Some highlights
High quality cross-platform print and pdf output by use of cairo → render-test.pdf.
Rotated text, but only with the new "Standard - Outline" object → Examples.
Object properties dialog finally does handle multiple objects → more info on our Bugzilla.
- Improved text edit mode for consistent handling of the Delete key.
A new integrated user interface mode with diagrams in tabs → screen.
- Almost 200 bugs and feature requests resolved →
release notes in GIT (including in the sections headed "dia-0.97-pre3" and "dia-0.97-pre2", but disregard the note under "dia-0.97-pre3" about the integrated UI, since Dia always starts with the integrated UI now).
Special thanks
Lars Clausen - maintaining Dia for more than five years, text edit, units and much more
Steffen Macke - keeping Dia buildable on win32 and Linux, maintaining the win32 installer, consistent icon size and more
Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe - resolving the oldest feature request (multiple object change) and fixing a bunch of long-standing bugs
Marcel Toele - contributing the ability for custom shapes with subshapes
Petr Novotnik - contributing dedicated database shapes
Thomas Harding - doing a documentation overhaul
Mark Dexter - huge documentation update
Patrick Hallinan - contributing the integrated UI patches
Elie Roux - contributing Lights shapes and a lot less compiler warnings
- And everyone else translating, providing patches or reporting bugs