AbiWord 2.8.6 is een uitgave van de gratis Word-vervanger waarin één storende fout wordt opgelost die in de vorige versie was geslopen.

Release notes:

Core

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

In AbiWord 2.8.5 is de ondersteuning voor het OpenDocument formaat verder verbeterd. Ook is een crash verholpen als meer mensen tegelijk online samenwerken aan een document en een de verbinding verbreekt.

Ten slotte zijn in de snelle tekstverwerker veel foutjes opgelost die de robuustheid en stabiliteit moeten verbeteren.

Release notes:

Core

Editing/Layout

• Fix paste of rich text from HTML and ODT, where previously some formatting properties were not closed properly. (Martin Sevior)
• Add a number of robustness fixes to the layout engine. (Martin Sevior)
• Fix a table selection bug. (Sander Bogaert)

Import/Export

OpenDocument

• Fix 10330: Ignored top and bottom margins. (Marc Maurer)
• Fix a typo in the bottom margin code import code, resulting in a bug similar to 10330, but then on import. (Marc Maurer)
• Fix 11905: Document with columns not correctly exported. (Marc Maurer)
• Fix 11937: Incorrect page margin defaults. (Marc Maurer)
• Fix 11874: Bullets, border and 'first page' style not rendered right. Adds the Unicode MINUS SIGN to the list of unicode chars that renders as a dashed list. (Marc Maurer)
• Fix 10884: Columns (section?) margins not preserved on opendocument import. (Marc Maurer)
• Fix 11887: Footer text placement / alignment problems. The real problem was that we didn't support different headers/footers on facing pages. (Marc Maurer)
• Fix 11862: Table of Contents not properly exported. (Marc Maurer)
• Fix 11848: table:number-columns-repeated and table:number-rows-repeated not supported. (Marc Maurer, Martin Sevior)

Office OpenXML

• Fix wrong page margins on export, similar to bug 11937. (Marc Maurer)

Plugins

Collaboration

• Fix 12744: Crash when more than 2 people are collaborating and one of the clients disconnects. (Marc Maurer, Sam Rooney)
• Don't include document names that a buddy does not have access to in the list of available shared documents that is sent to him. (Marc Maurer)
• Fix some small memory leaks in the *.abicollab importer. (Marc Maurer)
• Fix 12728: AbiWord should honor SRV DNS records when collaborating over XMPP. (Damien Diederen)

MS Write

• Fixed several bugs, added character conversion support and support for page properties. (Ingo Brueckl)

Internationalization

• Update Galician (gl) translation. (Miguel Bouzada)
• Updated Romanian (ro_RO) translation. (Lucian Constantin)
• Updated Danish (da_DK) translation. (Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér)
• Update German (de-DE) translation. (Volker Ribbert)
• Updated Slovenian (sl-SI) translation. (Martin Srebotnjak)

In AbiWord 2.8.4 zijn enkele fouten opgelost. Met name problemen met niet-Westerse talen zijn verholpen. Voor Nederlandse gebruikers niks nieuws eigenlijk.

Release notes:

Core

Editing/Layout (All platforms)

• Fix a bug where deleting a character in non-Western scripts caused a random number of characters to be deleted. (Martin Sevior)

Editing/Layout (Linux / Mac OSX)

• Bug 6987: "Thai string can't be deleted in proper sequence". This fix applies to all non-Western scripts, for example Russian and Arabic scripts were affected too. This also fixes the cursor movement for complex scripts, as text cluster boundaries are now always honored. (Marc Maurer)

• Bug 11785: Abiword shows strange symbols instead of Arabic characters. This fix applies to all languages that activate our font substitution mechanism. (Marc Maurer)

• Fix the text rendering of complex scripts when text is selected. (Marc Maurer)

Plugins

GNOME Office

• Use double click to select a component type and close the dialog. (Jean Bréfort)

Development

• Maintain and release 2.8.4 (Marc Maurer)

• Link the OpenDocument plugin explicitly against zlib, which fixes the autoconf MinGW build. (Fridrich Strba)

In AbiWord 2.8.3 zijn enkele fouten opgelost. Zo zijn verscheidene problemen met het OpenDocument en OpenXML formaat verholpen.

Ook is de interface voor Mac OS X aangepast. Hieronder de complete uitgaveopmerkingen van AbiWord 2.8.3.

Release notes:

• Bug 12670: abiword uses libxml2 API badly, leads to crashes (Michal Schmidt, Red Hat).

