New features since 0.9.6.1

Import/Export bookmarks to RTF - Hub

Multi-threaded incremental loader - Martin, Hub

Perl Scripting now works by default - Dom, Joaquin, Patrick Lam, Frodo Looijaard

State of the art Theasurus plugin - Jared Davis, Micheal Pritchet, Francis Franklin

Start of HTML importer plugin - Francis Franklin, Dom, Micheal Pritchett, Hub

Spelling support for Commonwealth English, Brazilian Portuguese, Hungarian, Ukranian, Galican

Word Perfect Import improvements -Marc Maurer,Will Lachance

Import Lists from MS Word - Dom, Tomas Frydich, Martin

New improved toolbar icons - Dom

Fields update automatically - Martin, Tomas, Frydich

Styles Lock - Bryce Nesbitt, Dom (Available for testing by editing document to include <abiword styles="locked">)

Export nested lists to RTF - Martin

Import First and facing header/footers from RTF - Martin

Import Bookmarks for MS Word - Tomas Frydrych

Import hyperlink from MS Word - Tomas Frydrych

Add header/footer export to HTML - Dom

Look in dictionary file for suggestions to misspelt words. - Martin

Help file improvements - David Chart

Perl script to convert the docs to HTML - Kenneth Christiansen

Lots of progress on OSX port - Hub

MS Word importer imports all known image types - Dom

New AbiWord server - Jared Davis, Hub, Shaw, Dom

Start of Open Office importer plugin - Dom

Web layout Mode - Dom

Free translate plugin for Windows - Michael Pritchett, Andrew Dunbar

Drag and drop hyperlinks and images from Galeon/Mozilla into AbiWord - Martin Sevior

Gnome2 icons - Dom

Many bug fixes since 0.9.6.1

FreeBSD fixes - Paul Anguiano

Fixes to HTML, XHMTL export - John Clark, Marc Maurer

Fixes to BIDI startup segfault - Jeremy Davis

Fixes to translator plugin - Andrew Dunbar

fixes for Solaris Build - Hub

Cut and paste fixes - Hub, Dom

Fixes to jpeg build - Hub

Fix problem with Null character in labelset header - Anthony Fok

Fix for XIM input for gnome build -

Improved Postscript output - Anthony Fok

Numerous build fixes - Francis Franklin

XDarwin Improvements - Francis Franklin

Work around bug in libXML2 - Francis Franklin

Improvements to plugin build system - Francis Franklin

wv improvements - Francis Franklin, Tomas Frydrych, Dom, Robert Wilhelm, Michael Pritchett, Ries van Twisk

