The Internet, October 18, 2005 -- for immediate release.

Gnumeric 1.6 is Here!

The Gnumeric Team is pleased to announce the availability of Gnumeric version 1.6.0. This is the first publicly announced version of the new stable 1.6 series.

We have worked hard at producing the best available spreadsheet for a wide range of applications from simple numerical scratch pad, financial analytical tool, to scientific number cruncher.

A little less than a year has passed since the release of the 1.4 series and many things have been improved:

Better Charting:

Several new types of charts have been added, and many features, such as regression lines, have been added.

Improved Accuracy:

While Gnumeric 1.4 was already the best available source for accuracy in statistical calculations, Gnumeric 1.6 is even better. We are continuing our behind-the-scenes cooperation with The R Project to make this happen. We have also added a new plugin supplying consistently named probability density, cumulative density, and reverse cumulative density functions to Gnumeric. The new function names mirror their R counterparts.

Win32 Build:

Our Win32 port is now mature enough for everyday use. We have improved the theming support of our custom widgets, so Gnumeric now looks and feels slighly more like a native application. The build might still have a few rough edges, but those are being worked on.

Right-to-Left Support:

We now support right-to-left oritentation of the sheets as well as for text within cells.