The AbiWord team is proud to announce the release of version 0.9.0 of AbiWord. The release marks the count down to version 1.0. While we are not in feature freeze we will no longer make substantial changes to the tree. We anticipate making a number of more rapid releases as we squash bugs on the way to version 1.0.

Users will find this release MUCH faster, uses far fewer resources, with fewer bugs and with many more features than 0.7.14.

Multi-lingual users will find the multi-lingual on-the-fly spell checking particularly useful.

All Platforms:

Fully Edittable Styles: Martin, Dom

Multi-Lingual Spell checking (Spell check in multiple languages) Dom, Thomas Fletcher.

Language Dialog: Dom,

ispell checker improvements: Thomas Fletcher, Dom, Vald, Hub, others....

pspell checker fixes: Frodo

Line Based Tables: Martin

Tab Bar types: Martin, rms

Scrolling Speedups: Martin, Joaquin.

Speed Ups for Large Documents: Martin, Joaquin

Major Back End Reworks: Dom, Mike Nordell, Pat Lam

Automatic Numbered Headings: Martin

Drag bars for vertical margins: Pat Lam

RTF import/export improvements: Hub, Martin, Dom

XHTML import/export improvements: John Clark.

MS Word Improvements: Dom

Human Readable Text Export: David Given

XSO-FO Export: Dom

Applix Words Import/Export: Hub, Dom

Multiple Encoded text import/export: Andrew Dunbar

Support for almost all worlds Languages in Windows Build : Andrew Dunbar

Preview as Web, Dom

AutoConf build system: Sam, Frodo, Aaron Lehmann, Hub, Alec Wolman

Tons of Locale definitions: Dom and intrepid Abi contributors.

Export to AbiWord templates. Dom.

Plugin Architecture: Dom

Left Ruler fixes: Dom

AutoSaves of document: Joaquin, Martin

Major Encoding fixes and Improvements: Andrew Dunbar, Tomas Frydrych, Joaquín, Dom,

New and Improved Artwork and icons: jimmac, Tigert

Encoding Manager Dialog: Andrew Dunbar

Improved Bugzilla and Webpage: Sam TH, Jesper Skov

Tons of Bug fixes.

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The whole Abi team with various of help from numerous volunteers.

Unix Platform:

Styles Dialog: Martin, Dom, John Clark

Repaint speedups and cleanups: Martin

Color Pickers Toolbar buttons: Martin

Language Dialog: Dom

Nifty mouse pointer changes: Martin

Perl Bindings for AbiWord: Joaquin, Paolo

AbiWord Widget build (Start of embedable AbiWord): Dom

Substantial reduction in usage of X resources: Martin

Context Menu stays active on release of right button: Martin

Encoding Manager Dialog: Dom

Updated our Distrubted Type 1 Fonts: Martin

Fix Irix build:

Fix HPUX build: Kevin Vajk’

Fix Solaris build:

Add IBM 390 build:

CJK fixes: Ha Shao

Gnome:

Clip Art dialog: Dom

Major gnome-print fixes (Proper WYSIWYG in Gnome-print, print preview and print Symbol and Dingbat fonts): Martin

QNX:

Styles Dialog: Thomas Fletcher:

Color Pickers Toolbar buttons: Thomas

Encoding Manager Dialog: Thomas

Plugin Dialog: Thomas

Language Dialog: Thomas

Windows:

Lists Dialog: Micheal Pritchard, Mike Nordell

Styles Dialog: Bruce Pearson, Micheal Pritchard

Language Dialog: Andrew Dunbar.

Encoding Manager Dialog: Andrew, Mike Nordell

Support for all the world's Languages: Andrew Dunbar.

BEOS:

Various fixes: Jamie Montgomerie, Stephane Fritsch

Mac

Lots more progress, AbiWord Frame now runs: Hub

New and Updated Translations:

Turkish translation Görkem Çetin

Norwegian updates Karl Ove Hufthammer

Italian updates: Marco Innocenti

British English: Alan Horkan

Irish Gaelic: Alan Horkan

Swedish Update: rms

Porugese Update: rms

Catlan Update: Jesús Corrius

German Help: Ralf Müller

Slovenian Translation: Andraz Tori

French update: Gilles Saint-Denis

German Update: Ralf Müller, Christain Meyer, Harald Fernengel

Hungarian Translation: Tamas Decsi

Special Thanks to:

David Chart, Alan Horken, Tim Da Luca for great QA work with bugzilla. These were really useful contributions.