Gramps v5.2.0-beta1 released

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Version 5.2.0-beta1, an experimental pre-release.

Make sure to backup before you upgrade.

The key word is experimental!

It might be unwise to “upgrade” your main/real Gramps family tree into 5.2.0-beta1. In general, we recommend you make a copy of your family tree instead (typically by doing a “gramps XML” export), then try 5.2.0-beta1 on the copy. (You can keep things really separate by using the GRAMPSHOME environmental variable, if you want.)

We are interested in your feedback, especially if you discover any bugs or problems which we haven’t noticed.

2023-08-01
Version 5.2.0-beta1

  • Highlights
    • Create new Addon Manager dialog.
    • Add support for open-ended date spans (e.g. “from 1 Jan 1900” or “to 12 Mar 1950”).
    • Add strikethrough and superscript/subscript support in the note editor.
    • Add new gender option of “Other”.
    • Add citations to event references.
    • Deprecate BSDDB, but allow to be loaded with convert to SQLite.
    • Add latitude/longitude coordinates format with description in the preferences. Fixes #11248
    • Add the possibility of case sensitive/insensitive search.
    • Add source icon to editor dialogs. Implements #11372
    • Make the tab columns resizable. Implements #8767
    • Support XDG base directory specification. Fixes #8025
  • General
    • Update README, INSTALL and FAQ files.
    • Update copyright dates.
    • Update Creative Commons license version to 4.0.
    • Minor string fixes. Add or remove whitespace.
    • Append full stops to ends of sentences. Remove full stops after ellipses.
    • Spelling fixes.
    • Many Pylint and other cleanups.
  • Reports
    • Birthday and Anniversary Report: Add person ID.
    • Common calendar on Statistics chart. Fixes #12571
    • HourGlass graph: Add option to use genealogical symbols for events.
    • Statistics chart: Small code improvements.
    • Calendar report enhancements:
      • Added symbols for birth, marriage and death.
      • Added symbols for dead spouse in anniversaries.
      • Optionally include death dates.
      • Refactored method collect_data.
    • Added flipped text option to Graphical Report Fan Chart. This option flips the names in generations 2, 3 and 4 that on the bottom half of the fan.
    • Kinship report: change max number of generations. Fixes #12004
    • Add a new primary surname substitution keyword option.
    • Add option name_format to treedoc. Implements #12136
    • Enhance name formats in the genealogytree reports.
    • Add new output format of “graph” to the tree document generator.
    • Display leap day anniversaries every year on calendars.
    • Show index of person in ancestor tree report.
    • Enable markup in ODF backend.
    • Relationship Graph: Add option for ‘offset parents’ Replaces ‘use subgraph’ option. Fixes #11550, #11494
    • Add fanchart option with overhang. By adding an overhang to the fanchart, more space can be used.
    • Do not round rotation in SVG. When making >8 generation fan charts, the rounding of rotation becomes visible.
    • Family group report enhancements:
      • Replace Marriage heading with relationship type.
      • Remove Husband and Wife headings. These are incorrect for same-sex relationships or when the couple are unmarried. Resolves #11199
    • Complete individual report:
      • Use shorter name to reduce line length.
      • Add option that allows to use the name of the individual as title.
    • Calendar: Use the death symbol defined in preferences.
    • Add descriptions to decendant tree report styles.
  • Gramplets
    • Improved Age Stats gramplet:
      • New Histogram widget.
      • Extra bucket for ages above maximum.
      • Automatic scaling to available width.
    • Image Metadata Gramplet expand metadata support:
      • Enable showing XMP and IPTC metadata.
      • Add additional metadata fields that contain tags and text descriptions.
      • Display thumbnails for XMP-mwg-rs Regions.
    • Calendar gramplet: Add day names. The first day is defined according to the locale. Fixes #12515
    • Allow gramplets to have an orientation dependent layout. Use this for the gallery gramplets. Implements #11527
    • Update Welcome gramplet.
    • Link to translated wiki pages in welcome gramplet.
