Gnumeric 0.55

Almer:
	* Stf importer bug fixes and enhancements.

Jody:
	* Speedup workbook exit, copy/paste.
	* Improve cut/copy/paste.
	* Improve col/row resize.
	* Undo for copy/paste, autofill, col/row resize
	* More work on formula guru.
	* Extend auto-fill to support months and years.
	* Some translation bugs.

Jon Kåre:
	* Tooltips for combo boxes.        
	* Synchronize list selection with entry field in combo boxes.
	* Make  units in print setup dialog user selectable.
	* More dialog polishing.

JPR:
	* Sorting now moves styles with the elements
	* Sorting now detects headers when sorting

Kenneth
	* Added two perl scripts for translation help/maintainence. 
          Also added is a README.tools file, explaining how to use these.

Michael:
	* Fix tricky Excel import problem.
	* Split libole2 out into a standalone package.

Miguel:
	* Added support for autocompletion.

Morten:
	* Changed a bunch of internals to work with StyleFormats instead
	  of throwing strings around.
	* Improved the optimization of styles.
	* Fix ROUND.
	* Make sorts stable.
	* Make sorts faster.

Translations:
	* Updated: da (Kenneth), de (Karl), ja (Oka/Nakai), no
        (Kjartan), pt (Jesus), ru (Valek), maybe more.
	* Update not new, but not mentioned the last time: it (Leandro).

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Gnumeric 0.54

Jacob:
	* Enable mini icons when available.

Jody:
	* Bug fixes.
	* Initial applix import.
	* Improve row/col insert/del.

JonKare:
	* Lots of dialog polishing.
	* Autoscrolling combo boxes.
	* Make tearoff combo boxes behave more like tearoff menus.

Michael:
	* Get embedded gnumeric working again.

Translations:
        * New: gl (Jesus).
	* Updated: de (Karl), no (Kjartan), sv (Andreas), and more.

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Gnumeric 0.53

Morten:
	* Fixed QUARTILE.
	* Fixed MATCH for types -1 and +1.

Jody:
	* Overhaul cell structure to cleanup temp formats, improve spans.
	* Improve array formula entry, editing, and xml-io.
	* Share formulas persisted using xml.
	* Add auto-sum
	* Improve versioning.
	* Decrease memory usage.

Michael:
	* Accelerated intersheet dependencies

Marko:
	* Number theory functions.  (In new plugin.)

Almer:
	* Stf-exporter
	* Bug-fix stf importer.

Translations:
	* Updated: da (Keld and Kenneth), de (Karl), en_GB (Robert), es
	  (Pablo), no (Kjartan), ru (Valek), uk (Yuri), and more.

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Gnumeric 0.52

Jon:
	* Tearoff combo boxes

Jody:
	* Bugs fixes.
	* Correct doc generation.
	* Improve update status area (autoexpr, editor, format tools)
	* Rework canvas editor to behave nicely at boundaries and
	  span correctly.

Morten:
	* Leak fixes.  Bug other people about leaks.
	* IPMT, PPMT argument order corrected.
	* MIRR fixed (or at least changed) to match Excel.
	* RATE, IRR, XIRR use supplied guess.
	* Improve precision of IRR.
	* Made auto-format work for sheet-relative cellrefs, i.e.,
	  "=sum(a1:a10)" now takes a default format from the range.
	* Made generated postscript files (print to file) contain enough
	  information to let ghostview go back and forth in them.
	* Made landscape previews readable.

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Gnumeric 0.49

Jukka:
	* Added `>=' and `=' constraint support for the Solver tool.
	* The Solver input variables can now have the negative values too.
	* Added `Int' constraints support by implementing the
	  Branch-And-Bound algorithm.
	* The Solver parameters are now saved/loaded when the workbook
	  is saved/loaded.
	* Implemented `Answer Report' generation for Solver.
	* Started implementation of `Sensitivity Report' generation for
	  Solver (currently, not very useful though).
	* Major GUI improvementes for Solver, i.g. Solver constraints
          can now be cell ranges, not just cells.
	* Solver documentation added.
	* Added `Advanced Filter' tool.
	* Added the following distributions for the random number
	  generation tool:
	  - Poisson
	  - Binomial
	  - Negative binomial
	  - Exponential
	* Minor improvements for the AutoSave tool.
	* GUI improvements for the Data Analysis tool.
	* Added RandExp(), RandPoisson(), RandBinom(), RandNegBinom(),
	  and RandBernoulli() functions.

Jody:
	* Redraw improvements (cursor, selection, spanning, speed, underlining)
	* Border improvements (combo, printing, partial double line).
	* More work on undo.
	* Parse interbook references.
	* Mostly correct sizing of MS Excel cols/rows and objects.
	* Printing improvements.
	* Selecting ranges for formulas on other sheets.

