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Current Development

Here's some features we're looking at implementing in v0.15:

• GTK+ Printing support (Francisco Moraes & Maurice van der Pot)

• Resource leveling 132917 (Kurt Maute)

Windows installer for v0.14.3 available - 23 July 2008

An Windows installer for version 0.14.3 of Planner has been added to the download page.

Update: a new installer has been made available to fix printing problems with the original 0.14.3 installer.

New in the v0.14.3 Release - 16 April 2008

• Added support for version 3 of libgda, the database access library
• Added internationalization (I18N) support for HTML export
• Allow dragging of completion bar in Gantt chart
• Allow dragging of task duration in Gantt beyond the window size
• % Complete column added to task and Gantt view
• New Tango icon set contributed by Frédéric Bellaiche
• Show guide lines setting is now persistent thanks to Marie Durand
• Fixed bug: Incorrect week numbers were sometimes shown both in the UI and in exported HTML.
• Fixed bug: Project start time shifts each time a project is read from a database
• Fixed bug: Toggling fixed duration state does not immediately update task appearance in Gantt chart

• Fixed bug 332748: Row height in exported HTML is incorrect in Internet Explorer (patch by Nico de Groot)

• Fixed bug 337382: Sidebar buttons are not accessible for things like screen readers

• Fixed bug 345163: ngettext should be used to get proper translation of plural

• Fixed bug 373008: Crash when importing MS project XML

• Fixed bug 382548: Crash when undoing indent

• Fixed bug 388454: Planner hangs when cancelling HTML export

• Fixed bug 393620: Gantt header width in exported HTML is incorrect

• Fixed bug 397132: Crash on export to database

• Fixed bug 436263: Keep task selection when (un)indenting

• Fixed bug 464359: Make distcheck fails (patch by Gilles Dartiguelongue)

• Fixed bug 486990: Fixed duration tasks have incorrect duration

• Fixed bug 499090: Incorrect task cost calculation in exported HTML for tasks worked on by multiple people.

New in the v0.14.2 Release - 26 November 2006

• fix bug 353232 - patch to raise majic priority, fixing nautilus behavior when clicking on a planner file

• fix bug 368186 - patch to paint guide lines behind project start date rather than on top - contributed by Arthur Petitpierre

• added -Wno-return-type for compile with database enabled

• patch related to bug 353213 - added #ifdefs to allow compile with libgda 1 or 2, up to libgda-1.9.102. Note: do not attempt to compile with libgda-1.9.103 or higher (it won't work - they're not supported yet).

• Added Arabic - contributed by Djihed Afifi

• fix for bug 358415 crash in gantt view, contributed by Arthur Petitpierre and mdpoole trolius org

New in the v0.14 Release - 12 June 2006

• FF and SF Predecessors 140561 (Kurt Maute)

• Simple priority scheduling (Matteo Nastasi): Use the --enable-simple-priority-scheduling option when building. This feature will allow a high priority task to steal resources from a lower priority task.

• View Non-standard working/nonworking days (Matteo Nastasi): In the Gantt view, this feature shows where resources have differences in working and nonworking days when compared to the default calendar.
• Resource Usage view canvas interactivity (Alvaro del Castillo): Right clicking on a usage bar or resource pops up an option menu.

• Gantt chart misalignment with tree view 128983 (Francisco Moraes)

• Summary tasks: work now equals sum of child tasks 305801 (Kurt Maute)

• Eliminate effects of resource assignments on summary tasks 151604 (Kurt Maute): Assigning a resource to a summary task now has no effect.

• Update user guide: (Kurt Maute)

• View Grid Lines in Gantt view 303374 (Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy): Shows horizontal lines in Gantt to help visually line up tasks with Gantt bars.