Release notes for Version 2.1

• Rebuild against more recent libraries
• Generate 64 bit versions
• Include fixes and features from development versions

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Release notes for Version 2.0

• New report generation menus in place of old print/plot. Cleaned up and more complete.
• New report type showing Indented Descendant
• New report type showing events sorted by location.
• New report type based on graphviz dot. This generates a colour graphical tree.
• Much more work on html format reports. Can now generate a series of navigable html pages and some top level indexes.
• Related families are now a standard report instead of a pop-up
• New generic print capability. You can make your own data format. Still fairly basic and only available from command line.
• More GEDCOM record support (OBJE->FORM), INDI->ATTR->SOUR and better support of OCCU. Plus a host of new event types are preserved and passed through.
• Gedcom CONC tag used to add a leading space, but shouldn't.
• On Canvas display, if birth or death dates unknown, display the chriten/baptism/burial/cremation date instead
• Various cleanups on canvas display including better auto adjustment of column width and better handling of truncated trees where there are multiple spouses.
• Add alias on main INDI tab
• Better marking and unmarking with mouse and new top bar option "Mark". Allows marking and unmarking of individuals and ancestor/descendant trees.
• On pedigree plots, switch between m. and p. based on marriage state
• Can now preserve the IDs found in a GEDCOM file rather than renumbering sequentially with new "recover_ids" option.
• Date reading again extended. Now better at spotting failures too. Can also accept un-parsable date strings.
• Improved file read error reporting
• Check all open trees for changes at close (at last)
• Better test of living for where this is suppressed in reports
• Limit length of great-great strings to be more readble
• Minor tweaks to improve the chances of getting sane fonts.
• Bugs in the gender handling code, often fatal. When parent were swapped over internally, the children links got out of sync. Problems when importing some trees witth complex, multiple mariages and incomplete gender information.
• Bug fixed in MOVE tab where scrolling off the list with a wheel mouse could cause a crash.
• Cleaned up a number of fatal bugs where buffers got overrun on very long names or long lines.

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Release notes for 1.9

• A number of extensions to source record handling. This also fixes a couple of fatal bugs, one that caused a crash whe you selected the "detail" button on the INDI panel, the other that caused a crash when you selected the "new" button on the INDI source panel..
• New print report to print a sorted list of Events
• More consistent print handling, including print to screen option
• Option to control order of christian/surname on display using the .ftree file "flip_names" option
• Save marked option. Marked individuals can be selected with 3rd mouse button and show in blue on pedigree canvas.
• More date formats accepted (2000.2.1 and feb 1 2000)
• Date now supports "Between" option and differentiates between "EST BEF" and "BEF EST". You can also have complex combinations like "EST BET EST xxx and EST yyy"
• Ability to supress birth date of "living" people
• Dynamic column width on pedigree canvas. Static value sets the minimum and dynamic capability then grows that if needed
• child and spouse name accept pre/post parts.
• pre/post name parts displayed
• GEDCOM empty surnames preserved (eg "fred //")
• Display "christened" or "baptised" date on pedigree display if birth date unknown. Likewise with "bury" and "cremation" if no death date.
• Facility to calculate relationship between two people
• Postscript plots support more european characters. There is also a `Hungarian' mode configurable from the `.ftree' file "plot language" option
• Error status checked on file "save" and added file format check on file "open".
• Fatal error: in unmarry option, some links were not correctly deleted resulting in a possible crash.
• Fatal error: X windows issue due to mis-sized windows.
• Fatal error: Creating a family with one female parent would crash
• Minor issue: Some memory leaks fixed
• Linkage to open-xforms 1.0
• Remove email references on prints/plots and replaced with web references. The ftree email address is unfortunately starting to get spammed and may need to change.

