NOTE: NO BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY IS GUARANTEED FOR 0.x RELEASES !!
+release 0.18 (NOT RELEASED YET):
+
+ - The library should now be portable, i.e it should work on any POSIX system.
+ On systems lacking glibc, libiconv is needed (see README).
+
+ - New features (see documentation):
+ - callback interface:
+ - functions to manipulate cross-references (add, delete, link and
+ unlink)
+ - support for writing Gedcom files
+ - complete concatenated text (e.g. for notes) is now passed in the
+ end callback
+ - C object model interface:
+ - functions for string retrieval and modification
+ - support for writing Gedcom files
+ - development support:
+ - m4 macro that can be used in configure.in
+
+ - INTERFACE CHANGE: the end record callback function now takes an extra
+ argument (similar to the end element callback): a Gedcom_val, which
+ contains in the case of a REC_NOTE the complete concatenated string.
+
+ - INTERFACE CHANGE: the return value of gedcom_init() has changed from
+ void to int to be able to return a status.
+
+ - Various bugfixes.
+
release 0.17 (12 September 2002):
- New features (see documentation):