FootNotes - Gnumeric

Gnumeric 1.7.0 released

Tue, 16 May 2006 09:57:48 -0400

Gnumeric: Free, Fast, Accurate -- Pick Any Three!

The Gnumeric Team is pleased to announce the release of Gnumeric 1.7.0,
the first release in our new development series. We have also released
the required GOffice 0.3.0 library. A fairly recent libgsf is required
too.

The list of changes is massive, see below. Worth special notice is....

Gnumeric 1.6 Released

Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:25:51 -0400

Free, Fast, Accurate -- Pick Any Three!

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 1.5.5 Released

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:31:30 -0400

Free, Fast, Accurate: Pick any 3!

I have released Gnumeric 1.5.5, our latest efforts in the development series.

This release repairs the long-broken solver and fixes a couple of problems with the sheet management dialog.

Morten

Gnumeric 1.5.3 Released

Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:40:27 -0400

Free, Fast, Accurate -- Pick Any Three!

We are pleased to announce Gnumeric 1.5.3 (aka "The Cat's Out"), a development version of the Gnumeric spreadsheet. Highlights:

Win32 font improvements.
When you hide a toolbar it will stay hidden.
Many graph improvements, for example rotated text.
The beginnings of conditional formatting. (However, a GUI is still missing, so it is a bit hard to try out.)
Spurious line breaks in printing should be gone.
Lots of little fixes.

You will need the concurrently released GOffice 0.0.3 and libgsf 1.12.2 in order to compile and run Gnumeric 1.5.3. All dependencies are linked from our download page.

Gnumeric 1.5.2 Released

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:01:27 -0400

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We are pleased to announce Gnumeric 1.5.2, a development version of the Gnumeric spreadsheet. Highlights:

Win32 improvements.
Excel import improvements.
Linear regression lines in scatter plots.
Loads of little fixes.

You will need the concurrently released GOffice 0.0.2 and libgsf 1.12.1 in order to compile and run Gnumeric 1.5.2. All dependencies are linked from our download page.

Gnumeric 1.5.1 Released

Wed, 18 May 2005 12:44:09 -0400

Free, Fast, Accurate -- Pick Any Three!

We are pleased to announce Gnumeric 1.5.1, the first development release after the GOffice reverse merger. Highlights of fixes:

A long-standing hang problem when exiting the Gnome session with an iconized Gnumeric was fixed.
A new plugin with statistical functions using the same calling conventions as The R Project was created. (The actual code is not a 100% match, though.)
Lots of Win32 improvements.
Clipboard support for images.
Accuracy improvements for extreme-value cases of statistical functions.

You will need the newest versions of Libgsf and GOffice (released concurrently) for this version of Gnumeric.

Recently, an article compared OO-calc, Gnumeric, and KSpread. The stated aim was to compare the programs for the tasks that the majority of office users would encounter, but it would appear that the author is not a spreadsheet user at all; I cannot think of any other reason for leaving out, for example, Excel compatibility from the test. Further comments here.

FOSS spreadsheet hands-on comparison

Thu, 12 May 2005 15:44:55 -0400

Rumors about the capabilities of free and open source spreadsheets are common among office software users, but not all of the rumors are backed by hands-on experience with the products. To get a better sense of the current state of FOSS spreadsheets, I installed the latest versions available for Debian: build 1.9.83 of the OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta (for OpenOffice.org Calc), KSpread 1.3.5, and Gnumeric 1.4.3 (for Gnumeric). Some of what I found contradicts the common wisdom.

Read the rest

Gnumeric 1.4.3 Released

Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:08:38 -0500

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Gnumeric 1.4.3 aka "The End of The Line" has been released.

This is a bug fix release for 1.4.x with various minor patches. The main point of interest is that Ivan Wong has fixed Gtk+'s large window handing on Win32 and the 1.4.3 package for that platform is now considered ready for general usage. There are still missing pieces (printing and registry connections) but the core application can display smoothly now. We will post updated binaries on our download page when they are ready.

Gnumeric 1.4.2 Released

Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:05:08 -0500

Free, Fast, Accurate - Pick Any Three!

Gnumeric 1.4.2 has been released. This is a stable series release.
New in this release is...

Win32 improvements.
Rich text fixes.
Rotated text. (Requires cvs Pango.)
Lots of little problems fixed.

The full list of changes can be found here.

Morten Welinder
(on behalf of the Gnumeric Team)

Gnumeric 1.4 is Here!

Sun, 19 Dec 2004 09:54:44 -0500

The Internet, December 19, 2004 -- for immediate release.

The Gnumeric Team is pleased to announce the availability of Gnumeric version 1.4.1. This is the first publicly announced version of the new stable 1.4 series, part of GNOME Office 1.2.

We have worked hard at producing the best available spreadsheet for a wide range of applications from simple numerical scratch pad, financial analytical tool, to scientific number cruncher.

