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wdiff 0.6.0 released

Written for wdiff by Martin von Gagern on 2010-03-29

Today I have the pleasure of announcing the release of GNU wdiff 0.6.0.

Up until now, the latest official release of GNU wdiff was version 0.5, dating from 1994. There have been a number of inofficial releases on alpha.gnu.org, but they probably didn't receive as much attention as an official release will hopefully receive. The new release is available at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wdiff/ and should reach the GNU mirrors soon.

The current release still lacks translations for many languages. For most languages, most of the translations are in fact there, but have been subject to automatic adjustments and therefore been makred fuzzy. We are waiting for the translation project teams to process them. I expect to do a number of minor releases when more translations come in.

A thing to note about this wdiff release is its approach to experimental applications. The original author, François Pinard, included in the wdiff package not only the wdiff tool itself, but also a number of other applications. Most notable among these is mdiff, which aims at the identification of common clusters among several files. Neither me nor my co-maintainer currently have a good understanding of this code, its workings, and in particular the problems it might cause. We therefore marked these applications as experimental. They will only be installed if the --enable-experimental switch is passed to configure. The generated texinfo documentation is subject to that switch as well, in order to avoid confusion. The online documentation on the other hand was built with that experimental switch in place, in order to include as much documentation as possible.

Of course we welcome any feedback for this software package, and would like to know of any bug you might encounter.

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GNUmed migrated to gitorious

Written for GNUmed by shilbert on 2010-02-09

Hi all,

All development and storage of source code is now happening in GIT. That means that the CVS tree at savannah.gnu.org which has been the central storage place for source code is no longer update. Instead GIT is now used. There is no such thing as the main development tree any more. Any developer has his/her local repository. Branches are cloned or merged at release time and will result in a release tarball.

Karsten Hilbert who has long been the main coder behind the GNUmed project will host a copy of his repository at
http://gitorious.org/gnumed/

deutsches Tutorial: http://www.online-tutorials.net/programmierung/git/tutorials-t-3-263.html
englisches Tutorial: http://cworth.org/hgbook-git/tour/

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GNUmed 0.6.1 released

Written for GNUmed by shilbert on 2010-02-08

Friends,

I'm glad to announce GNUmed 0.6.0. It's happened.

The big improvements are

        - LaTeX based letter writing
        - medication handling

The full list of changes:

        0.6.0

- can promote an episode to being a health issue
- can add home phone/external ID to newly created patient directly
- can track diagnostic certainty classification (ABCD) on episodes and issues
- can track procedures performed on a patient
- can do end user friendly free-text search across all EMRs
- can move all progress notes of a pre-selected list of encounters to another episode
- can manage provinces
- can manage substance intake
- can print medication list
- can print LaTeX as well as OOo letters
        - referral letter template contributed by Rogerio Luz and James Busser
- can interface with German "MMI/Gelbe Liste" external drug database
        - show info on drug/substance by PZN / name
        - show interactions
        - import drugs/substances
- can display UI in Polish and a few other languages (all partially)
- can include potential problems in problem list of soap plugin
- can remove DOB from person

- improved (more) placeholders
        - gender to re placement mapper
        - medication list
        - allergies list
        - problems list
- improved inbox

- improved tarballs: include schema/API docs, better names
- improved import path detection

Get your copy here:

        http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/client/0.6/
        http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/server/v12/

Yes, this will require you to upgrade your existing v11
databases by

        ./upgrade-db.sh 11 12

These scripts can help:

        http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/server/net_upgrade-gnumed_server.sh
        http://www.gnumed.de/downloads/server/net_install-gnumed_server.sh

Please enjoy and report bugs !

Karsten
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wdiff 0.5.95 pre-release

Written for wdiff by Martin von Gagern on 2010-02-02

I'm happy to announce the wdiff 0.5.95 pre-release available at:
http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/wdiff/wdiff-0.5.95.tar.gz

This is again a version primarily aimed at translators. It has several improvements to the translation templates, and enables fuzzy (i.e. unreviewed) translations at build time. There is also one bug fix with regard to temporary directory handling.

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