    • Add a note gramplet for NoteView.
    • Show note type in notes gramplet. Also move page number next to forward/back buttons. Implements #12402
    • Add Copy All functionality to Ancestor gramplet.
    • Citations gramplet: Add date, page, and confidence. Fixes #9224
      • Change columns order and size.
      • Sort correctly by date.
    • Display the event date in the backlinks gramplet. Fixes #12230
    • AgeOnDate gramplet: Fix position of input field and button.
    • Add context menu entries for Gramplet Bar. Link to help for Gramplets and the Gramplet Bar Menu. Issue #10919
  • Narrative Web Report
    • Sort events by date in the individual page. Fixes #12717
    • Clarify how to get the API_KEY. Fixes #12646
    • Solves some problems. Force place name to be “Full” names. Fixes #12821
    • Add noindex for robots.
    • Lightbox feature. Feature request: #12801
    • The latest version of openlayers doesn’t work:
      • Change the location of js and css files.
      • Menu simplification and usage clarification.
      • Show in which file the openlayers version should be modified.
      • Show the config name to modify.
    • Code simplification.
    • Add a comment if invalid lat/long. Fixes #12565
    • Some fixes to alphabet_navigation. Ensure correct index letters according to normal indexing conventions by using ICU AlphabeticIndex. Fixes #12350
    • Change order of Event Reference Notes and Notes. Fixes #12356
    • Possible loop with associated people.
    • Add option to show all places. Fixes #12315
    • Don’t display media, source ref for unused place.
    • Backlink gramplet problem if no back references.
    • Show image on the map only if it was collected.
    • Show the thumbnail place if already collected.
    • Add place name to birth and death dates when we use the toggle section.
    • Possible problem with RTL languages.
    • Inconsistency between the name of the link to a reference and the name of this reference for an individual. Fixes #12336
    • Translation problem + missing events on markers.
    • Addressbooklist: headers aren’t translated.
    • Missing events for markers + code simplification.
    • Various fixes to user-visible strings.
    • Toggle bug for source attribute.
    • Remove the note type ‘Html code’ for notes. Fixes #12184
    • Add php session_start. Fixes #12135
    • Multiple languages for the narrative web and optional other additions
    • Fix letters in comment:
      • Insert missing letters in comments.
      • Terms to upper case (gregorian, javascript).
    • In cms mode, some inconsistent image links.
    • Incorrect place index if alternate names. The places page index doesn’t show the alternate names used. Fixes #11645
    • Description message is not translatable.
    • Possibility to have more than 2 downloads. By default, I set this to 3 downloads. Fixes #11626
    • Add family map to family pages. Adapt css files to have a better look. Fixes #11614
    • Set unused media to False by default Fixes #11496
    • Center correctly the map in the web page.
    • Dropmenu doesn’t work if only one year.
    • Add notes to updates and delete empty rows.
    • References enhancement on place pages.
    • Convert the years in gregorian calendar.
    • Enclosed places not correctly sorted. Fixes #11487
    • Don’t use event links if no event pages + some pylint changes.
    • Map popup links must be visible for all stylesheet.
    • Add scrollbar in popup content.
    • Event type, Date and place in bold.
    • Family events shifted one column on the left.
    • ancestortree css file before narrative-screen to allow modification.
    • Adaptation for all themes. Fixes #11393
    • Allow scrolling if the ancestor tree is too large.
    • Translation of alternate stylesheets name.
    • Crash when using the family map.
    • Translate only the css title, not the file name.
    • Some minor corrections to css files.
    • Open layers optimizations.
    • Open layers and link in popup.
    • Some events missing in popup.
    • Reference date column too large.
    • Allow the place title to use the maximum of width .
    • Shift children from one column, adapt the css files to the new table, and fix some inconsistencies between the source and the css.
    • Make the drop down menu button size usable.
    • Incorrect rendering when use of alternate place name .
    • Removing the unused image heigth option.
    • Click on image link gives a not found URL.
    • Allow alternate stylesheets in pages.
    • Allow urls for images in user css files.
