I’m very excited to announce that the 8th beta of Retrospect-GDS is available for immediate download. Unless there are some major issues, this will be the last beta version before the final production release!

I’ve done a lot in this release to reduce the complexity of the software and to make it easier to install and modify. To accomplish this I ditched the old language translation functionality in favor of something a lot simpler. It is now possible for anyone to create or modify the language translation files without the need for special knowledge or software. We’re already up to seven languages, and I hope the new simplicity will encourage more people to submit new translations.

I also completely re-wrote the installer in this version. You now have to edit the config.php file by hand instead of filling out a form, but this really simplifies the installation. A lot of people were confused by the old installer. I modeled the new installer after the Wordpress “5 Minute Installation”.

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