Jon:
	* GUI polishing.
	* File history improvements.
	* Python plugin enhancements.
        * Error reporting improvements.
	* Cursor fixes and speedups.
	* CORBA bugfixes.

ERDI Gergo :
	* Add a zoom element to the toolbar.

Michael:
	* Style undo/redo
	* Gnome Basic integration

Miguel:
	* Charting work
	* Wizard for charting 
	* Bug fixes.
	* Visual cell references while editing.
	* Implemented Gnumeric-side vectors for graphics support.

Dom Lachowicz :
	* libgladify the plugin manager.
	* Improve color combo.
	* Lots of DIV0 cases in functions caught elegantly.

Mike Kestner:
	* Add file menu file history.
	* Style preserving column/row insertion(configurable, defaults on)

Almer :
	* "Structured" Text Format Importer (STF) (Customizable CSV/Fixed Width importer)
	  - Merged with Gnumeric main source (no longer plug-in) and completely revised.
	  - Pops-up when pasting from external applications.
	  - Preview is drawn faster and is interactive.
	  - More separators to choose from when doing a CSV import.
	* Copying cells between different instantances of gnumeric.

Morten:
	* Fixed display of pre-1900 dates.
	* Fixed display of very large numbers.
	* Went on a warning-killing spree.

Ariel:
	* Guile plugin can now register functions in user given categories.

JP:
	* Add sorting functionality to workbook toolbar
	* Sorting fixes
	* Add basic attribute support for workbooks
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Gnumeric 0.48

Miguel:
	* Fix annoying flashing cursor bug.

Jody:
	* Improve inter{sheet,book} references.
	* Beginnings of Undo.
	* Row/Col hiding.
	* Keep cursor visible, Add Alt-Pg{Up,down}
	* Clipboard, Selection, & border fixes.

Morten:
	* Revamp the memory handling of the parser.
	* Fixed goal seek's behaviour on cancel and failure.
	* Bogotised PRODUCT and introduced G_PRODUCT.
	* Implemented the auto-format feature.

Jon:
	* Found xml io font size loading bug.
	* Excel export clean.
	* Python plugin update: Allow calling Gnumeric builtins from
	  Python.

Michael:
	* Re-wrote dependency engine; lots more speed.

Ariel:
	* Improvements on VALUE_BOOL management on the guile plugin.
	* Bug fixes.

Jukka:
	* Implemented `AutoSave' tool.
	* Started `AutoCorrect' tool.
	* Some minor improvements to the Solver tool.

JP:
	* Sorting undo/redo
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Gnumeric 0.47

Michael :
	* Fix nasty recalc bug that would hang the app.
	* Improve bounding box calculation for printing.

Miguel :
	* Improve empty cell loading.
	* Re-enable pasting from X.
	* Adjust semantics of paste to work even when selection is not
	  visible.

Jody :
	* Fix import plugins.

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Gnumeric 0.46

Michael:
	* Fixed problems closing workbooks
	* Add pristine workbook discard
	* Fixup html export.
	* Fixed print header/footer setup, users should remove
	  ~/.gnome/Gnumeric to speedup load.

Jon:
	* Lots of Excel style export work:
	format, font, colors, borders, alignment, wrap, rotation.
	* Excel export row/col sizing.
	* Excel fixed up DBCELL collating to export lots of rows correctly.

JP:
	* Added sorting of infinite ranges
	* Got rid of blank sheets when printing

Frank:
	* Worked on Excel summary export

Jody:
	* Begin exception handling for corba vs gui.
	* Add some simple version protection for plugins.
	* Improve error reporting for file loading.
	* Explicitly disable passord protected XL spreadsheets.
	* Bug fixing.

Cort:
	* Expanded CORBA API.

Andrew:
	* Many improvement for multi-dimensional linear regression.

Jukka:
	* Implemented Simplex algorithm for Solver
	* Solver can now solve some simple LP problems (more interesting
	  stuff is coming later).

Ariel:
	* Added guile plugin documentation.
	* Removed redeclaration of functions.
	* Removed security hazard on the definition of scm_eval.
	* Improvements on VALUE management.
	* Added Fibonacci formula
	* Split the guile scheme files into gnumeric_startup.scm and
	  functions.scm
	* Bug fixing.

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Gnumeric 0.45

JP:
	* Improved sort dialog

Nat:
	* Updated bonobo infastructure

Kevin:
	* Plan Perfect plugin
	* DIF export / import

Jody:
	* Improved clipboard ops.
	* import Excel auto-ranges
	* better range instersection
	* Guile plugin fixed
	* Auto fill display fixes.

Jon:
	* Style hashing

Michael:
	* Misc cleans
	* Fix #2110

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Gnumeric 0.44

Jon:
	* Vastly improved col / row sizing in excel import
	* ditto for Excel object placement.

JP:
	* Expanded sort dialog to allow sorting of rows as well as columns
	* Added advanced button to sort dialog to allow sorting but case
	sensitivty and text (rather value)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Gnumeric 0.43

	* Minor build fix.

