Gnumeric 1.7.5 aka "Testing, testing, 1-2-3, testing" is now available.

This release requires the concurrently released libgoffice 0.3.4.

The major news in this release is that Gnumeric's test suite has been automated as much as possible. This is aimed at preventing further brown-bag releases.

The tests do not cover all of Gnumeric yet. In particular, we have not yet found a good way to automate the testing of the GUI parts.

Note. that the new "SAX" importer for .gnumeric files has been turned on by default. Please report any problems so we can fix them and construct tests for the future. We already know that sheet objects have some problems.

Detailed list of changes:

• Jon Kaare
  • Fix zoom preference. [Bug 378043].
• Jody
  • Improve xls import/export of 'best fit' column widths. [Bug 378560].
  • Implement Validate from List cell combo. [Bug 375620].
  • Fix xls import of checkboxes with empty labels. [Bug 375620].
  • Put the style feedback onto an idle handle to improve cursor responsiveness.
  • Improve autofill/validation combos. - Alt-Down opens a combo in the current cell - Enter, Alt-Up/Down selects within an open combo - Drag autoscroll - set initial selection for validate from list - Home/End jumps to top bottom. - Fix in RTL mode. - List items unfiltered by other active conditions in combo.
  • Fix .gnumeric import of col/row groupings. [Bug 380015].
  • SAX import for autofilters.
  • Fix XSD schema - Add autofilters - Add inputmessages - Add Workbook Attributes - Make it validate.
  • Start simplifying the object anchor types for xlsx.
  • Fix RTL text display.
  • Fix a collection of dialog leaks.
• Morten
  • Add automatic test framework.
  • Fix sc import of functions with no args.
  • Prevent ssconvert from updating the recent-files list.
  • Fix goal-seek crash. [Bug 377961].
  • Minor goal-seek improvements. [Bug 379234].
  • Fix critical in name definition dialog.
  • Improve precision of goal-seek.
  • Fix a case where goal seek went outside the interval.

Availability

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric/1.7/
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/goffice/0.3/