Gnumeric 1.6 Released

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The Gnumeric Team is pleased to announce our new stable 1.6 series with the release of Gnumeric 1.6.0.

Over the past year we have improved Gnumeric's charting, its accuracy, its xls file loading capabilities, and improved its rich text editing. Our Win32 build is now quite stable and very usable.

Gnumeric reads files from a multitude of other sources: Microsoft Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, various kinds of text files such as csv files, mps files (used for linear programming), OOo, and more. Gnumeric can write Microsoft Excel formats, text files, html, LaTeX, and others.

Gnumeric is cross-platform. It is known to work well on Linux, Solaris, Windows XP. While ee do not have recent reports from the BSDs, there is no reason to suspect that Gnumeric would not run there too. Gnumeric is quite portable: it compiles well as a 32-bit or a 64-bit application; it runs on i386, ia64, Sparc, and ARM; little-endian or big-endian.

You can get Gnumeric from our download page. There you will also find a list of dependencies. Most of the depedencies are no longer cutting edge, so Gnumeric should have gotten easier to compile from scratch. You do, however, need recent versions of libgsf and the goffice library which was split out from Gnumeric in order to share with Abiword.

We expect most people to want pre-compiled binary packages but we do not have the resources to produce those ourselves. Instead we rely on distributions to provide a build. Not all distributions have chosen to supply Gnumeric. If you are a paying customer and want them to supply Gnumeric, we suggest you send them a friendly request.

Morten Welinder
on behalf of the team.