ANNOUNCE: Glom 0.9.8 (Beta 1)

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

*** Glom

With Glom you can design table definitions and the relationships between 
them, plus arrange the fields on the screen. You can edit and search the 
data in those tables, and specify field values in terms of other fields. 
It's as easy as it should be.

Glom uses the PostgreSQL database backend but it can not edit databases
that it did not create, because it uses only a simple subset of Postgres
functionality.

Here are some screenshots, with explanations:
http://www.glom.org/screenshots/

Glom is written in C++, with gtkmm, Bakery, and libgdamm. It uses 
Python for calculated fields, with help from pygtk.

More information is at
http://www.glom.org


*** Changes

glom 0.9.8:

* Lookups: Fix intermittent problem that caused looked-up values to 
  not be stored in the database.
* Related Records: Correctly reload portal layouts that use related 
  (from the related table) fields, rather than just fields in the related table.
* Performance: Avoid querying for some unnecessary fields on Details view.

0.9.7:

* When creating from a read-only example, really do not mark the saved file 
  as not an example, and save the new database name, so you can open it 
  again from the saved file.
* Prevent duplicate table, field, relationship, and report names, 
  to prevent crashes.
* Field Definition:
  - Default Value tab renamed to Value.
  - Default Values and lookups are now grouped as 
    User Entry and are mutually exclusive with Calculation.
  - When changing a calculation, all values will be recalculated, 
    with a warning and the chance to cancel.
  - Fix crash when changing field type to number, when not all 
    existing values are valid numbers.
  - Fix crashes when converting from text to boolean.
  - Fix crashes when converting from boolean to number.
  - Preserve information when converting from anything to boolean.
* Details and List Views: Do not allow editing of calculated fields.
* Details View: Use the correct formatting for second columns in combo boxes for 
  related choices.
* List View: Do not add a record when clicking on the Edit button on the last row 
  - just go to the Details view.
* List layout: Warn that image fields are not supported on the 
  list view yet.
* Date and Time Parsing improvements.
* New Translations:
  - Finnish (Ilkka Tuohela)
* Updated Translations:
  - Catalan (Josep Puigdemont)
  - Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall)

http://www.glom.org

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