Kexi/Releases/1.0.0 Changes

KEXI is a visual database apps builder, developed since 2002.

Changes in KEXI

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Codenamed "Black Mamba"
Improved data-aware forms.
Form Designer's Data Source Pane for assigning data source to forms and widgets. Object tree view for easier navigating within widgets hierarchy.
Import from CSV files and pasting tabular data from clipboard. Export data to CSV files and copying tabular data to clipboard. Automatic detection of delimiters and column types.
Improved server connection dialog. Stored connection data.
Support for images in forms (stored as BLOBs).
New form widget: multiline editor.
Improved MS Access (mdb/mde) file import (optional plugin).
Improved import of server databases to a file-based projects. Entire Kexi projects (not only tables) can be imported too.
Scripting plugin (Python and Ruby) to extend functionality, including example script for HTML export.
Simple printouts, print settings and print preview for table and query data.
Handbook added (incomplete).
More than two hundreds of overall improvements and bug fixes.

Details:

1.0.0 Alpha 1
- Initial Alpha, released on 2005-12-21, together with KOffice 1.5 Alpha 1

1.0.0 Beta 1
- Released on 2006-01-31, together with KOffice 1.5 Beta 1
- Kexi binary packages provided by some Linux/UNIX vendors are available within KOffice release. Testing Facilities with klik are also available.
- MS Windows installation package from OpenOffice Polska is available.
- Full Kexi source code ready to compile can be obtained with instructions here.

1.0.0 Release Candidate
- Released on 2006-03-29, together with KOffice 1.5 Release Candidate