[Gramps-announce] GRAMPS 0.98.0 ("Round me off") has been released

[Don A. <dal...@us...>]

GRAMPS 0.98.0 has been released, and is available for immediate download
at http://sf.net/projects/gramps. Source code and RPM packages for
RedHat 8/9/Fedora Core are available. Packages for other distributions
should be available within a few days.

Version 0.98.0 -- the "Round me off" release
* More compliance with GNOME HIG.
* New BookReport dialog layout.
* People View uses a tree format instead of list format.
* Captialization is done as a display format, not as a database modification.
* New Advanced Relationship Graph report generator (Lorenzo Cappelletti).
* Italian relationship calculator (Lorenzo Cappelletti).
* When choosing parents, select the spouse of the first selected person to
  make picking a family quicker.
* Instant preferences.
* FreeBSD compatibility.
* People and Relationships can now have sources not associated with any event.
* Report options (paper size, orientation, style, and filter) are kept
  within the session.
* Substantial speedups in updating display in tree views.
* Children are enumerated in Family View.
* ZODB backend is removed. Real database backend is being worked on and will
  appear in post-1.0 releases.
* Tab labels in tabbed dialogs reflect the presence of data (boldface).
* Help button available in most dialogs.
* Keyboard navigation and functionality in Family View.
* In Pedigree View, children are marked up differently in popup menus
  depending on whether they have children.
* Bugfixes.