* What's New, Improved, or Just Different.
* Long you've eagerly waited, and now it's here! A huge number of
bug fixes (who knew it had so many bugs?), performance
improvements, and new nifty niceties.
* Build System
* Plugins
* New plugin build system, backported from the
development branch (nextgen.sh)
* Fixed the AbiMagick plugin build, which sometimes
failed due to a syntax error.
* Fixed Gdict plugin in non-gnome-enabled builds.
* Fixed AbiSDW importer build on win32 (msvc6 issue).
* Plugin build is now more flexible regarding placement
of AbiWord source (--with-abiword=DIR).
* Told AbiSDW where to find peer module wv.
* Cleaned up optimizer settings in (Free/Open/Net)BSD build.
* The pspell installation's validity is now checked when
configuring using --with-pspell.
* Fixed libxml2 build interaction with wv.
* Cleaned out remnants of the no longer used ask installer.
* Fixed iconv-related build bustage on FreeBSD.
* (Free/Open/Net)BSD build now defaults to peer libiconv.
* QNX build now uses shared zlib and libpng.
* There was some simplification and update of the peer module
wv build system.
* The patch for libjpeg builds on win32 was merged in.
* Peer module libpng is now a build option for unix.
* The compiler pacifier (ABI_OPT_PACIFY_COMPILER) has been
heavily enhanced.
* Realcleaning has been altered to affect all OBJDIRs, so it
is no longer required that all the usual flags be set when
just realcleaning (realclean really cleans).
* The debug build macros have been enhanced.
* Fixed sometimes-fatal syntax in peer module expat config.
* Environmental C(XX)FLAGS are now properly propogated (3674).
* Fixed static build on unix.
* Lots of osf/digital/tru64 build fixes.
* Fix for non-perl builds that couldn't build with perl
bindings if they wanted to.
* No more accidental -g -O2 when not asked for in configure.
* Rpm specfile
* No BuildArch flags.
* Correct dictionary files.
* Gdict plugin now enabled by default.
* Application and Code
* Fixed 3351 (BiDi behavior), at least some of 3171 (for
real), 3604(T602 importer), 3593 (code syntax with scandir),
3567 (html exporter generation of incorrect tags), 3565
(status bar cut off languages with verbose expressions),
3592 (putenv portability), 3608 and 3618 (pointless
comparisons of an unsigned int with zero), 3095 (font path
instability with repetitive entries), 3638 (crash on
semi-bogus imports), 3523 (funky icons with aiksaurus), 3324
(newline character erasing crash), 3587 (adjacent
superscript and subscript), 3722 (rtl dominance crash),
3507(printing screen colors), 1928 (context menu problem),
3122 (spell checker learning hyperlinked words), 2698
(hyperlink status bar text), 3590 (duplicate accelerator),
3089 (case conversion en mass), 3008 (cursor focus in win32
hyperlink dialog), 3060 (hyperlink offset), 3582 (multiline
hyperlink display), 3109 (hyperlink insertion selection
check)(not all platforms), 2715 (crash on zoom), 3584 (win32
encoding dialog input focus), 3802 (XSL-FO exporter faulty
tags), 3827 (docs with jpegs), 1319 (increase indent off
page crash), 3360 (handle rtfs that aren't fully spec
compliant), 3330 (forcing of gcc flags to other compilers),
3663 (wrong parameter passing to linker), 3889 (Yiddish
spell checking), 3537 (crash on zoom with header/footer),
3781 (downgrading abiword causes the profile to crash it),
3940 (perl bindings and perl 5.8).
* Lots of memory leak fixes, as well as some rather
significant speed enhancements.
* Fixed some problems related to the zero margin difficulties,
comma delimited fractions, and setlocale misuse.
* Various qnx fix backports.
* Backported fix for faulty syntax in the html exporter.
* Fixed a crasher of the win32 Aiksaurus plugin.
* WordPerfect importer now handles superscript, subscript,
strike-out, and italic text attributes.
* English dictionary update (does not affect pspell builds).
* Fix default geometry, handle profile geometry better, take
geometry runtime paramter (the last being 1124).