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Gnumeric 0.42

Michael:
	* Totaly re-wrote style engine.

Jukka:
	* Implemented IRR and XIRR financial functions
	* Fixed the handling of the database function criterias
	* Fixed the non-numeric return values of DGET
	* One-dimensional GROWTH and TREND should work now
	* Documentation of the db functions improved

Jody:
	* Complete transition of cut/paste to cell movement code.
	* 1st pass at borders & patterns
	* Improve edit popup.
	* Rework cell format dialog.
	* Some support for inter book references (no dependencies yet)

Daniel:
	* Excel Name export.

Federico:
	* Improved dragging and zooming behavior in the print preview.
	* Added "open hand" and "closed hand" cursors for dragging the 
	  print preview.

Robert:
	* Primitive oleo import : supports numbers and text.

Frank:
	* Huge chunk of summary-info re-structuring.
	* Import and export lots of new summary fields.

JPR:
	* Improving sort dialog

Jeff:
	* Sylk import filter.
	* CSV export filter.

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Gnumeric 0.41

	* More recalculation bugs & other minor issues fixed.
	* Base release before Style mangling.

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Gnumeric 0.40

Miguel:
	* Important recalculation bugs fixed.

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Gnumeric 0.39

Miguel:

	* Arbitraryly shaped bonobo objects.
	* Formatting engine supports h,m,s correctly and supports [h], [m], and [s]

Jukka:
	* Started implementation of GROWTH function
	* Optional argument fixes for TREND function

Arturo:
	* Split libole2 + test program.
	* Large excel file support > 8Mb.

Michael:
	* Start of sheet/workbook/global name scoping.

Jody:
	* Some Optimization.
	* Enhance row/col insert/delete, cell shift, and cell cut/paste.
	* Some eye candy.

Jon K Hellan:
	* Dialog improvements.

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Gnumeric 0.36

Jody:
	* Improve selection to correctly handle overlapping ranges.
	* Improve XL import of 'escher' stream for pictures and objects.
	* Enabled import of XL objects by default.
	* Rewrite zoom dialog.

Jukka:
	* Major clean up to the documentation of functions.
	* Added tons of examples to functions.
	* Added ``Delete...'' entry to ``Edit'' menu.
	* Implemented PERCENTILE function.
	* Fixed PERCENTRANK function.

Miguel:
	* New toolbar code.
	* Report font type, support for reporting size
	* New format apply buttons for money, percent.
	* More commands to format/row/col/sheet
	* Bumped row limit to 64k

Michael:
	* Support IO on non-mmap-able excel files.
	* Totaly re-write libole2's API - its usable now.
	* Excel export 'Add-in' functions.

Frank:
	* Excel summary info export.

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Gnumeric 0.33, 0.34, 0.35

Jukka:
	* Implemented ACCRINT, ACCRINTM, DISC, FVSCHEDULE, INTRATE,
	  ISPMT, RECEIVED, PRICEDISC, PRICEMAT, TBILLEQ, TBILLPRICE,
	  and TBILLYIELD functions

Michael:
	* Re-implemented sheet objects,
	* Implemented drop filename -> Bonobo component conversion,
	* More intelligent workbook sizing.
	* Fixed sheet tab focus / editing.
	* Per sheet page setup / preview.
	* Print setups XML I/O & Excel importing
	* Functions MATCH & INDEX started.
	* Array input parser.

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Gnumeric 0.33, 0.34, 0.35

Jukka:
	* Implemented ACCRINT, ACCRINTM, DISC, FVSCHEDULE, INTRATE,
	  ISPMT, RECEIVED, PRICEDISC, PRICEMAT, TBILLEQ, TBILLPRICE,
	  and TBILLYIELD functions

Miguel:
	* Implemented Print Preview

Jody:
	* Bug fixes.

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Gnumeric 0.32

Jukka:
	* More work done on documenting the analysis tools.
	* Implemented MDETERM and MINVERSE matrix functions.
	* Finished the ROMAN function completing the mathematical
          functions.
	* Implemented DB, DDB, FREQUENCY, QUARTILE, and XNPV functions.
	* Started the implementation of LINEST and TREND functions.
	* Fixed DOLLAR, DOLLARDE, DOLLARFR, and PROB functions.

Michael:
	* Added GUI for Summary Info.
	* Enabled function wizard.
	* Initial stab at Lotus 123: 'wk1', 'wks' import.
	* Added GUI for Names.
	* Better Excel string importing.
	* Fix for padded number insertion ( fixes CSV import )
	* Implemented ISREF, INDIRECT improved CELL
	* Fixed several database functions.
	* Non-relative R1C1 style references.

