New features since 0.9.6.1

• Import/Export bookmarks to RTF - Hub
• Multi-threaded incremental loader - Martin, Hub
• Perl Scripting now works by default - Dom, Joaquin, Patrick Lam, Frodo Looijaard
• State of the art Theasurus plugin - Jared Davis, Michael Pritchet, Francis Franklin
• Start of HTML importer plugin - Francis Franklin, Dom, Michael Pritchett, Hub
• Spelling support for Commonwealth English, Brazilian Portuguese, Hungarian, Ukranian, Galican
• Word Perfect Import improvements -Marc Maurer,Will Lachance
• Import Lists from MS Word - Dom, Tomas Frydich, Martin
• New improved toolbar icons - Dom
• Fields update automatically - Martin, Tomas, Frydich
• Styles Lock - Bryce Nesbitt, Dom (Available for testing by editing document to include <abiword styles="locked">)
• Export nested lists to RTF - Martin
• Import First and facing header/footers from RTF - Martin
• Import Bookmarks for MS Word - Tomas Frydrych
• Import hyperlink from MS Word -  Tomas Frydrych
• Add header/footer export to HTML - Dom
• Look in dictionary file for suggestions to misspelt words. - Martin
• Help file improvements - David Chart
• Perl script to convert the docs to HTML - Kenneth Christiansen
• Lots of progress on OSX port - Hub
• MS Word importer imports all known image types - Dom
• New AbiWord server - Jared Davis, Hub, Shaw, Dom
• Start of Open Office importer plugin - Dom
• Web layout Mode - Dom
• Free translate plugin for Windows - Michael Pritchett, Andrew Dunbar
• Drag and drop hyperlinks and images from Galeon/Mozilla into AbiWord - Martin Sevior
• Gnome2 icons - Dom

Many bug fixes since 0.9.6.1

• FreeBSD fixes - Paul Anguiano
• Fixes to HTML, XHMTL export - John Clark, Marc Maurer
• Fixes to BIDI startup segfault - Jeremy Davis
• Fixes to translator plugin - Andrew Dunbar
• fixes for Solaris Build - Hub
• Cut and paste fixes - Hub, Dom
• Fixes to jpeg build - Hub
• Fix problem with Null character in labelset header - Anthony Fok
• Fix for XIM input for gnome build - 
• Improved Postscript output - Anthony Fok
• Numerous build fixes - Francis Franklin
• XDarwin Improvements - Francis Franklin
• Work around bug in libXML2 - Francis Franklin
• Improvements to plugin build system - Francis Franklin
• wv improvements - Francis Franklin, Tomas Frydrych, Dom, Robert Wilhelm, Michael Pritchett, Ries van Twisk
• BiDi improvements - Tomas Frydrych
• Fix crash with TTF fonts - Tomas Frydrych
• Printing fixes - Tomas Frydrych
• Better highlight colour selection - Tomas Frydrych
• Quote character fixes - Tomas Frydrych
• Speed up drawing - Tomas Frydrych
• New bookmark hotkey - Tomas Frydrych
• Insert Bookmark dialog fixes - Tomas Frydrych
• Fixes for list for BiDi - Tomas Frydrych, Matti Picus
• Fixes for Windos GoTo dialog - Tomas Frydrych
• Fixed crash in GoTo -  Tomas Frydrych
• New Field - Fixed a crashing bug in Go To  - Tomas Frydrych
• Fixes to paragraph preview - Tomas Frydrych
• Fixes to tabs and indents - Tomas Frydrych
• Text layout improvements - Tomas Frydrych
• RPM script for abispell - Gabriel Gerhardsson
• Build fixes for HP UX 10.20 - Martin Gansser
• fixes to Windows build system - Nikolaj Brandt Jensen, Michael Pritchett
• Fixes to undo/redo - Dom
• Fix Free BSD spelling - Dom
• Fix page setup bugs - Dom
• Find/replace improvements - Dom
• GdkPixbuf plugin improvements - Dom, Francis Franklin
• Header/footer improvements - Dom, Martin
• Backend Piecetable fixes - Dom
• Cross platform mutex classes - Dom
• Help file fixes - Marc Maurer
• Report a bug improvements - Bryce Nesbit
• Columns Dialog fixes - Patrick Lam, Robert Altenburg
• kword exporter fixes - Patrick Lam
• Page Size fixes - Patrick Lam, Jesper Skov
• Windows help fixes - Michael Pritchett
• Normal Mode fixes for Windows - Micheal Pritchet
• Insert pictures fixes - Micheal Pritchet
• rpm spec improvements - Rui Miguel Seabra
• Styles fixes - Martin 
• Lists fixes - Martin 
• General Layout fixes - Martin, Tomas Frydrych, Jesper Skov, Dom
• Fix squiggles in header and footers - Jesper Skov
• Allow aborts in font selection - Jesper Skov
• Spell checker fixes - Jesper Skov
• Build fixes for BeOS - Christian Biesinger
• Fixes to Zoom Dialog - Jared Davis, Dom, Michael Pritchett
• Improvements to Insert Field Dialog - Jared Davis
• Improvements to Page Numbers Dialog - Jared Davis
• Plug memory Leaks - Hubert Figuiere, Tomas Frydrych
• Improvements to Colour support - Dom
• Psion Document importer fixes - Frodo Looijaard
• Fixes for Bookmarks - Adrian Philips
• Windows Installer improvements - Michael Pritchett
• Improvements to Page Break and Paragraph dialogs - Gilles Saint-Denis
• Pixel and cursor dirt fixes - Martin
• RTF import fixes - Martin, Jesper Skov
• Fix for localization scripts - Jakub Travnik
• Fixes for AbiWord wrapper script - Chris Winne
• Enable numpad enter to be used as enter - Robert Altenburg

