Gramps Portable Changelog

What's new in Gramps Portable 5.2.0

Feb 26, 2024
  • Updated translations: ca, cs, da, de, de_AT, en_GB, es, fr, hr, hu, id, it, nb, nl, pl, sk, sl, sv, tr, uk, zh_CN.
  • Update development status to production.
  • Remove the Trove classifier "Natural Language :: German(Austrian)".
  • Emit a "plugins-reloaded" signal when a new addon is installed. This ensures that the user interface will be updated to include the new addon. Fixes #13021.
  • Fix Windows AIO build.
  • Update GitHub actions to latest versions. Some actions are deprecated.
  • Package Gramps 5.2.0-rc1 on macOS.

New in Gramps Portable 5.1.3 (Apr 13, 2021)

  • Update ca, de, fi, fr, ja, pl, ru, sl, sv, uk, zh_CN translation
  • Events View: "Main Participants" column does not show the full list
  • of participants when expanded.
  • mac/gramps.modules: Use current Gtk release instead of Gtk-3.14.
  • mac/gramps.modules: Upgrade pymodules for Python 3.8 compatibility.
  • Fix XML export when 'Group-as" name contains XML invalid chars
  • Fix NarWeb: Province place-type is not displayed
  • Fix ManagedWindow so that new windows don't appear offscreen when
  • system 'screen' sizes change in part time multi-monitor setups.
  • Fix menus when db fails to open due to upgrade/downgrade etc.
  • Fix issue with attach source tool, results panel
  • Fix GEDCOM export; don't include ADDR when address is missing
  • EditPlace: Allow Coordinates containing a comma instead of a period
  • NarrativeWeb:
  • Should show patronymic in individuals.
  • In the individuals and in surnames pages, we should show the
  • complete name like defined in the display tab from the narrative web
  • configuration.
  • Fix Narrated Website Google Maps Output JS Warning SensorNotRequired
  • Fix incorrect link type for osm css files
  • Fix image size limit doesn't match tooltip
  • Update all translations for changes from 'Default' to 'Home' Person
  • Change GUI references to 'Home Person' instead of 'Default Person'
  • Use event attribute types in the event reference editor.
  • In the event reference editor, custom event attribute types should
  • be used rather than the default person attribute types.
  • Fix Verify tool bug caused by bad change in GObject introspection
  • Fix RemoveUnused tool for crash caused by Gtk introspection bug
  • Fix import test for change cause by previous change which was:
  • Fix GEDCOM import for bad source title when sources precede references.
  • Fix GEDCOM import for bad source title when sources precede references.
  • Fix some reports for CLI where warning message about Value not found
  • Fix Genealogy Tree reports for crash in CLI
  • Add uistate to tree views filter initialization
  • Fix some Python syntax errors that appear in v3.8.x
  • Suppress age = 0 days in events list. If the reference event date is equal
  • to the event date, don't show the age except if the date is estimated,
  • calculated, etc.
  • Fix Dashboard Gramplets to update during db close when not shown
  • Fix Windows GUI mode startup for crash with some languages
  • Fix dbapi to support "Abandon Changes & Quit" feature
  • Fix GrampsType for comparison bug with empty string as one value
  • Fix Date Display so that it uses LC_TIME if defined
  • Fix StyledText so serialize will match for style list order changes
  • Try to fix exceptions on ManagedWindow close
  • Fix Mac SQLite3 locale bug when locale contains non-ascii characters
  • Fix issue when Person has Same date of birth and death; gives an error.
  • Geography: add a popup for a bad tiles path
  • Fix GEDCOM export of estimated/calculated dates with modifers

New in Gramps Portable 3.4.8-1 (Jun 3, 2014)

  • Fix database corruption- TypeError: unhashable type: ‘list’
  • Fix bug in abandon changes and quit
  • Fix error when importing database from the CLI
  • ‘Display as’ field in Name Editor reverts to Preferences default
  • Geography does not communicate over proxy server with autorisation
  • Event gramplet filter does not have field for primary role
  • New HasDayOfWeek filter rule
  • Error when leaving a Gramps type field blank in an editor
  • Fix creation of events with same Gramps-ID
  • Enhancements and consitency on events gramplet, selector and view
  • Enhanced Citation Editor
  • Fix update of active object after merge
  • Do not drag and drop more than one data into editor tabs
  • Media Editor error if Path value was changed to a non existing file
  • Register history objects at startup
  • Users should not be allowed to edit and delete ‘default’ style into Style Editor
  • Missing closing bracket in Web_Basic-Spruce.css
  • Some temporary files remains in /tmp with NarrativeWeb report
  • Some fixes and enhancements
  • No narrative.css File After Running Narrated Website Report
  • Paper names and Styles values are now translated
  • Translate some punctuation marks
  • Fix Relationships handler for Portuguese
  • Updated translations: ar, cs, de, es, fr, he, it, ru, sk, sv

