AbiWord Weekly News

Archived Editions

The current editor of AbiWord Weekly News is E. A. Zen.

175. Week 51 2003 AbiWord 2.1, Revisions, AbiCommand Document Server, QNX & BeOS

174. Week 50 2003 AbiReleases, AbiRelatives, AbiFeatures and Ettore.

173. Week 49 2003 Lots of releases, lots of cool chit, lots of SOTW

172. Week 48 2003 Last week was 171, This Program Lets You Write Letters, OTS, Iomega and screenshots. City of Largo sends thanks to Will and Marc.

171. Week 47 2003 MS screws no one, AbiWord is economical, and Windows users DO have a place to try the latest Stable.

170. Week 46 2003 TextBoxes gain more functionality, BeOS gets patched and 2.1.0 on the way.

169. Week 45 2003 Tree changes, SCO-follow-up and...AbiShow!

168. Week 44 2003 New feature, 2.0.1 and SCO!

167. Week 43 2003 Text Boxes now usable, Open Books updated, and new 2.0.x builds!

166. Week 42 2003 More on the features, Windows on the way, New "Look&Feel".

165. Week 41 2003 Two new features, Win32 and my retirement speech.

164. Week 40 2003 Flow control, packages, svg and criawips.

163. Week 39 2003 Johnny Lee fixes RTF import, BeOS on life support, and...a poll!

162. Week 38 2003 The first new feature of 2.2!

161. Week 37 2003 Screenshots for the big announcement! More AbiRelatives!

160. Week 36 2003 In Kevin Smith world, you give head for money and favours; in AbiLand, the head is somehow completely removed from the picture.

159. Week 35 2003 2.0RC2 now available in the lobby.

158. Week 34 2003 Enchant goes 0.2.0, a request for more Binary Builders, and there's more help for the Gentoo crowd

157. Week 33 2003 Abi's Not a Virus and Win32 isn't ready for the enterprise. It's funny, because MS says it's the other way around.

156. Week 32 2003 Final Release Calendar for 2.0. OTS and GDA releases

155. Week 31 2003 1.99.3, OTS 0.4.0 and the AWN 2.2 roadmap.

154. Week 30 2003 Enchant 0.1.0, OTS advancements and 1.99.3???

153. Week 29 2003 OTS 0.3.0, OS X chatter and re-assessing the goals of 2.0

152. Week 28 2003 1.99.2 finally out, OS X second release and GDA rocks big!

151. Week 27 2003 Beta2, Windows week, Twente up and GDA rocks!

150. Week 26 2003 GUADEC finale, Abi2, VUM, DRM and banoffee

149. Week 25 2003 GUADEC, static plugins and windows printing bugs

148. Week 24 2003 OTS plugin HowTo, Windows Mantainers Wanted, and Jimmac Approved Graphics!

147. Week 23 2003 AbiBits, OTS ScreenShot and... BeOS!?

146. Week 22 2003 ScreenShots, MacOS X and 1.0.6!

145. Week 21 2003 Win32 gets everything but a DRBin. HIGrrrification™ but not screenshots!

144. Week 20 2003 1.9.1 binaries available!

143. Week 19 2003 1.9.1, Bidi, Aiksaurus and Mail Merge!

142. Week 18 2003 1.9.1, Open Text Summarizer, BeOS, Gnome Office, and that's just the informational stuff!

141. Week 17 2003 1.9.0 available, presents for Mac OS X, libwpd goes 0.4.0

140. Week 16 2003 1.9.0 release, and Carbon gets dropped in favour of Cocoa.

139. Week 15 2003 Win32 and BeOS in the same Week! Plusse, Hub prepares for 1.0.6. This AWN pseudo-co-written with Dave Barry.