Jody:
	* Enable Array formulas.
	* Add VALUE_BOOLEAN, VALUE_ERROR, and  OPER_PERCENT
	* Added EOMONTH, WORKDAY, NETWORKDAYS.
	* Work on functions : ROW, COLUMN, ISLOGICAL, ISERR, ISBLANK,
          DATEVALUE
	* Support implict intersection 'feature' of XL for functions,
	  NOT operators.
	* Support Ctrl-Arrow movement & selection.  Make moving corner of
	  selection visible.
	* Support F4 switching between absolute and relative addressing
	  modes
	* Reworked internal handling of absolute/relative addressing.
	* Fixed cut/copy/paste to relocate relative references to only
	  when copying not cuting.

Jay:

	* Implemented BESSELI, BESSELK completing the engineering functions.

Miguel:
	* Bonobo support is working again.
	* Added Moniker support for the Workbooks
	* Made the Workbook a GtkObject;
	* Made Workbook a GnomeContainer object
	* EmbeddableGrids now can be returned from get_object to provide linking support.
	* Added a signal for cell_content_changed for the speech support.
	* Removed function wizard.
	* Fixed locale setting and switching for file IO.
	* Updated the CORBA interface for setting cell attributes.
	* Killed some dead code.
	* All IO code now takes an existing workbook to load information into, 
	  rather than creating a new workbook and returning it.
	* Scrolling sheet tabs.

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Gnumeric 0.31

Jukka:
	* Implemented ``Anova: Single Factor'' data analysis tool
	* Implemented ``Anova: Two-Factor Without Replication'' data
	  analysis tool

Jody:
	* Added TEXT, HYPERLINK stub, fixed OFFSET, VALUE.
	* Improve handling of empty cells, and null strings.  Still incomplete.
	* Partial fix formating/parsing.
	* Bug fixes for Excel import.

Michael:
	* Implemented Summary Information

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Gnumeric 0.30

Jukka:
	* Bernoulli distribution added to Random Number Generation tool
	* Finished the Rank and Percentile tool
	* Lots of bug fixes and documentation updates to the data
	  analysis tools

Jody:
	* Added TRANSPOSE(), MMULT()
	* Constification.
	* SplitArray exception for array formulas support.
	* Better Excel emulation for insert/delete row/col menus.

Miguel:
	* New font selector widget for the new gnome-print information.

Rasca:
	* New EPS exporter.

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Gnumeric 0.29

Miguel:
        Added EmbeddableGrid Bonobo support for embedding graphics.
        Added header/footer printing code.
        Extended the CORBA interface for sheets
        Added Grid corba interface
	Fixed Gnumeric compilation
	Include all the plugins again

Rasca Gmelch:
	Troff export
	Improved HTML export
	Improved LaTeX export

Jukka:
        - Implemented Moving Average Tool
        - Started implementation of Rank and Percentile Tool
        - Documented Analysis tools

Jody:
	Display embedded newlines in multi-line-cells

Michael
        * More improved Excel writing code 
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Gnumeric 0.28

Hello guys,

   I have just released version 0.28 of Gnumeric.

   This version main feature is that it adds printing support.
Starting with this release you need to install the gnome-print
package.

* Availability

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric

* New Features since 0.27

	* Print support (miguel)

	* Improved function wizard (not yet enabled) (Michael)

	* 
* New Tools
	
	* Started the implementation of Data Analysis tools (Jukka)
    	    - Implemented Correlation and Covariance tools
    	    - Implemented Descriptive Statistics Tool
    	    - Implemented Sampling Tool
    	    - Implemented t-Test Tools (paired, assuming equal variance, and
    	      assuming unequal variance)
    	    - Implemented z-Test Tool
    	    - Implemented F-Test Tool
    	    - Implemented Random Number Generation Tool with the following
    	      distributions: Discrete, Normal, and Uniform.
    
* New Functions

	* Added the following functions (Jukka)
	    - FORECAST() and INTERCEPT().

* Excel support

	* Patterns now match the Excel ones (Jody)

	* Improved writing code (Michael)
	  * Excel can load our formulas now
	  * Text/number work correct (Michael)

	* Completed Excel color handling (Jody)

	* Improved Excel format support for formulas (Jody).

	* Worked on embryonic Excel chart code (Jody).

* File I/O

	* Working CSV code (miguel, alan)

	* Split between importers and loaders (miguel):

	  Importers basically lack a probing routine, so for
	  non-deterministic probing, we use importing instead of loading.

	* HTML importer (Rasca Gmelch)

	* HTML exporter (Rasca)

	* Latex exporter (Rasca)

* Random improvements

	* Prettified sort slightly (Michael).

* Major Bug fixes

	* Pattern selector works again (miguel)

	* Memory leak fixes (Morten)

	* SUMIF() and N() fixed (Jukka).

	* Many translations updated, thanks to our translators.

Best wishes,
Miguel.


