Hi,

Exciting! However, I'd like a more official announcement together with a
Windows build, and Homepage update.

Thanks!



On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Hans Breuer <h...@breuer.org> wrote:

> After more than two years of spare-time development Dia 0.97 just got
> released. You can get it at http://download.gnome.org/sources/dia/0.97/
>
> Some highlights:
>  * High quality cross-platform print and pdf output by use of cairo. [1]
>  * Rotated text, but only with the new "Standard - Ouline" object. [2]
>  * Object properties dialog finally does handle multiple objects. [3]
>  * Improved text edit mode for consistent handling of the Delete key.
>  * A new integrated user interface mode with diagrams in tabs. [4]
>  * Almost 200 bugs and feature requests resolved [5] [6]
>
> Special thanks to:
>  Lars Clausen - maintaining Dia for more than five years, text edit,
>    units and much more
>  Steffen Macke - keeping Dia buildable on win32 and Linux, maintaining
>    the win32 installer, consistent icon size and more
>  Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe - resolving the oldest feature request
>    (multiple object change) and fixing a bunch of long-standing bugs
>  Marcel Toele - contributing the ability for custom shapes with subshapes
>  Petr Novotnik - contributing dedicated database shapes
>  Thomas Harding - doing a documentation overhaul
>  Mark Dexter - huge documentaton update
>  Patrick Hallinan - contributing the integrated UI patches
>  Elie Roux - contributing Ligths shapes and a lot less compiler warnings
>  ... - everyone else translating, providing patches or reporting bugs
>
> Happy Diagramming,
>    Hans
>
> [1] http://projects.gnome.org/dia/render-test.pdf
> [2] http://projects.gnome.org/dia/dia-0-97-coming-soon.png
> [3] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60331
> [4] http://projects.gnome.org/dia/dia-0.97-integrated-ui.png
> [5]
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=dia&target_milestone=0.97&resolution=FIXED
> [6] http://git.gnome.org/cgit/dia/tree/NEWS
>
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