    • Add popup to manage markers. Fixes #11150
    • Add Stamen map. Fixes #5984
    • Correct English in narrative web report.
    • Links in notes not obvious in Narrated Web report. Fixes #12105
  • Web Calendar
    • Have config files for multiple databases.
    • Best management for the narrative web link.
    • Use arrows, compress monthname and arrows adapt the css files accordingly.
    • Use arrows in one day within a year compress monthname and arrows adapt the css files accordingly.
    • Index go now to the current month.
    • Year glance + some pylint improvements
    • Incorrect width size with Mainz css.
    • Problem with Visually css file.
    • The table cell is highlighted when hover.
    • Better rendering for full year at a glance.
    • better rendering on small devices.
    • Duplicate marriage.
    • Incorrect results when divorce event.
    • Add alternate stylesheets.
    • Missing death symbol.
  • Geography
    • Use path from constants.
    • Remove redundant class members.
    • Simplify popup menu builder.
    • Use Gtk.SeparatorMenuItem instead of empty Gtk.MenuItem.
    • Change Gtk.MenuItem to Gtk.CheckMenuItem for map providers.
    • Gramps crashes on import of large KML file. Fixes #11954
    • Better management when closing database.
    • Add two new icons.
    • Better handling of bad tile path. Fixes #11629
    • Add custom tiles provider. Fixes #11416
  • GUI
    • Fix for panes that are unable to be resized.
    • Backup: Add a modal status popup This is used to prevent the user closing Gramps during a backup. Fixes #12846, #12475, #12538
    • Fix ColorButton size in preferences.
    • Display a tooltip warning if a window saves data immediately. Fixes #12117
    • Move privacy column in editor citation tabs.
    • Add Preferences and Addon Manager toolbar buttons.
    • Update Tip of the Day entries.
    • Provide better formatting for the import statistics. Also fix concatenation bug.
    • Enhance InfoDialog to display simple tables
    • Add “All supported files” as file type selection. Fixes #12161
    • Date input: allow yyyy-mm for iso format.
    • Add option to hide ages for events after death.
    • Correct spelling of “vCard” in importer.
    • Add option to control display format of latitude and longitude. Fixes #11248
    • Allow entering place latitude and longitude without space.
    • Use replacement text for blank surname heading in person tree.
    • Improve description of regular expressions in filter editor.
    • Add Back/Forward labels to citation tree view. Fixes #12510
    • “Number of Parents” column in Person Views doesn’t sum all parent. Fixes #12268
    • Symbols enhancement:
      • Add the possibility to set all default value to a string.
      • Gui configuration improvement.
      • Possibility to drag and drop a symbol from the symbol list.
      • Replace death symbol by buried, cremated or killed symbol depending on the event type.
    • Fix spelling of “Descendants”. Resolves #12535
    • Provide an option to “hide” the LDS tab. Immplements #3872.
    • Add possibility to select the dialect of CSV export.
    • Add Abbreviation column to source and citation selectors. Implements #11710
    • Update confirmation message in the export assistant.
    • Implement calendar quarter dates as date ranges. For example, “Q2 2020” is converted to “between 1 April 2020 and 30 June 2020”.
    • Use a contrasting text color in pedigree view. White text shows up better in boxes with a dark background color. Fixes #11799
    • Allow user to set default calendar in date editor. Fixes #11809
    • Update Preferences dialog. Clean up of existing Preferences tabs. Implements #12049
    • Update address lists. Capitalize postal and phone column headers.
    • Add Phone/Postal to Addresses tab of Person editor. Fixes #11600
    • Fix presumed typo in menu item “Sorts events” should be “Sort events”.
    • Move beta warning into the status bar.
    • Increase information in database summary text report. Add type counts for events, places, sources, citations, repositories and notes.
    • In familysidebarfilter, search on each part of name. Fixes #12023
    • Add tooltips to sidebar filter ‘Find’ and ‘Reset’ buttons. Issue #11783
    • Media view: Set new media as active.