BiDi improvements - Tomas Frydrych

Fix crash with TTF fonts - Tomas Frydrych

Printing fixes - Tomas Frydrych

Better highlight colour selection - Tomas Frydrych

Quote character fixes - Tomas Frydrych

Speed up drawing - Tomas Frydrych

New bookmark hotkey - Tomas Frydrych

Insert Bookmark dialog fixes - Tomas Frydrych

Fixes for list for BiDi - Tomas Frydrych, Matti Picus

Fixes for Windos GoTo dialog - Tomas Frydrych

Fixed crash in GoTo - Tomas Frydrych

New Field - Fixed a crashing bug in Go To - Tomas Frydrych

Fixes to paragraph preview - Tomas Frydrych

Fixes to tabs and indents - Tomas Frydrych

Text layout improvements - Tomas Frydrych

RPM script for abispell - Gabriel Gerhardsson

Build fixes for HP UX 10.20 - Martin Gansser

fixes to Windows build system - Nikolaj Brandt Jensen, Michael Pritchett

Fixes to undo/redo - Dom

Fix Free BSD spelling - Dom

Fix page setup bugs - Dom

Find/replace improvements - Dom

GdkPixbuf plugin improvements - Dom, Francis Franklin

Header/footer improvements - Dom, Martin

Backend Piecetable fixes - Dom

Cross platform mutex classes - Dom

Help file fixes - Marc Maurer

Report a bug improvements - Bryce Nesbit

Columns Dialog fixes - Patrick Lam, Robert Altenburg

kword exporter fixes - Patrick Lam

Page Size fixes - Patrick Lam, Jesper Skov

Windows help fixes - Michael Pritchett

Normal Mode fixes for Windows - Micheal Pritchet

Insert pictures fixes - Micheal Pritchet

rpm spec improvements - Rui Miguel Seabra

Styles fixes - Martin

Lists fixes - Martin

General Layout fixes - Martin, Tomas Frydrych, Jesper Skov, Dom

Fix squiggles in header and footers - Jesper Skov

Allow aborts in font selection - Jesper Skov

Spell checker fixes - Jesper Skov

Build fixes for BeOS - Christian Biesinger

Fixes to Zoom Dialog - Jared Davis, Dom, Michael Pritchett

Improvements to Insert Field Dialog - Jared Davis

Improvements to Page Numbers Dialog - Jared Davis

Plug memory Leaks - Hubert Figuiere, Tomas Frydrych

Improvements to Colour support - Dom

Psion Document importer fixes - Frodo Looijaard

Fixes for Bookmarks - Adrian Philips

Windows Installer improvements - Michael Pritchett

Improvements to Page Break and Paragraph dialogs - Gilles Saint-Denis

Pixel and cursor dirt fixes - Martin

RTF import fixes - Martin, Jesper Skov

Fix for localization scripts - Jakub Travnik

Fixes for AbiWord wrapper script - Chris Winne

Closed bugs since 0.9.6.1

23, 215, 429, 475, 609, 653, 654, 665, 839, 846, 906, 916

1057, 1095, 1104, 1118, 1120, 1136, 1142, 1153, 1161, 1189, 1198, 1286

1320, 1360, 1365, 1399, 1410, 1411, 1487, 1506, 1532, 1583, 1613, 1689

1702, 1734, 1758, 1760, 1793, 1839, 1847, 1884, 1892, 1896, 1897, 1903

1939, 1948, 1958, 1969, 1970, 1975, 1977, 2002, 2007, 2020, 2032, 2037

2040, 2041, 2048, 2050, 2053, 2063, 2092, 2098, 2114, 2120, 2137, 2142

2151, 2161, 2198, 2207, 2214, 2216, 2228, 2233, 2248, 2259, 2260, 2267

2273, 2277, 2284, 2286, 2289, 2293, 2300, 2305, 2312, 2316, 2324, 2327

2332, 2335, 2340, 2341, 2343, 2344, 2347, 2352, 2353, 2355, 2361, 2364

2374, 2376, 2384, 2391, 2403, 2404, 2409, 2412, 2414, 2415, 2420, 2424

2425, 2427, 2428, 2431, 2432, 2443, 2445, 2448, 2453, 2456, 2457, 2458

2461, 2464, 2469, 2471, 2472, 2474, 2476, 2478, 2479, 2480, 2483, 2485

2487, 2488, 2489, 2492, 2494, 2495, 2501, 2502, 2506, 2507, 2508, 2513

2514, 2516, 2517, 2518, 2521, 2523, 2524, 2525, 2526, 2528, 2532, 2533

2535, 2537, 2538, 2539, 2547, 2548, 2551, 2552, 2555, 2557, 2560, 2566

2571, 2573, 2575, 2577, 2579, 2580, 2583, 2586, 2587, 2590, 2591, 2592

2593, 2594, 2595, 2604, 2608, 2611, 2612, 2621, 2629, 2634, 2644, 2645

2646, 2648, 2655, 2660, 2674, 2676, 2677, 2681, 2684, 2687, 2690, 2695

2696, 2701, 2702, 2706, 2713, 2717, 2718

223 bugs closed.

John Clark, Hub, Francis Franklin, Tomas Frydrych, Dom, Marc Maurer, Patrick Lam, Michael Pritchett, Jesper Skov, Martin, Robert Wilhelm, Robert Altenburg, Joaquin Cuenca Abela, Jared Davis, Jeremy Davis, Anthony Fok, Bryce Nesbitt, Adrian Philips,

Pavel Roskin, Gilles Saint-Denis, Ries van Twisk, Chris Winne

New and updated localizations/translations

Rui Miguel Seabra and Pierre Abbat - Coordinators of localization work.

Turkish - A. Alper Atici

Polish - Piotr Banski

Danish - Kenneth Christiansen, Birger Langkjer

Galician - Ramón Flores

Swiss High German - Andrew Dunbar

Assamese - Andrew Dunbar

Chinese - Anthony Fok and Thiz Linux

Norwegian Nynorsk - Karl Ove Hufthammer

Italian - Marco Innocenti

Swedish - Per Larsson, Hakan Waara

Dutch - Marc Maurer

French - Gilles Saint-Denis

Brazilian Portuguese - Gladiston Santana

Slovenian - Martin Lacko

German - Damon Allen Davison

Hungarian - Tamas Decsi

Greek - Nikos Niktaris

Welsh - Rhoslyn Prys

Russian - Vladimir Stoos