New in Gramps Portable 3.4.7-1 (Feb 3, 2014)

  • Changes are:
  • Add new filter rule matching citations having a source with a on a note
  • Add primary role option to event filter
  • Add Groups support and reduce number of lines in Event types selector
  • Add ‘Last Change’ column on selectors, when missing
  • Fix a filter rule on citation sidebar (Source:Note)
  • Fix url in Welcome gramplet when detached
  • Fix bug in associations filter
  • Better support for objects having citations as subobjects
  • Check Tag handling on people views
  • Keep at least one column on views
  • Reorder tool now updates citation IDs
  • Performance improvement in ancestor filter
  • Better support on GEDCOM file format for tags like family _UID, add support for _FSFTID, by Enno Borgsteede
  • Reduce number of columns in LDS temple selector
  • Fix menu action for last recently opened family trees
  • Fix minor visual issue on Merge Person dialog
  • Use ‘Bat Mitzvah’ (en_US event name)
  • “Add citation” missing in pop-up menu
  • Improvements on image region handling
  • Some fixes on images for ODF file format, thanks to Matthias Basler for the initial patch
  • Fix HTML spacing on GraphViz output
  • Various fixes related to bookmark handling in navigation views
  • Invalid dates (like 2013-02-30) no longer crash the date editor or file import
  • Enhancement on date validation into Date Editor
  • Various fixes on date handling
  • Consistent GUI confirmation during bulk deletions
  • Multiple maintainability and usability improvements.
  • Better documentation for name
  • Update holidays for France
  • Translation update: de, fr, ru

New in Gramps Portable 3.4.6-1 (Nov 15, 2013)

