Loud ramblings of a Software Artisan

Just released Gnote 0.4.0.

Dependency changes: now libxml++ 2.26 is REQUIRED, because of nasty bugs in older release. Upstream itself said it was unusable. Also, if you are a packager, be aware that libxml++ 2.26 break the ABI silently. You must understand that before doing any upgrade. See bug 583825.

I already have a branch that just remove this dependency, I'll merge it after this release.

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New features:

• Handle command line argument --version and --search
• Backlinks addin.
• Addin to export to HTML.

Fixes:

• Hard require on libxml++ 2.26. Should prevent some bugs (Bug #583807, Bug #583808, Bug #579292, Bug #579316) See git
• Note is now trackable. Should avoid a crash related to signals. (Closes #581618)
• Remove obsolete UTF-8 keyword in .desktop (Closes #581623) (Robert Millan)
• Fix build with LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed" (Closes #581559) (Priit Laes)
• '-' in note title was mistakenly doubled in the menu. (Closes #581643)
• Fix crash when entering an URL instead of a host name for the bugzilla icon in the bugzilla addin (Closes #581080)
• Stop calculating the status icon menu position by thyself.
• Fix UI for InsertTimeStamp addin (Closes #582788) (0.1.1)
• Fix inconsistency in search dialog selection causing drag and drop and delete to mis-behave. (Closes #579107, Closes #582757)
• gnote-applet is in libexec. (Closes #581631)
• Fix markup error in German localization (Closes #582975)
• Fix error on first run in German (de_DE) (Debian bug #528930)

Translations:

• Added translations: - Bengali India (bn_IN) - Hungarian (hu)
• Updated translations: - Arabic (ar) - German (de) - Japanese (ja) - Spanish (es)
• Added Greek manual.
• Added Spanish manual.

Since tomorrow I'll be in Montreal for LGM, today will be release day for Gnote 0.3.1 "Five-One-Four". Next week should be back to the regular schedule. This is a bugfix release, and it is available on GNOME FTP as usual.

The changes are:

Fixes:

• Missing header in src/addins/inserttimestamp/inserttimestampnoteaddin.cpp
• Don't crash when deleting a note (Closes #579839)
• Plugged various memory leaks.
• Cleared up a few Gtkmm warnings.
• Applet was trying to use an icon named "tomboy" (Closes #581226) (Robert Millan)
• .desktop file didn't have the version (Jonathon Jongsma)
• .desktop has improper XFCE category and should have OnlyShowIn entry for GNOME and XFCE (Closes #580481)
• Help didn't work in the Note windows. (Closes #581200)
• Notebook addin toolbar button was inconsistent. (Closes #581213)
• Delete notebook now works in the search dialog. (Closes #581222)
• Popup menus in the search dialog now appear.
• Output options at the end of configure and fail if D-Bus is enabled.

Translations:

• Added translations: - Japanese (ja)
• Updated translations: - Arabic (ar) - Catalan (ca) - French (fr) - Spanish (es)
• Fix format causing crashes. (Closes #580868)
• Fix a typo in the gconf schema description (Closes #581239)
• Fix small translatable strings (Closes #579197)