    • Typo on variable name in navigator. Fixes #12039
    • Pedigree View: Add Help context menu. Fixes #10919
    • EditLink: When changing the link type choose the active object as default.
    • EditLink: When creating a link, prefer linking persons over places, events, …, and images.
    • Allow filter rules to access Family filters.
    • Add a new person filter rule ‘HasAddressText’.
    • New Remove tag from selected rows functionality.
    • Add ‘HasAttribute’ filter rule to repositories, sources and citations. Fixes #9845
    • Add tooltips for places in clean input data tool.
    • Improve CSV import to allow places that are not in enclosed order. Fixes #11407
    • Update tags: Translation for menu strings added and escape illegal characters.
  • Types
    • Add new note type of “Analysis”.
    • Add Stillbirth as pre-defined event type. Add Stillbirth as a fallback for both Birth and Death events.
    • Change “death cause” to “cause of death”.
    • Add Godparent as event role.
  • Gedcom
    • Implement the GEDCOM tag _RUFNAME.
    • Add round trip Ancestry.com _APID tag support. Implements #9925
    • Explicitly set birth name in GEDCOM export.
    • Fix GEDCOM import/export DATE/TIME creep by UTC offset.
  • Improvements in the English manpage
    • Various grammar improvements.
    • Use HTTPS URLs.
    • Use Unicode trademarks and arrows.
    • Improve syntax.
  • Translation
    • Updated translations: ar, bg, br, ca, cs, da, de_AT, de, el, en_GB, eo, es, fa, fi, fr, ga, gl, he, hr, hu, id, is, it, ja, mk, nb, nl, nn, pl, pt_BR, pt_PT, ru, sk, sl, sr, sv, ta, tr, uk, vi, zh_CN, zh_HK.
    • Support msgctxt in po files instead of a vertical bar in the msgid.
    • Update check_po to support msgctxt strings.
    • Add JJ/MM/AAAA French date format.
    • Add header to XML fragments file. A header containing a charset is required by xgettext.
    • Holidays: Sort countries alphabetically.
    • Add Russian holidays.
    • Add Italian holidays.
    • Add Catalan holidays.
    • Add Turkish holidays.
    • Fix Russian calendar unit test. The translation of “Julian” is hardcoded and the test and will fail if the translation is updated.
    • Give consistency to short months in Spanish.
    • Fix unit tests requiring English locale.
    • Fix invalid Persian calendar dates. Fixes #12576
    • Add Turkish Relationship Calculator.
    • Add translation context to ChildRefType. Needed for Russian.
    • New de_AT translation Based on the de translation.
    • Add German date format option for ‘numeric date with leading zeros’.
    • Add context to place name strings. Needed for Russian translation.
    • Remove translatable attribute from “%s” strings.
    • Add “Translator” tag to comments intended for translators.
    • Convert old translator tags. Change the old tags “translator” and “TRANSLATOR” to “Translator”.
    • Only extract comments with the “Translator” tag. Previously all comments before a translated string were extracted.
    • Remove old translation context separators.
    • Fix month lexeme translations for da, fi, sl and sv.
    • Merge translation changes from the gramps51 converting the files to the new msgctxt format.
    • Fix fatal errors in po files.
    • German relation calculator fixed issue if more then 24 generations between the two people.
    • Replace intltool with gettext tools. The build now requires gettext v0.19.7 or above.
      • Removed obsolete files: gramps.applications, gramps.keys, gramps.mime
      • Created ITS rules for holidays.xml and tips.xml files.
      • Included ITS files for shared-mime-info from a gettext v0.20.2 installation.
    • New datehandler and relationship calculator for de_AT.
    • Corrected a few relationships in pt relationship calculator.
  • Locale
    • Extract win32 localatiztion to a new file win32locale.py.
    • Fix minor PyLint complaints.
    • Fix PyLint complaints about import statements.
    • Remove deprecated locale.getdefaultlocale and locale.format functions.
    • Extract translation classes from grampslocale.py
    • Correct remaining pylint issues in maclocale.py
    • Fix shadowed variables.
