NEWS

Gnumeric 0.68

Almer:
	* Fix backspace key.
	* Fix autosave dialog.
	* Fix scrollbars.
	* Shine-up string functions.
	* Fix STF for CRLF terminated files.
	* Add csv default importing + probing.
	* Improve font preview in cell format dialog.

Jody:
	* Even more missing files.
	* Crash after exiting 1 of many shared views.
	* Bug when printing wrapped text in merged cells.
	* Enable frozen panes.

Morten:
	* Improve bsd support.
	* Fix CONCATENATE.
	* Fix MULTINOMIAL.

Rodrigo:
	* Update gda support.

Nakai:
	* Over-the-Spot style support for XIM.

Lutz:
	* Introduction of placeholders named "FileOperations" and
	  "PrintOperations" that help components to put their own menus into
	  the right place.

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Gnumeric 0.67

Jody :
	* Restore missing files.

John Gotts :
	* Update spec file.

Zbigniew:
	* Fix libml1 bug exposed by progress monitor.

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Gnumeric 0.66 

Almer:
	* Some work on the SAX importer.
	* Finish Group/Ungroup.
	* Clean-up the STF importer.
	* Add support for multicharacter separators
	  and quoted cells with newlines to the STF
	  importer.
	* Clean-up row naming.
	* Fix the STF exporter (it works again).
	* Add new consolidation feature.
	* Keyboard Shortcuts for moving and formatting.

Elliot:
	* Financial functions.

Jody:
	* Fix ctrl-enter filling.
	* Reorganize the recalc queue to speed things up a bit.
	* Support iteration.
	* Fix FV arguments.
	* Support conditional number formats.
	* Obscure referencing bug.
	* Scaled printing.
	* Some number formating bugs.

Juan Pablo Mendoza:
	* Handle {caps,number,scroll}lock.
	* Improve sheet name quoting.

Morten:
	* Fix PV.
	* Applied some much-needed TLC to fn-financial.c and fn-eng.c.
	* Speed-up Gnumeric function calls.
	* Killed a zillion problems pointed out by gcc 3.0 warnings.
	* Improve goal seeking slightly.
	* Fix RATE and IRR.

Zbigniew:
	* More work on plugin system.
	* Many i/o system improvements (general cleanup, reporing i/o progress,
	  better probing, nicer import dialog, pluggable default savers,
	  handling single sheet exporters in a special way)

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Gnumeric 0.65

Almer:
	* Fix a variety of bugs and other issues.
	* Improve parser error messages.
	* Implement undo/redo for Zoom.
	* Make undo/redo descriptors more descriptive.
	* Complete the CELL function.
	* Drastically revise and fix-up the color combo's.
	* Architectural improvements for preview-grid, menu state, etc.

Chema:
	* GNUMERIC_ENABLE_XL_OVERWRITE
	* Implemented clone, write and load for some sheet objects

Jody:
	* Restore horizontal FILL alignment.
	* Fix array intercept checking.
	* Some fine tuning to improve start and exit times.
	* Merge cell & hidden column interactions
	* Some XL import improvement when parsing objects
	* Improve XL95 export and include merged regions & outlines
	* Fix some irritating mouse behaviors
	* More system portability enhancements.
	* Support fraction formatting (not parsing)
	* Fix printing of borders.
	* Improve checking for array/merged region division.
	* Prep for frozen panes.
	* Partial support for outline mode
	* Misc bugs.

Jon Kre:
	* New architecture for selecting cell ranges into dialogs.
	* Fix dialog placement.

Juan Pablo Mendoza:
	* Improve col and row sizing when cloning a cell.
	* Catch many bugs with merged regions.
	* Bug fix for supporting maximized windows.