Gnumeric 0.27
Hello guys,

   New version of Gnumeric has been released.  Version 0.27

   The next version will most likely merge my code to do printing into
the main branch unless we decide to do a quick bug fix release.  Also,
starting with this release, Gnumeric will be supported by
International GNOME Support (http://www.gnome-support.com).

   Michael Meeks has redone the function definition code, it is much
better and extensible than the code we had before.  

* Getting it

	You can get it from:
		ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric

* What is new in this release:

Jukka:
	* Added the following functions:
	 - FTEST(), TTEST(), SUMPRODUCT(), SEARCH(), ADDRESS(),
	   CHITEST(), BETAINV(), PERCENTRANK(), SERIESSUM(), SUMA(),
	   SUBTOTAL(), SLOPE(), AVERAGEA(), MAXA(), MINA(), STDEVA(),
	   STDEVPA(), VARA(), and VARPA().
        * And fixed these functions:
	 - BETADIST(), NORMDIST(), RANK(), and POISSON().
	* Lots of test files added

Morten:
	* Reworked the insert/delete column/row again.
	* Reworked the Goal Seek function to produce more accurate
	  results faster, and fail less often.
	* Improved the recalculation engine.
	* Shined up date calculations.
	* Added WEEKDAY(), DAYS360(), TIMEVALUE().
	* Fixed PROPER(), FLOOR(), SERIESSUM(), ROUND(), ROUNDUP(),
	  ROUNDDOWN(), ATAN2(), MOD(), INT(), COUNT(), COUNTA(),
	  AND(), OR().
	* Improved precision here and there.
	* Fixed font-reusage when writing in Gnumeric's default file
	  format.
	* Fixed cell editing code.
	* Fixed many internationalisation bugs.  Translators, please
	  make sure the default floating-point format, "0.0########",
	  has been translated for your locale.  (German translators,
	  please revisit "Zoom factor should be at least 50%" also, :-)

Miguel
	* Paste-Special/Transpose.
	* Bug fixing.
	
Sean
	* Implemented 'X-base' importing support (DBase, FoxPro etc.1)

Michael
	* Re-wrote the OLE block layer again...
	* Re-wrote all the function code for more uniformity, lucidity
	and expandibility.
	* Re-wrote the function documentation.
	* Tentative alpha Excel sheet writing
	 - StarOffice is only tested importer
	 - Only Excel 95 likely to 'work'
	 - only basic numbers and text are stored.
	* Fix writing code to preserve sheet order.

Nick Lamb
	* Added excel function mappings.
	* Fixed absolute shared formulae cell references.
	* Supplied a spreadsheet to check date functions.

Jody Goldberg
	* Supplied many new error and error checking functions.
	* Vastly improved Excel color loading.
	* Completed Excel funtion mappings, as far as possible.

Several translations updated: thanks to our translators

And lots of bugs fixed.

Thanks to all 
Miguel.



Gnumeric 0.25
Hello guys,

   Gnumeric 0.25 has been released.  Lots of new things are happening
in this new version, here is a list:

* User visible

	* New functions: BETADIST(), FDIST(), TDIST(), CHIDIST(),
	  CHIINV(), GAMMAINV(), GAMMADIST() from Jukka-Pekka.

	* New functions: SUMSQ(), MULTINOMIAL(), PRODUCT(), SQRTPI().
	  I believe these are from Jukka Pekka, but I do not see a
	  ChangeLog entry.

	* Enhanced Excel importing code even more (Michael Meeks).

	* Goal seek dialog box from Jukka-Pekka works.

	* Round up bug fixed by Morten Welinder.

	* Recomputation bugs for cell ranges fixed (some taxpayers
	  noticed that their loaded sheets were not recalculating at
	  startup, thanks for their input).

* User visible, not ready

	* More Bonobo work.  Start of graphics wizard for use with
	  Guppi, the GNOME plotting engine.


* Foundation work

	* Integration of libglade into Gnumeric.  Now we can design
	  our dialog boxes with Glade and use libglade to load the
	  GUIs.  Thanks to Damon Chaplin for Glade and James
	  Henstridge for libglade and his support with libglade.

	* Made the code use 'const' a lot more (Morten Welinder), this
	  helps making the code more robust.

* Not very visible

	* Assorted batch of bug fixes.

	* A number of memory leaks have been fixed (Morten Welinder).

	* Excel loader can even restore your selection :-) (Michael
	  Meeks).

	* A number of sanity checks from Morten Welinder.  

Miguel.


Gnumeric 0.23
Hello guys!

   A new version of Gnumeric has been released, version 0.23.  Trained
eyes will notice that I have skipped version 0.22.  Well, I did not.
I just did not announce it because I had promised not to make a new
release (which I ended up doing) because it included a pile of cool
features.

   So, here is the new stuff since 0.21, major features:

	* Michael Meeks added multiple-clause sort to the sort dialog.

	* GNUMERIC_NORMDIST() function now uses a more efficient
	  method of computation (Morten Wellinder).

