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
- New filter rules
Sidebar and bottombar
- Views
- New Gramplets
Tags
Merging
Better place handling
New Exporter
More tooltips
Url style on Note
Backup dialog
Plugins changes
Views
- Pedigree view
More: Pedigree View
- GeoView
More: GeoView
Automatic update for Addons
- Preferences
News
- "Image Metadata Gramplet" now works with pyexiv2-0.1.3 and above
Reports
- Draw reports
- Substitution Keys
- Alternate Numbering on Descendant report [1]
- CLI
- Book
- Web stuff
- Improvements on Place report
- StringOption separated from GUI widget [2]
- Records report and gramplet [3]
Under the hood changes
Database
- Transaction
- Merging
- New DB version; and XML DTD (1.4.0) [4]
- Improvements on Import/Export file formats (vcard, gedcom, xml)
Dependencies
- python 2.6 and later
Optional
- exif
- pyexiv2-0.1.3, pyexiv2-0.2.2, or pyexiv2-0.3.0
Performances
- Improvements (memory leaks) [5]
- time for XML import
- Speed up on gramplets (pedigree)
Localisation
- New translations: Ukrainian, Portuguese from Portugal
- Lang selector on Detailed textual reports
- Holidays on Calendar reports
- Improvements on some Date handlers
- Better translation on some addons
- cleanup (configure, makefiles)
- Better support for win32/64 API
Cleanup
...
Further info
TODO: need to update above content with:
See the 3.3.0 roadmap, the change log and Roadmap.
- Additional Name Fields [6][7]
- Tagging
- Place handling
- Database (XML /part of GEPS016/, transaction, merging /part of GEPS009/)
- Sidebar/bottombar [8]
- New Individual Editor [9][10]
- Enhanced Pedigree View [11] and support 'config' on views into ancestry category [12].
- 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 [13], better support for win32/mac packages, cleanup, need python 2.6 or later, new translations (Ukrainian, Portuguese from Portugal), etc ...
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