FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The AbiWord development team is proud to present the 3rd development release of the next generation of AbiWord. This new version again brings exciting new features to the user as well as LOTS of bugfixes. Here's a list of some of the changes made, which is by no means a complete list:

XIM input support on Unix (Dom Lachowicz)

Footnote support (Martin Sevior, Pat Lam)

Refactoring of the Frame code (Will Lachance, Hub Figuiere, Jeremy Davis, Johann Bjork)

Improved HTML and XHTML importer and exporter (Frank Franklin)

New Win32 installer, NSIS2 (Jeremy Davis)

Updated Win32 Keyboard handling (Jordi Mas)

Make the caret change when in overwrite mode (Tomas Frydrych)

Mail merge capability, including database access using libgda (Dom Lachowicz)

Work on a Open Office importer/exporter (Dom Lachowicz)

Font fixes and improvements (Joaquin Cuenca Abela, Marc Maurer)

A whole bunch of table improvements (Martin Sevior)

Image drag-n-drop (Marc Maurer)

Image resizing (Marc Maurer)

Drag-n-drop editing (Dom Lachowicz)

Various spellcheck fixes (Jesper Skov)

Aspell/Pspell user dictionary support (Dom Lachowicz)

Support for "Barbarisms" (Jordi Mas, Dom Lachowicz)

Python plugin (Mauro Colorio)

Lot's of build fixes (Frank Franklin, Mike Nordell, Michael Pritchett)

Training Manual (David Buddridge)

Lot's of localisation work (too many people to mention by name)

The full list of changes can be found at:

http://home.student.utwente.nl/j.m.maurer/abiword/1.1.3_changelog.html

As always, we can't stress enough that this development release should NOT be used in production environments. We do however encourage users to test this release and report any bugs to our bug tracking database Bugzilla, which is located at http://bugzilla.abisource.com.

You can download this latest development release from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=15518

You can learn more about AbiWord from our website at http://www.abisource.com/.

A screenshot of AbiWord and footnotes can be found here:

http://home.student.utwente.nl/j.m.maurer/abiword/abi_footnotes.png

Happy testing!

- The AbiWord development team