New and Improved Things:

Working Fields implementation.

Major backend work.

Major MSWord importer improvements.

WML import/export (for Web-phones and PDAs).

XHTML import (must conform to XHTML 1.0 specification).

DocBook import/export (only the XML DTD is currently supported). Only a small subset of the DBK DTD is currently supported.

Pspell support (limited to Unix platforms for now). Requires Pspell >= 0.11.2 compiled with --enable-ldtl. Abi can now spell check international documents if you have the appropriate Pspell dictionary installed.

RTF import/export improvements for UTF8 export. Added “RTF for old apps” option to export in ASCII encoding.

Non-Latin1 Language support (Unix only for now). This includes CJK and Slavik locales. Japanese and Korean locales need a bit of work (volunteers anyone?).

Dynamic Zoom.

Tabs Dialog.

LibXML2 support updated (compile with ABI_OPT_LIBXML2).

Updated documentation (English and French).

Lots of MacOS work. We could realistically have MacOS support before the 1.0 release.

Lots of updated and new platforms. See the specific section for more info.

Lots of i18n and gettext work.

Advanced Lists support (no formal dialog has been adopted yet though).

Version checking now works.

Lots of dialog clean-ups.

Intangibles:

Lots of updated and new translations. A lot of new locales/languages got added after the announce support for non-latin1 languages.

Major bugfixing and stability improvements.

BeOS Port Specifics:

Tooltip support.

File dialog properly indicates the import and export selection which is available to abi users.

Drawing bugs fixed.

Tabs dialog.

Gnome Port Specifics:

Updated menus to properly refresh.

100% of our dialogs have Gnome equivalents now.

Toolbars use GAL widgets now and hide/unhide on vertical docking.

Gnome-print support (requires gnome-print >= 0.25). This gives us PS, PDF, and Print-Preview support. Non latin1 locales have not been known to work yet, though.

Use GnomeMessageBoxes instead of GnomeDialogs lots of places.

Win32 Port Specifics:

Lots of installer fixes

QNX/Photon Port Specifics:

Printing of documents is now fully supported.

Native QRTP package format for distribution.

Document loading and displaying is now much faster with client side cached font information.

Break dialog now properly inserts break characters.

Spell checking dialog properly presents the preview of the document and the suggestions.

Signal handler is implemented so crashing Abi will attempt to save the contents of your document as is done with the other Unix version.

Command line now the same as on the Unix version.

Toolbars properly restore focus to the document when selecting a drop down item.

File dialog properly indicates the import and export selection which is available to abi users

AbiWord should now properly work from the launch menu after installation.