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This allows users to use the Visual editor extension that is a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG">WYSIWYG</a> user-friendly editor: just try “Edit” tab instead of “Edit source”. The demo will be updated when Geneweb version 7.1 beta is out, that is probably next month. Stay tuned! </p> <h2><span id="11_August_2023:_Geneweb_v7.0.1_alpha2_released!"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="11_August_2023:_Geneweb_v7.0.1_alpha2_released.21">11 August 2023: Geneweb v7.0.1 alpha2 released!</span></h2> <p>For early adopters, please <a href="/wiki/download" title="download">download</a> and test in your environment. </p> <ul><li>Report new issues on <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://github.com/geneweb/geneweb">GitHub</a></li> <li>Have a look to <a href="/wiki/changes-v7.01" title="changes-v7.01">changes-v7.01</a></li></ul> <p>Note also that the naming of these two alpha versions was a mistake: next release will be v7.1.0, this because of a minor change in the database format storage. </p> <h2><span id="30_October_2020:_Geneweb_v7.0.0_is_finaly_released!"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="30_October_2020:_Geneweb_v7.0.0_is_finaly_released.21">30 October 2020: Geneweb v7.0.0 is finaly released!</span></h2> <p>... </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="15_March_2018:_Preview_demo_of_GeneWeb_7">15 March 2018: Preview <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://demo.geneweb.tuxfamily.org/gw7/">demo of GeneWeb 7</a></span></h2> <p>It has been quite a while without news about GeneWeb, but a lot of work has been done in the background. If you haven't tried the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://demo.geneweb.tuxfamily.org/gw7/">demonstration of GeneWeb 7</a>, you should! For example, if you remember the old <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://demo.geneweb.tuxfamily.org/gw6/gwd?b=grimaldi&lang=fr&pz=rainier+louis+henri+maxence+bertrand&nz=grimaldi&m=D&p=louis+honore&n=grimaldi&notes=on&src=on&t=H&birth=on&birth_place=on&marr=on&marr_date=on&marr_place=on&child=on&death=on&death_place=on&death_age=on&occu=on&gen=on&bd=0&color=&v=5">table of descendants in version 6.07</a>, look at all the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://demo.geneweb.tuxfamily.org/gw7/gwd?b=grimaldi&pz=rainier+louis+henri+maxence+bertrand&nz=grimaldi&p=louis+honore+charles+antoine&n=grimaldi&m=D&t=H&num=on&nowrap=on&birth=on&birth_place=on&marr=on&marr=&marr_date=on&marr_place=on&child=on&death=on&death_place=on&occu=on&gen=on&ns=on&image=on&bd=0&color=&v=5"><b>added options for tables in version 7</b></a>: images, popups for notes and sources, children counts, better d’Aboville notation for multiples relations, a new <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://demo.geneweb.tuxfamily.org/gw7/gwd?b=grimaldi&pz=rainier+louis+henri+maxence+bertrand&nz=grimaldi&ocz=0&p=louis+honore+charles+antoine&n=grimaldi&m=D&t=I&num=on&nowrap=on&birth=on&birth_place=on&marr=on&marr=&marr_date=on&marr_place=on&child=on&death=on&death_place=on&occu=on&gen=on&ns=on&image=on&bd=0&color=&v=5">mode with separate rows for spouses</a> (to see their birth and death), buttons to change the number of generations, to the table (or trees) of ancestors, easier access to forms, easy navigation between parents/children and between individuals—all that in the same program! Feedback is welcome on Github or on the mailing list. </p><p>Please consider providing new translations, as only English and French are well maintained for the moment. The project will <b>need help from translators</b> to provide missing lexicon sentences before the final release of GeneWeb 7 . </p> <h2><span id="1st_September_2016:_GeneWeb_is_over_18_years_old!"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="1st_September_2016:_GeneWeb_is_over_18_years_old.21">1st September 2016: GeneWeb is over 18 years old! </span></h2> <p><b>Happy birthday</b> to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://github.com/geneweb/geneweb/commit/afcccc5e7fbcf85e55b71707097d267858d6da57">Daniel's 1st commit</a> on the GeneWeb Github repository! </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="7_April_2016:_HTTPS">7 April 2016: HTTPS</span></h2> <p>As our host Tuxfamily <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://tuxfamily.org/en/news/2016040201">welcomes HTTPS</a>, so do we! GeneWeb Wiki and its demo sub-site now benefit from the <b>Let's Encrypt</b> certificate. GeneWeb documentation is now available on <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external free" href="https://geneweb.tuxfamily.org/">https://geneweb.tuxfamily.org/</a>. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="8_March_2016:_Continuous_integration">8 March 2016: Continuous integration</span></h2> <div class="floatright"><a href="/wiki/File:Continuous_integration.png" class="image"><img alt="Travis and Appveyor on GitHub." src="https://download.tuxfamily.org/geneweb/wiki/images/a/a4/Continuous_integration.png" decoding="async" width="342" height="153" /></a></div> <p>The <b>continuous integration tools</b> <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://travis-ci.org/">Travis-CI</a> (Linux/OS X) and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.appveyor.com/">AppVeyor</a> (Windows) have been chosen to check that the compilation of GeneWeb is successful on the respective platforms. If a build is successful, it's reported with a little Github badge on the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://github.com/geneweb/geneweb/blob/master/README.md">README.md</a> file ,and is also on the front page of GitHub. </p><p>Build logs can be found by clicking on those badges at: </p> <ul><li><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external free" href="https://travis-ci.org/geneweb/geneweb">https://travis-ci.org/geneweb/geneweb</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external free" href="https://ci.appveyor.com/project/ipfix/geneweb">https://ci.appveyor.com/project/ipfix/geneweb</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="26_January_2016:_Roadmap_to_GeneWeb_7_beta">26 January 2016: Roadmap to GeneWeb 7 beta</span></h2> <p>Good news! The main developer of GeneWeb for all versions of GeneWeb 6 will keep maintaining the distribution until the release version of Geneweb 7. The <b>master repository</b> for the project can now be found at <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external free" href="https://github.com/geneweb/geneweb">https://github.com/geneweb/geneweb</a> </p><p>A concrete <a href="/wiki/TODO" title="TODO">roadmap to the incoming beta</a> has been published on the wiki. Any help or feedback is appreciated! </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="1st_October_2015:_Geneweb_Wiki">1st October 2015: Geneweb Wiki</span></h2> <p><a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki"><b>Mediawiki</b></a> has been deployed on <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://tuxfamily.org/">tuxfamily.org</a> for GeneWeb documentation at <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external free" href="http://geneweb.tuxfamily.org/">http://geneweb.tuxfamily.org/</a>. Everybody can help write and translate the manual, FAQ, and tips and tricks for GeneWeb. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="26_May_2015:_GeneWeb_is_moving_to_Github">26 May 2015: GeneWeb is moving to Github</span></h2> <p>GeneWeb is now <b>hosted on Github</b> (for some months), at: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external free" href="https://github.com/geneanet/geneweb">https://github.com/geneanet/geneweb</a> </p><p>The issues tracker has been moved, too (however, comments have not, but will be soon). </p><p>For better community exposure, the entire project is moving (including the wiki, but taking one step at a time). </p><p>Please, from now on, it would be better to use GitHub to report issues or update the wiki. 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