With 2.0.4, which I’ve released this evening, the note importing has been improved significantly. Previously, only general notes that were attached to an individual were imported and any other notes were ignored. Now any note attached to an individual or family event will be imported. These notes will be displayed right below the event to which they are attached.

Download and enjoy. As always, please let me know via the forums if you run into any problems.

Another fresh update with a small handful of fixes and enhancements:

• Added a new Intro module, which can be used as the default page instead of the surname list. There is no admin interface to update the content of the Intro page. Instead, you just need to edit the intro.tpl file in the templates directory. Thanks to Eirik Stavem for coming up with this idea.
• Replaced a bunch of the graphic files for the pedigree charts because the old ones were not being displayed correctly in Internet Explorer.
• Corrected a problem with the Coppermine gallery plugin. Results were being returned for individuals that did not actually have any images associated with them.
• Changed the behavior of the Multimedia tab (only available when a gallery plugin is active). It is now only visible if there are images associated with the individual.

2.0.2 is out and contains several bug fixes as well as a couple of new features requested by the community. There are two main enhancements in 2.0.2. The first is that commenters can now embed links within comments using simple wiki-like syntax. The second is that you can now upgrade existing installations of Retrospect-GDS without having to re-import your data (and lose all your comments, etc). The installer will detect an existing installation and will ask if you want to do an upgrade or a fresh installation.

The list of changes:

• Fixed slight color problem in summerbreeze template header
• Fixed column to narrow for individual notes on family page
• Added ability to add links to comments
• New installer and upgrade options
• Improved auto path detection
• Fixed a few small display problems in the admin module
• Fixed “sinking menu” problem in IE and Opera
• Fixed search timeout when doing a name search and nothing was entered into either of the text boxes
• Removed obsolete strings from all language files