Release notes for 1.8 14th May 2002

• Note that some files have been moved in this release. FTree now installs to /usr/bin, /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc and not to /usr/X11R6/bin, /usr/X11R6/man and /usr/doc. If you are using the tarballs be sure to remove any old versions.
• Canvas background colour now can be black or white. New defaults are the light colour menus with white canvas, but can be changed in configuration file.
• Option to change the column width on the canvas display. Currently only configurable from the .ftree file with variable canvas_columnwidth
• Added handling of LDS options BAPL, ENDL, SLGC on new tab on GUI
• On the canvas (and postscript plots) we can now do better handling individuals with more than 2 marriages with children..
• Add a plot all option to postscript plot and added postscript header to enable printing of some German characters
• The find option on the edit bar now sorts in case independant order.
• The find option on the edit bar now shows birth year too
• sensible default for plot_spoolqueue and make sure a blank printer name works OK
• There is now a plot option to limit the plotted tree depth
• hidden forms get raised properly now
• Ftree no longer moans of theree is no .ftree configuration file
• Added a new configuration option "wm_trapclose" to trap window close events if no changes have been made to the tree and prompt for confirmation
• Be smarter about selecting an indi after deleting the current one. We now make the new current one the father, mother or spouse in that order before reverting to the current tree segment root.
• In postscript plot, added code to suppress (most) blank pages and also add a configuration file option to draw cutlines on the pages to help joining them up.
• In postscript plot add configuration file options for different paper sizes. Options include A0, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, B0 B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, ArchA, ArchB, ArchC, ArchD, ArchE, Foolscap, Letter, Legal
• In postscript plot added code to calculate how many pages it would take to plot
• Now support multimedia object notes
• Multimedia will now try to display tiff files (uncompressed only)
• Initial support for submitter entry (SUBM) in gedcom files and access on the Info tab
• New "force root" button on main GUI to change the tree segment displayed to be based on a root of the current selected individual.
• More flexibility in date parsing. Now allow ABT1742 (no space) for BK and treat "1 1988" as jan 1988. Now also warns better about things it doesn't like eg. "BET" loose the range, but it is now logged
• Finally handle NAMEs with "name /surname/ more"
• Various modes to control canvas updating from instant (after every char typed), via timout (n seconds inactivity) and on leaving the field.
• Added some more inter-relationship facilities. Currently still only outputs to stdout and not into a window.
• Can now unset various radio button option including the source->quay ones and the christen/baptism/burial/cremation ones
• Support for storing source.DATA records. Not displayable yet.
• To allow handling of large, heavily inter-married trees we now only plot a sub-section (below a family) of a tree once. Subsequent times it finds the same marriage it just outputs an empty link ---| as an indicator
• Recentre/next button to recentre current node and step to any other place they exist in current tree section.
• Now show unmarried relationships with "p." instead of "m."
• command line mode now has a "write" command
• ftree now has a -h option
• File read loging now spots duplicate birth/death entries and duplicate name entries and logs them.
• File read logging gives better information about the line in error
• Better handling of NAME.GIVN and NAME.SURN, specifically for FamilyOrigins which produces both NAME and duplicate SURN and GIVN information.
• Print routines now look for groff mm macros not mgm (ie -mm and not -mgm) The mgm macros seem to be an anomaly on some older systems. If you only have mgm macros, add a symbolic link from the groff tmac/tmac.gm file to tmac/tmac.m
• A large collection of performance related changes focusing on reducing screen re-drawing and coping with bigger trees.
• File load performance is considerably faster
• Lots of consistancy improvements including de-sinsitising things that can't be changed.
• Form resizing allowed/works properly
• A bug that set the christened flag whenever a date-location was input even if it had been prviously baptised has been fixed.
• bug where a fixed size buffer in file name handling in tree read with a long filename caused a crash
• bug in trace ancestors - could overrun buffer.
• allow text with mismatched () in postscript output - before would have generated a postscript error
• Make the preferences GUI savemode stuff option work properly
• display problem when switching between spouses on display - didn't always update the spouse GUI
• Canvas set horizontal slider scale properly
• Various quirks in the move panel fixed
• bug in re-ordering spouses in extreme case could cause a crash
• major rework of internal list handline and lots of memory leaks plugged
• found that notes linked from EVEN were not re-linked on read
• mutimedia panel bug that left the load slider on screen if load failed.
• In text plot module add some check and upped limit to about +/- 75 generations and added buffer checks to stop buffer overflowing.
• fixed spelling of backup in preferences dialog and spelling of buried

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Release notes for 1.7 22nd April 2001

