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Alexandria
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New features:
 * added the FAQ
 * Now EAN/ISBN-13 is used
 * New providers: webster.it, deastore.com, worldcat.org, bol.it. 
   "Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (Italy)"
 * provider amadeus renamed to thalia (Amadeus was bought by Thalia)
 * Now thalia supports also music, DVD, software, games
 * added the country of the provider after the name
 * the requirement Ruby/Amazon is now optional
 * added info in case that Alexandria can't load optional libraries
 * added hotkey "<control>O" for preferences
 * in the "Book Properties Dialog", added "cancel" button, and renamed 
   "close" button to "save"
 * added date when exporting to HTML or BibTeX
 * added image size when exporting to HTML or Tellico
 * improved export to ONIX, Tellico, CSV, HTML, BibTeX
 * improved import from Tellico or ISBN list
 * improved and refactored the code for Z39.50 providers

Bugs fixed:
 * several fixes and updates for various providers
 * converted the encoding from UTF-8, when searching by title/author/keyword
 * converted the output from the provider to UTF-8
 * used CGI::unescapeHTML for renaud and thalia
 * now nul is returned instead of "", "n/a", or "Unknown Binding", when 
   the provider doesn't return a value
 * allowed manual entry of books without author
 * improved error and debug messages

Added translation:

Updated translations:
* revision of the Italian translation

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Alexandria 0.6.0
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New features:
 * Z39.50 support, with the possibility to manage your own sources ;
 * New book information providers: Internet Bookshop Italia, US Library of 
   Congress and British Library ;
 * Complete manual (in English only), available either from the GNOME help
   application and Alexandria itself (via Help buttons) ;
 * Autocompletion is available in all fields of the Add Manually Book and
   Book Properties dialogs ;
 * Add a heart emblem to covers of books that have a 5 rating ;
 * Support for American UPC barcodes ;
 * Display covers in the search results of the Add Book dialog ;
 * Added a 'Match everything' filtering option ;
 * New icons ; 
 * More ONIX compliance. 

Bugs fixed:
 * Loading the model is now a bit faster ;
 * Fixed a Proxis bug that was returning all editions of a book from an ISBN
   search ;
 * Labels in alert dialogs are now selectable ;
 * Improved the wording of the status bar text ;
 * Ignore CVS directories when looking for themes ;
 * Ignore whitespace characters when extracting numbers for ISBN/EAN/... ;
 * In the HTML export, create the directory if it does not exist yet ;
 * In the ONIX export, do not write ProductWebsite elements for providers
   that return nil URLs ;
 * Handle low-case 'x' when validating ISBN/EAN/... ;
 * In the ISBN-list text file import, iterate on the progress bar when 
   downloading covers ;
 * In the ISBN-list text file import, start importing if there is at least one
   valid ISBN in the file ;
 * Added a backward compatibility hack to upgrade the old developer token
   to a new valid one ;
 * Resize all icons in the icon view to have the same height (and not the same 
   width as before) ;
 * Handle GConf default values by ourself when the GConf client returns nil
   values, this should fix all issues related to the installation of GConf 
   schemas ;
 * Disable the 'View Online Information' actions if the according providers
   do not provide a URL for the selected book.

Added translations:
 * Jiri Pejchal <jiri.pejchal@gmail.com> (cs) ;
 * Ligia Moreira <ligia.moreira@netvisao.pt> (pt) ;
 * Lucas Rocha <lucasr@im.ufba.br> (pt_BR). 
 
Updated translations:
 * David Weinehall <tao@debian.org> (sv) ;
 * Joachim Breitner <mail@joachim-breitner.de> (de) ;
 * Laurent Sansonetti <lrz@gnome.org> (fr) ;
 * Masao Mutoh <mutoh@highway.ne.jp> (ja) ;
 * Miguel Ángel García (es) ;
 * Mirko Maischberger <mirko@lilik.it> (it). 

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Alexandria 0.5.1
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New features:
 * Added provider for book information retrieval of the Amadeus Buch online
   library (Austrian books) ;
 * Allows user-specific themes in ~/.alexandria/.web-themes ;
 * Localized .desktop file.