More than a year has passed since the release of the 1.2 series and many things have been improved:

Improved Microsoft Exceltm compatibility:: Charts and images can now be exported, and objects (even Forms) are handled more smoothly. There is full support for all types of 'array' formulas and operators.
Better Charting:: Several new types of charts have been added, and many features, such as error bars, and non-linear plots, have been added.
Improved accuracy:: While Gnumeric 1.2 was already the best available source for accuracy in statistical calculations, Gnumeric 1.4 is even better. We are cooperating with The R Project to make this happen.
Win32 and small device portability:: It is now possible to run Gnumeric on Microsoft Windows. The port is not quite production ready, but is maturing rapidly. With a small loss of functionality Gnumeric can also build with only the Gtk+ library stack dropping the remainder of the GNOME library set for small devices.
Network transparency:: Gnumeric can now access spreadsheets stored on web servers directly.
Even more sheet functions:: We have added even more sheet functions to Gnumeric, for example a set of functions for telecommunications engineering. Gnumeric now has 470 sheet functions including all sheet functions in the North American version of Microsoft Exceltm XP, and more than 100 beyond that.
Rich and Rotated Text:: Multiple formats and fonts within strings, and in 1.4.2 rotated text is supported too. (This requires recent versions of Pango and the Gnome Print libraries.)
Improved printing:: Printing has been improved and is now using the same layout mechanism as on-screen. This should greatly reduce printing surprises. (This requires recent versions of Pango and the Gnome Print libraries.)
GTK+ 2.4/2.6 integration:: Gnumeric takes advantage of, for example, GTK+'s highly improved file selector.

Gnumeric 1.3.92 aka Release Candidate 1

Wed, 03 Nov 2004 13:38:09 -0500

Gnumeric 1.3.92 aka "Release Candidate 1" is now available.

With this release we have gone through lots of old bug reports and fixed
a large number of little things that should make Gnumeric a more polished
application.

People with broken printer configurations -- you know who you are -- will
take delight in the delayed initialization of Gnome Print. A broken CUPS
configuration will no longer cause a hang on startup.

Gnumeric 1.3.2 is now available.

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 08:03:32 -0400

Gnumeric 1.3.2 aka "Did a skunk stinct the dinosaurs ?" is now available.

This release transitions from development to beta and begins the run up to
the next release. Emmanuel has been on a tear in the charting engine
improving the rendering and adding mapping support to axes. We've also been
busy in xls export. Jon K�re added image export and I've been tweaking bits
to improve compatibility with MS formulas. We've finally landed Uwe
Steinmann's landed Paradox db importer. Re-enabling the psion importer and
ssconvert should put us back on par with 1.2.x.

... (more)

ReadThe full release announcement available in the in Gnumeric mailing list archives

Download
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric/1.3/

(Sorry I dont have any up-to-date Gnumeric screenshots)

Gnumeric 1.2.13 is out

Fri, 09 Jul 2004 13:41:59 -0400

This is a medium priority release. We finally seem to have fixed the xls export
issues around sheet local names and dealt with text overflow for really large
workbooks. Andreas chipped in with some LaTeX export fixes and patches for
printing problems. While we were playing with Glynn's film game we noticed a
problem at the bottom of some of the pictures. Morten found the missing 8 bytes
and the jpgs look clear now.

This release also has a few nifty features backported. Most importantly, it
includes the last of the implicit iteration support for operators. We now support
(as far as I know) all of Ms Excel's evaluation techniques. Bring on your
favourite array-expressions please. I'd like to hear about any failures. While we
were in there I threw in a low risk patch to import gradients from xls.

Gnumeric 1.2.12 released

Thu, 06 May 2004 15:45:49 -0400

This is a high priority release. There are several important bug fixes
for xls export to keep MS Excel from crashing on the files we generated.
Additionally we are now recommending that distributions build
--without-bonobo to work around a late breaking bug in libbonoboui that
disables the help system.

Gnumeric 1.3.0 released

Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:11:01 -0500

Gnumeric 1.3.0 aka 'a porting we will go' is now
available.

This release is an combination of new features, porting to gtk-2.4 and bug
fixing. Emmanuel, Jean and the new addition Michael Devine have added
single point formatting, bubble plots, error bars, and radar plots to the
charting engine. They're not quite feature complete, but it's moving in
the right direction. I did a fair amount of cleanup porting to GtkAction
in gtk-2.4. That made it possible to start work on rich text editing for
cells. It doesn't persist yet, but the editing should work smoothly.
Morten did a nice job of jumping us over to the new file selector. It
looks alot nicer than the old one. He also threw in a bone for Eugenia and
made the autoscroll speed a continuous function. Throw in the usual pile
of patches and this release looks very usable for something so early in the
development cycle.