Morten:
	* Changed a large number of dirty diapers.
	* Plugged gnumeric leaks too.
	* Make search-and-destroy work better on comments.
	* Fixed parsing of numbers like "-4,885".  (We used to get -3115
	  == -4 * 1000 + 885...)
	* Fixed formulae with leading dash, like "-995/5".
	* Fixed MID, FIND, LEFT, RIGHT, LOWER, UPPER, PROPER, CLEAN, LEN,
	  EXACT, REPT.
	* Improve signed-vs-unsigned situation.
	* Fixed sorting dialog in the by-row case.

Vlad Harchev
	* Improve i18n support for XL import/export

Zbigniew:
	* Added support for plugin dependencies
	* Made Excel a real plugin.
	* Improved plugin system performance & scalability.

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Gnumeric 0.64

Almer:
	* Improve scrollbars.

Jody:
	* Fix handling of edit pos while extending out of merged regions.
	* Fix format toolbar update.
	* Fix merge undo.
	* Fix interactions between spans and hidden rows/cols.
	* Work around xls files which specify col/row too small.
	* Header redraw of shrinking selections with merged full col/row

Morten:
	* Make search-and-replace dialog non-modal.
	* Released version 2 -- a cute little thing of about 3k.  She
	  leaks, though.

Vlad Harchev:
	* Improved themed behaviour.
	* Improved character set behaviour.

Zbigniew Chyla:
	* More work on plugins.

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Gnumeric 0.63

Almer:
	* menu state improvements.

Jody:
	* Fix parenthesis for XL export.
	* Enable right/left indent.
	* Sheet prefs IO and MVC support.
	* MVC fixes.

Morten:
	* Column header drawing fix.
	* [Linear] Regression fix.

Jon Kre:
	* item-edit fix.

Translations:
	* Updated: de (Karl), ja (Yukihiro Nakai), pl (Zbigniew), and maybe
	more.

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Gnumeric 0.62

Chema:
	* Massive bug hunting spree.

Jody:
	* Finish merged cells.
	* Rework style engine.
	* Rework borders.
	* Improve range selection for expressions.
	* Fix sheet objects.
	* Fix stupid memory corruption problem in the applix importer.
	* Some mis-translations for spanish.
	* Improve pixel matching of XL import.
	* Add option to manage printing ranges with only styles.

Jon Kre:
	* Improve file save dialog.

Morten:
	* Make rounding functions (ROUND, TRUNC, FLOOR, CEIL, ...) behave
	  more like most users expect.  The number 1.54999...9 will now
	  be rounded to 1.6, not 1.5.  In other words, we are assuming that
	  the number is really meant to be 1.55, but has suffered
	  floating point effects.  (If you ever truly get a number that
	  is within DBL_EPSILON of a rounding threshold, well, then you
	  lose.  With a binary representation, we cannot all win.)
	* Leak plugging as usual.
	* Created and/or stole a number of tools to make life easier for
	  developers.
	* Cleaned up gnumeric-bonobo's GUI.
	* Search and replace.

JPablo:
	* Search and replace.

Zbigniew Chyla:
	* Internationalization support for autoformat.
	* Rework plugin architecture.

Translations:
	* Updated: ca (Pablo), de (Karl), hu (Szabolcs), it (Leandro),
          ru (Valek), sk (Stanislav), sv (Christian), tr (Fatih), and
          maybe more.

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Gnumeric 0.61

Alan Cox:
	* Fix formatting mistakes in documentation.

Chema:
	* Some work on the name dialog.

Jody:
	* Work on sheet object persistence.
	* Begin honouring the current format when parsing.
	* More work on merged cell support.
	* Improve cursor rubber banding when selecting a range.

Morten:
	* Fix scripts generating documentation.
	* Fixed lotus file format loader.  (Magic detection,
	  avoid unaligned memory accesses, leaks.)

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Gnumeric 0.60

Jody:
	* Initial work on supporting merged cells.
	* Improve sheet object and cell comment infrastructure.
	* More work on expression relocation.
	* Bugs.

Jon Kre:
	* Improve XL export of non-builtin functions.

Morten:
	* Semi-smart undo/redo list truncation.
	* Fix serious crash during gnumeric-format save.
	* Plug leaks.

