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Current version

Current version is 1.4.3. 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 1.4.3 manages these collections:

• Movies
• Video games
• Books
• Music
• Numismatic
• Wines
• Board games
• Comic books
• TV shows episodes
• User defined collections

This version is also fully or partly translated in these languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, English, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, 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

07 May 2009: Bugs with Ubuntu 9.04

Some users reported a problem when using GCstar 1.4.3 with Ubuntu 9.04. The application crashes when trying to change manually the image associated to an item in a collection. Just hovering the mouse on that image could also lead to that problem.

There is a fix that can be used before the new version is available. More information in that post:

http://forums.gcstar.org/viewtopic.php?pid=4424#p4424

Sorry for the inconvenience.

31 January 2009: Import from Movie Collector

mbirth wrote some instructions and a script to let users convert a collection generated with Movie Collector to the GCstar's format. Find everything here:

http://forums.gcstar.org/viewtopic.php?pid=4093#p4093

01 January 2009: Happy new year 2009

GCstar's team wishes you a very happy new year.

There was a few developments these days because of the holidays. But next year will see a lot of new features added to this application. And we hope it will always correspond to what users need.

Thank you again for your help by reporting problems or by requesting features.

18 November 2008: [French only] Nouvelle présentation de GCstar et mini-livre

Une présentation de GCstar a été faire durant les JM2L 2008. Elle est disponible en ligne :

http://gcstar.org/pres/PresentationJM2L.odp

Il y a aussi un petit livre sur les principales fonctionnalités de GCstar :

http://www.gcstar.org/pres/LivreGCstar.odt

14 October 2008: New version of the Windows installer for 1.4.3

There was a bug in the Windows version that could prevent it from launching on some systems. The installation program has been updated. So please download it again if you have some issues. Here is the direct link to it:

http://download.gna.org/gcstar/win32/GC … _Setup.exe

Sorry for the inconvenience.

13 October 2008: GCweb 1.0-beta1 is out

GCweb is a web interface created by jojotux to display the content of your collection generated thanks to GCstar in a web browser. This requires a web server with PHP5, but you will have then some features such as searching, sorting, filtering,...

For the moment, it is only available in french. But I am quite sure that translators (and any kind of contributors) are welcome. You will find more information in this topic:

http://forums.gcstar.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1626#p1626

GCweb is not managed by the same team as GCstar. So for any support request, please use its dedicated forum

12 October 2008: Version 1.4.3 released

Here are the main changes contained in this version.

• Dutch translation added thanks to kim.
• Improved performances for plugins fetching data from websites.
• Discogs plugin (Music - EN) supports searches using artist or label.
• Shortcuts can also be defined on saved searches.
• Bugs fixed in image mode.

You may also read the full GCstar changelog.

27 September 2008: Dutch translation added

Thanks to kim, Dutch translation has been added. It is in SVN version. But it is also available through updates for 1.4.2 version.

28 August 2008: Version 1.4.2 released

Here are the main changes contained in this version.

• More plugins use big pictures if option is checked (Thanks to adiGuba)
• Import identifier and media labels from movies collections created with Ant Movie Catalog
• New plugins to fetch informat ion from websites: nooSFere (Books - FR) and TheLegacy (Video games - DE) provided by TPF
• Rating was sometimes lost when displayed with stars
• Problems fixed with command line
• Title in the list was incorrect for some collections when modifying many items together
• Title when opening items in windows was not updated

You may also read the full GCstar changelog.

26 July 2008: Test script updated to use Subversion

There is a script you can use to test any version of GCstar without installing it. You can also use it to test development version. Its name is testgcstar. It can be found on this page, with more information about it:

Test beta or Subversion versions

If you already are using it, please download it again as GCstar's source code has been migrated from CVS to Subversion. Then you need the new script to get the development snapshots.

20 July 2008: Version 1.4.1 released

Here are the main changes contained in this version.

• New plugin to import collections from MyMovies done by Rob Maas.
• Missing translations added for Greek and Polish.
• Music collections were corrupted.
• Export plugins had problems with pictures without suffixes.
• Option to fetch big pictures from websites was hidden on Windows systems.
• Bug fixed in image mode when updating an item and filtering.

You may also read the full GCstar changelog.

20 July 2008: GCstar project information on Ohloh

If you are interested in the GCstar project, you can find information about it on its page on Ohloh:

http://www.ohloh.net/projects/GCstar/

You will find here that it would cost $ 1M to create GCstar!

29 May 2008: Version 1.4.0 released

Here are the main changes contained in this version.

• Default models can be modified through the graphical user interface to add some user-defined fields
• Greek, Hungarian and Ukrainian translations added
• New default models to manage comic books and episodes of TV shows
• User can choose what controls are shown in the toolbar and their order
• User can save an advanced search or the current one to create a filter
• New plugins to fetch information from websites
• Interface improvements

You may also read the full GCstar changelog.

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.