The AbiWord team is proud to announce the release of version 0.9.0 of AbiWord. The release marks the count down to version 1.0. While we are not in feature freeze we will no longer make substantial changes to the tree. We anticipate making a number of more rapid releases as we squash bugs on the way to version 1.0.
Users will find this release MUCH faster, uses far fewer resources, with fewer bugs and with many more features than 0.7.14.
Multi-lingual users will find the multi-lingual on-the-fly spell checking particularly useful.
All Platforms:
- Fully Edittable Styles: Martin, Dom
- Multi-Lingual Spell checking (Spell check in multiple languages) Dom, Thomas Fletcher.
- Language Dialog: Dom,
- ispell checker improvements: Thomas Fletcher, Dom, Vald, Hub, others....
- pspell checker fixes: Frodo
- Line Based Tables: Martin
- Tab Bar types: Martin, rms
- Scrolling Speedups: Martin, Joaquin.
- Speed Ups for Large Documents: Martin, Joaquin
- Major Back End Reworks: Dom, Mike Nordell, Pat Lam
- Automatic Numbered Headings: Martin
- Drag bars for vertical margins: Pat Lam
- RTF import/export improvements: Hub, Martin, Dom
- XHTML import/export improvements: John Clark.
- MS Word Improvements: Dom
- Human Readable Text Export: David Given
- XSO-FO Export: Dom
- Applix Words Import/Export: Hub, Dom
- Multiple Encoded text import/export: Andrew Dunbar
- Support for almost all worlds Languages in Windows Build : Andrew Dunbar
- Preview as Web, Dom
- AutoConf build system: Sam, Frodo, Aaron Lehmann, Hub, Alec Wolman
- Tons of Locale definitions: Dom and intrepid Abi contributors.
- Export to AbiWord templates. Dom.
- Plugin Architecture: Dom
- Left Ruler fixes: Dom
- AutoSaves of document: Joaquin, Martin
- Major Encoding fixes and Improvements: Andrew Dunbar, Tomas Frydrych, Joaquín, Dom,
- New and Improved Artwork and icons: jimmac, Tigert
- Encoding Manager Dialog: Andrew Dunbar
- Improved Bugzilla and Webpage: Sam TH, Jesper Skov
Tons of Bug fixes.
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The whole Abi team with various of help from numerous volunteers.
Unix Platform:
- Styles Dialog: Martin, Dom, John Clark
- Repaint speedups and cleanups: Martin
- Color Pickers Toolbar buttons: Martin
- Language Dialog: Dom
- Nifty mouse pointer changes: Martin
- Perl Bindings for AbiWord: Joaquin, Paolo
- AbiWord Widget build (Start of embedable AbiWord): Dom
- Substantial reduction in usage of X resources: Martin
- Context Menu stays active on release of right button: Martin
- Encoding Manager Dialog: Dom
- Updated our Distrubted Type 1 Fonts: Martin
- Fix Irix build:
- Fix HPUX build: Kevin Vajk'
- Fix Solaris build:
- Add IBM 390 build:
- CJK fixes: Ha Shao
Gnome:
- Clip Art dialog: Dom
- Major gnome-print fixes (Proper WYSIWYG in Gnome-print, print preview and print Symbol and Dingbat fonts): Martin
QNX:
- Styles Dialog: Thomas Fletcher:
- Color Pickers Toolbar buttons: Thomas
- Encoding Manager Dialog: Thomas
- Plugin Dialog: Thomas
- Language Dialog: Thomas
Windows:
- Lists Dialog: Micheal Pritchard, Mike Nordell
- Styles Dialog: Bruce Pearson, Micheal Pritchard
- Language Dialog: Andrew Dunbar.
- Encoding Manager Dialog: Andrew, Mike Nordell
- Support for all the world's Languages: Andrew Dunbar.
BEOS:
- Various fixes: Jamie Montgomerie, Stephane Fritsch
Mac
- Lots more progress, AbiWord Frame now runs: Hub
New and Updated Translations:
- Turkish translation Görkem Çetin
- Norwegian updates Karl Ove Hufthammer
- Italian updates: Marco Innocenti
- British English: Alan Horkan
- Irish Gaelic: Alan Horkan
- Swedish Update: rms
- Porugese Update: rms
- Catlan Update: Jesús Corrius
- German Help: Ralf Müller
- Slovenian Translation: Andraz Tori
- French update: Gilles Saint-Denis
- German Update: Ralf Müller, Christain Meyer, Harald Fernengel
- Hungarian Translation: Tamas Decsi
Special Thanks to:
David Chart, Alan Horken, Tim Da Luca for great QA work with bugzilla. These were really useful contributions.