Thursday, March 7th, 2013 at 3:26 pm by rjerome

Some weeks after 4.0.0-alpha4, the developers have released:
“UNSTABLE” Gramps 4.0.0 Alpha5 release.

This release fixes some bugs and adds new features.

Changes since alpha4:

• Move to grampslocale, const
• Move from pyexiv2 to GExiv2, metadata
• Better log statements
• Improvements on encoding handling, unicode
• Consistency on dialogs and options (reports)
• Some fixes on Web reports
• Better PyICU integration, sort functions
• OS specific: Mac, Windows
• Geography views
• Ability to use latest gtkspell version
• Debug on tools, libs, DB stuff
• Fixes on filename, filter, proxy and export assistant
• New install script as launcher for UNIX-like OS
• Improvements for thumbnails, gdkpixbuf under Windows OS
• Some translation updates

You can download Gramps 4.0.0-alpha5 for testing only from sourceforge unstable section.