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Gnumeric 0.59

Almer:
	* Minor improvements to the autoformat dialog.

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Gnumeric 0.58

Ariel:
	* Cleanup and general bugfixing in guile plugin.
	* Support for values inside the Guile interpreter

Almer:
	* Undo for autoformat.
	* Beautify stf dialog.
	* Stf and other bugfixes.

Chema:
	* Massive bug hunting spree.

Jody:
	* Massive bug fixing spree.
	* Fix popup context menus.
	* 'General' number formats.
	* Some initial work on an MVC split for workbooks.
	* More work on double click fill support.

Jon Kre:
	* When format toolbar is vertical, replace font and size
	  selectors with a button.

Morten:
	* Fixed analysis tools for ranges not starting at A1.
	* Isolated floating-point-double reading code with endian-issues
	  in one spot rather than in all file io plugins.

Kenneth:
        * Fixed and updated the i18n subsystem, so it how should work
          more smooth - I will consider this very close to finished.

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Gnumeric 0.57

Almer:
	* Fix stf importer bugs.
	* Add "Autodiscovery" feature to stf fixed width importer.
	* New Autoformat dialog.

Chema:
	* Sheet copy routine

Hardy Falk:
	* Output the cells in row/col sequence, rather than by hash.

Jody:
	* Applix support mostly functional.
	* Improve support for named expressions.
	* Name and Graph gurus support range selection.
	* Improve internation keyboard support.
	* Fix XIRR and friends so that they support blanks.
	* A few more bugs in printing multiline text.
	* Correct handling of number formating in intl locales.
	* Lots of formating bugs.
	* Handle strings used as arguments to numeric operators.
	* Support for non-cell dependencies.
	* Improve performance and decrease memory for large row/col resizes.
	* Bug fixes for ins/del row/col & cut&paste
	* Locale safe formating.

John Gill:
	* Double click fill support.

Jon Kre:
        * Make print work with new gnome-print
	* Lots of printing/margin bugs.

JPR:
	* Put more effort into reverse engineering MATCH (and friends)
	  than you want to know about.
	* Fixed sort to ignore hidden rows/cols.

Jukka:
	* Implementation of `Anova: Two-Factor With Replication'
	  and `Histogram' data analysis tools mostly
	* Implemented COUPNUM and COUPNCD
	* Implemented TRUE and FALSE logical functions
	* Started the implementation of COUPDAYBS and COUPDAYS.

Kenneth:
	* Created xml2pot script, and integrated it with Gnumeric
	* Update update.pl script to make it more genetic, and work
	  with the xml2pot script. It actually now requires it.
	* Updated the spec file a little.
        * Made 'make update-po' and 'make dist' work with new update.pl

Matthew D. Bissiri:
	* Paste special arithmetic operations, skip blanks, paste link.

Michael Levy:
	* Improve the colour combo box.

Morten:
	* Cleanup analysis tool code.
	* Eliminate many fixed limits in the code.  (Still some to go.)
	* Rewrote SUMPRODUCT.
	* Fixed array and range traversal order, thus fixing all strict
	  range functions.  (SUM, MIN, ...)
	* Fixed many bogusities in xbase plugin.
	* Cleanup limits in numtheory.  Added BITXOR.
	* Fixed RATE, SLD, and SYD.
	* Improved RATE's and IRR's root searching.

Pablo De Napoli:
	* New NT_MU function in numtheory.

Thomas Canty:
	* Updated and improved documentation.

Weston:
	* Implement DateDif.
	* Fix chitest.

Translations:
	* Updated: da (Kenneth and Keld), de (Karl), en_GB (Robert), ko
	  (Sung-Hyun Nam), no (Kjartan), ru (Valek), uk (Yuri), maybe more.
	* Update not new, but not mentioned the last time: pl (Zbigniew).
	* Updated: nl (Almer). Not all done yet.