  • [Other] To remove source ignores citation references set into attributes on event with family role - resolved.
  • [General] RecentFiles.do_save() doesn't do XML escape of the file/path strings - resolved.
  • [General] Crash on Export - endless loop in probably_alive_range - resolved.
  • [Reports] dead people are shown as alive in narrated web page export ) - resolved.
  • [Database] Failed to open file with Gramps 3.4.5 - resolved.
  • [Reports] wrong age for dead people reported by webcal - resolved.
  • [Reports] reports mistreat non-gregorian event dates - resolved.
  • [Localisation] Title's text format of Records gramplet - resolved.
  • [File Formats] "very low" confidence imported as "normal" from data exported before 0007102 fix- resolved.
  • [File Formats] XML: Gramps does not export 'very low' value (0) for confidence into citation - resolved.
  • [Reports] the Family Group Report doesn't show "family" attributes - resolved.
  • [General] Calendar conversion broken for negative dates - resolved.
  • [General] Setting an invalid date does not raise an exception - resolved.
  • [Other] Date.set sets wrong sortval when newyear is set - resolved.
  • [General] Setting an invalid date does not raise an exception - resolved.
  • [General] french calendar's fallback to gregorian causes continuity bugs - resolved.
  • [General] Setting an invalid date does not raise an exception - resolved.
  • [Interface] remove SDN version reporting introduced during 0007066 - resolved.
  • [General] bug in hebrew_ymd- resolved.
  • [General] Setting an invalid date does not raise an exception - resolved.
  • [Interface] latin_american broken for partial families - resolved.
  • [Reports] In Narrative Web report most Family Maps are missing - resolved.
  • [Other] test_buffer_recall (in ErrorReportAssistant_Test) fails - resolved.
  • [Database] probably_alive() failing when no birth-death dates specified - resolved.
  • [Merging] Merging persons to 2nd ID fails when started from find duplicate persons tool - resolved.
  • [Reports] Narrative Web reports people as Living even when they have a deceased event (but without a date because it is unknown) - resolved.
  • [Windows Port] Crash after double-click on .gpkg file (- resolved.
  • [Database] Probably Alive fails when birth date is a range - resolved.
  • [Localisation] Invalid parsing of dates in Arabic Date Handler - resolved.
  • [Reports] Narrated Website report crashes - resolved.
  • [Plugins] Incorrect string "Places places map".- resolved.
  • [Interface] GUI stuck when external viewer launched (regression) - resolved.
  • [Media] 3.4.6 svn 22976M crashes when calling external viewer in Media Reference Editor - resolved.
  • [Search/Filtering] Error while using filter in events view - resolved.
  • [Merging] Error merging citations containing objects with citations - resolved.
  • [Interface] impossible to easily restore some gramplets removed from bottom bar- resolved.
  • [Plugins] Clicking Backlinks Gramplet rows should open appropriate editor - resolved.
  • [Search/Filtering] Searching into source/citation selector disallows to select all related citations, only matching rows - resolved.
  • [General] citationtreeview corrupts when search bar open and edit occurs - resolved.
  • [General] citationtreeview with search bar only searches in sources, not citation data - resolved.
  • [Search/Filtering] Date filtering fails to work on Family Events in 3.4.6 or 4.0.2 - resolved.
  • [General] Gramps fails to reap xdg-open child processes- resolved.
  • [Command Line] remove "undo history warning" when the BatchTool run from cli (e.g., "check") - resolved.
  • [Plugins] Ugly appearance for QuickViews in RTL - resolved.
  • [Localisation] Gramps crashes when environment varable LANG is not set to C- resolved.
  • [Search/Filtering] Event with crashes gramps svn 22830M - resolved.
  • [3rd Party Addons] Strings in 3rd party *.glade are not translated, unless the strings are in the main translation file. - resolved.
  • [Pedigree View] pedigree view is broken in RTL locales - resolved.
  • [File Formats] a PostScript Descendant Tree report shows some names wrong- resolved.
  • [Reports] non-Western fonts broken in PS reports - resolved.
  • [Interface] Gramplets in gramplet bars are made active too soon - resolved.
  • [File Formats] VCF export/import should support [x-]gender - resolved.
  • [Command Line] Messages and progress information should be output to stderr rather than stdout - resolved.
  • [Reports] wrong size of svg image in Family Lines Graph- resolved.
  • [Reports] detailed ancestor/descendent reports: image aspect ratio broken (1:1) in HTML, normal (as is) in PDF - resolved.
  • [Other] .JPG and .GIF output for all reports in "Report --> Graphs" doesn't work - resolved.
  • [General] Bookmarking a source in the citation tree creates a blank bookmark - resolved.
  • [Interface] Gramplets positioning not located on right place in RTL layout - resolved.
  • [Command Line] report cli crash ignoring an unknown parameter - resolved.
  • [Command Line] CLI asks forever when trying to overwrite while exporting - resolved.
  • [Plugins] Alternate Names in Person Details Gramplet - resolved.
  • [Plugins] GEDCOM: Space in gramps id fails to properly export/import - resolved.
  • [Windows Port] GrampsAIO64-3.4.4-1: wrong drawing of menue content or windows - resolved.
  • [Reports] Error building narrated web - closed.
  • [Reports] Narrated Web Site media pages do not include multiple references - resolved.
  • [Search/Filtering] Error on application of Birth date or death date filter in sidebar - closed.
  • [Reports] ancestor_chart font exceeds bbox in PS, OK in PDF

New in Gramps Portable 3.4.5-1 (May 23, 2013)

  • The important change:
  • Problem after upgrading to 3.4.4 from 3.3.1
  • Other changes are on reports:
  • Ability to keep custom filename on output
  • Book report: Sub reports forget/overwrite their settings when trying to re-configure them
  • End of Line Report options window – changing Output Format cause change active tab to “report options”
  • Various updated translations: de, es, fr, nb, nl, pl, sk

New in Gramps Portable 3.4.4-1 (May 16, 2013)

  • [Search/Filtering] Person and Family pass eventref as object with sources, but it has no sources

New in Gramps Portable 3.4.3-1 (Mar 21, 2013)

