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Hubert Figuiere | 14 Jul 2009 01:30
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[ANN] wv 1.2.6


Hi,

With Dom's blessings, I pushed out wv 1.2.6. This is a bug fix release.

Thanks to all the contributors.

You can get it from http://www.abisource.com/downloads/wv/1.2.6/

Here are the changes:

1.2.6 - 2009/07/13

Important:

  - Restore the soversion major to the value of 1.2.4 because ABI didn't
change.

Fixes:

  - Bug 11547: unportable test construct. (Thomas Klausner)
  - Fix typos in wvWare's help message.
  - Fix a few mis-matched wvMalloc/malloc/wvFree/free combinations. Use
glib to
    allocate and free all of our memory.
  - Bug 9355: a NULL pointer was causing a crash.
  - Bug 9705: Default font alignment in paragraph was incorrect.
  - Bug 10125: Crash in the PAP handling. (Hubert Figuiere)
  - Fix a memory leak in wvRTF. (Hubert Figuiere)
  - Bug 12034: Fix a huge performance issue while loading images.
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Hubert Figuiere | 21 Mar 2009 02:49
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ATTN: AbiWord v2.6.8 Released


AbiWord v2.6.8 Released

AbiWord 2.6 is a multi-platform word processor that combines
state-of-the-art usability, powerful features, and excellent
interoperability. Furthermore, it features a powerful framework for
supporting custom extensions. AbiWord v2.6.8 is the latest stable
release, which compared to v2.6.6 contains a good number number of
important bugfixes.

This release includes the following changes (and more!):

   * Fix the auto-save feature to actually work and respect the
     user-selected time interval
   * Properly export table border and cell styles for OpenDocument
     documents
   * Make sure the Office Open XML exporter writes out valid documents
   * Fix a great number of memory leaks

The full changelog can be found at
http://www.abisource.com/changelogs/2.6.8.phtml

Note for Windows 95, 98 and ME users: AbiWord 2.6 is currently not
available for your operating system. Please continue using AbiWord 2.4.6
instead.

Availability: http://www.abisource.com/download/.

More information: http://www.abisource.com/.
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Hubert Figuiere | 3 May 2008 04:20
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[ANN] AbiWord v2.6.3 Released

Hi,

AbiWord v2.6.3 Released

AbiWord 2.6 is a multi-platform word processor that combines
state-of-the-art usability, powerful features, and excellent
interoperability. Furthermore, it features a powerful framework for
supporting custom extensions. AbiWord v2.6.3 is the latest stable
release, which compared to v2.6.2 contains several bugfixes and resolves
three potential security vunerabilities.

This release includes the following changes (and more!):

# Re-enable the equation editor on Windows systems.
# Don't crash when saving to a device with no space left.
# Prevent quite a few hard to trigger crashes from happening.
# Inform the user when the connection is lost while collaborating on a
document over the TCP transport.

The full changelog can be found at
http://www.abisource.com/changelogs/2.6.3.phtml

Note for Windows 95, 98 and ME users: AbiWord 2.6 is currently not
available for your operating system. Please continue using AbiWord 2.4.6
instead.

Note for distributors: This release includes three security fixes. The
specific patches can be found in our subversion code repository located
at http://svn.abisource.com/ under revision 23557, 23660 and 23662.
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Hubert Figuiere | 7 Apr 2008 01:18
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[ANN] AbiWord v2.6.2 Released!


AbiWord v2.6.2 Released

AbiWord 2.6 is a multi-platform word processor that combines
state-of-the-art usability, powerful features, and excellent
interoperability. Furthermore, it features a powerful framework for
supporting custom extensions. AbiWord v2.6.2 is the latest stable
release, which compared to v2.6.0 contains several bugfixes and enables
the experimental collaboration plugin on the Windows platform (we never
released v2.6.1 publically).

This release includes the following changes (and more!):

* We've enabled the experimental collaboration plugin on the Windows
platform. This plugin allows allowing users to collaboratively work on
the same document in real-time. The user interface is still a bit rough
around the edges, but this will be improved upon in future AbiWord
releases.
* Make our presentation plugin work.
* Fix a bunch of small bugs in our XSL-FO, Applix, LaTeX, WML and HTML
import/export filters.

Note: The equation plugin on Windows systems is currently unavailable.
If you require equation support in your documents, then please continue
using AbiWord 2.4.6. Future AbiWord releases will include equation
support again on Windows systems.

Availability: http://www.abisource.com/download/.

More information: http://www.abisource.com/.
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Hubert Figuiere | 31 Mar 2008 01:58
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[ANN] AbiWord 2.6.0 Released!


AbiWord v2.6.0 Released

March 24, 2008

AbiWord 2.6 is a multi-platform word processor that combines
state-of-the-art usability, powerful features, and excellent
interoperability. Furthermore, it features a powerful framework for
supporting custom extensions. AbiWord 2.6 is the most stable and capable
AbiWord release ever. In addition to fixing hundreds of bugs reported by
our users, it contains several exciting new features.

This release includes the following changes (and more!):

* Greatly-improved support for languages like Thai and Arabic using a
new Pango based renderer (Unix platforms)
* We've included a new GNOME Office plugin that allows embedding
Gnumeric charts into your documents (Unix platforms)
* Ability to open files on remote shares, ie. samba, ftp or ssh shares
(Unix platforms)
* A new experimental collaboration plugin, allowing users to
collaboratively work on the same document in real-time. There are
currently 3 communication backends supported: an XMPP based one (only
available on Unix systems, and it could use some love), a pure TCP/IP
based one and one that integrates with the One Laptop Per Child Sugar
interface. Please note that we consider this collaboration feature
experimental, as it hasn't seen a lot of testing outside the One Laptop
Per Child deployments. Also, we are not sure yet that we won't need to
make slight protocol changes to accommodate some new features. This
means that the current version of the plugin might not be able to
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Hubert Figuiere | 24 Aug 2007 00:25
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[ANN] AbiWord v2.5.2 Released


AbiWord v2.5.2 "The rumors are true: AbiWord is dead" Released

The AbiWord team is happy to finally announce AbiWord v2.5.2, the third
snapshot of the development that will lead to AbiWord 2.6.

