Prevent a crash that occurred when inserting a text box in a document with columns (sum1)
Prevent a crash that occurred when visually dragging endnotes and footnotes (sum1)
Prevent a crash with invalid headers and footers (sum1)
Prevent a few caret-related crashes (Dominic Lachowicz)
Prevent a few crashes with invalid footnotes and endnotes (sum1)
Prevent a text box layout crash (sum1)
Simplify an internal string function (Dominic Lachowicz)
Changes from v2.6.0 to v2.6.2
We've enabled the experimental collaboration plugin on the Windows platform. This plugin allows allowing users to collaboratively work on the same document in real-time. The user interface is still a bit rough around the edges, but this will be improved upon in future AbiWord releases.
Make our presentation plugin work.
Fix a bunch of small bugs in our XSL-FO, Applix, LaTeX, WML and HTML import/export filters.
Changes from v2.5.1 to v2.6.0
Greatly-improved support for languages like Thai and Arabic using a new Pango based renderer (Unix platforms)
We've included a new GNOME Office plugin that allows embedding Gnumeric charts into your documents (Unix platforms)
Ability to open files on remote shares, ie. samba, ftp or ssh shares (Unix platforms)
A new experimental collaboration plugin, allowing users to collaboratively work on the same document in real-time. There are currently 3 communication backends supported: an XMPP based one (only available on Unix systems, and it could use some love), a pure TCP/IP based one and one that integrates with the One Laptop Per Child Sugar interface. Please note that we consider this collaboration feature experimental, as it hasn't seen a lot of testing outside the One Laptop Per Child deployments. Also, we are not sure yet that we won't need to make slight protocol changes to accommodate some new features. This means that the current version of the plugin might not be able to communicate with future versions of the plugin. Finally, this feature is not yet available on Windows. It will be available in v2.6.1 for that platform.
A massive amount of work on all of our popular import and export filters, most notably the OpenDocument filter
The addition of a new experimental Office Open XML import filter
Support for native Windows Vista menus
Various drag & drop and clipboard handling improvements
Allow dragging and dropping images in and out of AbiWord (Unix platforms)
Fast image previews in the Image dialog, even for huge images (Unix platforms)
Various toolbar improvements, most notably the improvements to make them work better on small screens (Unix platforms)
Lots of updates to our translations
Lots of small fixes in our GTK+ frontend, such as fixing those pesky tooltips that just wouldn't go away (Unix platforms)
Automatic font substitution using fontconfig when a specific font is not available (Unix platforms)
Improved support for running AbiWord in non-UI mode (sometimes also referred to as "server" mode, as offered by the AbiCommand plugin); most notably AbiWord no longer requires an X server on Unix systems in non-UI mode.
Improved command line handling, allowing input from standard input, and output to be directed to standard output.
Improved printing from the command line, deprecating our previously used custom postscript driver
Improved modularisations for resource constrained devices, such as optional printing and spelling support
For application developers we've made available an experimental AbiWord GTK+ widget; accompanying Python bindings will follow soon.
For distributors we've improved the build system to be more standards conformant (for example, "make dist" and "make distcheck" now work)
Changes from v2.4.6 to v2.5.0 Snapshot
A new Pango based renderer for Unix platforms, improving support for languages such as Thai and Arabic
Cross platform libgsf integration, allowing the user to open files on remote shares (the last part holds for the Unix platform for now)
Cross platform Glib integration, meaning less custom AbiWord specific code to maintain
Support for the Bonobo component framework has been deprecated (Unix platforms)
Improved the build system to be more standards conformant (for example, "make dist" and "make distcheck" now work)
Experimental AbiWord GTK+ widget, with accompanying Python bindings
Various toolbar improvements, most notably the improvements to make them work better on small screens (Unix platform)
A massive amount of work on all of our popular import and export filters
A new experimental collaboration plugin (only available on Unix for now)
A new GNOME Office integration plugin, replacing the old GNOME Office Charting plugin (Unix platforms)
Improved command line handling, allowing input from standard input, and output to be directed to standard output (examples here).
Improved printing from the command line, deprecating our old custom postscript driver
Lots of updates to our translations
Various Drag & Drop and Clipboard handling improvements
Improved modularisations for resource constrained devices, such as optional printing and spelling support
Improved support for running AbiWord in non-UI mode (sometimes also referred to as "server" mode, as offered by the AbiCommand plugin); most notably the requirement for a (fake) X server has been removed.
