GeneWeb 7.1.0-beta3-testing

⚠️ Beta release - Testing recommended

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Platform	ZIP Archive	Installer
🐧 Linux	geneweb-7.1.0-beta3-testing-linux.zip	-
🍎 macOS (Apple Silicon)	geneweb-7.1.0-beta3-testing-macos-arm64.zip	geneweb-7.1.0-beta3-testing-macos-arm64.dmg
🍎 macOS (Intel)	geneweb-7.1.0-beta3-testing-macos-intel.zip	geneweb-7.1.0-beta3-testing-macos-intel.dmg
🪟 Windows	geneweb-7.1.0-beta3-testing-windows.zip	geneweb-7.1.0-beta3-testing-windows-setup.exe

Prerequisites (Unix ZIP archives only)

Linux: sudo apt-get install libgmp10 libpcre2-dev
macOS, use Homebrew: brew install gmp pcre2

For more information, see the documentation.

GeneWeb 7.1.0-beta2

⚠️ Beta release - Testing recommended

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Linux (glibc 2.35+) • macOS (Apple Silicon) • macOS (Intel) • Windows • Source code

Prerequisites

Linux/macOS: Install GMP library

# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt-get install libgmp10

# macOS
brew install gmp

Windows: No additional dependencies required (GMP statically linked)

Installation

1. Extract the downloaded archive
2. Run ./gwd (Unix) or gwd.exe (Windows)

Note: Binaries are unsigned. Your OS may display security warnings on first run.

For more information, see the documentation.

GeneWeb 7.1.0-beta2-opam

⚠️ Beta release - Testing recommended

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Linux (glibc 2.35+) • macOS (Apple Silicon) • macOS (Intel) • Windows • Source code

Prerequisites

Linux/macOS: Install GMP library

# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt-get install libgmp10

# macOS
brew install gmp

Windows: No additional dependencies required (GMP statically linked)

Installation

1. Extract the downloaded archive
2. Run ./gwd (Unix) or gwd.exe (Windows)

Note: Binaries are unsigned. Your OS may display security warnings on first run.

For more information, see the documentation.

CHANGELOG 7.1.0~beta2

20 months of development - 1000+ commits, 300+ merged PRs.
Contributors: community volunteers (mainly A2, hgouraud, michelmno), Halbaroth (@OCamlPro), canonici/ilankri (@geneanet).

Templates & UI

Major Features

• 7 New Books: firstname alias/surname alias/public names/qualifiers/alias/titles/domains books (A2)
• Image maps: new tool for image mapping (Ludovic Ledieu 1974-2024)
• Fanchart: full revamp of Lledieu’s fancharts (A2)
• Coat of arms: full support for caroussel (Michel de Lambilly)
• Carousel rework with blasons/images/media management (A2+hg)
• Check data: new tool m=CHK_DATA to check common typographic errors for books (A2)
• RLM builder: JavaScript tool in menubar for manual RLM construction (A2)
• Relation Matrix: new tool m=RM to calculate multiple relation links (A2)
• Graph editors improvements: modernize upd_RLM/DAG tools, linked with RLM builder and Relation Matrix (A2)
• Input autocompletion: using cache_files or RPC server (A2)
• Automatic person references update for notes and image maps (hg)
• Notes display: modernize directory listings with tree view structure (A2)
• Search rework: major performance improvements (hg+A2)
• Full display: modernize ascending + descending view (A2)
• Database index: direct links on index to all available databases (hg)
• Homonyms list rework (hg)
• Access system rework: SemiPublic access status(hg)
• NMBDS events: add notes and sources (GWF event_tooltips=no to hide) (A2)

Form Improvements

• Floating placeholders script (A2)
• Ctrl+click: direct link from input to books (A2)

New Template Variables

• Places: %xxx_place.main;/%xxx_place.subplace; for all place types
• Marriage span: %marriage_age_years;
• Predictable mode: bool predictable_mode
• Roglo-Specific: Roglo template support roglo=yes

Core Infrastructure (Pierre Villemot@OcamlPro)

Backend & Core

• Memory caching: maintenance of -cache-in-memory <BASE> option for faster queries (Keryan Didier). Unix-only (./configure --gwd-caching)
• RPC server: full implementation with search engine
• Logging: switch to logs and logs-syslog
• Libraries reorganization: gwdb, sosa
• Lock system refactoring
• Worker pool: simple worker pool in Gwd (gwd -n_workers)
• Memory management: maintain nnp+ancient for cache (Unix only)
• Remove gwrepl

Build System & Tooling

• Dune migration: DUNE_PROFILE=release or dev
• Configure & opam: simplify configure.ml and update opam scripts
• Nix support
• Dependencies updates:
  • OCaml >= 4.10 (support up to 5.4.0), dune >= 3.6, camlp5 >= 8.03
  • New: decompress, logs, logs-syslog, yojson, digestif, pp_loc, utop, ancient (optional)
  • Removed: num (--sosa_num), syslog
• CI improvements: maintain docker (jeffery), all workflows optimisations and native arm64 docker (A2)
• Colaboratory script added for online quick tests (A2)
• Test scripts: run-gw-test.sh (michelmno + hg)

Base Reorganization (hg)

• Database reorganization: new file and directory structure with -reorg

Web Performance & Optimization (A2)

• Dynamic HTML compression: gzip (levels 0-9 via GWF gzip_html_compression)
• Static assets: CSS/JS .gz compression
• JavaScript optimization: DOMContent optimization, hash for static assets
• Cache improvements:
  • Cache files performance and outputs
  • Cousins tool (m=C) cache more specific (GWF cache_cousins_tool, cache_cousins_ttl)

Configuration (GWF)

• gzip_html_compression=0-9 - HTML compression level
• rpc_server_url=myserver.org - RPC server URL
• rpc_datalist=1 - Enable RPC datalists
• roglo=yes - Roglo template support
• cache_cousins_tool=yes - Enable cousins cache
• cache_cousins_ttl=72 - Cousins cache TTL
• event_tooltips=no - Hide event tooltips
• Allow autocompletion datalists on forms:
  datalist_aliases=1
datalist_estates=1
datalist_fnames=1
datalist_occupations=1
datalist_places=1
datalist_pub_names=1
datalist_qualifiers=1
datalist_snames=1
datalist_titles=1
datalist_sources=1

Tools & Utilities

• cache_files.exe: new parameters to generate binary caches for Check Data, support all books (hg+A2)
• robot.exe: new tool for blacklist IP management with various parameters (A2)
• gwc: add a -nopublic option (Gnt)
• gwd: add a -n_workers # option (Halbaroth)

Translations

• Corsican (Patriccollu), German (ftrojahn), Portuguese (smmribeiro)

Bug Fixes

• Hundreds of code optimizations, bug fixes and code cleanup throughout

GeneWeb 7.1.0~alpha2

v7.01a2

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