* All snprintfs (which caused problems on some unix variants)
have been removed from unix or xp code, except in peer
module psiconv.
* DocBook exporter now properly handles abw headings, plain
text, and page breaks (the last being 2734).
* Internationalization-specific (does not affect other aspects of
the app)
* Nynorsk (nn-NO) translation updated.
* Ukrainian (uk-UA) translation and profile updated.
* Basque (eu-ES) translation.
* Bulgarian (bg-BG) update.
* Romanian (ro-RO) translation.
* Catalan (ca-ES) update.
* Documentation
* Massive French (fr-FR) documentation goodness.
* Documentation build system fixes.
* New English screenshots.
* Documentation on adding documentation.
* Cleaned up deprecated docs.
* Small document on document creation.
* Index (for en-US).
* Toolbar help.
* List howto.
* Known Issues
* There are some mysterious printing bugs, particularly on Win32
platforms, that we have not been able to track down because they
are rare and not reproducible by the developers. Please give us
as much information as possible if you encounter these, but when
posting to bugzilla use the bug(s) that already exist instead of
filing a new one. This is easier on us and you.
* Embedable AbiWord! Now you can view AbiWord documents in
Evolution and Gnumeric. Is it not nifty?
* Plugins.
o GDict plugin now builds without libgdict installed.
o Bugfixes in AbiPaint and AbiMagick for Win32 platforms.
o Some AbiMagick and AbiGimp enhancements.
o Wikipedia works again.
* Internationalization
o French documentation.
o Documentation generation scripts now allow for multiple languages.
o Win32 now allows for Arabic and Hebrew lists, as well
as improved bidi list support.
o Finnish system profile.
o Japanese, Swedish, Welsh, French, German, and Lithuanian
localization updates.
* Build system
o Minor fixes all around.
o Improved build system documentation (BUILD.TXT).
o Updated RPM spec for GNOME embedding.
* Import/Export
o RTF importer now handles /sectd.
o Several LaTeX exporter fixes.
* Miscellaneous
o Bug numbers fixed (not a complete list): 3301, 3171,
3215, 2223, 3332.
o A number of unnumbered bugs.
o Code cleanup.
Patch submitted by Dawid Szymanski <dawszy@tgr.lubin.edu.pl> in PR 17451
all dependencies on packages depending on "png" which contain shared
libraries, all for the (imminent) update to the "png" package.
[List courtesy of John Darrow, courtesy of "bulk-build".]
* Import/Export bookmarks to RTF
* Multi-threaded incremental loader
* Perl Scripting now works by default
* State of the art Theasurus plugin
* Start of HTML importer plugin
* Spelling support for Commonwealth English, Brazilian Portuguese,
Hungarian, Ukranian, Galican
* Word Perfect Import improvements
* Import Lists from MS Word
* New improved toolbar icons
* Fields update automatically
* Styles Lock
* Export nested lists to RTF
* Import First and facing header/footers from RTF
* Import Bookmarks for MS Word
* Import hyperlink from MS Word
* Add header/footer export to HTML
* Look in dictionary file for suggestions to misspelt words.
* Help file improvements
* Perl script to convert the docs to HTML
* Lots of progress on OSX port
* MS Word importer imports all known image types
* New AbiWord server
* Start of Open Office importer plugin
* Web layout Mode
* Free translate plugin for Windows
* Drag and drop hyperlinks and images from Galeon/Mozilla into AbiWord
* Gnome2 icons
* Fix for incorrect number of colors declared in an icon, which broke the build.
* Big-endian deutsch dictionary.
* Little-endian latin dictionary.
* Rewrite of glib and gtk+ detection in abi and wv.
* Build fix for wv.
* Patch for building rpms.
* Patch to allow Abi to build against installed versions of wv, rather
than the peer library.
* Work on making automake build plugins.
* Build fixes in abi and libiconv for non-Win32.
* Fixes to make Abi build on FreeBSD.
* Added test case for plugins.
* Work on plugin building.
* Fix build for bz2 plugin.
* Bi-directional bug fixes.
* Fixes to the way font path is set.
* Locale and Unix font docs.
