Gramps 3.3 Wiki Manual - What's new?
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This section gives an overview of changes since version 3.2. These changes are also detailed later in this manual. Users of version 3.2 are encouraged to review this section to be sure to take advantage of these new features.
Contents
Before you upgrade
Before you upgrade, make sure your family tree data is secure. The best way to do this is:
- Start Gramps 3.2
- Open your family tree
- Export the family tree to the gramps xml format or the gramps xml package format (which includes your photographs and other media files associated with your family tree data). Export your tree via menu Family Trees->Export, making sure you export all data with no filters applied.
- Close this family tree and repeat the above steps for any other family trees you have
- Keep the resulting file(s) in a safe place
For more information, please review Backing up a Family Tree.
After properly safeguarding your data, proceed to install Gramps 3.3. Use your operating system's regular installation process to do this. It is also best to uninstall Gramps 3.2 before installing Gramps 3.3, or make sure you install Gramps 3.3 in a different location.
After you install Gramps 3.3, you can open your existing family trees and continue working. In case of problems (e.g., after a complete system upgrade), use the backup file(s) created above to recreate your family tree(s).
Visible changes to the core
Names
Formats
New Editor
Sidebar and bottombar
New Gramplets
Tags
Merging
Pedigree view
More: Pedigree View
Url style on Note
Plugin changes
Update Addons
Preferences
Under the hood changes
It's all about speed
Many under the hood improvements have occurred that should improve performance enormously.
- Using Gramps in CLI mode no longer loads GUI code.
- plugins are no longer loaded by default.
- New listviews. Eg: Insert of a person in a 30000 people family tree took 4sec on 1.4Ghz PC in 3.1, Now it is done in milliseconds.
Migration to better code layout
The code is slowly migrated to a different directory structure, strictly making a division between genealogy code, gui code and cli code. The aim is to allow in the future an independently packaged genealogy library to access the Gramps family trees in other projects.
Dependencies
- Gramps still supports python 2.5 and pygtk 2.12. In other words, for example Ubuntu 8.04 can still run version 3.3. A specific effort has been done to make this possible. The next version will probably increase the requirements.
- libglade has been removed, as it will be deprecated in the future, and replaced by gtkbuilder.
- For GeoView to work, python bindings to webkit or gecko (gtkmozembed) must be present. Packagers are recommended to make webkit a dependency if webkit is stable on their platform.
Further info
TODO: need to update above content with:
See the 3.3.0 roadmap, the change log and Roadmap.
- Additional Name Fields [1][2]
- Tagging
- Place handling
- Database (XML /part of GEPS016/, transaction, merging /part of GEPS009/)
- Sidebar/bottombar [3]
- New Individual Editor [4][5]
- Enhanced Pedigree View [6] and support 'config' on views into ancestry category [7].
- Substitution Keys
- Draw reports: Ancestor3.3, Descendant3.3, Page_size3.3
- Exporter has added control of filters and proxies; also has method for seeing intermediate results along the filtering process
- New simple backup option on menu
- New gramplets and performance improvements (Pedigree gramplet)
- Url style on Note object (internal uri)
- Automatic check for update (Addons)
- New filter rules
- Complete tooltips on editors and manual
- Use language selector on detailled reports, enhancement on place report, translated holiday names, numbering system alternatives on descendant report [8], better support for win32/mac packages, cleanup, need python 2.6 or later, new translations (Ukrainian, Portuguese from Portugal), etc ...
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