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GRAMPS 2.0.0 ("The Bright Side of Life") Released

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2005-05-11 13:12. Bag of Software

The GRAMPS project is pleased to announce the 2.0.0 ("The Bright Side of Life") release of GRAMPS, the Genealogical Research And Management Programming System. After more than a year of development, GRAMPS is releasing the new branch that becomes its "stable" series.

GRAMPS is a GNOME genealogy program that allows you to easily build and keep track of your family tree. Whether you are new to genealogy or an experienced genealogist, GRAMPS should be able to meet your needs. Supporting databases of up to about 100000 people, GRAMPS can handle most family trees.

GRAMPS is capable of importing data from and exporting data to other genealogy programs using the GEDCOM interchange format. Reports can be generated in OpenOffice.org, HTML, PDF, AbiWord, Kword, RTF, LaTeX, and PostScript formats. All data is stored in Berkeley database, with backwards compatibile imports and exportts for the XML format used by the 1.0.x series. GRAMPS can be extended using a plugin system, supporting plugins written in the Python language.

Translations are available for Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish languages. The manual is available in English.

For more information, see the GRAMPS project site.

Screenshots are available.

Changes from the 1.0.x series include:

Berkeley database backend
Changes are written to disk immediately
Removal of alphabetical tabs
Ability to add/remove/rearrange columns in list views
Removal of Save function and addition of Undo
Proper window management and removal of most modal windows
Support for Tip of the Day
Person-dependent context menus (right-click) in Pedigree View listing parents, children, spouses, and siblings
Export wizard
Built-in Find function in list views
Date selector dialog
Name editor enhancements: patronymic names and non-default grouping
Recent file support (both gramps-specific and gnome-wide)
Native editing (in memory) for GRAMPS XML and GEDCOM formats
New import and export filters available for the GeneWeb format.
New report (Statistics Chart) added
Persistent options for reports
The new command line functionality (opening and report generation)
Better date internationalization (date parsers available for French, Russian, and Spanish, with Finnish in the works).
Better name internationalization (patronymics and non-default grouping).
Mime types for formats known to GRAMPS.
Schemas and proper structure for GConf keys, immediate preference effect.