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Gourmet Recipe Manager has moved to GitHub and Launchpad -- see https://github.com/thinkle/gourmet/wiki/Moving-to-GitHub-and-Launchpad for more information!

Gourmet's localization isn't quite up-to-date currently. Lots of strings that weren't internationalized previously have recently been imported into Gourmet's easy-to-use translation facility over at https://translations.launchpad.net/grecipe-manager/ -- so if you can, help us complete translation for your language so you get a fully translated Gourmet with the next release!

Gourmet continues to move toward greater stability with version 0.15.9 being released. The plugin architecture is fully in place and mature now, as well as an experimental web front-end. Gourmet sources are available on SF here (https://sourceforge.net/projects/grecipe-manager/files/), and .deb files are now available through a PPA here: https://launchpad.net/~thomas-hinkle/+archive/gourmet

The windows executable is still a few version behind. We are always looking for more windows devels/testers to help.

Gourmet recipe Manager 0.15.0 has been released.

Gourmet is a simple recipe manager with a broad range of features available as plugins, including web import and nutritional information.

The intent is to brand this release stable once it's been in the wild a week or so, assuming no showstopper bugs are found. Please test this release -- I'd like to bring as many bugs out of the woodwork as possible!... read more

A new unstable version of Gourmet has been released. This version includes a .deb package for the convenience of debian and ubuntu users. This is especially useful for the many users who have the rather poor unstable version currently packaged in Ubuntu! The new version should be compatible with sqlalchemy 0.5. It also includes several new plugins, many bugfixes, and more. Exciting for those hacking on gourmet is a new python console plugin that allows you to muck about with a running instance of Gourmet from a live python shell.

Gourmet's latest unstable version has been released. Any Ubuntu users should use the SF package rather than the package that comes in Ubuntu Intrepid -- the Ubuntu package will hose your 0.13.x databases and has loads of bugs that are fixed in this release.

This release squashes lots of pesky bugs, fixes up import and export speeds, and inches us closer to a stable plugin-based export. I encourage all Gourmet users to give this a try and report bug as fast as you can.... read more

Gourmet 0.14 has made its way out of CVS and into a tarball today. The unstable release is the first snapshot of the new plugin-based Gourmet. You can now disable all of the fancy extras (nutrition, etc.) to get a simplified Gourmet, and it's not possible to write plug-ins to add all the functionality that has previously been rejected in order to maintain a simplified interface. The new release is unstable and has a few regressions (some features have been removed from the main interface and haven't yet been reimplemented as plugins), but there are also some interface improvements (much better search, for example). ... read more

The latest development Gourmet has been released. Much requested features like nutritional information editing and duplicate detection have been furthered in this release. Please download and test so we can get bugs ironed out. There are also a number of known issues that need fixing -- anyone who wants to jump in and start hacking is encouraged to look at the TODO file in cvs!

Gourmet Recipe Manager is a recipe-organizer for GNOME that generates shopping lists and allows rapid searching of recipes. It imports mealmaster & mastercook files and exports webpages & other formats. Gourmet uses python, gtk and metakit.

Gourmet Recipe Manager has now been built and run successfully on Mac OSX! A darwin .deb package has been uploaded for the latest unstable release for testing. Instructions for working on Mac OSX have also been added to the wiki. Mac users interested in Gourmet, please give this a test drive. We'd love to get a Mac user on board to regularly package future releases.

Gourmet 0.12.0.pre1 has been released and includes a Windows installer as well as .deb and .rpm packages (RPM packages may or may not work -- please let me know!). This release represents an incremental step forward in the unstable branch of Gourmet, with minor bugfixes and improvements in PDF export and windows printing. More importantly, this release is intended to become the new "stable" release by next week, so please report any showstopping bugs!

Gourmet 0.11.4 has been released. Gourmet 0.11.4 includes a number of bugfixes and new PDF export using reportlab.

Gourmet 0.11.0 has been released. Gourmet 0.11.0 includes a great many bugfixes, including improved ingredient editing, user interface improvements, better undo support, and an improved setup for upgrade from previous versions. Gourmet 0.11.0 is the first package in some time to include .deb and windows installers, making it easier for more users to test. So please test away! Hopefully we can make rapid bugfixes to the 0.11.0 branch and stabilize it into a 0.12 branch. 0.11.0 really should be more-or-less ready for public consumption, especially in *nix, so go ahead and upgrade!

Gourmet 0.10.0 has been released! Gourmet is a recipe manager capable of searching recipes, generating shopping lists and calculating nutritional information.

Gourmet 0.10.0 involves a major rewrite of the database backend. Import is much faster now and we do much better with large databases. Update from old versions should be safe (we won't clobber the last database) but requires a bit of magic that isn't easy to package up nicely. So we're holding off on installers (.deb, .rpm, .exe) for the time being.... read more

Note: If you already have 0.9.1 or 0.8.5.14 running on your computer, you do NOT need to download these new installers.

