Some highlights

• High quality cross-platform print and pdf output by use of cairo → render-test.pdf.

• Rotated text, but only with the new "Standard - Outline" object → Examples.

• Object properties dialog finally does handle multiple objects → more info on our Bugzilla.

• Improved text edit mode for consistent handling of the Delete key.

• A new integrated user interface mode with diagrams in tabs → screen.

• Almost 200 bugs and feature requests resolved →

  • all resolved bugs in our Bugzilla,

  • release notes in GIT (including in the sections headed "dia-0.97-pre3" and "dia-0.97-pre2", but disregard the note under "dia-0.97-pre3" about the integrated UI, since Dia always starts with the integrated UI now).

Special thanks

• Lars Clausen - maintaining Dia for more than five years, text edit, units and much more

• Steffen Macke - keeping Dia buildable on win32 and Linux, maintaining the win32 installer, consistent icon size and more

• Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe - resolving the oldest feature request (multiple object change) and fixing a bunch of long-standing bugs

• Marcel Toele - contributing the ability for custom shapes with subshapes

• Petr Novotnik - contributing dedicated database shapes

• Thomas Harding - doing a documentation overhaul

• Mark Dexter - huge documentation update

• Patrick Hallinan - contributing the integrated UI patches

• Elie Roux - contributing Lights shapes and a lot less compiler warnings

• And everyone else translating, providing patches or reporting bugs