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admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:31:03 +0000

The AbiWord 2.8.0 Windows release was fine, but the Linux one contained an annoying bug leading to random crashes. This lead me to release AbiWord 2.8.1 and fire our entire QA team. If you use AbiWord 2.8.0 on Windows, then you are perfectly up to date and don’t need this release. Linux/FreeBSD/Hurd/etc. packagers and people compiling AbiWord for themselves will want to grab this release.

We’re sorry for the inconvenience.

AbiWord 2.8 and AbiCollab released!

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:55:31 +0000

All the fun stuff can be found in the AbiWord 2.8.0 release notes, so read them! Also make sure to check out our new collaboration webservice AbiCollab.net.

AbiWord 2.7.8 out

admin — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:29:22 +0000

I hope we will only have to do 1 more development release after this one, before we can release AbiWord 2.8.0. Already looking forward to it. In the meantime, you’ll have to be happy with AbiWord 2.7.8!

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Errare humanum est…

admin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:13:33 +0000

… which means we needed another development release (and another one will soon follow :). Therefor we just released AbiWord 2.7.7, which contains a bunch of cleanup work, and a totally revamped Mac OS X renderer based on our Linux Cairo+Pango renderer. The renderers actually share most of the code now, where they used to be two totally different renderer implementations.

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Impressive AbiWord release

admin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:19:44 +0000

We just released AbiWord 2.7.6, which is an awesome release in my opinion!
It for example adds native JPEG support, so we don’t convert every JPEG internally to PNG anymore. This will be of great benefit on the OLPC laptop, where kids use built-in camera to produce photos in JPEG format and add them to their document. This will greatly reduce the filesize of their document. It will also be a lot less bandwidth intensive when collaborating on such a document.
Other big changes are the greatly improved OOXML import and export filters. This work is done during this years Google Summer of Code OOXML import filter improvement program by Firat Kiyak. It was just too good to not merge it already.
Lots more stuff in is listed in the changelog, make sure to read it! All this work was done during the last 2 weeks, which I find very impressive.

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AbiWord 2.7.5 Released!

admin — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:26:49 +0000

This is starting to get boring, as I’m turning the planets into freshmeat. But let’s just pretend we have some actual users that care about this news: there is another AbiWord release! With improved printing support (landscape printing actually works again, how 1992!), working copy/paste on Windows, and improved OpenDocument support, this seems like a very nice development release. We’re inching closed to 2.8.0 every day.

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I have a release addiction

admin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:40:02 +0000

Crashers and non-WYSIWYG behavior are so last week.

And another one: AbiWord 2.7.3 Released!

admin — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:55:30 +0000

We just released AbiWord 2.7.3. The most visible addition to this release is the return of our Maemo support (packages were already being built I was told). Also AbiWord will now be able to gracefully handle and repair a bigger set of corrupt documents. Finally we fixed a bunch of crashers while working towards the next stable release.

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AbiWord 2.7.2 Released!

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:56:35 +0000

Just released AbiWord 2.7.2. This release adds support for uppercase, lowercase, and capitalized character styles, and comes with a Windows release.

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2009-05-11

admin — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:47:39 +0000

Fridrich is awesome, and I released AbiWord 2.7.1