Bugs fixed:
 * Fixed the wording of some messages ;
 * Use alternating colours for rows in the search list of the Add Book dialog
   and the providers list of the Preferences dialog ;
 * The Amazon provider will cache information on ~/.alexandria/.amazon_cache
   instead of /tmp/amazon, allowing multiple users with different credentials
   to use it ;
 * Really ignores hidden directories in ~/.alexandria ;
 * Be more intelligent when building the list of providers by taking into 
   account nil values from the GConf schema ;
 * Do not display the whole GPL text in the About dialog, just the header ;
 * Display an confirmation message when trying to move a book into a library 
   that already has a book with the same ident ;
 * Fixed the moves action after an import process ;
 * Display an error message when trying to set an EAN/ISBN that is already
   used by another book in the same library ;
 * Forgot to mark some translatable strings ;
 * Display an error message when trying to add a book with an EAN/ISBN that is 
   already used by another book in the same library ;
 * Manually added books were not automatically added in the memory 
   representation of the library ;
 * Pack the cover image as non-expandable in the books list view.

Added translation:
 * Mirko Maischberger <mirko@lilik.it> (it).

Updated translations:
 * Dafydd Harries <daf@muse.19inch.net> (cy) ;
 * David Weinehall <tao@debian.org> (sv) ;
 * Joachim Breitner <mail@joachim-breitner.de> (de) ;
 * Laurent Sansonetti <lrz@gnome.org> (fr) ;
 * Masao Mutoh <mutoh@highway.ne.jp> (ja) ;
 * Miguel Ángel García (es).

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Alexandria 0.5.0
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New features:
 * XHTML export with CSS themes ;
 * Added provider for book information retrieval of the Spanish Ministry of 
   Culture ;
 * Loaning support (very basic though), actually possible to mark a book
   as loaned and specify a person name and a date ;
 * Possibility to manually add ISBN-less books ;
 * The ISBN-list import supports EAN ;
 * The Amazon provider supports the French and Canadian web-services (via 
   Ruby/Amazon 0.9.0) ;
 * Improved the usability of the main, import and export dialogs ;
 * Performances and memory usage have been improved ;
 * Migration to new GTK+ 2.6 widgets.

Bugs fixed:
 * Migrated any reference to Bookcase in the Tellico import/export ;
 * Fixed a bug where importing an ISBN list file would cause a crash when an 
   ISBN in the list did not have a cover image ;
 * In the providers preferences dialog, disable the Setup button if the 
   selected provider does not have any preferences to setup, instead of 
   displaying a dialog ;
 * Catches the SocketError exception when calling providers, and returns an 
   appropriate message ;
 * When deleting more than one books, display a single alert dialog instead
   of an alert dialog for each book ;
 * Added the possibility to reset the rating in the book properties dialog ;
 * Fixed a bug  where EAN numbers with a checksum of 10 were incorrectly marked 
   as invalid ;
 * Fixed BN.com query regexes ;
 * Fixed a bug when a book returned by a search by title/authors/keyword
   contains an invalid ISBN, propose the user to either add the book with a
   blank ISBN or cancel the add) ;
 * Added workaround for an Amazon US encoding bug ;
 * Setup the Amazon online information URL according to the selected locale ;
 * Filtering text field is more robust ;
 * Make sure we do not select a library before having setup the moves action 
   at the beginning ;
 * Fixed the wording of some messages.

Added translation:
 * David Weinehall (sv).

Updated translations:
 * Joachim Breitner (de) ;
 * Laurent Sansonetti (fr) ;
 * Masao Mutoh (ja) ;
 * Miguel Ángel García (es).

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Alexandria 0.4.0
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New features:
 * export libraries into ONIX, Tellico and ISBN-list formats ;
 * import libraries from Tellico and ISBN-list formats ;
 * a provider to the Barnes and Noble (bn.com) library has been added ;
 * CueCat (R) barcode support ;
 * manual addition of books ;
 * allow the edition of all fields of the properties of a book (including cover 
   change) ;
 * move books between libraries ;
 * display online information (amazon, proxis, bn) for a book ;
 * improved the usability of the Add Book dialog (the ISBN text entry grabs the
   focus at the beginning, the criterion is automatically selected upon clicks
   on insensitive widgets, the edition and publisher are appended in the search
   result list for books that have the same title and authors) ;
 * migration to the new GTK UI manager and file selector widgets. 

