Gnumeric 1.5.0 aka "RTL calm before the storm" is now available.

RTL layout and import/export has been added along with splined lines in plots. There are also a small collection of patches and stability improvements. This release is actually quite stable, and is intended to serve as a snapshot before the goffice split patch lands in a couple of hours.
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NOTE : This is a DEVELOPMENT RELEASE it is not supposed to be stable. May cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain or severe eye strain.
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• Emmanuel Pacaud
  • Snap to grid mode when moving sheet objects with shift.
• Jean Brefort
  • add scatter plots with spline interpolation.
  • Box-plots.
  • Fix crash in contour plots (Bug 166051).
  • Automatic bounds work with negative values in XY chart (Bug 164593).
  • Scrollbar and slider max values are now constant (Bug 165173).
  • Avoid recalculation of scrollbar and slider values when not necessary (Bug 166085).
• J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
  • Generate an error when no proper UTF-8 filename is produced when saving [Debian Bug 291265].
• Jody
  • RTL support.
• Kasal
  • Some configure.in cleanup.
• Morten
  • When using the new printing code, don't bother to generate gnome print fonts for the old code.
  • Improve search strategy for auto-completion.
  • Fix crash for insert/delete column/row. [Bug 165873].
  • Fix text import crash. [Bug 165617].
  • Fix SUBSTITUTE. [Bug 165996].
  • Fix general format's use of "e".
  • Plug dependency leak. [Bug 159581].
  • Fix fake rounding functions for very large numbers. [Bug 166188].
  • Eliminate old printing code.
  • Clean out workarounds for old libraries.
  • Avoid GnomeFont in printing.
  • Fix .dbf import of floating point values. [Bug 166311].
  • Plug xls save leak. [Bug 166561].

Availability

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric/1.5/