    • Fix unnecessary parens.
    • Fix unused variables.
    • Fix pylint line-too-long.
    • Remove unused numeric.
    • Remove unused currency.
    • Use msgctxt in Lexeme docstring.
  • Technical
    • Increase minimum version requirements - Python: 3.8 Gtk: 3.24
    • Migrate code style to Black.
    • Use GitHub Actions to run continuous integration checks.
    • Attempt to derive the resource path from the package path. Intended to allow a Gramps core package to be created as a wheel and installed via pip.
    • Use setup from setuptools to allow creation of python wheels.
    • Port from GtkSpell to Gspell.
    • Add source files for Windows AIO. Remove old Windows directory.
    • Add support for thumbnailer plugins.
    • Add support for CITE plugins Provide a single default plugin that replicates the existing functionality.
    • Allow custom undo managers in database plugins.
    • Add bookmark-list-changed signal.
    • Remove redundant code since Gtk 3.24 required.
    • Fix deprecation of Gtk positional arguments.
    • Fix Gtk deprecation Menu.set_title
    • Fix Gtk deprecation ScrolledWindow.add_with_viewport
    • Fix `GObject.PARAM_READWRITE deprecation.
    • Fix deprecation GObject.GError → GLib.GError
    • Fix Gtk deprecation Widget.reparent.
    • Fix Gtk deprecation Widget.set_padding
    • Fix deprecation on Gtk.Widget.override_font and modify_font
    • Fix garbage collection issue in ConfigManager.
    • Fix garbage collection issue in UIManager.
    • Fix garbage collection issue in Callback.
    • Color values in the range [0-1] are supposed to be floats See rgb_to_hex.
    • Save and restore standard streams.
    • Close standard streams on exit. Prevents the warning: “ResourceWarning: unclosed file”.
    • Replace os.system with subprocess.call in setup.py
    • Add extra plugin properties:
      • Add ‘Experimental’ and ‘Beta’ status options.
      • Add audience property with possible values: ‘All’, ‘Developer’ and ‘Expert’.
      • Add maintainers and maintainers email properties.
      • Add requires_mod, requires_gi and requires_exe properties to specify addon requirements.
      • Allow help url for all plugin types.
    • Add stock_category_icon support.
    • Replace deprecated imp by importlib.
    • CI: Upgrade actions/checkout to v3.
    • Update Gramps CI workflow to run on Ubuntu 20.04 Ubuntu 18.04 became fully unsupported on 1 Dec 2022.
    • Fix package installation failures in CI.
    • Gallery tabs: Avoid signal warning during editor clean up. The signal no longer exists to disconnect from at this point.
    • Fix display warnings in unit tests Attemps to get rid of the follow warning: “Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused”.
    • Add .venv environments to .gitignore
    • Migrate build from distutils to setuptools. Distutils is deprecated with removal planned for Python 3.12.
    • Remove options and disables that pylint no longer uses.
    • Enable file:/// URI paths for addons location.
    • Use ObjEntry to select a person as an association.
    • ConfigManager: Add support for embedding comments in ini header.
    • Fix incorrect title of event schema attribute_list.
    • Test: Use temporary directory to test bsddb.
    • Remove unused constant ENV_DIR.
    • Add gramps_id to repository & note text data lists.
    • Add unit test for python3 -m gramps.
    • Add __main__.py
    • Skip inspect.stack also when debug logging is disabled.
    • Wrap inspect.stack in if __debug__.
    • Replace TEMP_DIR by tempfile object.
    • Remove xdg-utils dependency.
    • Fix application id.
    • Use reverse-DNS scheme for mime file, application icon, appdata + desktop.
    • Move MIME icons together with other hicolor icons. This way, all the hicolor icons are logically in the same place.
    • Simplify looping. Index based loops are mapped to their Pythonic equalivant.
    • Fix Place.get_text_data_child_list
    • Fix Check&Repair progress meter for Duplicated Gramps_ID check.
    • Fix no_magic for dbapi.