This snapshot allows interested developers, testers and users a sneak
preview into the future of AbiWord.

The changes from v2.5.1 to v2.5.2 include, amongst others:

* The addition of a new experimental OpenXML import filter
* A Windows port of the experimental AbiWord Collaboration plugin
* Improved start-up time on Windows systems
* Support for native Windows Vista menus
* Allow dragging and dropping images in and out of AbiWord (Unix)
* Quite a few improvements to the OpenDocument filter
* Improved RTF import filter (it handles fields now for example)
* Improved LaTeX equation input support
* Fast image previews in the Image dialog, even for huge images (Unix)

We apologize for not providing a full changelog for this release.

AbiWord v2.5.x is parallel installable with AbiWord v2.4 so users can
try it out without disturbing their stable AbiWord 2.4 version (make
sure you specify an installation directory separate from your AbiWord
2.4 installation on Windows systems!). We are very much interested in
any bug you may find. Please report these to
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/. Binaries will hopefully show up within a
few days.
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Hubert Figuiere | 16 Jan 2007 16:43
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ATTN: AbiWord 2.5.0 released


The AbiWord team is very proud to announce AbiWord v2.5.0, the first
snapshot of the development that will lead to AbiWord 2.6.

This snapshot allows interested developers, testers and users a sneak
preview into the future of AbiWord.

New features of this release include (amongst others):

  * A new Pango based renderer for Unix platforms, improving support for
    languages such as Thai and Arabic
  * Cross platform libgsf integration, allowing the user to open files
    on remote shares (the last part holds for the Unix platform for now)
  * Cross platform Glib integration, meaning less custom AbiWord
    specific code to maintain
  * Support for the Bonobo component framework has been deprecated (Unix
    platforms)
  * Improved the build system to be more standards conformant (for
    example, "make dist" and "make distcheck" now work)
  * Experimental AbiWord GTK+ widget, with accompanying Python bindings
  * Various toolbar improvements, most notably the improvements to make
    them work better on small screens (Unix platform)
  * A massive amount of work on all of our popular import and export
    filters
  * A new experimental collaboration plugin (only available on Unix for
    now)
  * A new GNOME Office integration plugin, replacing the old GNOME
    Office Charting plugin (Unix platforms)
  * Improved command line handling, allowing input from standard input,
    and output to be directed to standard output (examples here).
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Hubert Figuiere | 14 Oct 2005 17:17
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[ANN] AbiWord 2.2.11 Released


AbiWord v2.2.11 Released

This release fixes a security issue in the RTF importer that was
reported to us. All users that are continuing to use the 2.2 series are
advised to upgrade.

The changes from 2.2.10 to 2.2.11 are:

* CAN-2005-2972: Fix several stack-based buffer overflows in the RTF
importer

The Changelog can be found at
http://www.abisource.com/changelogs/2.2.11.phtml

Again, we strongly advise all users that are not switching to the 2.4
series to upgrade to this release.

Availability
Main site: http://www.abisource.com/downloads/abiword/2.2.11/.

More information
Main site: http://www.abisource.com/.

Enjoy!

   The AbiWord Development Team
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Hubert Figuiere | 14 Oct 2005 17:18
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[ANN] AbiWord 2.4.1 Released


AbiWord v2.4.1 Released

The AbiWord team is happy to announce AbiWord v2.4.1. Since the 2.4.0
release we have received a lot of great feedback from our users, which
led to a number of useful bugreports as well. This is the first
bugfixing releasing in the new stable 2.4 series to address some of
those bugreports.

The changes from v2.4.0 to v2.4.1 include, amongst others:

* CAN-2005-2972: Fix several stack-based buffer overflows in the RTF
importer
* Fix the BiDi direction in menu strings (Windows)
* Fix various crashers related to Equation editing

The full Changelog can be found at
http://www.abisource.com/changelogs/2.4.1.phtml

Because of the fixed security bug in the RTF importer, we strongly
advise all users to upgrade to this latest release.

Note to Mac OSX users: please aware that the font rendering in 2.4.1 is
still a work-in-progress. Depending on the fonts used the quality of the
rendering may be sub-optimal. We are working hard to address this issue.

We are very much interested in any bug you may find. Please report these
to http://bugzilla.abisource.com/.

Availability: http://www.abisource.com/download/development.phtml.
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Hubert Figuiere | 14 Oct 2005 04:34
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ANN: wvWare 1.2.0 released

(forwarded message)

From: Dom Lachowicz

New schnazzy version that uses libgsf, libxml2, and
glib. wvSumamry sucks 50% less. And etc. Nothing's
changed in a few months, so a release was overdue.

Thanks for all of your help! Special thanks goes out
to TF, Row, and FJF.

Best,
Dom
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Hubert Figuiere | 3 Oct 2005 22:38
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[ANN] AbiWord 2.4.0 Released!


Dear AbiWord Enthusiasts

It finally arrived. I'd suggest you jump right to the Release Notes:

  http://www.abisource.com/release-notes/2.4.0.phtml

Bye!
   The AbiWord Team
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