Closed bugs since 0.9.6.1

23,    215,  429,  475,  609,  653,  654,  665,  839,  846,  906,  916

1057, 1095, 1104, 1118, 1120, 1136, 1142, 1153, 1161, 1189, 1198, 1286

1320, 1360, 1365, 1399, 1410, 1411, 1487, 1506, 1532, 1583, 1613, 1689

1702, 1734, 1758, 1760, 1793, 1839, 1847, 1884, 1892, 1896, 1897, 1903

1939, 1948, 1958, 1969, 1970, 1975, 1977, 2002, 2007, 2020, 2032, 2037

2040, 2041, 2048, 2050, 2053, 2063, 2092, 2098, 2114, 2120, 2137, 2142

2151, 2161, 2198, 2207, 2214, 2216, 2228, 2233, 2248, 2259, 2260, 2267

2273, 2277, 2284, 2286, 2289, 2293, 2300, 2305, 2312, 2316, 2324, 2327

2332, 2335, 2340, 2341, 2343, 2344, 2347, 2352, 2353, 2355, 2361, 2364

2374, 2376, 2384, 2391, 2403, 2404, 2409, 2412, 2414, 2415, 2420, 2424

2425, 2427, 2428, 2431, 2432, 2443, 2445, 2448, 2453, 2456, 2457, 2458

2461, 2464, 2469, 2471, 2472, 2474, 2476, 2478, 2479, 2480, 2483, 2485

2487, 2488, 2489, 2492, 2494, 2495, 2501, 2502, 2506, 2507, 2508, 2513

2514, 2516, 2517, 2518, 2521, 2523, 2524, 2525, 2526, 2528, 2532, 2533

2535, 2537, 2538, 2539, 2547, 2548, 2551, 2552, 2555, 2557, 2560, 2566

2571, 2573, 2575, 2577, 2579, 2580, 2583, 2586, 2587, 2590, 2591, 2592

2593, 2594, 2595, 2604, 2608, 2611, 2612, 2621, 2629, 2634, 2644, 2645

2646, 2648, 2655, 2660, 2674, 2676, 2677, 2681, 2684, 2687, 2690, 2695

2696, 2701, 2702, 2706, 2713, 2717, 2718, 2050, 2374

225 bugs closed.

John Clark, Hub, Francis Franklin, Tomas Frydrych, Dom, Marc Maurer, Patrick Lam, Michael Pritchett, Jesper Skov, Martin, Robert Wilhelm, Robert Altenburg, Joaquin Cuenca Abela, Jared Davis, Jeremy Davis, Anthony Fok, Bryce Nesbitt, Adrian Philips,

Pavel Roskin, Gilles Saint-Denis, Ries van Twisk, Chris Winne

New and updated localizations/translations

Rui Miguel Seabra and Pierre Abbat - Coordinators of localization work.

Turkish - A. Alper Atici

Polish - Piotr Banski

Danish - Kenneth Christiansen, Birger Langkjer

Galician - Ramón Flores

Swiss High German - Andrew Dunbar

Assamese - Andrew Dunbar

Chinese - Anthony Fok and Thiz Linux

Norwegian Nynorsk - Karl Ove Hufthammer

Italian - Marco Innocenti

Swedish - Per Larsson, Hakan Waara

Dutch - Marc Maurer

French - Gilles Saint-Denis

Brazilian Portuguese -  Gladiston Santana

Slovenian - Martin Lacko

German - Damon Allen Davison

Hungarian - Tamas Decsi

Greek - Nikos Niktaris

Welsh - Rhoslyn Prys

Russian - Vladimir Stoos