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Current version

Current version is 1.3.2. A mailing list lets you know when new versions are published. You may subscribe to it on the GCstar-release mailing list information page.

GCstar 1.3.2 manages these collections:

• Movies
• Video games
• Books
• Music
• Numismatic
• Wines
• Board games
• User defined collections

This version is also fully or partly translated in these languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, English, French, Galician, German, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.

There is some documentation for translators that explains how new languages could be added or existing ones, completed.

News

10 May 2008: New installer for Windows' users

The new Windows version announced here has now a real installer. I created one for the current CVS version. So you should not use it with your actual collections as it can be unstable. You can download it here:

http://download.gna.org/gcstar/win32/GC … _Setup.exe (around 15MB)

Do not hesitate to report any problem with it.

As a reminder, users of other operating systems can also try the future versions using instructions to test beta or CVS versions.

23 April 2008: Greek translation added

Thanks to Dimitri Glentadakis, Greek translation has been added. It is in CVS version. But it is also available through updates for 1.3.2 version.

15 February 2008: Hungarian translation added

Thanks to Takács László Krisztián, Hungarian translation has been added. It is in CVS version. But it is also available through updates for 1.3.2 version.

05 February 2008: New installer for Windows systems - Testers needed

I just created a new installer for Windows systems. Actually, it is not a real installer, but just an archive containing everything. That means all of the dependencies that GCstar needs to run, including Perl and Gtk2. You just have to download this file :

http://gcfilmslogo.free.fr/GCstar.win32 … .3.2-2.zip (around 12MB)

Just extract this archive somewhere on your disk, and then launch gcstar.bat that is in bin subdirectory. Do not hesitate to report any problem in this topic. If it doesn't work for you, it would be nice if you could try to launch gcstar.bat from a console and copy here the error reported. Also please try to test this version on some Windows machines where GCstar has never been installed before to be sure there is none of the dependencies.

If everything is OK, there will be then an installer that will use this version. It will also possible to put GCstar on a USB key and uses it everywhere with no installation.

Thanks a lot for your help.

03 February 2008: Ukrainian translation added

Thanks to Ailandar, Ukrainian translation has been added. It is in CVS version. But it is also available through updates for 1.3.2 version.

25 January 2008: Version 1.3.2 released

Here are the main changes contained in this version.

• Galician translation added
• New plugin to fetch information from Discogs (Music - EN)
• New template for HTML export: Float (Movies)
• Rating is fetched from IMDb (Movies - EN)
• Empty fields are not fetched
• Bugs fixed

You may also read the full GCstar changelog.

01 January 2008: Happy new year

GCstar's development team wish you all a happy new year with a lot of new items in your collections ;)

The development was quite stopped during the holidays. But it will continue during 2008 as before.

01 January 2008: Galician translation added

Thanks to Daniel Espiñeira, Galician translation has been added. It is in CVS version. But it is also available through updates for 1.3.1 version.

08 December 2007: Version 1.3.1 released

Here are the main changes contained in this version.

• New plugins to fetch information from websites
• Bug fixed when modifying picture from a window
• Read field is initialized to 'not read' for books
• Removing many items in picture mode sometimes failed
• XML export plugin fixed
• Spelling checker deactivated if dictionary is not found

You may also read the full GCstar changelog.

20 November 2007: Information for webmasters

A new page has been created. It contains information for webmasters that created a website used through a GCstar's plugin:

http://wiki.gcstar.org/en/webmasters_information

Unlike other pages on the wiki, it cannot be directly edited. But do no hesitate to report anything concerning it on this forum:

http://forums.gcstar.org/viewforum.php?id=5

18 November 2007: Version 1.3.0 released

Here are the main changes contained in this version.

• Multiple selection in list to modify or delete many items.
• Multiple selection in results of a fetching query. This will insert all the items in the current collection.
• Picture mode for list has been improved. There are also some visual effects such as reflection.
• Board games collections.
• Items could be tagged with keywords.
• Spelling checker for long text fields.
• Date format could be changed.

You may also read the full GCstar changelog.

14 November 2007: Problems on GCstar's website

There have been a problem with the hosting for GCstar, provided by OVH. The website online for the moment is an old version from April 2007. I am restoring everything, but this will take some time. Sorry for the inconvenience.

04 November 2007: Topic created to let users post their screenshots

A topic on the forum has been created here:

http://forums.gcstar.org/viewtopic.php?id=403

Users may post here GCstar's screenshots to show how they use it.

15 October 2007: Downloads are back

Thanks to Gna's administrators, everything is now available again. More information in this thread:

https://gna.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=1729

The temporary download area in previous message has removed.

13 October 2007: Downloads are not available

It is not possible for the moment to download the GCstar's releases. There is a problem on the Gna's servers since 13th October around 11:00 GMT. It is tracked through this thread:

https://gna.org/support/?1787

In the meantime, you may get the tarball with sources and the installation program from this place:

http://www.gcstar.org/download/gcstar-1.2.2.tar.gz

Sorry for the inconvenience.

04 December 2006: GCstar ranked 2^nd during Les trophées du libre

GCstar got the 2^nd place in Games / Multimedia category during the 3^rd round of Les trophées du libre.

Many thanks to the organizers and to all the users and contributers that made this possible.