138. Week 14 2003 Win32 Vindication, Anti-Nautilite whiners and bug fixin'!

137. Week 13 2003 Follow up to last week's releases, Great Bonobo work and HIGrrrification™

136. Week 12 2003 1.0.5 and 1.1.4 releasing, what else do I need to put here!?

135. Week 11 2003 Notable work in the HackDowns, some DMCA jokes, two screen shots and Dom's Love

134. Week 10 2003 Feature Freeze for Abiword II: The Wrath of Dom.

133. Week 09 2003 GNOME, Bonobo, GLADE, Oh My! Patch Prize within!

132. Week 08 2003 AbiWidget & Bonobo return with help from Martin, while Frank kills off an east coast wrapper. Hub hints more about a premature 1.0.5

131. Week 07 2003 Patch Prize included, POW squashed, Frank says, "Hi," and wrapper script gets wiped.

130. Week 06, 2003 No Patch Prize, HackDowns updated, footnote screenshots and some libglade2 HIG-ification.

129. Week 05, 2003 No Patch Prize, HackDown for 1.0.5, Documentation flows freely, Dom contest and Alan's heart attack.

128. Week 04, 2003 No Patch Prize, PBA back in action, lenghtly dev chat and quite the bit of outside contribution.

127. Week 03, 2003 Patch Prizes, dual releases, Best SOTW yet and a new hackdown.

126. Week 02, 2003 No Patch Prize, again; piece table by Joaquin.

125. Week 01, 2003 No Patch Prize, again; Jeremy declares NSIS 2 branch ready-ish, and a security bug found in the wv library.

124. Week 52, 2002 No Patch Prize, again; Jeremy adds libcurl and makes being a Windows-user even easier, and Hub forced out of Mac OS X porting.

123. Week 51, 2002 No Patch Prize and NSIS gets branched; go figuiere!

Older editions

122. Week 50, 2002 Abi's Aqua MacDinkery reaches new heights with superior font appearance; Frank does a lot of port-to-web work, and Dom's latest plugin places AbiWord in a whole new category of cool.

121. Week 49, 2002 Learn the secret life of Martin, and behold the latest accounting non-scandal. And you won't believe what anti-GNU/Debian thing one of the hackers said!

120. Week 48, 2002 NYORP up, NYORP down, NYORP all around, plus the editorial section gets sectioned. Behold the massively disappearing RFE's!

119. Week 47, 2002 Marc's Secret Project announced, 1.1.2 rackus and Mail Merge. Yes, I know I'm late!

118. Week 46, 2002 1.1.2, 1.0.4pre1, pow#4 and Salon.com, how can it get much better than this. QA returns next week, absolut-vodka-ly

117. Week 45, 2002 AWN disappointing first Sunday Run, but 1.1.1 was released, so, it's all even karma.

116. Week 44, 2002 AWN gets buggy about bugs (big week for them, too), the first Patch Prize in the longest time awarded and a new hacker on the horizon

115. Week 43, 2002 AbiWord fund has been robbed.
updated: life got better and bug traqing is a nightmare.

114. Week 42, 2002 Late, but all's fixed. You got to see it to believe it!

113. Week 41, 2002 Unprecedented bug squishing.

112. Week 40, 2002 Developers' release, 1.1.0 comes out and changes to the AWN, ones that I've long looked forward to giving you.

111. Week 39, 2002 1.0.3 released with mixed reviews (top20 bugs will show that).

110. Week 38, 2002 What did the FreeBSD Daemon know about Microsoft, and when did he know it? Also, 1.0.3 "De'sir Satisfait" now available...

109. Week 37, 2002 1.0.3 almost here, rms tackles POW, and a sidebar on Gilbertian Thought.

108. Week 36, 2002 Working our way to 1.0.3 and beyond!

107. Week 35, 2002 Subtle new look, hints of things to come, screen shots, new POW and a whole lot of mailinglist!

106. Week 34, 2002 New and old look, lots of fun frilly mentions. Get involved today!

105. Week 33, 2002 Berne Convention, POSIX Channel, actual news. No...no graph yet, but better than "The Bill of Wasteful Crap."

