ANNOUNCE: Planner 0.13

[Richard Hult <richard imendio com>]

Imendio is happy to present the release of Planner 0.13!

What is Planner?

Planner is a tool for planning, scheduling and tracking projects. 
Planner is an open source project targetting the GNOME Desktop. The 
project is run by Imendio, who develops the software in cooperation with 
the Planner community.

What is new?

There has been a lot of work done since the latest release. As a result, 
Planner 0.13 contains many improvements and fixes:

General:

    * Remember last active view (Richard)
    * Implement opening files by drag and drop (Richard)
    * 64-bit and Darwin build fixes (Richard)
    * Bug Buddy support (Christoffer Olsen)
    * Support new mime system (Anders, Richard, Takao Fujiwara)
    * Move from bonoboui to gtkuimanager (Xavier Ordoquy, Richard)
    * Added GConf abstraction layer (Mikael Hallendal)
    * Use new filechooser (Anders, Richard)
    * Basic import of MS Project XML files (Kurt Maute, Richard)
    * Updated user guide (Kurt)
    * Improved HTML export (Richard, David Sundstrom)
    * Implement undo transactions (Richard)
    * Experimental support for Evolution (Alvaro)
    * Improved Python bindings (Xavier)

Database support:

    * Work with remote servers (Alvaro del Castillo)
    * Handle installing schemas and upgrading (Alvaro)

Task, gantt, resource usage views:

    * Add duration column to task view (Richard)
    * Show date when hovering over the date scale (Richard)
    * Add column for assigned resources (Chris Morgan)
    * Display allocation percent (Chris Ladd)

Task dialog:

    * Add scheduling editor (Richard)
    * Handle units in lag time (Richard)
    * Handle units in work and duration times (Richard)

Task scheduling:

    * Fix milestone start times (Richard)
    * Improve critical path calculation (Jani Tiainen)
    * Cache task costs (Richard, Doroszlai Attila)
    * New scheduler, fixes bugs and improves performance (Richard)

Printing:

    * Use the printer settings for print preview (Richard)
    * Fix page orientation (Richard)
    * Print percent complete for tasks (Richard)
    * Print the timeline (Richard, Satyadadi)

There are also a number of updated and new translations. Many thanks to 
everyone who has contributed to this release:

Abel Cheung, Adam Weinberger, Alvaro del Castillo, Anders Carlsson, 
Audrey Simons, Chris Ladd, Chris Morgan, Christoffer Olsen, David Lodge, 
David Sundstrom, Doroszlai Attila, Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Funda 
Wang, Gabor Kelemen, Hendrik Brandt, Hendrik Richter, Ivar Smolin, Jani 
Tiainen, Jan-Willem Harmanny, Kjartan Maraas, Kostas Papadimas, Kurt 
Maute, Laurent Dhima, Marcel Telka, Martin Willemoes Hansen, Mikael 
Hallendal, Miloslav Trmac, Raphael Higino, Richard Hult, Satyadadi, 
Sigurd Gartmann, Takao Fujiwara, Takeshi AIHANA, Vladimir Petkov, Xavier 
Ordoquy.

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  Imendio Hackers