Gnumeric 1.7.9 Released

["Morten Welinder" <mortenw gnome org>]

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The Gnumeric team is proud to announce the release of Gnumeric 1.7.9,
a development release. This release requires the concurrently released
Goffice 0.3.8, see below.

With this release we (well, Andreas) have switched from gnome-print to
GtkPrint and in the process fixed a large number of bugs caused by
gnome-print. Undoubtedly we have a new set of bugs caused by GtkPrint,
but there is some hope that GtkPrint will be better maintained than
gnome-print ever was. Note: gnome-print is still linked in via
goffice, but this will change.

In addition, this release uses the GtkRecentManager to handle
recently-used documents and should thus interact better with Gnome.

   * Andreas
         o Switch to gtk print from gnome-print. (Expect some feature
regression).
   * Jody
         o Import and Export for inline arrays in ODF. (now patched in OOo).
         o Export cell comments to xls.
   * Morten
         o Require three digits after a thousands separator in order
to accept it as a number. [Bug 415007].
         o Fix autofill issue. [Bug 414815].
         o Fix criticals with frozen panes. [Bug 308562].
         o Fix rich text problem. [Bug 417632].
         o Use GtkRecentManager. Fixes Bug 115112.
         o Ignore local files that no longer exist. [Bug 67453].
         o Fix XL load crash. [Bug 418868].
         o Fix format guessed for $123,456.78 [Bug 423603].
         o Perform UTF-8 normalization during search. [Bug 421678].
         o Allow selecting a locale for sorting. [Bug 427019].
         o Make sure ssindex doesn't update the recent-files list.
         o Update recent-files on load and save. [Bug 152584].

Goffice 0.3.8 aka "TBD" is now available.

   * Emmanuel
         o Fix alignement of rotated axis labels. [Bug 343507] .
   * Morten
         o Add preconditions to text combo widget's API functions.
         o Unicode-normalize regexps patterns.
         o Improve character set guesser. [Bug 401588].
         o Fix format selector crash. [Bug 431256].

Availability

   http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric/1.7/
   http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/goffice/0.3/