Revision 5.5.0

Release Notes

Changes

  1. Fixed reliability inheritance in ancestor, descendant and kinships lists. This change may increase the execution time significantly for family trees with many generations. You can disable reliability inheritance (and therefore reduce the execution time) by disabling the <ShowReliabilityAssessments> setting under the <Misc> option.
  2. Added <MinAllowedSourceCategory> to the <Sources> option. This option can be used to strip claims from your family tree that are not supported by reliable sources. In order to use this option effectively, source categories for all sources should be set. When a source is found with a category below this threshold, the source will be excluded from your family tree. When a reference to a source that has a category below this threshold is found, it will also be excluded. When set, any claims without source references equal to or greater than this threshold will also be excluded; this includes parent-child relationship claims. In addition, Gigatrees always creates an ancestor list for every person found in your database. Every ancestor in these lists also inherits the minimum relationship reliability/certainty from their most reliable child (see above) based on the source references used to document these parent-child relationships. By default, <MinAllowedSourceCategory> is not set, so all ancestors are included in the ancestor list even if there are no parent-child relationship claims and their reliability is unsupported. However, when this option is set, ancestors without parent-child relationship claims supported by sources whose categories are equal to or greater than the threshold, will be excluded from all ancestor, descendant and kinship lists, ancestor and origin maps, census tables, fan charts, ethnicity estimates and collections. If, however, the <ShowReliabilityAssessments> setting under the <Misc> option is disabled, reliability inheritance will not occur, and therefore no ancestors will be excluded from these pages.
  3. Fixed sorting of ancestor, descendant and kinships lists when the AGNUS numbering system (default) is used.
  4. Fixed the alternate generation number displayed in kinship lists. It was in some instances being displayed when not needed.
  5. Changed the default setting for <ShowReliabilityAssessments> under the <Misc> option to enabled. I also changed the "unsupported" reliability string in all language plugins to display a space instead of the matching text. In this way when claims are supported, their reliability will be displayed; when they are not supported, a blank will be displayed instead.
  6. Changed the default setting for <ConvertReliabilityAssessments> under the <Misc> option to enabled. This change will cause the source category to be displayed for all claims instead of the reliability/certainty assessment. I also changed the "no source", "unknown type" and "Not known" source category strings in all language plugins to display a space instead of the matching text. In this way when a source category is present, it is displayed; when it is not present, a blank will be displayed instead.
  7. Enabled the <HideRecordIds> setting under the <Misc> option by default.
  8. Disabled the <ReportValidationWarnings> setting under the <Misc> option by default.
  9. Removed the <SendErrorReports> setting from the <Misc> option. Gigatrees no longer send error reports to the home server.
  10. Changed the default value for <MaxCoordQueries> under the <Locations> option from 500 to 100. This will speed up execution by spending less time looking up coordinates, but takes more executions of the application before all location coordinates are resolved.
  11. Added missing association claims to source pages' Claims tab.
  12. Fixed URL hyperlinks in source reference lists when the URL contained spaces.
  13. Modified how the GEDCOM CAUS tag is displayed.
  14. Stop reporting of non-existant OBJE errors while processing gender.
  15. Fixed photo caption handling.
  16. Stopped showing the file path in profile photo titles.
  17. Changed the default image for non-profile photos.
  18. Modified how source notes are processed and displayed.
  19. Modified how address are processed and displayed.
  20. Strip newlines and breaks from personal names and locations.
  21. Limit location filenames to 150 characters.
  22. Modified how ages are processed and displayed.
  23. Modified how embedded sources are displayed in source reference lists.
  24. Added support for embedded source note fields and objects.
  25. Stopped translating GEDCOM event descriptions tags (TYPE).
  26. Support same sex GEDCOM association tags (ASSO).
  27. Added default tag descriptions for the AGNC, TEMP and TYPE GEDCOM 7 tags.
  28. Stopped displaying an empty string when tag descriptions are missing.
  29. Fixed two NULL pointer crashs.
  30. Fixed the infinite loop caused when source templates contain no optional components.
  31. Added support for some app specific and missing GEDCOM tags:
      @INDI.ASSO@.ROLE
  @FAM.SEP - seperation
  @INDI.SEX.OBJE@
  @INDI._WEBTAG.URL
  @SOUR._FIELD.PLAC
  @SOUR._FIELD.NAME
  @SOUR._FIELD.ADDR
  @_PLAC.OBJE
  @_RNOT.TEXT - partial support
Tim Forsythe
Tim Forsythe is a retired software engineer. He is married and living in Sonoma County, California.
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