# How to find when specific Gramps file was superseded

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**Created:** [November 25, 2022, 3:48pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/how-to-find-when-specific-gramps-file-was-superseded/3024 "2022-11-25T15:48:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![emyoulation](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/emyoulation/32/67_2.png) [@emyoulation](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/emyoulation)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2022, 3:48pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/how-to-find-when-specific-gramps-file-was-superseded/3024/1 "2022-11-25T15:48:11Z")

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The wiki page “[Match dates](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Match_dates)” appear to refer to a functionality that was rolled into the Preferences GUI.

The change logs and Release History pages seems to be too segmented to search efficiently. (Even if I knew the appropriate label / term to search.)

I’d like to add an “Obsolete Information” warning dialog that informs of the replacement tech. (Or a even the more strident [Stub Stagnant](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Template:Stub_Stagnant) note.) How do I discover when a functionality was superseded.

`{{man warn|Obsolete Information|This troubleshooting documentation is oriented around a superseded dependency in Gramps. Reliance on the BSDDB database engine was removed in the 5.1 release.}}`

The superseded/obsolete wiki page talks about manually editing before/after/about values in the following file that may not exist in current releases of Gramps:  
`~/.gramps/keys.ini`

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**Post date:** [November 25, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/how-to-find-when-specific-gramps-file-was-superseded/3024/2 "2022-11-25T15:55:27Z")

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Does it make sense to fold a [MediaWiki magic word](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Noindex) into the Stub Stagnant template that suppresses indexing the page for the wiki’s internal search?

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/1X/2ac1e712b7adf612e31ca08a55419f4cf37c0158.png) [@system](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/how-to-find-when-specific-gramps-file-was-superseded/3024/3 "2022-12-25T15:55:37Z")

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Closed on December 25, 2022, 3:55pm UTC

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