[Gramps-devel] Release 0.4.0 is nearing release

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

I have frozen the new features for the 0.4.0 release, and for the next
several days I will only be fixing bugs. I hope to have the release out
by the end of the week.  Please grab the CVS version and give it a try.

This release makes some major changes (and I hope, improvements:-)

These include:

* Redesigned Family page. More complex family relationships can be
  handled, including families with same sex parents.
* Complete rework of Edit Person and Marriage/Relationship forms. 
  These forms should be more intuitive and easier to use.
* Places are stored in a pulldown menu, allowing you to not have to
  retype places over and over again. (Place objects are not yet 
  implemented. That will be the next release.)
* Multiple selection in Add Children box allows you to add more than
  one child at a time.
* ISO date format supported
* gramps ID can be displayed in many lists
* Internal gramps ID now a string instead of an integer
* Double clicking on a name in the Pedegree view brings up the edit
  box for that person
* Added privacy flag and confidence level to events, attributes, etc.
  While the report generators haven't been modified to understand
  privacy yet, they will eventually give you an option to either 
  include or exclude information marked private.
* Automatically detect gzip'ed XML vs. XML
* Added option to write the data.gramps file as either gzip'ed XML 
  (the default) or uncompressed XML (text).
* XML output has been cleaned up (nicely indented). We should have
  an XML DTD for this release.
* French translation added.

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Don Allingham
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