History of Gramps/he

It is important to know your history, to know where you come from, so you can understand where we are going, and what we have achieved. Here is an overview of the history of Gramps.

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Gramps officially started April 21, 2001 when Don Allingham shared his hobby project. Don has written up a great blog entry on how it came about. The first stable release was born on February 11, 2004 after a few years of gestation. More can can be learned about the early releases from the Previous Releases overview.

There have been major release about once a year on average. Each new version has recognized and imported all earlier schema versions.

The table below shows the main changes in some recent releases.

גרסה	Release תאריך	Schema version	הערות
2.2.x	2006	13	important improvements
2.2.1	29 Oct 2006	13	Support for MS-Windows
3.0	March 2008	14
3.2.0	15 Mar 2010	14	Modify Notes and Dates
3.3.0	11 Jun 2011	15	Add tagging and surname list
3.4.0	21 May 2012	16	Replace Source ref with citations
4.0.0	21 May 2013	16	Conversion to GTK3 and support Python 3
4.1.0	15 Jun 2014	17	Create place hierarchy added
4.2.0	02 Aug 2015	18
4.2.5	15 Dec 2016	18
4.2.6	01 Aug 2017	18
5.0.0	24 Jul 2018	18	Support for multiple DBMS(database backends)
5.1.0	14 Sep 2019	18	SQLite becomes default database backend

Evolution of Gramps some screenshots

Obviously the sidebar has changed on most releases. Originally the icons where semi-realistic, but Gramps has adopted the Tango style for its icons.

The sidebar in Gramps

2.0.x	2.2.x	3.0.x	4.1.x	5.0.x

The main window looks have changed by version as follows:

• The Gramps main window
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  2.0.x main window

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  2.2.x main window

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  3.0.x main window

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  4.2.x main window

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  5.0.x main window

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  5.2.x main window

לקריאה נוספת

• Previous releases of Gramps
• Gramps XML