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Gnumeric 0.55/0.56

Almer:
	* Stf importer bug fixes and enhancements.

Jody:
	* Speedup workbook exit, copy/paste.
	* Improve cut/copy/paste.
	* Improve col/row resize.
	* Undo for copy/paste, autofill, col/row resize
	* More work on formula guru.
	* Extend auto-fill to support months and years.
	* Some translation bugs.

Jon Kre:
	* Tooltips for combo boxes.
	* Synchronize list selection with entry field in combo boxes.
	* Make  units in print setup dialog user selectable.
	* More dialog polishing.

JPR:
	* Sorting now moves styles with the elements
	* Sorting now detects headers when sorting

Kenneth
	* Added two perl scripts for translation help/maintainence.
          Also added is a README.tools file, explaining how to use these.

Michael:
	* Fix tricky Excel import problem.
	* Split libole2 out into a standalone package.

Miguel:
	* Added support for autocompletion.

Morten:
	* Changed a bunch of internals to work with StyleFormats instead
	  of throwing strings around.
	* Improved the optimization of styles.
	* Fix ROUND.
	* Make sorts stable.
	* Make sorts faster.

Translations:
	* Updated: da (Kenneth), de (Karl), ja (Oka/Nakai), no
        (Kjartan), pt (Tiago), ru (Valek), maybe more.
	* Update not new, but not mentioned the last time: it (Leandro).

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Gnumeric 0.54

Jacob:
	* Enable mini icons when available.

Jody:
	* Bug fixes.
	* Initial applix import.
	* Improve row/col insert/del.

JonKare:
	* Lots of dialog polishing.
	* Autoscrolling combo boxes.
	* Make tearoff combo boxes behave more like tearoff menus.

Michael:
	* Get embedded gnumeric working again.

Translations:
        * New: gl (Jesus).
	* Updated: de (Karl), no (Kjartan), sv (Andreas), and more.

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Gnumeric 0.53

Morten:
	* Fixed QUARTILE.
	* Fixed MATCH for types -1 and +1.

Jody:
	* Overhaul cell structure to cleanup temp formats, improve spans.
	* Improve array formula entry, editing, and xml-io.
	* Share formulas persisted using xml.
	* Add auto-sum
	* Improve versioning.
	* Decrease memory usage.

Michael:
	* Accelerated intersheet dependencies

Marko:
	* Number theory functions.  (In new plugin.)

Almer:
	* Stf-exporter
	* Bug-fix stf importer.

Translations:
	* Updated: da (Keld and Kenneth), de (Karl), en_GB (Robert), es
	  (Pablo), no (Kjartan), ru (Valek), uk (Yuri), and more.

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Gnumeric 0.52

Jon:
	* Tearoff combo boxes

Jody:
	* Bugs fixes.
	* Correct doc generation.
	* Improve update status area (autoexpr, editor, format tools)
	* Rework canvas editor to behave nicely at boundaries and
	  span correctly.

Morten:
	* Leak fixes.  Bug other people about leaks.
	* IPMT, PPMT argument order corrected.
	* MIRR fixed (or at least changed) to match Excel.
	* RATE, IRR, XIRR use supplied guess.
	* Improve precision of IRR.
	* Made auto-format work for sheet-relative cellrefs, i.e.,
	  "=sum(a1:a10)" now takes a default format from the range.
	* Made generated postscript files (print to file) contain enough
	  information to let ghostview go back and forth in them.
	* Made landscape previews readable.

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Gnumeric 0.49

Jukka:
	* Added `>=' and `=' constraint support for the Solver tool.
	* The Solver input variables can now have the negative values too.
	* Added `Int' constraints support by implementing the
	  Branch-And-Bound algorithm.
	* The Solver parameters are now saved/loaded when the workbook
	  is saved/loaded.
	* Implemented `Answer Report' generation for Solver.
	* Started implementation of `Sensitivity Report' generation for
	  Solver (currently, not very useful though).
	* Major GUI improvementes for Solver, i.g. Solver constraints
          can now be cell ranges, not just cells.
	* Solver documentation added.
	* Added `Advanced Filter' tool.
	* Added the following distributions for the random number
	  generation tool:
	  - Poisson
	  - Binomial
	  - Negative binomial
	  - Exponential
	* Minor improvements for the AutoSave tool.
	* GUI improvements for the Data Analysis tool.
	* Added RandExp(), RandPoisson(), RandBinom(), RandNegBinom(),
	  and RandBernoulli() functions.