104. Week 32, 2002 Slower week, acknowledgment of forgotten POW hero and money. No...no graph yet.

103. Week 31, 2002 Abisite went down, but hackers continued hacking. The pretty bug chart not in this issue, the rest is as it was, just newer ^_^

These issues of AbiWord Weekly News were under the editorial jurisdiction of Jesper Skov.

102. Week 30, 2002 GTK2 support, performance work. Bug details, CVS stats

101. Week 29, 2002 Development picking up, lovely new stuff. Bug details, CVS stats

100. Week 28, 2002 Summer vacation ended?, AWN not going subscription based. Bug details, CVS stats

99. Week 27, 2002 Slow summer progress, AWN going subscription based. Bug details, CVS stats

98. Week 26, 2002 ..on cruise control... Bug details, CVS stats
97. Week 25, 2002 Trucking along... Bug details, CVS stats
96. Week 24, 2002 GTK2+Tables+BugZilla updates. Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
95. Week 23, 2002 1.0.2 released, GTK2, Tables, TWiki, Special Interest. Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
94. Week 22, 2002 Slow week but 1.0.2 release near. Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
93. Week 21, 2002 Trucking along, Special Interest. Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
92. Week 20, 2002 More features, Special Interest. Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
91. Week 19, 2002 AbiWord 1.2.x work started. Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
90. Week 18, 2002 AbiWord 1.0.1 ready, tree open for business. Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
89. Week 17, 2002 AbiWord 1.0.1 planned, donations possible. Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
88. Week 16, 2002 AbiWord 1.0.0 branched. Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
87. Week 15, 2002 AbiWord 0.99.5 released, 1.0RC1 branching. Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
86. Week 14, 2002 AbiWord 0.99.5 getting ready, AWN overhaul, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
85. Week 13, 2002 AbiWord 0.99.4 getting ready, more bug fixes, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
84. Week 11-12, 2002 AbiWord 0.99.3 released, many bug fixes, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
83. Week 9-10, 2002 More feature polish, bug fixes, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
82. Week 6-8, 2002 0.99.2 released, AWN improvements, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
81. Week 5, 2002 A few more features, OEone changes, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
80. Week 4, 2002 Yet More Bug fixing, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
79. Week 3, 2002 More Bug fixing, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
78. Week 2, 2002 Even more Bug fixing, 0.99.1 looming, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
77. Week 1, 2002 More Bug fixing, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
76. Week 52, 2001 Continued Bug fixing, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
75. Week 51, 2001 Bug hunt, documentation progress, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
74. Week 50, 2001 0.9.6 released, feature freeze, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
73. Week 49, 2001 0.9.6.1 milestone, user expectations rant, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
72. Week 48, 2001 Plugin work, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
71. Week 47, 2001 0.9.5 released, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
70. Week 46, 2001 ImageMagick import, 0.9.5-pre1 on the horizon, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
69. Week 45, 2001 Even more new features, POW page updated, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
68. Week 44, 2001 Yet more features (also in AWN), Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
67. Week 43, 2001 More features, web site overhaul, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
66. Week 42, 2001 New dialogs, plans for feature freeze, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
65. Week 41, 2001 BiDi improvements, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
64. Week 40, 2001 0.9.4 released, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
63. Week 39, 2001 0.9.4 tagged, new developers, new features, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
62. Week 38, 2001 0.9.4-pre1 tagged, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
61. Week 37, 2001 Perl scripting on Win32, FriBidi support, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
60. Week 36, 2001 0.9.3 tagged, spell-checking speed improvements, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
59. Week 35, 2001 Tinderbox, release engineering, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
58. Week 34, 2001 AbiWord 0.9.3 postponed, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
57. Week 33, 2001 AbiWord 0.9.2 tagged, embedding, scription, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
56. Week 32, 2001 AbiWord 0.9.1 tagged, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
55. Week 31, 2001 AbiWord 0.9.0 released, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
54. Week 30, 2001 AbiWord 0.9.0 tagged in CVS, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
53. Week 29, 2001 CVS stats are back, getting even closer to the release, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
52. Week 28, 2001 Getting closer to the release, Bug details, POWs
51. Week 27, 2001 Still working on the release, GNOME printing fixed, Bug details, POWs
50. Week 26, 2001 Still working on the release, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
49. Week 25, 2001 Still working on the release, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
48. Week 24, 2001 Working on the release, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
47. Week 23, 2001 Performance improvements, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
46. Week 22, 2001 New release on the horizon, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
45. Week 21, 2001 Template support, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
44. Week 20, 2001 German on-line help translation, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
43. Week 19, 2001 Documentation, plugin manager, dynamic menus, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
42. Week 18, 2001 LaTeX style tables, module plugin architecture, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats
41. April 27, 2001 0.7.14 release, Styles Dialog, Bug details, POWs, CVS stats