These releases were made to fix the problem mentioned in several reports, of the upgrade to GTK 2.8.8 from older versions causing crashes. According to these same reports, the crashes went away once GTK was uninstalled and then installed again.

The new installers explicitly uninstall the previous version of GTK, before installing the new one. Hopefully, this will prevent this error from occurring in the future.

The first Windows release of 0.9.1 did not have a working XML import/export functionality. This release fixes that problem.

Technical note: due to some dynamic module loading in xml.dom, py2exe was not properly picking it up and packing it into the executable package. This was fixed simly by explicitly including the xml.dom package.

Gourmet Recipe Manager is a recipe-organizer for GNOME and Windows that generates shopping lists and allows rapid searching of recipes. It imports and exports a variety of formats, including mealmaster, mastercook, websites, and a number of other formats.

After a long hiatus in windows releases (due to heavy schoolwork), we finally have a fresh windows package in the unstable branch. Gourmet 0.9.1 Windows installer with and without GTK is now available. ... read more

Gourmet Recipe Manager is a recipe-organizer for GNOME and Windows that generates shopping lists and allows rapid searching of recipes. It imports and exports a variety of formats, including mealmaster, mastercook, websites, and a number of other formats.

After a long hiatus in windows releases (due to heavy schoolwork), we finally have a fresh windows package. Gourmet 0.8.5.14 Windows installer with and without GTK is now available. Expect the installer for 0.9.1 from the unstable branch to be released shortly.... read more

Gourmet Recipe Manager has a new release with a quick fix for users of python2.3, for whom the last release was broken. Gourmet is a recipe manager and shopping list generator for the GNOME Desktop capable of importing and exporting a variety of formats, including web pages. The unstable branch supports calculating nutritional information for recipes.

Gourmet announces new releases of stable and unstable branches!
Gourmet 0.9.0.1 is a quick addendum to the major 0.9.0 release yesterday. This should be a more-or-less working release with support for nutritional information as well as all the beautiful improvements previously in the development branch. Gourmet 0.8.5.13 backports two of the more practically useful changes in the development branch: the generic importer that allows importing any plain text file or webpage step by step. Gourmet unstable should absolutely be tested! However, note that moving your recipe database from the old to the new may be buggy -- make a backup copy of ~/.gourmet/ before playing around with this, and backup any substantial work by exporting an XML file or by copying your database file (~/.gourmet/recipes.mk)

Gourmet Recipe Manager 0.9.0 has been released.
This is an unstable release, but marks the first time in months that major improvements in code have made it out of CVS and into a package. New code includes support for nutritional information, and support for generic text and HTML import. 0.9.0 also begins a more sane numbering system -- when 0.9.0 is ready to be called stable, we will label it 0.10.0 (even numbers), and from then on use odd numbers for unstable and even for stable releases. If we are lucky, we may just have the guts to call this 1.0 once we get things running smoothly.

Gourmet Recipe Manager is a recipe-organizer that generates shopping lists and allows rapid searching of recipes. It imports and exports a number of formats. Webpage imports now work for windows! See changelog for details.

This is the first windows release of the unstable branch of gourmet. It is starting to get pretty stable. Please download and test and report bugs. Back up your recipe db just in case.

Gourmet Recipe Manager announces parallel stable and unstable releases today. The 0.8.5.12 gets the quick-ingredient-adder interface added to unstable in 0.8.6.3 and both releases get a vastly improved choose-encoding dialog for text imports. If you're new to Gourmet, I recommend trying out the 0.8.6.4 release -- it will soon become the default release, and the main roadblock to my calling it "stable" is ironing out the code that upgrades the database from one release to another (which obviously doesn't matter to you if you're installing for the first time).

Gourmet Recipe Manager announces parallel stable and unstable releases today. The 0.8.5.12 gets the quick-ingredient-adder interface added to unstable in 0.8.6.3 and both releases get a vastly improved choose-encoding dialog for text imports. If you're new to Gourmet, I recommend trying out the 0.8.6.4 release -- it will soon become the default release, and the main roadblock to my calling it "stable" is ironing out the code that upgrades the database from one release to another (which obviously doesn't matter to you if you're installing for the first time).

Gourmet Recipe Manager announces parallel stable and unstable releases today. The 0.8.5.12 gets the quick-ingredient-adder interface added to unstable in 0.8.6.3 and both releases get a vastly improved choose-encoding dialog for text imports. If you're new to Gourmet, I recommend trying out the 0.8.6.4 release -- it will soon become the default release, and the main roadblock to my calling it "stable" is ironing out the code that upgrades the database from one release to another (which obviously doesn't matter to you if you're installing for the first time!).