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Griffith 0.6.2
==============
This release updates some movie plugins. It's last release before
SQLAlchemy transition. See SVN repository for list of new features already
available.

Updates:

* Updated movie plugins: 7arte, AniDB, Cinematografo, Filmweb, IMDb.
* New movie plugins: FilmeVonAZ, MovieKinoDe ((thanks to Michael Jahn), FDb.
* Added italian translation (thanks to Diego Porcelli).
* German translation updated (thanks to Malte Wiemann).
* Some other tiny changes.


Griffith 0.6.1
==============
This is mainly a bug fix release. Some changes:

* Updated spanish, czech and polish language files.
* Updated allocine and CSFD movie plugins.
* Some makefile code cleanup.
* First tag can now be renamed.
* Quick filter rewrited with new fields as well.
* Some language typos fixed.
* Many windows related fixes.
* Windows version is now up-to-date with posix one.
* Initial latex export support


Griffith 0.6
============
Latest Griffith has some new exciting features and dozens of bugs fixed as
well. Also, this version has a reworked user interface and many code
improvements.

Some highlights:

* Unlimited movie languages (lector, dubbing and subtitles).
* Unlimited movie tags.
* A reworked user interface
* A new french movie plugin - Allocine (Thanks to Pierre-Luc Levy).
* Added french translation (Thanks to Pierre-Luc Levy).
* Added spanish translation (thanks to Daniel Ucero).
* Movie numbers are now editable.
* Custom fonts for PDF lists and movie covers.
* Initial console support with multiple arguments for searching operations,
  debug and maintenance.
* Dozens of bugs fixed and lots of code optimization. See full changelog for
  details.


Griffith 0.5.1
==============
Changes/New features:

* Added posters conversion to HTML export plugin
* Added simple style to table template (HTML export plugin)
* Added a win32 installer custom image.
* Added portuguese, polish, german and czech translations to win32 installer.
* Added Czech translation (Thanks to Blondak )
* Added a new czech movie plugin (CSFD - esko-Slovensk Filmov Databze) - Thanks
  to Blondak 
* Polish translation updated

Bugs fixed:

* [Bug #5686] Colection/volume remembers selection after adding a movie
* [Bug #5631] wrong language/locale with 0.5
* [Bug #5684] About window doesn't work on windows
* [Bug #5683] Two filters not working at all on windows
* Removed cancel button from confirmation dialogs
* Fixed layer dropdown list entries
* 'Excellent' mispelled in condition dropdown list


Griffith 0.5
============
Changes/New features

* HTML export plugin updated to v3.3
* Updated polish and portuguese translations
* Memory management improvements when using large db collections
* Media names are now stored in database. No frontend interface yet.
* Added support to fetch bigger posters using Amazon Web Services
* Added some HTML export plugin fixes for win32 compatibility
* win32 build should use now the libwimp widget engine for better windows xp
  default theme integration
* Now Griffith's dir defaults to localized 'My Documents' dir on win32
  environments
* Added preferences defaults to media, layers, condition, color and region
* Updated WP movie plugin (webpage was changed)
* Removing poster images when deleting movie feature added
* Added a 'by collection' quick filter
* Poster viewer events changed to only show full poster when entering/leaving
  zoom button
* Moved all movie plugins logos to a new optional package
* Added some tooltips to preferences widgets
* Added some new tools to operate with posters
* Added bulgarian translation (thanks to Luchezar P. Petkov)
* Volumes / Collections feature added
* Added new XML export plugin
* Renamed Export With Templates plugin to HTML export plugin
* DVDZone2 plugin renamed to Mediadis according to new company service and
  website. Some enhancement to this plugin implemented.
* Added Tanuki-Anime and Moviefone (America online) movie plugin
* Added experimental support for Microsoft Windows 2000, Millenium and Windows 98
  systems
* Some fixes in Makefile (for MacOSX users)
* Small main window changes
* Gery movie plugin removed - webpage is not working
* Merged two patches contributed by Arjen Schwarz, addressing one problem with
  email notification that was using an incorrect date/time format and another
  fixing some english spell errors found in language file.
* Updated Anime Database and Filmweb movie plugins
* Movie window reorganization

