Project news

Complete project news history.

Jump to year: 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004. See also version history.

2007

2008-07-01: Version 2.10 was released. See the detailed news for more.

2008-01-21: Official Debian unstable packages of Gwyddion are available.

2007-10-19: Version 2.9 “FT2 Farewell” was released, it requires Gtk+ 2.8 (at least) on all platforms. Win32 executables were released too. See the detailed news for more.

2007-09-27: Former Tools and Toys were moved from download page to a new section Gwyddion Applications and two new Gwyddion applications were added: gwyfract and grapherAD.

2007-09-13: A patch that fixes compilation with GLib older than 2.10 was released.

2007-09-06: Jan Beyer created Debian Etch/i386 packages of Gwyddion, you are encouraged to test them, see the Debian section of the download page.

2007-09-03: Gwyiew-2.0 was released. It works with recent versions Gwyddion, which means it not only compiles with it but is also capable of displaying files with multiple channels.

2007-09-03: Win32 executables of version 2.8 were released.

2007-09-01: Version 2.8 source code is available on SourceForge, as usual.

2007-08-31: Version 2.8 “Freedom for Fourier” was released, see the detailed change list.

Note due to an upload mistake and SourceForge restrictions, the source code will appear there with a delay (probably tomorrow). Downloads from this site work normally.

2007-08-09: OpenSuSE packages of Gwyddion were added to repos.opensuse.org. See the SuSE section of the download page for details.

2007-07-09: Win32 installer of the user guide was released.

2007-07-03: Win32 executables of version 2.7 were released.

2007-06-28: A new version of Gwyddion user guide was released.

2007-06-26: Version 2.7 was released, the full list of changes is too long for anyone to read, but it can be found anyway on the detailed news page.

But wait… What happened to version 2.6? Was it abducted by aliens and all our memories of it erased? It is a true mystery.

2007-04-26: A testing Fink info file is available in the OS X download section.

2007-03-12: Win32 executables of version 2.5 were released.

2007-03-09: Version 2.5 was released, the full list of changes can be found in the detailed news.

2007-02-06: Win32 executables of version 2.4 were released and also a Win32 installer of the user guide.

2007-02-04: A new version of Gwyddion user guide was released.

2007-02-01: Version 2.4 was released. In particular it fixes the file import problems of 2.3 – see the detailed news for more.

2007-01-30: Port science/gwyddion was commited to MacPorts. Mac OS X users can install Gwyddion by more convenient means now. The testing Portfile was removed from this site.

2007-01-28: Updated MacPorts Portfile for version 2.3 was released.

2007-01-25: Win32 executables of version 2.3 were released.

2007-01-23: Debian sarge i386 package of version 2.3 was released. Also a patch necessary to compile version 2.3 on certain systems (at this moment only SuSE 10 is known to be affected) was released.

2007-01-21: Version 2.3 was released with a large number of smaller improvements and bug fixes – see the detailed list of changes.

2007-01-03: Win32 executables of version 2.2 were released. We are sorry for the long delay.

2006

2006-12-15: Version 2.2 was released. It adds quite a few new features (list of changes), but the reason why everyone wants it are previews in the file open dialog.

2006-12-10: Due to the deployment of a new Subversion access method on SourceForge.net, the preferred repository access URLs have changed to https://gwyddion.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gwyddion/… (the host name now contains the project name).

2006-11-17: A patch for version 2.1 fixing build errors on big-endian systems was released together with an updated MacPorts Portfile.

2006-11-10: Win32 executables of version 2.1 were released.

2006-11-09: A new version of Gwyddion user guide was released.

2006-11-05: Version 2.1 was released. Among other things it brings the long-awaited PSI HDF4 import, see the detailed news for more.

2006-10-05: Screenshots showing an ancient version 1.5 were replaced with a more up to date set.

2006-10-03: Win32 executables of version 2.0 were released.

2006-10-02: Gwyddion source code version control system has changed from CVS to Subversion. See the repository layout description and Sourceforge Subversion instructions. Also, a testing version of OS X Macports port is available.