Changes from v2.4.5 to v2.4.6
Jean Brefort
Fix a typo in the GNOME Office Chart plugin
Avoid crashes when objects have 0 height (related to bug 10482)
GR_UnixGraphics::genImageFromRectangle: return NULL if x, y, w or h is invalid (related to bug 10482)
Better chart resizing
Add +1 to embedded run width and heights when redrawing after unselect, to ensuree the whole selection rectangle is removed
Don't display "GNOME Office Chart" in the open dialog at all (Unix, bug 10380)
Don't use more %s's in a translated string than in the original string; prevents crashes on error messages
Bugfixes: 10473
Malte Cornils
Umlauts are not converted correctly by the LaTeX exporter on non-latin1 documents (bug 10558)
Italics with \textit{} as generated by the LaTeX exporter are ugly (bug 10560)
Make the LaTeX exporter better mask quotes (bug 10559)
Hubert Figuiere
Bugfixes: 10423
Tomas Frydrych
Various fixes and updates to support the Maemo 2 environment
Fix centered alignment causes tabs to collapse (bug 10491)
Fix Ctrl + backspace only deletes one word in revisions mode (bug 10176)
Fix invalid memory reads when resizing text box in revisions mode (bug 10374)
Bugfixes: 10486
Dom Lachowicz
Hint that the clipboard manager should store the clipboard data, should we exit or something; conditional on gtk 2.6 or newer (Unix, bug 9069)
Move libgsf initialization to the WordPerfect plugin's register() function; should fix bugs like 7057
Fix IDEF vulnerabilities IDEF1613 and IDEF1614 in the MS Word import library wvWare
Fix a crash after inserting an empty mail merge field (bug 10475)
On modern gcc, special characters are no longer converted in the LaTeX exporter (bug 10557, initial patch proposal from Malte Cornils)
Get rid of a duplicate case value in the LaTeX exporter
When exporting to HTML, TOCs look like Wikipedia TOCs now, inside of their own container. They and their links also W3C validate (bug 10562, 10563 and 10565)
Use the locale transactor in the OpenDocument importer and exporter, so that we get '9.5' instead of '9,5' in some locales (also fix this in the WordPerfect, KWord, MS Write OpenWriter and LaTeX plugins)
The clipboard manager abuses GTK+'s 'persist on exist' api, causing unecessary strain on other applications like Gnumeric (Unix, bug 10535)
When people choose 'Export as Text', they will always get UTF-8 encoded text now, and not text in their locale or text in the MS Word document's locale. This is the only solution that avoids dataloss, and people can choose 'Encoded Text' if they really mean something else.
Patrick Lam
Fix a crash on exiting AbiWord (Unix)
Martin Sevior
Fix inability to delete an empty table row with no selection (bug 10057)
Robert Staudinger
Fix uninitialised variables in the LaTeX exporter that leading to missing breaks
sum1
Fix a conditional jump in the Open/Save dialog (Unix)
Fix a conditional jump in the LaTeX exporter
Fix a mismatched delete() in the HRText exporter
Initialize a value in the left ruler code
Prevent a gtk_toggle_button_get_active assertion failure when selecting Tools > Revisions > Mark revisions while typing (Unix)
Initialize two values used when selecting Documents > New Window
NULL pointer check to prevent a crash in the OpenDocument importer
Fix an uninitialized value used while scrolling through 7268-Vexi.abw (a test suite file)
Fix a memory leak in the LaTeX exporter
Menu key doesn't pop-up the context menu (Unix, bug 9927)
Don't make the OpenDocument importer crash on ucf-framePadding.odt or ucf-frameIndividualPadding.odt (test suite files)
Remove ODT suffix detection from the OpenWriter plug-in; the underlying support still remains (bug 10192)
Fix some memory leaks in the OpenDocument exporter
Initialize a value in the DocBook exporter
Fix a crash when scrolling past malformed tables
Fix a crash when printing to PDF from AbiCommand (bug 10022, unix)
Fix a crash when importing equations from OpenDocument files
Add support for exporting MathML to OpenDocument
Massive updates to the WML importer and exporter. Exporter: Save headers, footers, and text boxes as new 's, and include navigational links for moving between said cards (seems to work well in Opera 9); add support for metadata, equations, charts, and positioned images; a few bug fixes, including the escaping of bookmark values and the exporting of field text instead of field type. Importer: Improve table handling, including tables with imbalanced columns (i.e. ones that used colspan); add support for bookmarks, hyperlinks, and metadata; a number of small memory leak fixes.
