Gnumeric 1.6.2 aka "TBD" is now available.

This is a maintenance release consisting mostly of fixes backported from the development series.

The majority of the fixes address compatibility with Excel in cases that are somewhat extreme. For example, the value of =LEFT("x",2^32) now is "x".

• Ivan, Y.C. Wong
  • Fix Gdk-WARNING when cutting or copying cells. [Bug 314210].
  • No more debug command prompt. Error/warning messages will go to an existing command prompt (if any).
• Jody
  • Disable the IRC link in the help menu.
  • Use the cannonical web page in case of problems.
  • Silence some warnings in the ODS importer.
• Morten
  • Fix COUNTBLANK.
  • Fix ATAN2(0,0).
  • Make AND, OR, and XOR ignore strings as claimed.
  • Fix TRIM for non-ASCII case with spaces at end.
  • Improve Excel compatibility of BIN2DEC, BIN2HEX, and BIN2OCT. [Bug 323787].
  • Fix crash on xml load. [Bug 323888].
  • Fix file corruption on saving scenarios. [Bug 323927].
  • Fix a pile of leaks in solver and scenario saving and loading.
  • Fix leaks in solver dialog.
  • Fix parser leak. [Bug 301127].
  • Fix solver dialog crash. [Bug 324585].
  • Fix FMR in SUBSTITUTE.
  • Fix REPLACE and SEARCH for non-ASCII strings.
  • Fix division-by-zero problems in FIXED, ROUND, ROUNDUP, ROUNDDOWN, TRUNC.
  • Fix accuracy of ROUND, ROUNDUP, ROUNDDOWN, TRUNC.
  • Fix out-of-memory problem in REPT.
  • Fix lots of little XL compatibility problems in string functions.
  • Fix error on Search-and-replace.
  • Fix near-infinite loop in FACTDOUBLE.
  • Fix text-to-columns crash probably affecting stf import too.
  • Fix font preference crash. [Bug 326830].
  • Fix memory allocation problem for writing charts.
  • Fix loading of boolean constants from ods files.
  • Fix MID for out-of-bounds values.
  • Fix constructed-range parsing for OO.
  • Fix SECOND, MINUTE, HOUR compatibility problems.
  • Fix DATE compatibility for bizarre input.
  • Cleanup parameter handling in financial functions.
• Jon Kaare
  • Hand clipboard off to clipboard manager when exiting.
• Nick Lamb
  • Fix CONVERT crash. [Bug 323678].

Availability

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric/1.6/