2006-09-30: Version 2.0 was released. This is the start of a new stable serie. Get it, see list of changes against version 1.99.9.

2006-09-19: An overview of major user-visible changes in the upcoming version 2.0 was published: What is new in Gwyddion 2.0.

2006-09-07: Development version 1.99.9 was released. This is very likely the last beta version before 2.0, please test and report problems. See also the (relatively short) list of changes against 1.99.8.

2006-09-05: Gwydump 2.0 was released. It adds dumps of arrays, binary data extraction, limits of maximum nesting depth and some consistency fixes. It also has a page of its own now, with some documentation.

2006-08-11: Port science/gwyddion of version 1.99.8 was accepted to the FreeBSD Ports Collection.

2006-08-10: Development version 1.99.8 was released, see detailed news for the list of changes. This is a beta version, the next version may be 2.0. Please test and report problems.

2006-08-09: Gwyddion Bugzilla was finally dismantled.

2006-07-28: The web site style was updated, hopefully working around Microsoft Internet Explorer deficiences and considerably improving printing support.

2006-06-13: Gwydump 1.1 was released, it fixes miscellaneous bugs and adds MSVC support.

2006-06-01: Win32 binaries of version 1.99.7 are available for download.

2006-05-29: A Debian/i386 (sarge) package of version 1.99.7 is available for download.

2006-05-28: Development version 1.99.7 was released with many improvements in tools, graphs, file import and other areas, see the detailed news for more. Note the MS Windows build system is set up to require Gtk+ 2.8.

2006-05-20: A Debian/i386 (sarge) package of version 1.16 is available.

2006-05-13: The CVS service at SourceForge.net where Gwyddion is hosted was upgraded, resulting in some CVS access changes: The new server host name is gwyddion.cvs.sourceforge.net (instead of just cvs.sourceforge.net) and the new on-line browser URL is http://gwyddion.cvs.sourceforge.net/gwyddion/.

2006-04-18: A new stable version 1.16 was released, bringing import capabilities for several new file formats (thanks to everyone who made it possible), a couple of serious big-endian fixes (OS X users should definitely upgrade), and other smaller improvements. See detailed news for the complete list. MS Windows users please note the recommended Gtk+ package is still Gtk+ 2.4 from GladeWin32 for the stable versions.

2006-04-17: Participation/Contribution was updated to emphasize the areas where your help is needed the most.

2006-04-02: A list of miscellaneous resources and links was added, nightly CVS snapshots are available from the normal download page now. In other words, everything that used to be on Yeti's Gwyddion page at trific.ath.cx in available on gwyddion.net. Gwyddion bugzilla, located there, was deprecated, see contact for current preferred method to report bugs.

2006-03-08: Debian (sarge) packages of both Gwyddion 1.15 and 1.99.6 are available (prepared by Ranjan Grover). Fetch them from the Download page.

2006-02-26: Development version 1.99.6 was released, adding support for multiple data in one file, see detailed news for more. Note some modules, namely tools, can still work with the first data in a file only, which can lead to various odd effects.

2006-01-22: CVS HEAD developer documentation (updated once a day) was moved from Yeti's site here, see Documentation index.

2006-01-02: Version 1.15 was released, fixing compilation on OS X and a few other bugs. See detailed news for more.

2005

2005-12-20: A new development version 1.99.5 was released, see detailed news for more. We focused on finishing of unfinished features and stabilization so it might be a bit less unstable than the other unstable versions.
Note if you compile it with FFTW support on a 64bit system, FFT-related functions will occasionally crash – this is a known FFTW problem which will be fixed in next FFTW release and possibly worked around in a future Gwyddion release.

2005-11-12: A new version of User guide was released. It's a work in progress, but we hope at least the progress is noticeable.

2005-11-07: A new stable version 1.14 was released, it adds supports for new file formats and fixes a few bugs. See detailed news for more.

2005-10-10: A PC-BSD package is now available thanks to Tom Anderson and Kris Moore (package page). Gwyddion still doesn't have any classic BSD port, though (hint, hint).