Jody:
	* Redraw improvements (cursor, selection, spanning, speed, underlining)
	* Border improvements (combo, printing, partial double line).
	* More work on undo.
	* Parse interbook references.
	* Mostly correct sizing of MS Excel cols/rows and objects.
	* Printing improvements.
	* Selecting ranges for formulas on other sheets.

Jon:
	* GUI polishing.
	* File history improvements.
	* Python plugin enhancements.
        * Error reporting improvements.
	* Cursor fixes and speedups.
	* CORBA bugfixes.

ERDI Gergo :
	* Add a zoom element to the toolbar.

Michael:
	* Style undo/redo
	* Gnome Basic integration

Miguel:
	* Charting work
	* Wizard for charting
	* Bug fixes.
	* Visual cell references while editing.
	* Implemented Gnumeric-side vectors for graphics support.

Dom Lachowicz :
	* libgladify the plugin manager.
	* Improve color combo.
	* Lots of DIV0 cases in functions caught elegantly.

Mike Kestner:
	* Add file menu file history.
	* Style preserving column/row insertion(configurable, defaults on)

Almer :
	* "Structured" Text Format Importer (STF) (Customizable CSV/Fixed Width importer)
	  - Merged with Gnumeric main source (no longer plug-in) and completely revised.
	  - Pops-up when pasting from external applications.
	  - Preview is drawn faster and is interactive.
	  - More separators to choose from when doing a CSV import.
	* Copying cells between different instantances of gnumeric.

Morten:
	* Fixed display of pre-1900 dates.
	* Fixed display of very large numbers.
	* Went on a warning-killing spree.

Ariel:
	* Guile plugin can now register functions in user given categories.

JP:
	* Add sorting functionality to workbook toolbar
	* Sorting fixes
	* Add basic attribute support for workbooks
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Gnumeric 0.48

Miguel:
	* Fix annoying flashing cursor bug.

Jody:
	* Improve inter{sheet,book} references.
	* Beginnings of Undo.
	* Row/Col hiding.
	* Keep cursor visible, Add Alt-Pg{Up,down}
	* Clipboard, Selection, & border fixes.

Morten:
	* Revamp the memory handling of the parser.
	* Fixed goal seek's behaviour on cancel and failure.
	* Bogotised PRODUCT and introduced G_PRODUCT.
	* Implemented the auto-format feature.

Jon:
	* Found xml io font size loading bug.
	* Excel export clean.
	* Python plugin update: Allow calling Gnumeric builtins from
	  Python.

Michael:
	* Re-wrote dependency engine; lots more speed.

Ariel:
	* Improvements on VALUE_BOOL management on the guile plugin.
	* Bug fixes.

Jukka:
	* Implemented `AutoSave' tool.
	* Started `AutoCorrect' tool.
	* Some minor improvements to the Solver tool.

JP:
	* Sorting undo/redo
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Gnumeric 0.47

Michael :
	* Fix nasty recalc bug that would hang the app.
	* Improve bounding box calculation for printing.

Miguel :
	* Improve empty cell loading.
	* Re-enable pasting from X.
	* Adjust semantics of paste to work even when selection is not
	  visible.

Jody :
	* Fix import plugins.

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Gnumeric 0.46

Michael:
	* Fixed problems closing workbooks
	* Add pristine workbook discard
	* Fixup html export.
	* Fixed print header/footer setup, users should remove
	  ~/.gnome/Gnumeric to speedup load.

