method should return a string
• Fix names not displayed in relationship graph
• Citations Gramplet doesn't update in many cases
• Fix HasCitation rule in citation filter sidebar
• Outdated bugtracker link in Unexpected Error reporting wizard
• Family Lines report generates empty PDFs when name has double-quotes
• Non-local character in DB name causes crash on Windows
• Fix dead people shown as alive in narrative web
• Fix GEDCOM import with OBJE/FORM URL on event
• Fix drag in media reference editor so it creates/updates selection
• Fix spin button updates in media reference editor
• Media preview size changes
• Fix more dialogs which are mapped without a transient parent
• Undo of delete doesn't update views
• Fix error on 'cancel' for DB upgrade
• Top Surnames Gramplet doesn't update when DB is closed
• Fix DBAPI PostgreSQL crash
• Try to link a map position if we have an active place
• Remove recursion in ancestor filters
• Fix more HandleError crashes, in views and gramplets
• Fix relationship calculator failure
• Update translations: ca, cs, da, de, eo, fr, fi, hu, is, lt, nl, pt_BR, ru, sl, uk

v4.2.6

Version 4.2.6, a new maintenance release, has been released.

Make sure to backup before you upgrade.

Changes since '4.2.5':

• 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 OS
• 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

In memory of Peter Landgren.

v5.0.0-alpha2

Version 5.0.0-alpha2, an experimental pre-release.

Think on backup.

https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=How_to_make_a_backup

Changes since '5.0.0-alpha1':

See change log: https://gramps-project.org/bugs/changelog_page.php?version_id=87

The key word is experimental!

It might be unwise to "upgrade" your main/real gramps
family tree into 5.0.0-alpha2. In general, we recommend
you make a copy of your family tree instead (typically by
doing a "gramps XML" export), then try 5.0.0-alpha2 on
the copy. (You can keep things really separate by using
the GRAMPSHOME environmental variable, if you want.)

It's been about a year since 5.0.0-alpha1 was released
so we are interested in your feedback, especially if you
discover any bugs or problems which we haven't noticed.

https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Using_the_bug_tracker

Please file a bug report (selecting the "5.0.0-alpha2"
version) if you find one. We want testers for alpha2,
but only if you are sophisticated and resilient enough
to know how to keep it away from your real data.

v4.2.5

Version 4.2.5, a new maintenance release, has been released.

Make sure to backup before you upgrade.

https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=How_to_make_a_backup

Changes since '4.2.4':

• 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

v4.2.4

Version 4.2.4, a new maintenance release, has been released.

Think on backup.

https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=How_to_make_a_backup

Changes since '4.2.3':

• 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

v5.0.0-alpha1

Version 5.0.0-alpha1, an experimental pre-release.

Think on backup.

https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=How_to_make_a_backup

Changes since '4.2.3':

See change log: https://gramps-project.org/bugs/changelog_page.php?version_id=86

Announcement:
http://gramps.1791082.n4.nabble.com/Re-Gramps-5-0-alpha-announcement-draft-td4675918.html

v4.2.3

Version 4.2.3, a new maintenance release, has been released.

Think on backup.

https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=How_to_make_a_backup

Changes since '4.2.2':

• 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

v4.2.2

Version 4.2.2, a new maintenance release, has been released.

Think on backup.

https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=How_to_make_a_backup

Changes since '4.2.1':

• "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

v4.2.1

Version 4.2.1, a new maintenance release, has been released.

Think on backup.

https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=How_to_make_a_backup

Changes since '4.2.0':

• 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