v24.1.2

Import moved to settings

The "import" view for importing genealogical data or media files has been moved to the administration settings, since it is anyway only relevant for users with "owner" permissions. The user management has been split into a separate tab in the settings view.

Media status and broken image placeholders

Two improvements have been made specifically for users struggling with missing media files. The new "media file status" widget in the administration settings (just below the new location of the "import media archive" button) shows the total number of media objects in the database, the number of media objects with missing files, and the number of media objects with missing checksum (stemming e.g. from importing a GEDCOM file with media).

So far, broken images caused by missing media files where simply invisible in the frontend, making it difficult to find them, since they would not show up in media galleries. Now, a default "broken image" placeholder is shown for any missing media file.

Filter places in map view

A new feature has been added to filter the places in the map view, optionally only showing places related to events. This can be useful for users who have many places without events in their database, e.g. exported from external systems like GOV.

Other fixes

• In the note editor, highlighting text and typing now replaces the highlighted text (#340)
• The map view was made more robust in case of malformed geocoordinates

New Demo

The Gramps Web demo has been broken for some time. We now added a new one at https://demo.grampsweb.org. Existing users are owner, editor, contributor, and member, all password being the same as the user names.