ANNOUNCE: Tomboy 0.12.0 Released (Stable Release for GNOME 2.24)

[Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

Hi Everyone,

This email is to announce Tomboy 0.12.0.  This is the beginning of the
stable 0.12.x series and will coincide with GNOME 2.24.x.

Tomboy has been branched as "gnome-2-24" for stable (0.12.x)
development.  SVN trunk is now open for new feature development
(0.13.x).


What is Tomboy
==================================================

Tomboy is a simple personal note-taking application designed to be
unobtrusive and friendly, while supporting inter-note-links similar to
a WikiWikiWeb to help you organize your notes and ideas.  It can run
either as a GNOME panel applet or a notification tray icon.

Tomboy's Website: http://www.gnome.org/projects/tomboy/

Tomboy's Wiki: http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy
 * Road Map: http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/RoadMap
 * Brainstorming: http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/PlaceForNewIdeas

Tomboy 0.12.0 is available at:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/tomboy/0.12/tomboy-0.12.0.tar.gz
 md5sum: d887f846f293d279f10f1caf9ed5216d
 size: 5.0M

http://download.gnome.org/sources/tomboy/0.12/tomboy-0.12.0.tar.bz2
 md5sum: d887f846f293d279f10f1caf9ed5216d
 size: 4.2M


What's new in Tomboy 0.12.0
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* New Tasque add-in
* Add "New notebook..." menu item to Notebook toolbar button
* Many fixes to note synchronization
* Improvements to Bugzilla and HTML Export add-ins
* Tray icon ported to Gtk.StatusIcon
* Support for --debug, --trace, and --profile when running Tomboy

Changes since 0.11.3 (the last development release) include the following:
* Reverted to 0.10.x-era printing add-in, as the new one is not ready yet.
* Many fixes to note synchronization (#535279).
* Fixes to internal Gnome.Keyring code (#499841, Alexey Nedilko).
* Remove extraneous note saves when using dbus interface (#543593, John
Carr).
* Relicensed tomboykeybinder and tomboyutil to MIT/X11.
* Translation updates: ar, bg, bn_IN, ca, cs, da, de, en_GB, es, et, eu,
fi, fr,
                       gl, gu, he, hi, hu, it, ja, kn, ko, lt, mai, mk,
mr, nb,
                       nl, oc, pa, pl, pt, pt_BR, ru, sk, sl, sr, sr latin,
                       sr Latn, sv, ta, th, tr, vi, zh_CN, zh_HK, zh_TW


Bugs marked fixed since Tomboy 0.10.0
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329238  Mail links doesn't work for virtual folders
329239  Mail dragged to applet doesn't result in mail-links but i...
340818  A mindmap like view in table of contents
367745  Remote storage of notes
412130  Bump GTK+ version requirement to at least 2.6
449974  remove indent for bullet lists
460642  Tomboy shouldn't crash if the hard disk is full
467650  tomboy fails to make check/distcheck
496624  Unable to make Opera default browser for Tomboy
499841  tomboy problems communicating with gnome keyring
508982  Side-effects of deleting Start Here note
520695  Tomboy.exe crashed with SIGSEGV in _IO_default_xsputn()
521160  Wrappers shee bang is set to ``/bin/bash'' which may not ...
521616  Wrong check for external Mono.Addins version
522424  SSH synchronisation: does not unmount the filesystem afte...
523035  If there is not enough space for the Notebook button, Tom...
523683  Add category to notes
523763  Unresponsive upon dragging last note from notebook to "Un...
524707  Leaves passwords in log file
525414  Set process name to "tomboy" instead of "mono"
526488  missing 'link' shortcut key in note window
528844  Toolbar buttons/menus do not display text labels
528884  tray icon is lost when fvwm is restarted
532196  Can't make a new notebook from a Note window
533024  Bugzilla plugin doesn't work if bug id number is less tha...
535279  FAILURE OF SYNCHRONIZATION: RECURRENT AND REPRODUCIBLE
537389  Creating links with ampersand (&) causes reproducible crashs
543402  some titles (big and bold font) are not printed with big ...
543593  Reading a note triggers a save
544406  Tomboy crashes when creating a new notebook
544996  Tomboy can crash if search results window is closed ~0.5 ...
546623  export to html doesn't follow links
547506  Build failure with make -j2
547900  compilation failure
548290  cannot get the tomboy applet
548836  Build failure
550733  Popup Menu from tray icon doesn't display at mouse cursor


The next six months...
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My plans for the next release cycle include:
* Full Windows/Mac support
* Performance improvements
* Fixing some long-standing bugs, and general polish

Other ideas floating around include:
* Note attachments
* Image support
* Including Gabriel Marcondes' Voice Notes add-in
* Note collaboration and sharing

But we haven't had our roadmap meeting yet, so we'll see what the rest
of the community is interested in working on. Keep an eye on tomboy-list
for scheduling of this public meeting.


Big Thank You
==================================================

Special thanks to everyone entering bugs, submitting patches, and
helping to make Tomboy better!

Specifically, Tomboy 0.12.0 could not have happened without the
contributions of the following individuals (please let us know if you
should have been mentioned here):

Boyd Timothy, Sandy Armstrong, Alex Graveley, Alexey Nedilko,
John Anderson, John Carr, Jon Lund Steffensen, Łukasz Jernaś,
Romain Tartiere, Sebastian Dröge, Stefan Cosma, Stefan Schweizer

Tomboy would not be very useful without our hard-working translators
(semi-automatically generated by maintainer.py...please let us know if
you were left out):

(ar) Anas Afif Emad, Djihed Afifi
(bg) Alexander Shopov
(bn_IN) Runa Bhattacharjee
(ca) Jordi Mas, Gil Forcada
(cs) Pavel Šefránek, Pavel Sefranek
(da) Kenneth Nielsen, Ask Hjorth Larsen
(de) Jochen Skulj, Andre Klapper
(en_GB) Philip Withnall, David Lodge
(es) Jorge González, Jorge Gonzalez
(et) Ivar Smolin
(eu) Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio, Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio
(fi) Ilkka Tuohela
(fr) Robert-André Mauchin, Gérald Ouvradou
(gl) Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
(gu) Sweta Kothari
(he) Yair Hershkovitz, Mark Krapivner
(hi) Rajesh Ranjan
(hu) Gabor Kelemen
(it) Milo Casagrande
(ja) Takeshi AIHANA
(kn) Shankar Prasad
(ko) Changwoo Ryu
(lt) Gintautas Miliauskas, Žygimantas Beručka
(mai) Rajesh Ranjan, Sangeeta Kumari
(mk) Jovan Naumovski, Jovan Naumovski
(mr) Sandeep Shedmake
(nb) Kjartan Maraas
(nl) Tino Meinen
(nn) Eskild Hustvedt
(oc) Yannig Marchegay (Kokoyaya)
(pl) Tomasz Dominikowski
(pt) Duarte Loreto
(pt_BR) Fábio Nogueira, Vladimir Melo
(ru) Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Vasiliy Faronov
(sk) Pavol Klačanský
(sr.po, sr latin) Goran Rakić
(sv) Daniel Nylander
(ta) Tirumurthi Vasudevan, Dr.T.Vasudevan
(th) Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
(tr) Baris Cicek
(vi) Clytie Siddall
(zh_CN) Funda Wang
(zh_HK) Chao-Hsiung Liao
(zh_TW) Chao-Hsiung Liao

Enjoy!

Sandy