Don't crash when the LaTeX dialog is used after the AbiMathView plug-in has been deactivated
Fix unescaped style names in HTML exporter (bug 10328)
Fix a crash when reactivating the MathView plug-in (bug 9421)
Prevent dataloss in the Passepartout exporter (e.g. all content after an equation or a chart)
Allow the T602 plug-in to be statically linked
Fix a crash that occurred when running 'convert' or 'converttotext' without any arguments in AbiCommand
Fix a crash when using 'printfile' in AbiCommand (note: this command doesn't seem to work at all) and another crash that occurred when using 'delete' without any arguments while having a file loaded.
Fix misspellings in AbiCommand's help
Overhaul the DocBook importer to better support files created outside of AbiWord; there's still plenty of room for improvement (bug 1812, 9430, 10354, and Debian bug 164683)
Initialize a value to prevent crashes in free() when encountering elements in DocBook files
Handle nested tables better in the DocBook exporter
Don't append an extra span of text when importing elements in DocBook files
Escape the 'language' metadata value in the OpenWriter exporter
Escape TOC headings in the OpenDocument exporter (part of bug 10325)
Escape style names in the OpenDocument exporter
Escape bookmark names in the HTML exporter (part of bug 10430)
Fix a crash when exporting files with two styles based off one another to HTML (bug 10419)
Prevent a crash that can occur when visually dragging charts near headers/footers
Fix the selection rectangle for chart snapshots which were drawn at the wrong height (Unix, bug 9759)
Add some pointer checks to fix a crash when importing a RTF file (bug 9874)
Fix a misspelling in the AbiPaint plug-in
Update the XSL-FO plug-in. Exporter: Added support for bookmarks, charts, equations, fields, footnotes, and positioned images; improved support for tables, lists, and images. Fixes bug 10136 and bug 4355. Importer: Added support for hyperlinks and tables; the importer will now also import all files exported by AbiWord, and tables and blocks nested inside of blocks. Fixes bug 2387 and bug 3305.
Export custom TOC headings and respect visibility setting (bug 10298)
Minor fix for export of TOC headings to HTML
Escape TOC heading values to prevent invalid XHTML/HTML when headings contain quotes, ampersands, etc.
Don't crash when using the Format Painter from within AbiCommand
Export the author document property to DocBook
Fix a crash that occurred if you ran the 'visualedit' command in AbiCommand before loading a document
Escape a few more style names in the OpenDocument exporter
Escape style names in the OpenWriter exporter
Prevent a crash that could occur when moving the mouse cursor near an unrendered table during import
Fix a crash when using find and replace with the 'whole word' setting selected (bug 9772)
Fix a memory leak in the HTML exporter
Don't attempt to clear() an empty string in the DocBook exporter
Don't open or close s inside of tables in the WML exporter (e.g. if there's a inside of a ). Also, handle cases where document data is between a and a
, which can happen with some imported Word files.
Fix memory leaks in the Plug-in, Format Table, Text Box, Stylist and Date/Time dialogs (Unix)
Try to export valid DocBook XML even when the internal AWML is invalid (i.e. a inside of a table)
Fix a DocBook import bug that caused files with a inside of a table to fail on load
Fix a DocBook import bug that caused files with a number of text boxes to fail on load
Import images from WML files
Use UT_UTF8String instead of UT_String throughout the DocBook importer; fix a small bug triggered by files that contain images without a depth attribute (the image's 'props' string would begin with a ';' if it didn't exist).
Fix image-related memory leaks in the DocBook exporter
Fix a large memory leak that occurred when copying a hyperlink location
Fix small memory leaks in the Babelfish, Free Translation, Google, URL Dict, and Wikipedia plug-ins
Fix a memory leak in the toolbar font preview code
Fix a comment regarding escapeXML()
Fix the OpenDocument exporter to honor multiple spaces (bug 10487)
Fix "Import bookmarks from XSL-FO documents" (bug 10442)
Prevent a few crashes in the Word importer with wv 1.2.1 (bug 10483), and check for exceptions thrown by new to make the existing ut_return* calls useful.
Check the return value of genImageFromRectangle() in the Math plugin (related to bug 10482)
Fix a small memory leak in the Format Text Box dialog
Check the return value of getAttrProp() to prevent chart crashes that can be triggered after repeated chart operations (e.g. visual copying)
Fix a crash while grammar-checking a Word document (the crash from bug 10455)
Fix a number of memory leaks in the code related to styling footnotes and lists
Fix a crash due to list delimiter overflow (bug 10580 and 10582)
Hopefully fix some broken he-IL strings (bug 10477)
Prevent quite a number of crashes that could be triggered by invoking most editmethods right after starting AbiCommand; this probably also alleviates the crashes seen in bug 10425
Translations
Martin Srebotnjak: updated Slovenian translation (bug 10506)
