Gnumeric 1.1.12 aka 'Bring it on' is now available. This release marks the start of the run up to the next stable release. While there are still some big pieces left to arrive, much of the 1.2 checklist is complete and we're starting to audit things. Morten has been hard at work checking the import plugins for UTF-8 cleanliness and looking at the analytics. I've finally spent some time working on the MS Excel XM/2k/97 exporter and pronounce it ready for testing. There are still missing bits (sheet local names) but the majority of the content should get though at a decent size. There are a few nice shiny bits, like the beginnings of rotated text and the death of the import menu (thanks Jon Kåre). This release should feel a good bit zippier now that we've transitioned to foocanvas and enabled even more just in time rendering. NOTE : Although this is a development release it should be quite stable. There are is still feature regressions from 1.0 (porting graphs to gtk2) but other than that this release should be usable. Please play with it. Andreas: * Hide hidden cells in groff/troff export. * Fix 78356. * Watch for file extensions not matching filetype when saving. Evert Verhellen * Buff up the function guru icon a touch J.H.M. Dassen (Ray): * Updates to the build system. * Some code janitor work. Jody * POISSON is defined for x == 0 * Start work on rotated text * Enable Excel97 basic export * Have the importer designate the exporter directly * Switch to foocanvas for performance * Just in time rendering for clipboard * Add 'require_explicit_enable' for plugins * Support writing dual stream xls files * http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97672 * Rewrite string export for xls (95 & 97) * Fix inline array export for xls (95 &97) * Store the xls codepage when importing for use when exporting * Merge style extent and most common style calcs for xls export * Improve xls export of custom palettes * Fix xls export for zoom > 100 * Implement intersheet and 3d references for xls97 export * Fix xls import of 3d external references Jon Kåre: * Merged File/Open and File/Import * Remove code which supported the File/Open File/Import distinction. Morten: * Spelling fixes all over. * Add the ability to search expression results. * Add parameter checks to RAYLEIGH, RAYLEIGHTAIL, EXPPOWDIST, LAPLACE, PARETO, LOGISTIC functions. * Plug leaks in function selector dialog. * Improve memory usage in search centre slightly. * Fix precision of GAMMALN. * Fix precision of FACT and extend it to negative non-integers. * Add BETA and BETALN functions. * Make CHAR function UTF-8 safe. * Make CODE function mostly UTF-8 safe. * Fix SUBSTITUTE (for non-blank fourth argument) and make it UTF-8 safe. * Make SEARCH function UTF-8 safe. * Fix sc importer to do ISO-8859-1 -> UTF-8 conversion. * Fix oleo importer to do ISO-8859-1 -> UTF-8 conversion. Nick Lamb: * Initial support for pre-ole xls files. Olaf Till: * Two new logarithmic regression functions, one of them with nonlinear fitting of a horizontal curve shift. * Availability http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric/1.1