    • Cairodoc: Correct enumerations unpacking.
    • Rework primary object Deletes in views.
    • Faster Multiple Event delete.
    • Faster Multiple Person Delete.
    • Speed up Event, Media, and Repo reference editors.
    • Speed up Place Reference Editor and Listview for enclose place. Fixes #11531
    • Speed up Event displaytab and gramplet.
    • Fix StatusBar for potential HandleError.
    • Smoother progress for Rebuid reference maps/secondary indices.
    • Skip test3b_delete_tree_constraint if $HOME is a subdirectory of /tmp. Fixes #12577.
    • Remove the “database is closed” warning. Fixes #12492
    • Note LINK support for merge of other objects.
    • Note LINK support for deletes of other objects.
    • Support Note LINKS as backlinks.
    • mac modules: Replace git with https in github URI They don’t accept unauthenticated git connections anymore.
    • Fix datehandlers for round trip. Parsers should be able to parse the output from the displayer.
    • Enhance date handler tests:
      • Add tests for all languages with a custom date handler.
      • Remove some months so that the tests run quicker.
    • Enhance Date Parser Display Test debug tool. Test for both Julian and Gregorian dates.
    • Check & Repair: search and fix bad “links” in StyledTextTags. Issue #11855
    • Update shared-mime-info for application/x-geneweb and application/x-gedcom.
    • Fix tags in shared mime info file. With the switch from intltool to gettext underscores became obsolete.
    • Update _pythonmime.py When editing a Media image, display TIFF image or PNG image instead of Unknown.
    • Make gramps -v consistent with Prerequisites Checker. Issue #12770
    • Fix EditEventRef, EditPlaceRef, EditMediaRef, EditRepoRef for improperly saving objects in their object lists. Fixes #11917, #11933
    • Autobackup: Add delay after wake from sleep/hibernate to allow time for system to settle. Fixes #10953
    • Autobackup only if new commits since last autobackup in session.
    • Fix images: 22x22 to 24x24 Real picture’s size from images/hicolor/24x24/actions old size: 22x22 72dpi or 90dpi now: 24x24 72dpi.
    • Use XDG pictures directory as the default media path. This is a better default for our Flatpak distribution. Fixes #12217.
    • Add place name to place in geneweb import. Fixes #12710
    • Argparser:
      • Refactor error construction into a common method.
      • Simplify handling of getops error.
      • Add unit test for handling getopt error.
    • Name displayer:
      • Correct continuation line unaligned for hanging indent.
      • Remove unused imports.
      • Correct the assumed order of the name formats.
      • Use list comprehension for name format list.
      • Simplify sorting in get_name_format.
      • Add unit tests for methods relying on name_formats.
      • Add test coverage for get_name_format.
    • Update Appdata to pass validation:
      • Fix tags. With the switch from intltool to gettext underscores became obsolete.
      • Add content-rating information.
      • Add link for translators.
      • Add release information.
      • Add translation domain.
      • Make appdata summary consistent with desktop comment.
      • Avoid using deprecated license identifier.
      • Tidy up tag order.
    • merge_ref_test: Tests update for Note rework.
    • Fix MultiSelectDialog for two issues.
    • Fix unit test for check & repair tool.
    • Limit print statement by using logging module python3 Gramps.py -d "gui.uimanager".
    • Image magic: add bmp and tiff + Readme, exception if file not found.
    • Fix db corrupted error message to make it apply to all db types. Fixes #12242
    • Test: No need to check for mock support with Python 3.3+
    • Install application icons into correct directories.
    • Replace obsolete file() → open().
    • Remove non-existent old attribute personal for an event.
    • Use the callback parameter passed to EditEvent.__init__ by passing it to EditPrimary.__init__.
    • For all types of EditPrimary window, consistently call self._do_close() before self.callback(), during save().
    • EditRepository now stores the callback passed to __init__ and calls it during save().
    • Better code quality for within area rule.
    • Add missing get_number_of_citations method.

You can obtain Gramps 5.2.0-beta1 from the GitHub release page.

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