AbiWord 2.9.4 - Changelog

What's new in AbiWord 2.9.2:

November 15th, 2011

· Add double-buffering support for most of the drawing to reduce flickering
· Implement SVG snapshots for components when possible
· Port the GTK interface to GTK+3 (GTK+2 is still supported)
· Support loading plugins in the Mac OSX port
· Allow SPARQL Query execution on RDF metadata stored in documents

What's new in AbiWord 2.9.1:

July 8th, 2011

· Unicode Support for Windows
· Paragraph Borders and Shading Support
· Improved Localizations
· RDF Support in both OpenDocument (.odt) and AbiWord (.abw) files
· A Telepathy Backend for the Collaboration Plugin
· An Experimental EPUB Plugin
· Windows 64 bit Support
· Reviving the Mac OS X Port
· ... and more changes all over the map!

What's new in AbiWord 2.8.6:

June 16th, 2010

· Preserve character properties when typing. This fixes a bad regression that was introduced in 2.8.5. (Martin Sevior)

What's new in AbiWord 2.8.2:

February 13th, 2010

· Fix German smart-quote support
· Fix landscape printing on GTK+ platforms
· Improved OpenDocument compatibility

What's new in AbiWord 2.7.10:

August 30th, 2009

· Bug 12321: Annotation hover box too large (Martin Sevior)
· Allow empty titles, authors or descriptions in annotations (Marc Maurer)
· Bug 12322: Jump to annotation is broken (Martin Sevior)
· Bug 12324: Scrolling from page to page does not work using multipage (Martin Sevior)
· Extended document validity checking (Firat Kiyak)
· Add a Basque translation to the Windows installer (Mikel Pascual)

What's new in AbiWord 2.7.7:

July 19th, 2009

· Port the Cairo+Pango based renderer that is used by AbiWord on Linux to Mac OS X. This solves a whole list of longstanding rendering and layout problems that existed in our Mac OS X version. Note that we do not yet provide binaries for Mac OS X, but developers might be interested in looking at the port.
· Allow SVG images to be used as positioned objects, to be copied and pasted, and to be exported to HTML.
· Improve the handling of Smart Quotes.
· Support mail merge fields and page size/page orientation in the Office Open XML importer. Support JPEG images in the exporter.
· Make the equation editor available on Windows again.

What's new in AbiWord 2.7.5:

June 22nd, 2009

· Make landscape documents print correctly on Windows and Linux
· Make copying and pasting from other applications work again on Windows
· Recover and import some corrupt OpenDocument files
· Improve OpenDocument textbox and image import
· Import and export equations from RTF documents

What's new in AbiWord 2.7.4:

June 15th, 2009

Core:
· Bug 12125: Crash when printing documents twice (Marc Maurer)
· Bug 12127: Incorrect page size when printing more than one page (Marc Maurer)
· Improve the layout and printing of complex Word documents (Martin Sevior)

GUI:

· GTK+
· Fix a GLib warning in the graphics code (Hubert Figuiere)

· Maemo
· Fix the insertion of 'p' characters (Hubert Figuiere)

· Windows
· Fix a font mix-up to make tables of contents and lists print as they appear on screen (Marc Maurer)

Internationalization:
· Update the Slovak (sk-SK) translation (Jaroslav Rynik)

Plug-ins:
· Collaboration
· Bug 12128: Crash when closing a collaborative document (Marc Maurer)

Development:
· Add an mwindows flag to the MinGW build (Fridrich Strba)
· Document some layout functions (Marc Maurer)
· Fix a Maemo 4.0 header compilation issue (Hubert Figuiere)
· Release and maintain 2.7.4 (Marc Maurer)
· Replace AC_CANONICAL_TARGET with AC_CANONICAL_HOST in the configure script (Fridrich Strba)