Bugs fixed:

* [Bug #1302] Searching movies with non-english characters gives null results
* [Bug #1312] notes not empty after adding a movie
* [Bug #1314] LANG environment variable no longer required
* [Bug #1315] Added extra warning dialog when deleting directory
* [Bug #1313] Film fields with & or < break the PDF export plugin
* [Bug #5306] Last toolbar button not working as expected
* [Bug #5344] fixed wrong encoding in IMDb movie plugin (thanks to dieterv)
* [Bug #1324] Makefile fix.


Griffith 0.4.2
==============
This is mainly a bug fixing release, addressing some issues found on the
previous one. These are the main changes:

* HTML export plugin now can use custom templates with XML config files. Styles
  can have a thumbnail picture preview
* Added manpages to griffith and to griffith-export-template
* Added double click events and a popup menu in maintree view

Bugs fixed:

* [Bug #1260] data for the color, region, condition and layers not being stored
  in database; Some spelling mistakes fixed on english language file. (thanks to
  Arjen Schwarz)
* [Bug #1261] number disk is 0.
* [Bug #1295] The 'How To Irritate People' bug
* Fixed encoding bug in built in debug method
* Fixed a bug with malformed urls

Read the included Changelog for the complete listing.


Griffith 0.4.1
==============
A bug fix release, addressing some issues found on 0.4:

* Fixed some encoding problems with portuguese movie plugins
* Some minor UI changes
* HTML export plugin update
* [Bug #1258] wrong movie fetching
* [Bug #1253] gtkspell module not found


Griffith 0.4
============
* Loans history implemented
* Better performance for large collections
* New 'E-mail reminder' feature
* HTML export plugin updated
* New fields: seen movie, color, media condition, DVD region and DVD layers
  information
* Favorite movie plugin can be defined in the preferences
* New movie plugins added: AniDB (english), OFDb (german) and ClubeMyDVD
  (portuguese)
* Added german translation; polish and portuguese translations updated.
* Added picture preview and filter to file choose dialog
* Added a 'Suggest a movie' feature.
* Some minor UI changes.
* Dozens of bugs fixed.

Read the included Changelog for the complete listing.


Griffith 0.3
============
* Three new movie plugins: CineMovie (french), Cinematografo (italian) and
  E-pipoca (brasilian)
* Added key events for trivial operations
* Export plugin system implemented
* Added HTML export plugin (contributed by Piotr Ozarowski)

Bugs fixed:

* [Bug #1192] New database not working under windows
* [Bug #1196] Can't delete people on the friends list
* [Bug #1195] Loans not working
* [Bug #1194] Filter drop menu not working
* [Bug #1193] Add new. Cancel not working 
* [Bug #1190] Encoding problems with polish when exporting to PDF (and other
  languages)
* Problem with some characters not escaped as should be when inserting in db
* Some minor PDF export plugin related fixes


Griffith 0.2
============
* Multilanguage support (UNIX only)
* Polish translation added (thanks to Piotr Ozarowski)
* Portuguese translation added
* True plugin system for web based data sources implemented
* Five new polish plugins added (Filmeweb, Gery, Onet, Stopklatka and WP -
  thanks to Piotr Ozarowski)
* One new portuguese plugin added (PTGate)
* Added flag for loaned films
* Two new fields for data holding: notes and film rating
* Film posters can now be replaced by custom ones
* Initial gtkspell support (unix only)
* Export database to CSV file
* Exact search matches are now used without user intervention
* Initial Microsoft Windows support
* Initial Red Carpet package availability
* Dozens of bugs fixed. See source package changelog for details.


Griffith 0.1
============
Initial release