AbiWord Weekly News issues 2-40 by Sam TH.

40. January 31, 2001 Page Setup Dialog, List Pasting, POWs, New Expat
39. November 15, 2000 CJK Work, 0.7.12 Release, Word Import work, Bug Fixing
38. November 8, 2000 CJK Work, 0.7.12 Release LaTeX Export, Fields Implementation
29. September 6, 2000 Tabs Dialog, 0.7.11 Status, Website Outage, Development Methodology
28. August 23rd and 30th, 2000 GNOME Foundation, WV Status, Smart Quotes, 0.7.11
27. August 9th and 16th, 2000 List improvements, UI issues, BeOS work, Zoom dialog
26. August 2nd, 2000 Word 97 export, libxml support, BeOS improvements, build breakage
25. July 26th, 2000 Online help menu, toolbar improvements, major BeOS fixes
24. July 19th, 2000 Smart quotes, automatic backup, better Unicode support
23. July 12th, 2000 Lists, insert picture, smart quotes, BeOS fixes
22. July 5th, 2000 Word Count dialog on Windows, page number improvements
21. June 28st, 2000 Insert Picture dialog, smart quotes, and font handling
20. June 21st, 2000 AbiWord 0.7.10 released, BMP support
19. June 14th, 2000 Prep for 0.7.10, Ruler fixes
18. June 8th, 2000 Modeless dialogs, libOLE2, Build System, Bug fixes
17. May 31th, 2000 Modeless dialogs, Code cleanup, Bug fixes, Future development
16. May 25th, 2000 Modeless dialogs, Cursor class, Bug hunting, LaTeX export, XHTML import
15. May 17th, 2000 better focus policy, help files in English, and code cleanup
14. May 10th, 2000 QNX Photon nears completion, code cleanup, focus, and RTF fixes
13. May 3rd, 2000 Version 0.7.9 released, new help system, insert field, and prizes
12. April 26th, 2000 Version 0.9.0 discussed, Mac port, fonts, nightly builds
11. April 19th, 2000 Insert Symbol (!), libpng fix, initial pass at Goto Dialog
10. April 12th, 2000 State of AbiWord, GNOME print
9. April 5th, 2000 overwrite, OLE2, GNOME, Libpng, Glib
8. March 29th, 2000 Word export started, GNOME, LaTeX, modal dialogs
7. March 22nd, 2000 expat upgrade, preview of fields support
6. March 15th, 2000 image support, XML, rulers, fields
5. March 8th, 2000 translation matrix, GNOME menu bar, command-line conversion, AIX
4. March 1st, 2000 Word count dialog, UI design, bug status, preview of list support
3. February 23rd, 2000 Tinderbox, ispell vs aspell, image printing
2. February 16th, 2000 Field support, file sniffing, i18n.
1. February 9th, 2000 New release; Show Favorite; Word image import.