AbiWord v2.2.8 ChangeLog

Stanislav Brabec

• Fix a GCC warning in abicapi_frame.cpp (bug 8850)

Jeremy Davis

• Add Breton to list of possible languages for use during installation (Windows Installer)

Kevin Duffus

• Wrap text in in the Spell Check dialog (Unix)

Vijay Durairaj

• Bugfixes: 8768

Hubert Figuiere

• Break the text run into words so that justification works (MacOSX, bug 8384)
• Fix bad setlocale() behavior
• Speedup the render engine by removing several debug messages (MacOSX)
• Bugfixes: 8895 (to some extent), 8971

Tomas Frydrych

• Avoid dereferencing NULL during layout
• Handle an Out of Memory error gracefully (Windows)
• Fix a potential out bounds write in the RTF importer
• Fix incorrect string termination for multibyte encodings
• Do not pass NULL to CreateDC() on WinNT
• Add documentation HowTo's for the History and Revisions features
• HOWTOs for the History and Revisions features
• Do not show the revisions warning if there are no revisions in the document (part of bug 8935)
• Fix several bugs in ::fillRect(), and speed it up (Windows)
• Fix a crash when dragging an image with document history enabled (bug 8889)
• Fix a crash when drag-and-drop editing new RTF files (bug 8952)
• Bugfixes: 8230, 8289, 8910, 8270 (partially), 8234 (partially), 8234 (partially), 8378, 8393 (with modifications from Hubert Figuiere and Sum1)

Mark Gilbert

• Fix conditional branch on uninitialized value (Unix)

Roland Kay

• Chinese RTF document is corrupted on import (bug 8696)
• Fix annoying XIM behaviour (Unix)
• Hanging indent cannot be set correctly in paragraph style dialog (bug 6028)
• Fix a hang in the File Open dialog (Unix)

Felix Kooman

• Bugfixes: 8907 (modified by Dom Lachowicz)

Mashrab Kuvatov

• Bugfixes: 8783

Dom Lachowicz

• Give localetransactors names
• Fix crashes on importing several ODT documents
• Several cleanups in the OpenOffice exporter
• Fix OpenWriter plugin fails to open files it exports (bug 9053)
• Fix the inability to unset metadata in the Properties dialog (Unix, bug 9081)
• Import TOCs from ODT/SXW documents
• Better handle 'display names' versus actual style names during ODT/SXW import
• Bugfixes: 8786, 8812, 8532, 9080

Marc Maurer

• Remove several debugging messages from the WordPerfect importer
• Bump the version to 2.2.8 and create a ChangeLog
• Select "Create Uninstallers" by default in the Windows Installer
• Bugfixes: 8074, 8690 (patch from Tomas <Unknown Last Name>)

Martin Sevior

• Fix can't resize table columns at certain zooms (bug 8744)
• Fix pixeldirt when editing long word (bug 8899)
• Fix a crash when playing with folding lists (bug 8472)
• Make Text folding actually work
• Fix crash after pasting a table into a textbox (bug 9075)
• Restore "Insert rows below" menu option

Robert Staudinger

• Fix GTK file chooser defaults to parent directory of previously opened file's directory (Unix, bug 8327)
• Autopackage installer support (Unix)
• Basic support for import of ODT files (OpenOffice.org 2)

Sum1

• Export line breaks (shift + enter) to .sxw (part of bug 6652)
• Fix crash when exporting an image to LaTeX (bug 8613)
• Fix linefeed issues with MSVC project files
• Fix build for MSVC6
• Skip over more complex elements in the WML exporter instead of bailing out and presenting a write error
• Skip over more complex elements in the Docbook exporter instead of bailing out and presenting a write error (part of bug 7600)
• Skip over some document elements instead of presenting a write error in the HTText and XSL-FO exporters
• Export images to WML correctly (change <img...> into <img.../>)
• Handle column breaks in the DocBook exporter, instead of producing invalid documents
• Fix the WML exporter to properly export breaks (bug 9024)
• Fix the XSL-FO exporter to remove an unnecessary '/' when exporting images (bug 9019)
• Use Letter measurements instead of A4 measurements in the Canadian template
• Add Kurdish to the dictionary list (part of bug 8840)
• Don't truncate localized template names in template list box (Windows, part of bug 8125)
• Fix debug messages in the RTF importer that caused crashes in debug builds
• Bugfixes: 8785, 8969

Robert Wilhelm

• Fix a crash when choosing edit hyperlink after table insertion (bug 8911)
• Fix a crash when selecting Tools->gdict (bug 8948)

Translations

• Erdal Ronahi: Updated Kurdish translation