• Bug 12658: Meta data is escaped twice in the AbiWord exporter. (sum1)

• Bug 12608: Crash during OpenDocument import. (sum1)
• Make OpenOffice.org 3.2.0-rc4 happy and not claim we write out invalid documents. This is clearly a bug in OOo. Consider this part of your AbiWord Customer Service plan. (johanbr)
• Bug 9913: Abiword won't open password protected ODT files. (Marc Maurer)
• Bug 11858: Tab stops not imported. (Marc Maurer)
• Bug 11942: Tabstops (and tab leaders) not exported. (Marc Maurer)
• Add application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text-web as a supported mimetype in the ODF importer. Also add application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text-{template,web} to abiword.desktop. (Marc Maurer)
• Bug 12667: default-tab-interval not exported. (Marc Maurer)
• Bug 12153: Add AbiWord's version and platform in the meta:generator field. (Marc Maurer)

• Bug 12624: Smart quotes are discarded during docx export. (sum1)

• Fix a GValue initialization. (Jean Bréfort)

• Bug 12617: Include files needed for Mac OS X build in source tarball (Obin Hickory).

• Maintain and release 2.8.3 (Marc Maurer)
• Disable debug messages in the OOXML validation code until it is completed. (sum1)
• Fix a warning. (sum1)

In AbiWord 2.8.2 zijn veel wijzigingen doorgevoerd. Zo zijn verscheidene fouten, crashes en geheugenlekken opgelost en is de uitwisselbaarheid met OpenDocument en OpenXML verbeterd.

Ook is het aantal vertalingen van de snelle tekstverwerker weer uitgebreid. Hieronder de complete uitgaveopmerkingen van AbiWord 2.8.2.

Core

Editing/Layout

• Fix German smart-quotes (Patrik Fimml)
• Bug 12552: fp_TextRun::itemize() leaks memory (Obin Hickory)
• Bug 12508: Prevent some crashes in recent-files code (Paul Bolle)
• Bug 12346: Pressing TAB removes text in the Windows version (Martin Sevior)

Collaboration

• Support non-TLS connections for the abicollab service backend (Marc Maurer)

GUI

• Bump the copyright date to 2010 (sum1)
• Bug 12551: Fix a memory leak in the menu code (Patrik Fimml)

Windows

• Fix a potential crash in the Windows menu code (Marc Maurer)

GTK+

• Bug 10377: Fix GTK+ landscape printing (again) (Patrik Fimml)
• Bug 12501: Fix GTK+ build to work without PATH_MAX (e.g. Hurd) (Patrik Fimml, sum1)
• Fix paths to the offline documentation (Patrik Fimml)
• Add an abiword(1) manpage and install it (Patrik Fimml)
• Restore/fix the AbiWidget focus grabbing behaviour (Daniel Drake)
• Prevent selection events to be emitted by the AbiWidget during smart quote operation (Martin Sevior)

Maemo

• Fix a bug whereby AbiWord crashes when the user tries to load the font chooser dialog box while having text with multiple fonts/font styles selected (Ersin Akinci).

Import/Export

OpenDocument

• Bug 12488: Set the office:version to 1.1 (Marc Maurer)
• Bug 12489: svg:title and svg:desc are exported in wrong order (Marc Maurer)
• Bug 11883: Section/paragraph numbers not imported. This fixes bugs when dealing with complex numbered lists. (Martin Sevior)

Office OpenXML

• Fix two crashes that occurred when importing the file from bug 12502 (sum1)

RTF

• Bug 9581: Assert when importing document (Obin Hickory)

HTML

• Don't allow non-numeric font-sizes when importing from HTML. If a non-numeric font-size is found, use a fall-back sane number (Martin Sevior)

Plugins

GNOME Office

• Fix contextual menu problems that made charts uneditable (Jean Bréfort)
• Fix goffice object snapshots (Jean Bréfort)
• Adapt to the new goffice API (Jean Bréfort)

Equation Editor

• Bug 12380: Equations are slightly larger in print than on screen (Patrik Fimml)

Grammar Checker

• Bug 12558 Grammar plugin leaks memory (Obin Hickory)

Internationalization

• Add Mandika (Senegal) translation to the list of supported languages (Marc Maurer)
• Update the Mandinka Senegal (mnk-SN) translation (Dominique Rochefort)
• Update the Esperanto translation (Keith Bowes)
• Update the Portugese (pt-PT) translation (Pedro Lino)
• Update the Slovak translation (Jaroslav Rynik)
• Update the German translation (Volker Ribbert).

Development

• Maintain and release 2.8.2 (Marc Maurer)
• The plugin.m4 file from the grammar plugin is not included in the tarball (Marc Maurer)
• Bug 12447: Source tarball doesn't include NIB files (Obin Hickory)
• Bug 12446: Compile error (gr_CocoaCairoGraphics.cpp) on Snow Leopard (Obin Hickory)
• Fix OSX plugin system to use xcode (Obin Hickory)
• Bug 12537: SunOS is not defined for src/af/util/xp/ut_endian.h ('The Written Word')
• Kill off gucharmap support, which fixes crashes with gucharmap < 2.24. Their API is not stable, which means we can't depend on it to work (Marc Maurer, sum1)
• Bug 12550: configure override CXX (Obin Hickory)
• Try to detect libpng so that we support 1.2.x and 1.4.x (Fridrich Strba)
• Fix unused variable warnings (sum1, Patrik Fimml)
• Update code comments (sum1)
• Add an additional "break" option to the assert prompt (Patrik Fimml)