Jon:
	* Lots of Excel style export work:
	format, font, colors, borders, alignment, wrap, rotation.
	* Excel export row/col sizing.
	* Excel fixed up DBCELL collating to export lots of rows correctly.

JP:
	* Added sorting of infinite ranges
	* Got rid of blank sheets when printing

Frank:
	* Worked on Excel summary export

Jody:
	* Begin exception handling for corba vs gui.
	* Add some simple version protection for plugins.
	* Improve error reporting for file loading.
	* Explicitly disable passord protected XL spreadsheets.
	* Bug fixing.

Cort:
	* Expanded CORBA API.

Andrew:
	* Many improvement for multi-dimensional linear regression.

Jukka:
	* Implemented Simplex algorithm for Solver
	* Solver can now solve some simple LP problems (more interesting
	  stuff is coming later).

Ariel:
	* Added guile plugin documentation.
	* Removed redeclaration of functions.
	* Removed security hazard on the definition of scm_eval.
	* Improvements on VALUE management.
	* Added Fibonacci formula
	* Split the guile scheme files into gnumeric_startup.scm and
	  functions.scm
	* Bug fixing.

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Gnumeric 0.45

JP:
	* Improved sort dialog

Nat:
	* Updated bonobo infastructure

Kevin:
	* Plan Perfect plugin
	* DIF export / import

Jody:
	* Improved clipboard ops.
	* import Excel auto-ranges
	* better range instersection
	* Guile plugin fixed
	* Auto fill display fixes.

Jon:
	* Style hashing

Michael:
	* Misc cleans
	* Fix #2110

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Gnumeric 0.44

Jon:
	* Vastly improved col / row sizing in excel import
	* ditto for Excel object placement.

JP:
	* Expanded sort dialog to allow sorting of rows as well as columns
	* Added advanced button to sort dialog to allow sorting but case
	sensitivty and text (rather value)

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Gnumeric 0.43

	* Minor build fix.

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Gnumeric 0.42

Michael:
	* Totaly re-wrote style engine.

Jukka:
	* Implemented IRR and XIRR financial functions
	* Fixed the handling of the database function criterias
	* Fixed the non-numeric return values of DGET
	* One-dimensional GROWTH and TREND should work now
	* Documentation of the db functions improved

Jody:
	* Complete transition of cut/paste to cell movement code.
	* 1st pass at borders & patterns
	* Improve edit popup.
	* Rework cell format dialog.
	* Some support for inter book references (no dependencies yet)

Daniel:
	* Excel Name export.

Federico:
	* Improved dragging and zooming behavior in the print preview.
	* Added "open hand" and "closed hand" cursors for dragging the
	  print preview.

Robert:
	* Primitive oleo import : supports numbers and text.

Frank:
	* Huge chunk of summary-info re-structuring.
	* Import and export lots of new summary fields.

JPR:
	* Improving sort dialog

Jeff:
	* Sylk import filter.
	* CSV export filter.

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Gnumeric 0.41

	* More recalculation bugs & other minor issues fixed.
	* Base release before Style mangling.

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Gnumeric 0.40

Miguel:
	* Important recalculation bugs fixed.

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Gnumeric 0.39

Miguel:

	* Arbitraryly shaped bonobo objects.
	* Formatting engine supports h,m,s correctly and supports [h], [m], and [s]

Jukka:
	* Started implementation of GROWTH function
	* Optional argument fixes for TREND function

Arturo:
	* Split libole2 + test program.
	* Large excel file support > 8Mb.

Michael:
	* Start of sheet/workbook/global name scoping.

Jody:
	* Some Optimization.
	* Enhance row/col insert/delete, cell shift, and cell cut/paste.
	* Some eye candy.

Jon K Hellan:
	* Dialog improvements.

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Gnumeric 0.36

Jody:
	* Improve selection to correctly handle overlapping ranges.
	* Improve XL import of 'escher' stream for pictures and objects.
	* Enabled import of XL objects by default.