2005-10-06: Development version 1.99.4 was released. See detailed news for more.

2005-09-19: Version 1.13 was released, it is the first version that works on Mac OS X. See detailed news for complete list of improvements and fixes.

2005-08-25: Gentoo Linux has added sci-misc/gwyddion package to Portage tree. To install Gwyddion in Gentoo, just emerge it!

2005-08-19: Gwyddion was registered to CIA notification system so you can watch CVS commits at its CIA page or even using RSS.

2005-07-15: New stable version 1.12 was released, beside fixed bugs it also adds a few new features. See detailed news for details.

2005-07-11: Development version 1.99.3 was released (download). It brings data views and graphs much nearer to MVC pattern, see detailed news for more.

2005-06-27: A new version of User guide was released, with a few improvements and corrections. Its license was changed to dual GNU GPL/GNU FDL.

2005-06-03: Version 1.11 (stable) was released, it fixes various bugs, namely file import related. See detailed news for details.

2005-05-25: A new mailing list was created: gwyddion-users, you can subscribe at its sourceforge page. Sourceforge file release system was also set up as the default download source.

2005-04-18: Development version 1.99.2 was released (download, news). It primarily adds forward-ports of new modules from stable branch. A site map was added.

2005-04-07: A new stable version 1.10 was released. It supports five new file formats and some existing were improved. Please see detailed news for details. We'd like to thank all who contributed file format specifications and/or data file samples.

2005-03-22: Development version 1.99.1 was released (download, news). This is a code-cleanup version, there are no new user visible features yet.

2005-03-09: Version 1.9 was released, see detailed news for more. Stay with Gtk+ 2.4 on MS Windows. Work on Gwyddion-2 has begun; however, there will be at least one (and maybe more) stable 1.x version, see future plans for more.

2005-02-24: Module browser is available on-line: nifty version (needs a good Web browser), plain expanded table.

2005-01-25: We would like to invite you to am international workshop on SPM analysis that we are organizing in March 2005 in Brno, Czech Republic. See details for more information.

2005-01-24: Version 1.8 was released, see detailed news for more. MS Windows users please note Gtk+ 2.6 is not supported on Win32, use Gtk+ 2.4 (eventually 2.2) with Gwyddion.

2004

2004-12-30: Gwyddion and user guide releases were duplicated to SourceForge.net file release system, featuring a network of high-capacity download servers, which is the preferred download source now. Older releases will be removed from Gwyddion.net, current version will be available from both places.

2004-12-15: A much improved Gwyddion User Guide was released. See also Documentation for download links.

2004-12-12: Version 1.7 was released. Please see detailed news for list of all the great new features.

2004-11-28: New io_tm_common module with some improvements (exporting metadata) at download page.

2004-10-30: Gwyddion was registered as a SourceForge project and its CVS repository was moved there, so it is public now.

2004-10-26: Gwyddion 1.6 was released. Please see detailed news for more.

2004-09-27: New screenshots were added. The old ones, showing a prepre-release, finally went to shredder.

2004-09-21: Gwyddion 1.5 was released, featuring 3D data view which also brings a new dependency: GtkGLExt. Please see detailed news for more.

2004-08-04: Gwyddion 1.4 was released. Please see detailed news for more.

2004-07-24: Site got face-lift. We hope you like the new design and are sorry for URIs changed during refactorization.

2004-06-02: Gwyddion 1.3 was released. It fixes major bugs and compatibility problems with Gtk+-2.4, everyone should upgrade (see detailed news for more).

2004-05-21: Gwyddion 1.2 was released. Please see detailed news for more information.

2004-04-13: Gwyddion 1.1 was released. Please see detailed news for more information.

2004-03-10: First stable version - Gwyddion 1.0 released.

2004-03-02: First stable version candidate - Gwyddion 0.99.1 released.

2004-02-03: Screenshots added.

2004-01-27: Pages in reconstruction.

2004-01-26: Pre-pre-release sent to volunteers.