	* Should load properly workbooks with references to other
	  sheets.
	
	* Starts up with a bigger size (Michael).

	* Michael has begun a function wizard, it is disabled in this
	  version by default.

	* RAND() function. 

	* Fixes for some cases of circular references (the other cases
	  were fine), by Morten.
	
	* IF() now can take variable arguments (Michael).

	* Updated documentation

	* Many small fixes.

Getting Gnumeric 0.23:

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric

Miguel.



Gnumeric 0.21
Hello guys,

   I know, I know.  Too many releases for a day.

   But many good things have been done, and we want all of these
features to be available ASAP to all of you :-).

	1. Morten Welinder implemented a more accurrate algorithm for
	   the variance functions.	

	2. Michael Meeks send me lots of updates and changes to Gnumeric:

		a. Column Sorting.
		b. Better dragging of text areas.
		c. Updated documentation on writing functions.
		d. Uses floats on number-entry if the number is
	  	   too large (instead of overflowing like it was doing).
		e. Updated function documentation to mention optional parameters.

   I promise I will be quiet now for a few days.  I really do.

* Availability:

	ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric

Miguel.
		



Gnumeric 0.19
Hey Dudes!

   New version of Gnumeric has been released.

* New in this version:

   * New infrastructure to simplify writing functions 
     with variable arguments (Michael Meeks).

     New token for ranges.

   * Many new functions:

	* Jukka-Pekka Iivonen contributed many finantial functions:
	  DOLLARDE(), DOLLARFR(), NOMINAL(), NPV(), PV(), FV(), PMT(),
	  IPMT(), PPMT(), NPER() and DURATION().

	* Michael Meeks wrote the spreadsheet lookup functions: COLUMN(),
	  COLUMNS(), HLOOKUP(), ROW(), ROWS(), VLOOKLUP()

	* Sean Atkinson improved SUBSTITUTE() and he implemented CONCATENATE(), REPT(), FIND(), 
	  FIXED(), PROPER(), REPLACE(), T(), VALUE(), SUBSTITUTE(), DOLLAR()

	* Jukka-Pekka wrote CEILING() and COMBIN().

	* Jukka-Pekka wrote the statistical functions: 
	  BINOMDIST(), HARMEAN (), HYPEGEOMDIST(), AVEDEV(), CONFIDENCE(), CRITBINOM(),
	  DEVSQ(), FISHER(), KURT(), NORMDIST(), PERMUT(), SKEW(), STANDARIZE(), WEIBULL(),
	  FISHERINV(), NORMSDIST() and LOGNORMDIST(), CORREL(),
	  COVAR(), MODE(), NEGBINOMDIST(), RANK(), TRIMMEAN().

	* Michael Meekrs wrote POISSON(), DELTA(), GESTEP().

	
    * Many bug fixes

	* Daniel Veillard fixed the bug with saving cells that had the "&" inside.

	* Cleanups from Michael to use the new variable arguments code.

        * Various typo fixes.

* Availability:

	ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric/gnumeric-0.19.tar.gz


Miguel.



Gnumeric 0.18
Hello guys,

   New gnumeric is out.

   This is mainly a bug fix release

* Features:

	- More functions from Michael Meeks

	- Bug fix: Applying a cell number format should work again inmediately
	  (it was not queuing the re-rendering operation).

	- Bug fix: Precedence fixes: when decoding the tree to render a text
	  representation, I was not properly considering the case for
	  same-priority but different meaning operations. 

	  Should work now. (ie, it will correctly decode 1/(c4*d4)
	  again. 

	- New code: integer overflow/underflow detection code.  Now
	  addition and substraction will be promoted to floating point
	  values if there is a overflow in the computation.

* Availability:

	ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric/gnumeric-0.18.tar.gz



Gnumeric 0.17
Hello guys,

   New version of Gnumeric is out:

* Availability:

	ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric

* Changes and new features:

	* Financial functions (effect, sln, syd) from Vladimir Vuksan.

	* Engineering functions (power, gammaln, poisson, expondist,
	  sign, trunc) from Michael Meeks.

	* Statistical functions (stdev, stdevp, var, varp, gcd,
	  geomean,) from Michael Meeks.

	* Fixes to the clipboard code (should paste formulas to other
	  applications correctly and fix the inter-worbook pastes).

	* External function loading works for Excel files.

	* Cleaned up the Excel code (Michael)

	* Should compile in AIX again.

* Documentation

	* As usual, all of the Gnumeric functions are documented.




Gnumeric 0.16
Hello guys,

   New version of Gnumeric is out:

* Availability:

	ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric

* Changes and new features:

	* Cell ranges will work properly if they are not in their
	  natural order (fixes the bug reported about SUM (C1:A1) not
	  working and a whole range of similar problems).

	* CLEAN() function fixed.

	* New text exporting plugin from Takashi Matsuda.

