Gnumeric 1.2.12 aka "Its about time" is now available.

This is a high priority release. There are several important bug fixes for xls export to keep MS Excel from crashing on the files we generated. Additionally we are now recommending that distributions build --without-bonobo to work around a late breaking bug in libbonoboui that disables the help system.

This release also enables gnome-vfs support in the non-bonobo case, however it does require a undated version of libgsf 1.9.0 for gnome-vfs to work.

New development is continuing in HEAD based on gtk-2.4

NOTE : release 1.2.9 accidentally broke the duration functions

NOTE : release 1.2.10 accidentally disabled db plugin

NOTE : an important bug came in just after 1.2.11 was released

Details

• Jody:
  • Render background for charts (not just graphs) bug 127411
  • Import chart outlines properly bug 135949
  • Honour col/row visibility when exporting borders to latex bug 100372
  • xls export rows even if they only have visible formating bug 136086
  • Ensure we apply styles before rendering autofill content
  • Backport a huge performance improvement when scrolling images
  • Fix font handling in chart labels and titles bug 136363
  • Fix crash when undoing a cut from a different workbook bug 140671
  • Fix custom validation export.
  • Fix crash xls export of empty input msgs
  • Enable gnome-vfs load/save even for non-bonobo build
  • Recommend building --without-bonobo to ensure that help works
  • Suppress warnings when loading XL95 files with charts that were saved by newer version of MS Excel.
  • Make in sheet edit item cursors blink more smoothly when moving
  • Fix change in 1.2.9 that broke the db functions
  • Fix xls import for polygon names
  • Force redraw on vertical alignment change
  • Revert incomplete patch to duration functions that disabled them.
  • Minor fix for xls import of cursor position with frozen panes
  • Fix Excel warning about our exported h/v only frozen panes
  • Fix Excel crash on our exported named expressions with no addins
  • For immediate rerender, even for simple font changes. bug 137818
  • Direct editing of spinbutton in text importer, and cell format
  • handle insufficient data in moving average tool bug 138533
  • Enable clicking in the sheet edit item.
  • Restore printing for diagonal borders
  • Fix redraw for hashed (####) values
  • Fix redraw for alignment changes in spans
  • Overlay value_fmts on xls export because XL does not support them
  • Portability enhancements for hpux/irix


• Miloslav Trmac:
  • Honour DESTDIR in doc build when packaging bug 140029


• Morten:
  • Fix crash related to database functions bug 138600
  • Fix [h]:mm precision bug 138182
  • Fix validation crash due to excel import.

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric/1.2/