* Bug fixes in image import.
* 16x16 icon for Enlightenment.
* Plugin to read OpenWriter documents. Very basic at the moment.
* Reorganised plugin directory to make it easier to handle.
* Lithuanian translation update.
* Build system for bz2 plugin on Win32.
* New rpm spec.
* Preferences now in alphabetical order in preferences file.
* Added preference to turn off auto-load of plugins.
* Plugin allowing Abi to load any image format recognised by gdk-pixbuf.
* Fix a spelling error in the Danish translation.
* Fixed an assertion in the squiggles code.
Highlights include: Command Line Printing, Normal Mode, Thesaurus,
Dictionary support, All image type support (these last three via plugins),
Header/Footers for first/last/facing pages, Dynamic Toolbars (drag and
drop toolbar icons) for Unix/Gnome. Plus lots of other stuff and bugfixes.
changes:
Fully editable styles on Windows and Unix.
New and improved import/export filters. This includes the initial
release of a Word Perfect import filter.
Dramatically faster spell checking.
Plus new artwork, many bug fixes, speed ups and behind the scenes work.
redefines about which buildlink.mk files would care is BUILDLINK_X11_DIR,
which points to the location of the X11R6 hierarchy used during building.
If x11.buildlink.mk isn't included, then BUILDLINK_X11_DIR defaults to
${X11BASE} (set in bsd.pkg.mk), so its value is always safe to use. Remove
the ifdefs surrounding the use of BUILDLINK_X11_DIR in tk/buildlink.mk and
revert changes to move x11.buildlink.mk before the other buildlink.mk files.
use X11_BUILDLINK_MK as a test value. Generally just reordering the
inclusions so that x11.buildlink.mk comes before the other buildlink.mk
files will make everthing work.
foo-* to foo-[0-9]*. This is to cause the dependencies to match only the
packages whose base package name is "foo", and not those named "foo-bar".
A concrete example is p5-Net-* matching p5-Net-DNS as well as p5-Net. Also
change dependency examples in Packages.txt to reflect this.
to ${X11BASE} in the header and library search paths into references to
${LOCALBASE}/share/x11-links. These packages should now be strongly-
buildlinked regardless of whether xpkgwedge is installed.
Changes well-tested on NetBSD-1.5X/i386 with and without xpkgwedge and
lightly-tested on NetBSD-1.5.1/alpha without xpkgwedge.
push toward a 1.0 release for AbiWord. Users will find this release is much
faster and uses far fewer resources. Major changes from version 0.7.14:
* _Tons_ of bug fixes
* Fully Customizable Styles
* Multi-Lingual Spell checking (Spell check in multiple languages)
* Line Based Tables
* Automatic Numbered Headings
* Import/export improvements and additions
* Preview as Web
* Tons of Locale definitions
* Plugin Architecture
* AutoSaves of document
* Major Encoding fixes and Improvements
* Perl Bindings for AbiWord
* Updated our Distrubuted Type 1 Fonts
so remove it from package Makefiles. Also move the inclusion of the
buildlink.mk files to the end of the Makefile to just before bsd.pkg.mk
to ensure that any Makefile settings occur before the buildlink.mk files.
CXXFLAGS, and LDFLAGS by the buildlink.mk files so remove the extra
definitions to add them from the package Makefiles. As advised by the
bsd.buildlink.mk file, also ensure that the buildlink.mk files are
included prior to defining any package-specific CFLAGS/LDFLAGS to ensure
that the buildlink directories are at the head of the compiler search
paths.
0.7.10, both in bugfixes and in feature additions. No list of changes is
provided, but from gleaning the CVS logs, this is update is a large step
forward for this application.
first component is now a package name+version/pattern, no more
executable/patchname/whatnot.
While there, introduce BUILD_USES_MSGFMT as shorthand to pull in
devel/gettext unless /usr/bin/msgfmt exists (i.e. on post-1.5 -current).
Patch by Alistair Crooks <agc@netbsd.org>
using the newest PNG library won't work on system with an older one. To
prevent such problems with precompiled binary packages require at least
"png-1.0.9nb1" in all dependences.
