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Conglomerate 0.9.1 (codenamed "Destroy All Bugs!) Released
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Conglomerate is a free, user-friendly XML editor. It is particularly aimed at DocBook, but should be able to handle any XML document type.

This is the second 0.9 release. Please download it and try to break things (and fix them - patches gratefully acepted!).

Conglomerate requires GTK+ version 2.4.0 or later

You can download it from the usual place: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82766 

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this release; my apologies if I missed anyone from the credits below.


New Translations: 
Kinyarwanda (rw) (Steve Murphy)
      * Ukrainian (uk) (Maxim Dziumanenko)
      * Updated Translations: 
Czech (cs) (Miloslav Trmac)
      * German (de) (Frank Arnold)
      * (Jens Seidel)
        Canadian English (en_CA) (Adam Weinberger)
      * British English (en_GB) (David Lodge)
      * French (fr) (Michèle Garoche)
      * Swedish (sv) (Christian Rose)
      * Enhancements
Added recent files support to File menu based on libegg ( bug #108524)(Nickolay V. Shmyrev)
      * Implemented triple-click selection of text ( bug #144667)(Yuriy Syrota)
      * Implementation of word-count feature ( bug #135093) (Thierry Moisan)
      * (David Malcolm)
        Implemented --unit-test command line option and unit-testing of example files (Geert Stappers)
      * (David Malcolm)
        Added context-menu option to convert an entity reference to a copy (David Malcolm)
      * Added new debug plugin (must be enabled with --enable-debug-plugin=yes), which adds a debug item to the Tools menu to dump the CongEditorArea tree as XML (and open the resulting file) (David Malcolm)
      * Initial (disabled) implementation of property pages (David Malcolm)
      * Fixes
Huge cleanup of character handling; should compile cleanly on GCC4 with -Wall (David Malcolm)
      * Fixes to makefile and to packaging (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)
      * (Geert Stappers)
        Fixes to display specifications(Michèle Garoche)
      * Remove lots of excess debug logging (David Malcolm)
      * Various code cleanups (David Malcolm)
      * (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)
        (Marcus Meissner)
        Fixes for cursor handling during source-code cleanup (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)
      * Thanks
Steve Murphy
      * Maxim Dziumanenko
      * Miloslav Trmac
      * Frank Arnold
      * Jens Seidel
      * Adam Weinberger
      * David Lodge
      * Michèle Garoche
      * Christian Rose
      * Nickolay V. Shmyrev
      * Yuriy Syrota
      * Thierry Moisan
      * Geert Stappers
      * David Malcolm
      * Michèle Garoche
      * Marcus Meissner

David Malcolm

13-02-05
Conglomerate 0.9.0 Released - Widget Rewrite #4 - Now with Interestingly Different Bugs!
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Conglomerate is a free, user-friendly XML editor. It is particularly aimed at DocBook, but should be able to handle any XML document type.

This is the first 0.9 release - the main editing widget has been rewritten since the last release (0.7.16). Please download it and try to break things (and fix them - patches gratefully acepted!).

The new code fixes a long-standing problem where Conglomerate would crash when loading certain documents. This has now been fixed (we believe), so that Conglomerate should now be able to load and display any well-formed XML document. The design is simpler and should enable us to implement more sophisticated effects in the future (e.g. table editing).

Unfortunately, whilst it's better than it was at loading files, it's now less stable when it comes to editing them. There are quite a few bugs still present in the new implementation - for example, "span tags" are invisible if present in a document loaded off disk (freshly created span tags appear as expected). This and other bugs can be seen below a tracker bug ( bug # 143769 ); please file bugs with editing and attach them to this tracker bug.

Conglomerate requires GTK+ version 2.4.0 or later

You can download it from the usual place: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82766

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this release; my apologies if I missed anyone from the credits below.


New Translations: 
      * Simplified Chinese (zh_CN) (Funda Wang)

Updated Translations: 
      * Czech (cs) (Miloslav Trmac)
      * German (de) (Frank Arnold)
      * Greek (el) (Kostas Papadimas)
      * Canadian English (en_CA) (Adam Weinberger)
      * British English (en_GB) (David Lodge)
      * Spanish (es) (Francisco Javier F. Serrador)
      * French (fr) (Michèle Garoche)
      * Dutch (nl) (Daniel van Eeden)

Enhancements
      * Major rewrite of the main editing widget (David Malcolm) (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)
      * Improvements to menu icons and keyboard shortcuts (Alan Horkan)
      * Beginnings of work on a table-editing plugin for DocBook (David Malcolm)

Fixes
      * Fixes to i18n framework (Michèle Garoche) (Geert Stappers) (Marcel Telka)
        Fixes to improve stability of basic editing (Nickolay V. Shmyrev)
      * Fixed the random document generator to use the correct text "Lorem ipsum" text from Cicero's "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum", based on http://lipsum.com/ (David Malcolm)
      * Cleaned up to fix bug # 145096 (David Malcolm)
      * Fixed simple word-wrapping in new editor widget (I hope) bug # 143994 (David Malcolm)

Thanks
      * Funda Wang
      * Miloslav Trmac
      * Frank Arnold
      * Kostas Papadimas
      * Adam Weinberger
      * David Lodge
      * Francisco Javier F. Serrador
      * Michèle Garoche
      * Daniel van Eeden
      * David Malcolm
      * Nickolay V. Shmyrev
      * Alan Horkan
      * Geert Stappers
      * Marcel Telka

David Malcolm