Changes

This section gives an overview of changes since Gramps version 3.4.2. These changes are also detailed later in this manual. Users of Gramps upgrading from version 3.4 or 4.1 are encouraged to review this section to be sure to take advantage of these new features when they start using version 4.2.

{{man warn| Warning |Creating an archive before upgrading might not alone be sufficient to safeguard your data might not be appropriate before upgrading. : In the unlikely event that Gramps 4.1 2 corrupts your database, it could also corrupt the archive. An A backup of your data as outlined in this section is recommended.}}

After properly safeguarding your data, proceed to install Gramps 4.2. Using using your operating system's regular installation process to do . In most cases, this will in most cases ensure that the new Gramps 4.2 installation will not clash with your older version of Gramps. However, it may be safer to uninstall Gramps 3.4 before installing Gramps 4.2, or make sure you install Gramps 4.2 in a different location. This is always necessary if you are installing from the source code. For more information on installing Gramps 4.2, please see [[Download|Downloading the latest Gramps]]

# New date and language field fields on place name 

* Review on GtkBuilder* Fix , fix some Gtk3 warningsand move from deprecated methods* Change icons and buttons handling methods<hr>* [[Gramps_4.2_Wiki_Manual_-_Entering_and_editing_data:_detailed_-_part_2#Place_Editor_dialog|Enhanced Place Editor]][[Image:Place_editor_42.png|New place Editor with Place Editorname edition]]<hr>{{-}} * New widget: ''[[Gramps_4.2_Wiki_Manual_-_Navigation#Finding_records|interactive searchbox]]''. Use our own interactive-search box to get it.[[Image:Interactive_search.png|New interactive search box]]{{-}}# more efficient (binary search on sorted columns).# customizable (delayed by 150ms launch of search to avoid text scrambling) * Ability to [[Gramps_4.2_Wiki_Manual_-_Categories#Adding_places_from_KML_files|import KML]] data into Geography views* Enhancement for removing multiple selected items from Views (action group)[[Image:Action_group_dialog.png|Question dialog for grouped actions]]{{-}} * Allow to drag a person by dragging the Family label or around Add, Edit, Share buttons.Add drag support on more Views, Selectors and Editors. * Add right-click "Copy all" to all [[Gramps_4.2_Wiki_Manual_-_Reports_-_part_8|QuickTables]]. All data from the TreeView, including non-viewed columns.* Add right-click API to ListModel

* [[Gramps_4.2_Wiki_Manual_-_Entering_and_editing_data:_detailed_-_part_2#Place_Editor_dialog|Enhanced Place Editor]] and new [[Gramps_4.2_Wiki_Manual_-_Entering_and_editing_data:_detailed_-_part_2#Place_Name_Editor_dialog|Place Name editor]][[Image:Place_name_editor.png|New field on Place EditorName editor]]<hr>{{-}}

* New configuration keys set by user (settings)- [[Gramps_4.2_Wiki_Manual_-_Settings#Places|{{man label|Places}}]] tab options in {{man menu|Edit > Preferences}} dialog[[Image:Place_settings_42.png|New Places item into Preferences dialog]]{{-}}* New filter rule: ''is enclosed by''

* Consistency on '''Privacy''' option for reports[[Image:Include_private.png|Standard ''Privacy'' check box]]{{-}}* Consistency on "Name-format" options for reports* Add DeferredFilter class (a subclass of GenericFilter)* New textual Report : [[Gramps_4.2_Wiki_Manual_-_Reports_-_part_6#Note_Link_Report|Note Link Report]]: Check Links on Notesare valid

== Database backend Dependencies==

* Enhancements on Support ''to_struct'python3''' only. (python2 support dropped)'', synchronisation? * [[GEPS_032:_Database_Backend_API|GEPS 032: DB backend API]]Need GTK+ 3.10 and pygobject 3.12 or greater versions

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* Optimizations around index, Flat and TreeView models* More data into ''example.gramps'': custom parent relationship, notes.

* New module: ''[https://github.com/gramps-project/gramps/blob/master/gramps/gen./lib/placename.calendar'' becomes ''py gen.lib.gcalendarplacename]''* New moduleAll importers return now an [https: ''//github.com/gramps-project/gramps/blob/master/gramps/gen/utils/libformatting.libpy#L201 ImportInfo] object that can hold information about the import.placename''* Modifications on ''genExperimental gwplus (geneweb) import file format support* libgedcom changes ???* Remove fallback to md5 module, all supported versions now include the hashlib module.utils.libformatting''* Removed experimental [[Addon:HtmlView|HTML renderer view]]* New test scripts

* New [[Date handler Handler]] for [https://github.com/gramps-project/gramps/blob/master/gramps/gen/datehandler/_date_ja.py Japanese]* Review on Slovak Slovenian and Czech Date Handlers* New translations and date handlers : implement both "traditional" and "simplified" Chinese (Taiwan), Chinese (traditional)

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