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| − | Gramps officially started April 21, 2001. Don has written up a great blog entry on [https://gramps-project.org/ | + | Gramps officially started April 21, 2001. Don has written up a great blog entry on [https://gramps-project.org/blog/2006/04/looking-back-over-5-years/ how it came about]. A stable release however was only achieved on 2004-02-11, as can be learned from the [[Previous releases of Gramps|Previous releases]] overview. |
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|2.2.1 || 29 Oct 2006 || || support for MS-Windows | |2.2.1 || 29 Oct 2006 || || support for MS-Windows | ||
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|5.0.0 || 24 Jul 2018 || || support for multiple DBMS | |5.0.0 || 24 Jul 2018 || || support for multiple DBMS | ||
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| − | Obviously the sidebar is growing on every release. Originally the icons where semi-realistic, but Gramps has adopted the [ | + | Obviously the sidebar is growing on every release. Originally the icons where semi-realistic, but Gramps has adopted the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tango_Desktop_Project Tango style] for its icons. The main window looks have changed by version as follows: |
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It is important to know your roots, to know where you come from, so you can understand where we are going, and what we have achieved. Here is an overview of the history of Gramps.
The releases so far
Gramps officially started April 21, 2001. Don has written up a great blog entry on how it came about. A stable release however was only achieved on 2004-02-11, as can be learned from the Previous releases overview.
There has been major release about once a year.
The table below shows the main changes in some recent releases.
| Version | Release Date | Schema version | Notes |
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| 2.2.x | 2006 | important improvements | |
| 2.2.1 | 29 Oct 2006 | support for MS-Windows | |
| 3.0 | March 2008 | ||
| 3.2.0 | 15 Mar 2010 | 14 | Modify Notes and Dates |
| 3.3.0 | 11 Jun 2011 | 15 | Add tagging and surname list |
| 3.4.0 | 21 May 2012 | 16 | Replace Source ref with citations |
| 4.0.0 | 21 May 2013 | Conversion to GTK3 and support Python 3 | |
| 4.1.0 | 15 Jun 2014 | 17 | Create place hierarchy |
| 5.0.0 | 24 Jul 2018 | support for multiple DBMS | |
| 5.1.0 | 14 Sep 2019 | SQlite becomes default database backend |
Evolution of Gramps some screenshots
| 2.0.x | 2.2.x | 3.0.x | 4.x | 5.0.x |
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Obviously the sidebar is growing on every release. Originally the icons where semi-realistic, but Gramps has adopted the Tango style for its icons. The main window looks have changed by version as follows:
2.0.x main window
2.2.x main window
3.0.x main window
4.x main window
5.x main window