	* We use gdk_fontset_load now to load fonts instead of
	  gdk_font_load, this should make the code work for various
	  international users (Takashi).

	* Entering data with XIM on the sheet should work now as well
	  (Takashi).

	* Paste-by-value has been fixed by Takashi as well.

	* cell_set_format_from_style has been speeded up by Michael
	  Meeks.

	* Excel importer no longer has static buffers (removes various
	  problems reported by people) (Michael Meeks).

	* Excel importing code should be significantly faster and less
	  verbose now (Michael Meeks).

Miguel.



Gnumeric 0.14
Hey guys!

   This is the release of Gnumeric "Simplified Bonobo" 0.14.

   The only difference between Gnumeric 0.13 and 0.14 is that 0.14
ships in a way that makes the install process use the documentation as
it was generated in my machine (that means, you do not need the
Docbook tools installed in your system to get the documentation).

Best wishes,
miguel.



Gnumeric 0.13
Hello guys,

   I have just released Gnumeric "Superstitious Bonobo" 0.13.  This
version is as usual available in:

 	ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric

These are the new features in this version:

	1. Excel loading is much faster now (Michael Meeks)

	2. More excel sheets load now (Michael)

	3. Various compilation fixes from Tim Mooney for some
	   strict C compilers (Digital C compiler in this case).

	4. Now it recalcs cells when you have cleared values or
	   removed cells (just a missing call to workbook_recalc was missing). 

	5. Install/compile fixes from Raja Harinath.

	6. Implemented new functions: "ISERROR" and "NOT".

	7. Copy/paste fixes in the presence of errors in the spreadsheet.

	8. Small display glitch fix.

	9. Add type checking to functions that take a constant number of arguments. 	

	10. Upper case format letters are now accepted.

Enjoy!

Miguel.


Gnumeric 0.12
Hello,

   New Gnumeric version, this is the miguel-will-be-out-until monday
release of Gnumeric, I will be visiting Boston, so if you are in the
area we could probably meet.

   New features:

	- New function TRUNC

	- Excel loading: Michael Meeks and Sean did lots of work again
	  on improving our Excel importer.

	- Internal fix that the Excel code was hitting.

	- Fixes the menu for the quick operations (on the workbook)

	- Fix to the rename-sheet function (it was displaying garbage
	  sometimes)

	- Brunno finished the support for coloring the background of
	  cells, so now we can have nicely colored sheets with nice
	  backgrounds :-)

	- He also finished the foreground setting color code.  Thanks!

	- Now it warns if you drop a range of cells in a region that
	  already has values.

	- Should include the missing files for the Perl plugin.

	- CSV code disabled until it is fixed.

	- Stricter control for removing active sheets in the code.

	- Michael provided an icon for Excel files.

	- Contributed Spanish documntation from Pablo.

You can get this at:

	ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric

Best wishes,
Miguel.



Gnumeric 0.11
Hello,

   I have released a new version of Gnumeric, pretty much a bug fix
over the Numerically Skillfully Cow release of Gnumeric.

   Thanks to all of you who send me good bug reports, here is a list
of the bugs fixed and improvements:

	- Excel loading code improved again by Michael Meeks.  He also
	  spotted a number of bugs in the code which were fixed.

	- Paste was not properly recomputing formulas pasted.

	- Gnumeric no longer crashes on save.

	- Dependecy computation code got fixed.  Horribly typo was
	  doing all sorts of nonsense ;-)

Fetch it from:

   ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric/gnumeric-0.11.tar.gz

Miguel.


Gnumeric 0.10

Hello number lovers,

    I have released the Numerically Skillfully Cow release of the
Gnumeric Spreadsheet.

New in this version:

	* Many updates on the Excel side, optimizaitons, bug fixes,
	  more features supported (Michael Meeks, Sean Atkinson).

	* Support for adding/removing sheets on the notebook tabs

	* A small draw fix (g's, j's and y's are no longer cropped).

	* Mime types for Excel files are shipped (but no gnome icon
	  for XL files yet).

	* Fixes to the CVS loader (Vincent Renardias).

	* Perl plugin is shipped again.

You can get this from:

	ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric

Happy sums,
Miguel.



Gnumeric 0.8
Hello guys,

   Gnumeric "International Manatee" 0.8 has been released.

   This version is available in:

	ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric-0.8.tar.gz

   The most important change in International Manatee is the fact that
the documentation that Adrian Likins wrote is now integrated into the
build system.  It gets installed and we feature a reference guide for
the internal Gnumeric functions. 

   These are the features of International Manatee:

	- Bruno enabled the coloring page for setting the foreground
	  color. 

	- The sheet label name works properly now (it no longer
	  "slides"). 

	- Correct behaviour of clicking in the presence of editing the
	  sheet label name.

	- Guile support now needs to be explicitly configure
	  (--with-guile).
	
	- Fix crashing problems repoted when autofilling.

