Gnumeric 0.99.1 aka 'Release Candidate 2' is now available. This is a bug fix release. Many thanks to all the testers. People were obviously in a festive mood and thankfully reported lots of issues big and small. Even better they did it _before_ the release ! Documentation and translation are seeing steady improvement and the application is working smoothly. We have returned to a state with no known crashes, or data corruptions. Barring new reports this release will become 1.0.0 on Sunday Dec 30/2001. * New Features * Implement merges and spans in html exporter (Andreas) * Bug fixes & Polishing * Improve documentation and regenerate images (Adrian) * Improve documentation incl. analysis tools, files & worksheet (Andreas) * Make output from HTML4.0 and HTML3.2 exporters validate (Andreas) * Fix copy multiple cells to single merged cell (#67298) (Andreas) * Fix expr entry widget: used to get confised on mouse clicks (Andreas) * Add insert Graph menu item & icon (Jody) * Fix Exit icon for bonobo build. (Jody) * Delete the CAPS lock feature from autocorrect. (Jody) * Fix Chema's sneaky cursor grab. (Jody) * Applix import for v4.41, add it to the mime types. (Jody) * Inter-Gnumeric pasting support for merges, and shares. (Jody) * Fix life cycle of validation styles. (Jody) * Undo for pasting a cut was saving too much. (Jody) * Parser was not honouring requests to ensure absoluteness. (Jody) * Transparent makes no sense for lines & arrows. (Jody) * Improve help tokenizer. (Jody) * Don't prompt for sheet delete if it is pristine. (Jody) * Autofill includes autoformats for expressions. (Jody) * Edit position after undoing a merge. (Jody) * Partial fix for del col/row undo with dependent objects. (Jody) * Support some additional forms of #!REF in XL import. (Jody) * Fix XL importing of graphs with embedded graphs. (Jody) * Improve autofill handling of merges & arrays. (Jody) * Support pasting transposed merges. (Jody) * Ensure that cell sizes never violate absolute minima. (Jody) * Fix format leak (thanks Morten) (Jody) * Fix data validation. (Jody) * Dirty workbook when modifying summary info. (Jody) * Invalidate names refering to deleted expressions. (Jody) * Fix row height resize when undoing changes to JIT rendering. (Jody) * Fix DATE. (Morten) * Fix a pile of leaks in financial functions. (Morten) * Fix COUPNCD, YIELD, PRICE. (Morten) * Fix overflow issues. (Morten) * Search and search-replace history persistence. (Wayne) * Improve documentation: intro and printing (Wayne) * Make bound errors for INDEX consistent. (Tino) * Support importing multi-byte text. (Nakai) * Translations Andreas Guelzow (de), Christian Meyer (de), Christian Rose (sv), Dan Damian (ro), Duarte Loreto (pt), German Poo-Caaman~o (es), Gustavo Maciel Dias Vieira (pt_BR), Morten Welinder (da), Roy-Magne Mo (nn), Stanislav Visnovsky (sk),, Takeshi Aihana (ja), Yukihiro Nakai (ja), Zbigniew Chyla (pl) * Availability http://download.gnome.org/GNOME/stable/sources/gnumeric