• New facilities to move individuals around. Specifically attach/detach children and marry/unmarry individuals
• New facility to import one tree into another.
• Can now delete a family
• Can now configure which mouse button does what on the canvas.
• Can now navigate through multi-line inputs with TAB
• Can now input some 8bit characters (eg ALT-Shift-3 == UK pound)
• Dates now work with space,dash,slash,comma,dot as separators
• More fidling with focus handling and sensitising/desensitising stuff in the GUI
• File write adds a '.ged' extension if you don't.
• New text plot code. Various bugs fixed and can will now add HTML wrapper and links from the INDIs in the tree (though I've not written anything to link to yet ;-)
• Text plot code can do ancestor tree as well as descendant tree.
• There is an embryonic command-line mode that doesn't start the X-GUI. It allows scripting of things if you want to do it, though at the moment the only useful options are related to "text-plot". Other options are now pretty easy to add though.
• Detect geneweb and handle its SURN stuff explicitly
• FTW fact table now bigger
• Various bug fixes including a potential core-dump with CALN.MEDI fixed and a fix for the problem with gedcom fields getting written with missing new-lines.

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Release notes for 1.6 22nd October 2000

• There was still something broke in the GUI input code dececting when input fields changed. After another major clean up I think its now done cleanly..
• plotting had problems in some LOCALEs due to the %f in printf using a ',' instead of a '.' which broke the postscript interpreter
• When parsing GEDCOM files if there was a "space" character after "FAM", the FAM record was not detected. This caused chaos.
• improved robustness in GEDCOM reading with things like empty trees. This used to cause a crash
• fixed spouse re-ordering stuff on MARR tab. It now works as you would expect
• Entering a child name in the General tab now does an auto create of child and family if necessary (as you would expect)
• Christen/baptised and Buried/Cremated GUI inputs were displayed OK but input was ignored
• Moving wife/husband crashed if no spouse to move
• Ftree will now remember where you were last time it was run and will attempt to re-start with the last person you looked at selected. This won't get it right if the tree is renumbered in-between If its a different tree, it will start with ID 1 and ensures that the whole segment is loaded into the graphic canvas.
• New look option "-whitewash"
• Improved resizing of tabfolder (it now does ;-)
• Added an option to create a new disjoint branch of the current tree.

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Release notes for 1.5 27th August 2000

• Enhanced date handling, now allow "none", "mar", "3 mar", "3mar2000", "3-mar-2000"
  Dates can now also be removed and prefix strings (ABT etc) can be removed
• Added read/write support for a number of FTW and Visual Genealogie tags
  FTW : _SCHEMA, INDI._FAn, FAM._FAn, _MREL, _FREL, _MSTAT, _MEND
  VG: EVEN
• Added read/write some new general gedcom tags
  INDI.ALIA, SOUR.TITL, DEAT.CAUS
  SOUR.REPO.CALN.MEDI
  INDI.DSCR, INDI.RELI, INDI.EDUC
• Added support for multiline addresses
• command line '-v' now gives current version
• Add -geometry option and save last win size for next time default
• Add a preferences panel to allow easier config of some options
• Add font overiding - this is to allow other national fonts to be used. Treat with extreme care since objects do not get resized to allow for the new fonts.
• A number of serious bugs fixed
  • Stepping spouse when none present caused crash
  • print crashed if inline NOTE
  • Blank (null) text in notes could cause crash
  • There were some possible nasties with input getting "lost"
  • double click on roots browser caused crash
• Note numbers don't get spuriously renumbered
• Exiting ftree by closing the main window is now trapped
• We now no longer support the "prehistoric" ftree file format. All load and save is now GEDCOM. No one should have been using the old one anyway, but if you were, drop me an email and I'll tell you how to fix it. I've removed it from the code because you REALLY do not want to be using it.. trust me. (If you have not yet upgraded.. don't, the old version can easilly convert the data, the new one can't) This is VERY unlikely, but could have happened if you created a family tree in ftree with a filename ending in ftree. You can check with

  head -3 your_file

  if you see

  #
  # Family tree data written by ftree on
  #

  you are using the old format.. but if you see something like

  0 HEAD
  1 SOUR ftree
  2 VERS 1.4

  Then you are using GEDCOM and all is fine.

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