Bugs fixed: 
 * modified the ISBN text entry to allow 18 characters (extended EAN) 
   instead of 13 ;
 * bin/alexandria is now automatically generated by the installer, this
   fixes a bug in the #! line (/usr/bin/env could not pass a parameter to 
   Ruby) ;
 * squeezed extra space characters in the data given by Amazon ;
 * fixed the ISBN validation code for numbers that end with an X ;
 * recorded the maximize state of the main window in GConf ;
 * fixed the default rating to 0 instead of 3 (0 means unrated) ; 
 * erases the 'http_proxy' environment variable if its content is invalid ;
 * show an error message when trying to rename a library to an empty name, or 
   to a name that is already used by another library.

Added translations:
 * Joachim Breitner (de) ;
 * Miguel Angel Garcia (es).

No translation update in this release due to a Ruby-GetText problem.

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Alexandria 0.3.1
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Bugs fixed:
 * removed custom sorting functions as they appear not to make anything
   work better and may actually cause some problems ; 
 * fixed the Amazon provider to perform another lookup using the next 
   locale if the previous one gives no results ;
 * improved exception handing to have better error messages ;  
 * calling providers one after one until at least one book has been found ;
 * sorting by rating books that were not rated yet did crash ; 
 * sorting by edition and publisher were reversed ;
 * the Add Book dialog is now resizable in search mode ;
 * removing a book without a cover image did crash. 

Updated translations:
 * Dafydd Harries (cy) ;
 * Laurent Sansonetti (fr) ;
 * Masao Mutoh (ja). 

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Alexandria 0.3.0
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New features:
 * the Add Book dialog allows searches by title, authors and keyword as well  
   as regular ISBNs ;
 * ISBNs are now validated before usage ;
 * the Add Book dialog will autofill the ISBN text entry using the clipboard
   content if it contains a valid EAN/ISBN ; 
 * the Add Book dialog will automatically convert EANs to ISBNs ;
 * a provider to the Proxis library (http://www.proxis.be) has been added ;
 * HTTP connections to Amazon and Proxis are configured to pass via a proxy
   or not according to the GNOME preferences.

Bugs fixed:
 * do not split title icons inside a multibyte character ;
 * fixed the Amazon provider to not set the manufacturer attribute to nil
   for some books that are not yet released ; 
 * enforced the use of UTF-8 for gettext ;
 * some strings have been ngettexted ;
 * the data/locale directory is cleaned by install.rb ;
 * pre-setup.rb doesn't require Ruby-GetText anymore since all this does
   is run msgfmt. 

Updated translations:
 * Dafydd Harries (cy) ;
 * Laurent Sansonetti (fr) ;
 * Masao Mutoh (ja). 

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Alexandria 0.2.0
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New features:
 * full i18n support ;
 * a preferences dialog has been created, to configure the application and
   the providers ; 
 * preferences are saved and restored using a GConf backend ;
 * notes can be associated with books ;
 * books can be rated ;
 * books icons can be sorted ;
 * the user interface has been improved to be more usable and accessible. 

Bugs fixed:
 * fixed some UTF-8 encoding problems in data from Amazon ;
 * allow "-" characters in ISBNs ;  
 * allow more characters in library names ;
 * display a default cover icon for a book which cover is not available ;
 * the treeview is now sortable with UTF-8 data ; 
 * the 'clicked' signal is used instead of 'pressed' for Gtk::Button widgets ; 
 * when the current selected library is renamed the title of the application
   is accordingly renamed.
 * a lot of code has been refactored.

Added translations:
 * Dafydd Harries (cy) ;
 * Laurent Sansonetti (fr) ;
 * Masao Mutoh (ja). 

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Alexandria 0.1.2
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Bugs fixed:
  * did not work with the latest version or Ruby/Amazon (0.8.1) ;
  * crash when Amazon doesn't provide the author(s) for a book.

New feature:
 * default to the currently selected library in the Add Book Dialog
   (contributed by Zachary P. Landau).

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Alexandria 0.1.1
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This release fixes a bug when Alexandria fails to start if
the directory ~/.alexandria doesn't exist.

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Alexandria 0.1.0
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This is the first public release, which:
  * retrieves book information from Amazon (including cover pictures) ;
  * saves data using the YAML format ;
  * features an HIG-compliant user interface ;
  * shows books in different views (standard list or icons list).