Gramps 6.0.0-beta1 announcement lists an impressive change log. I took the liberty of running it through an AI to group items into the high-level categories (sub-categories were generated by AI). Please look to the original announcement for the most accurate changes, this is definitely a simplified …

For selectors check out: A standard search bar has been added to the person selector dialog. It may default to selecting men or women by default, but selecting on other columns is possible. It is now possible to select multiple media objects in the media selector and gallery tabs. The media selec…

Other changes that may be of interest: Improvements to the Probably Alive code. New rules: “Has Event”, “Has Source” and “Having Note of Type”. New Gedcom 7.0 event roles: “Father”, Mother", “Parent”, “Child”, “Multiple”, Friend", “Neighbour” and “Officiator”. Allow web-accessible file reference…

And finally the significant database-related changes that you asked me to summarise in layman’s terms: We now store objects in the database in a human-readable format. Power users can now read the database directly without needing to use python. Certain operations may be slower, but we don’t think…

[image] codefarmer: macOS 11.0+ requirement The MacPorts distribution of Gramps [1] was able to be built on Mac systems all the way back to Snow Leopard on 386. Are there known code changes that prevent supporting older OS versions? [1] gramps | MacPorts Craig cc: @jrails

Thanks a lot, a big step forward! Don’t know if this is the proper place, just wanted to report that v6.0.0-beta1 built without issues on my Linux slackware system. Of course I haven’t tested every function, but no issues noted during a quick test run. Will revert to 5.2.4 for now since obviously …

I see the db.get_raw… has changed. It used to be handy when running through a lot of objects and only looking at one or two attributes, faster than getting the whole object. Example place_data = self.dbstate.db.get_raw_place_data(hndl) p_type = place_data[8][0] # place_type What is the preferr…

[image] prculley: P.S. I’m starting to fix up my addons to work correctly, and see that there are others that will also need work. Is there a plan to update addons, or is it left to authors? A few days ago, Doug Blank and Gary Griffin posted 6.0 updates to the registration files for the 154 a…

[image] prculley: What is the preferred method of getting partial data quickly now? You can still get the “raw” data for an object, but it isn’t as raw as before. We now store a JSON representation of objects which mirrors the structure of the full objects. These data structures have a ligh…

[image] prculley: P.S. I’m starting to fix up my addons to work correctly Filed a request to remove a newly redundant feature in Themes addon earlier today.

Hey, good to see you again! [image] prculley: p_type = place_data[8][0] # place_type For this one specifically, you can use: p_type = place_data.place_type.value # integer Is there a plan to update addons, or is it left to authors? I’ll probably do a pass to catch the main differences.

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