  • [Plugins] Import from pro-gen - resolved.
  • [File Formats] Note reference on Attribute for individual is not filtered on Export - resolved.
  • [Person View] crashes when entering or leaving person view - resolved.
  • [Other] Sorting in Narrative Webb does not work correctly.- resolved.
  • [General] NarrativeWeb new alphabet index sorted incorrectly - resolved.
  • [Localisation] Please apply patch with Danish translations for 3.4 branch and two notes on gramps.pot - resolved.
  • [Localization] Danish translation is incomplete - resolved.
  • [Interface] Problème d'affichage en mode "lignée" - resolved.
  • [Reports] bug when creating a book reports - resolved.
  • [Reports] Open Document Text doesn't work in Book Report - resolved.
  • [Reports] Book Report doesn't separate succeeding reports - resolved.
  • [Reports] Book Report creates malformed graphical reports - resolved.
  • [Plugins] ADDR tag in GEDCOM export does not contain a full address - resolved.
  • [Plugins] LaTeXDoc.py fails to load - resolved.
  • [Localization] Three minor grammar issues in gramps.pot - resolved.
  • [Plugins] GEDCOM import: Repositories not imported correctly from FTM for Windows and Heredis - resolved.
  • [Other] can't sort greek names - resolved.
  • [Reports] Narrated Web Site Report sort order different Windows vs Linux - resolved.
  • [General] Web report does not handle Czech "CH" character properly - resolved.
  • [General] References inside pages in NarWeb report and non-ascii characters - resolved.
  • [Reports] Problems in Narrative Web Report with surnames beginning with V or W. - resolved.
  • [Merging] Error while running the tool fo rmerging citations... - resolved.
  • [Media] Media select with context - resolved.
  • [Reports] Crash when attempting to use Book Report - resolved.
  • [Relationship View] Can not get ancestry or relationship tabs to work - resolved.
  • [Reports] Narrated Web: Error with local notes and private proxy - resolved.
  • [Localization] Swedish translation incorrectly assumes chronology of a persons marriages in detailed ancestor report - resolved.
  • [Localization] Danish translation (of detailed ancestor report) is incomplete - resolved.
  • [Reports] Triggered crash of Narrative Web Page report - resolved.
  • [Reports] Narrative Web Report - Source pages - resolved.
  • [Reports] Narrative Web Report not putting source media objects into report - resolved.
  • [Reports] Error when running Detailed Descendant Report - resolved.
  • [General] _idle_id, Gramplet and GObject - resolved.
  • [Localization] Missing translation for "Counties" in italians - resolved.
  • [Localization] Incomplet translation of "State" in Italian - resolved.
  • [Localization] lack of spanish translation on some sentences of the web site generated by the program - resolved.
  • [Reports] Media objects attached to Marriage events and Sources are not included in Narrative Web Site - resolved.
  • [Media] GRAMPS failt to insert jpeg image into proper place for an event. - resolved.
  • [Reports] Narrated Web Site not copying Source Citations files such as jpg or pdf docs to web site - resolved.
  • [Reports] Statistics show that number of unique surnames is zero - resolved.
  • [Reports] Media included in filtered Narrative Web output. - resolved.
  • [General] NarrativeWeb does not always include Media from Sources - resolved.
  • [File Formats] Wrong line created by the LaTeX module - resolved.
  • [Interface] unable to view places in google maps - resolved.
  • [Other] [Geography]: Random place title on warning dialog - resolved.

New in Gramps Portable 3.4.0 (Sep 8, 2012)

  • [Other] Failed gedcom file import (kulath) - resolved.
  • [File Formats] Export name types to GEDCOM - resolved.
  • [Other] Gramp hangs on retriving addons list - resolved.
  • [Localization] Dutch typos - resolved.
  • [Other] i can't export my database - resolved.
  • [3rd Party Addons] Some 3rd party reports does not work. - resolved.
  • [Plugins] "Fadder" in DeepConnectionsGramplet - resolved.
  • [Database] Can't delete a note, which is a citation. - resolved.
  • [File Formats] On import and Check and Repair need to check references to absent objects - resolved.
  • [Reports] Some little bugs in WebCal - resolved.
  • [General] Button for Send Bug Report - resolved.
  • [Interface] DBError when rebuilding reference maps while Event view row is selected - resolved.
  • [Interface] The "Person Filter Editor" does not remember position or size. - resolved.
  • [3rd Party Addons] DenominoViso plugin not loaded - resolved.
  • [Merging] Merging notes with citation references fails - resolved.
  • [Installation] gramps.desktop file needs to be updated - resolved.
  • [Localization] Submiting French translation completed and updated - resolved.
  • [Merging] Error during citation merging - resolved.
  • [File Formats] GEDCOM import ignores leading 0's in INDI ID's - resolved.
  • [File Formats] Get these warnings when I import a GEDCOM file previously exported by GRAMPS - resolved.
  • [General] Menu integration patch - resolved.
  • 0005610: [Mac Port] can't launch external viewer due to PATH set by Gramps startup script - resolved.
  • [Plugins] GEDCOM import: NOTE_RECORD is not handled properly - resolved.
  • [Plugins] GEDCOM inport: Embedded from of MULTIMEDIA_LINK in INDIVIDUAL_RECORD does not use IdMapper - resolved.
  • [Interface] scratch pad doesn't sync, when elements names change - resolved.
  • [File Formats] [XML]: Media object handling on citation and private marker on (source reference) - resolved.
  • [Reports] crop, dpi and ODF file format - resolved.
  • [Command Line] python src/gramps.py -u -O "data" crashes if there is a directory/file "data" in the PWD - closed.