GRAMPS - History

History

Selected release history:

  • GRAMPS 1.0.0 "Stable as a Tombstone" released - February 11, 2004 - Used XML to store all information.
  • GRAMPS 2.0.0 "The Bright Side of Life" released - May 5, 2005 - Introduction of the Berkeley database backend.
  • GRAMPS 2.2.1 "One, two, five!" released - October 30, 2006 - Originally only available for Unix-like operating systems, with this release GRAMPS became available for Windows.
  • Gramps 3.0.0 "It was just getting interesting." released - March 24, 2008 - Introduced the new Family Tree database format and deprecated the old .grdb database format. Plugin system called "Gramplets".
  • GRAMPS 3.4.0 "always look on the bright side of life" released - May 21, 2012 - Replaced Source References with Citations that allow sharing and can have media objects and 'data' elements attached to them. The Gramps XML Specification was updated to make it idempotent.

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