	- Documentation is included in the tarball (You need DocBook
	  if you plan on extending the documentation or fixing my
	  ugly, ugly, ugly stuff :-).  You can find Docbook here:

		ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/home/rosalia/docware.
	
	  A docbook tutorial is available in:

		http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~rosalia/mydocs/docbook-intro.html

	  The full docbook documentation can be downloaded for free
	  from the Davenport site (I lost the url to this, but I am 
	  confident all of you documentation-savvy people are good
	  at altavistaing things).

Enjoy,
Miguel.


Gnumeric 0.7
Hello guys,

   Gnumeric "Speedy Manatee" 0.7 has been released.

   This version is available in:

	ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric-0.7.tar.gz

   The highlights of this version are:

   New features dept:

	- References to other sheets works, you can use this like this:
	  =Sheet!A1+1
	  ='Regional sales'!C5*3

	- New border code.  Getting ready to print the borders on the
	  cells. 
	
	- Menu hints are now available for every menu entry.

	- Standarized the menus (Nat Friendman).

	- Use the statusbar in the code now.

	- You can now rename your sheets by double clicking on the
	  tabs and typing the new name.  How excelish!

   Enhancements dept:

	- Excel importing code has been enhanced by Michael Meeks and
	  Nick Lamb.

	- When inserting/moving columns or rows, the cells moved now
	  do not change their formulas (to keep the sheet working).

   Bug fixes dept:

	- Better default decimal formats

	- Page flipping works correctly if you press on the tab names.

	- Child dialog boxes no longer ignore keystrokes (in
	  save/load).

	- Fixed the memory leaks on the Excel plugin (Michael).
	
	- Provide better error checking for dates (Havoc Pennington)

Enjoy,
Miguel.


Gnumeric 0.5
Hello guys,

   I have just released a new version of Gnumeric (gnumeric-0.5), this
version is available in:

	ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric-0.5.tar.gz

   The highlights of this version are:

	- A pluggable framework for file formats.  No need to hack the 
	  code to add your file loader anymore, routines are provided
	  to register file loading and saving formats.

	- (bug fix) Fixed the broken storage setup I introduced in the
	  previous version.  This means that files are now correctly
	  loaded and that if an expression renders an error you will
	  still be able to access the information you stored.

Enjoy this new version,
Miguel


Gnumeric 0.4
From miguel Wed Dec 16 23:16:34 -0600 1998
From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx>
To: gnumeric-list@gnome.org
Subject: New version of Gnumeric has been released.
X-Lost: In case of doubt, make it sound convincing


Hello guys,

   A new version of Gnumeric has been released as part of the GNOME
libraries code freeze.

   I have not been very active the last two months in Gnumeric due to
the freezing of GNOME (I worked a lot on the file manager issues), but
I will soon be back working in the spreadsheet.

   Michael Meeks and Bruno Unna did an awesome job while I was doing
this: They added Excel file importing.  That is all I can say.  Some
stuff is missing, yes, it will get added, yes.

   During the last few weeks Morten Welinder has been reviewing the
Gnumeric code and making very good suggestions to the coding style as
well as making sure we keep Gnumeric in a nice way.  I am very
thankful for his input.

   Jakub Jelinek made the scrolling code be smarter than my previous
attempt at scrolling, it is now definetly usable.

   Code for attaching notes to cell is completely on the code.  The
only problem is that right now comment is hardcoded in the source
code.  We need a nice dialog box for this.

   Mark Probst added some Guile support (this as well as the other
plugins is completely optional), some neat things can be done with it,
make sure you check the distribution directory.

   Exponentiation has been implemented (all the code was there, I just
had forgotten to add the line to the grammar).

   Some more architectural work has been going on: named-cell range
code is there (not finished but there).  Also, some code for
referencing the cells in other sheets or workbook is there.

   I still need to figure out a way to encode this into the
expression.  I would appreciate any input on this issue: There are
various possible solutions, one of the is creating a special OP_ that
would represent a lookup into an non-local sheet.  The other is to
define this as a function and finally, it could be done as a special
cell type.

   Also, I have dropped the "entered_text" information I kept on the
cell.  Now the cell value is stored either as a value or as an
expression tree and decoded when the user requires it.  This was
required for a number of things (one of them being a nicer way to
share cell expressions during copying, and for the excel format and
the autofill code got definetly simpler and more maintainable).

   Various display and scrolling glitches were fixed as well.  But in
the process, I somehow broke the object-drawing code.  I have not
researched this yet.

   The initial support for CORBA is in, but it does not actually do
anything, it is just the setup for launching the Gnumeric server.
Owen Taylor made Gnumeric accept dragged files, you can now drag files
from the file manager into the spreadsheet, on this topic:  the date
routiens now use GLib's gdate instead of the gnome-libs libDate
routines.

   You can fetch it from:

      ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric-0.4.tar.gz

Enjoy,
Miguel.
