12 Sep 2005
AbiWord - 2.3.6 Released!
While I was out of town this weekend, Uwog apparently got to the point where he was happy enough with everything to push out a 2.3.6 development release. I have since obliged with Windows installers of the core program and the tools plugins (which is where Math/equation editing and grammar checking are). True to my experiences, the boring things (the import/export plugins) that usually work just fine aren’t working, so the import/export plugin installer isn’t quite ready. You will be able to get these files from AbiSource.com in a while, until then, you can get them right from me in my builds location here. Please, please, please, if you use Windows, download, install, and test these files, especially the grammar checking plugin and our equation editor, both in the tools plugin installer. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Please note: the standard disclaimer of development versions applies, especially since this is the first release build (even development) for Windows that has both math and grammar enabled. However, I feel pretty confident, so don’t let that turn you away from testing. Just don’t bank anything critically important on it. The nice thing with AbiWord, is that even if something goes terribly wrong, the file format is just based on XML, so you can open it in another version or even Notepad and get your data.
Thank you for your help!
Domain Names, or, Uwog, where are you?
You may have noticed that above, I said you could get the installers from the standard location “in a while”. This is because, due to an unusual and unfortunate combination of circumstances, I can neither get to IRC or email Uwog. The IRC problem should be fixed within a day (just need to get my DynDNS fixed), but the email problem is a bit more of Uwog’s problem - it looks like he got his domain name stolen! uwog.net is now a netherlandish Audi fansite instead of his personal website which it was just a few days ago. Whois doesn’t show anything is wrong, but my email bounced and the web is wrong. Hopefully, he will read this and if he wasn’t already aware of the problem, he will be. I may remove this if he fixes the problem - this is just the best method I have to contact him at the moment.
Remember, when testing my new build of AbiWord on Windows, file bugs at our Bugzilla!
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