We are very close to the Gramps 6.1 release. You can see the technical contributions already accepted (“Closed”) and considered (“Open”) here: GitHub · Where software is built What’s next? Here are the features and improvements being considered for Gramps 6.2 that is planned to be released in Oct 2…

[image] dsblank: Is there something big that hasn’t been started yet that you are hopeful for? Let us know. A field for entering URL - mostly needed for source/citations. This has been asked for several times. NB! I don’t want to start a discussion here, whether URL links are stable or not, …

[image] csam: A field for entering URL - mostly needed for source/citations. This has been proposed as part of the implementation of CSL which has variables for both the url and the date it was accessed. I think that @StoltHD was also interested in this.

[image] dsblank: What’s next? Here are the features and improvements being considered for Gramps 6.2 that is planned to be released in Oct 2026. Is there something big that hasn’t been started yet that you are hopeful for? Let us know. What I always find a bit annoying is entering the date. H…

Ok, yes that is a small request and I was looking for big projects that need to get started before the Oct 2026 release date. But, since we’re here: You can already enter YYYYMMDD, but I think we could handle the three variations based on locale: YYYYMMDD - (e.g. Japanese, Korean, Hungarian, and I…

[image] dsblank: Is there something big that hasn’t been started yet that you are hopeful for? Let us know. Option to make double-clicking a media object open the image viewer by default instead of opening the editor. In the People and Family Editors, clicking the citation icon opened th…

With the risk of this once again being drowned out in noise, derailments, and straw‑man arguments, I’m giving it another try. These topics has been discussed many times over the years, and I’ve raised it repeatedly since the Gramps 5.x era. Here it comes: There are three features I still hope to s…

The CLS was already mentioned, and @Nick-Hall and @StoltHD were interested in it. Either of you going to work on that? The others (Main/Sub-Events and Events on Places) sound like they are still being discussed. I guess we are waiting on @Nick-Hall to help define/design/decide on those. (If there w…

Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought the question was directed at users about what we felt should be included. My mistake.

No, you’re good! In fact your response was exactly what we want: what’s missing and who is going to work on it. Thank you!

What's in development for Gramps 6.2

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dsblank June 20, 2026, 4:19pm 4

If you are interested in what “CSL” is, read this: Citation Formatter - #10 by Nick-Hall

tl;dr

CSL - Citation Style Language

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