Jan 13, 2020.

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• Fix outdated Bugtracker link in reporting wizard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 v4.2.3 - 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 v4.2.2 - 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
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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

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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 v4.0.2 - 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 v4.0.0 - 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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