v24.1.1

Color fan chart based on person properties

The ancestor fan chart is very useful to show a large number of ancestors in a single graph - while it displays 4 ancestor generations by default, you can easily make it show 10 or more generations with more than a thousand ancestors.

This release adds a powerful new feature: you can now color the ancestors in the fan chart by various properties! As of this release, this includes the number of events or notes associated with the person, the birth or death year, the age at death, the last name of the person, their religion, and finally their "ancestor frequency", i.e. the number of times they show up in the graph (> 1 in case of pedigree collapse).

Keyboard shortcuts for creating objects

For those who like keyboard shortcuts, no less than 10 new ones have been added in this release (display them by typing ?)! They all start with n for "new" and take you directly to the page for creating a new object. Want to upload a media file? Just type n + m and the form is there.

Change of repository name

The original name of the Github repository, Gramps.js, was perceived as confusing to users and, after some discussion (#334), we have decided to rename the repository simply to gramps-web, since it is about the frontend of the application users know as "Gramps Web". In the documentation, we refer to the Javascript application as "Gramps Web frontend" instead of Gramps.js now. The backend is still called Gramps Web API and still lives in a different repository, slighty renamed from gramps-webapi to gramps-web-api for consistency.