Socialcalc

(aka, When is the next release going to be?)

If you’re wondering what’s behind the ‘latest shapshot’ link, this is a regularly updated pre-release version of SocialCalc (some other projects call this a ‘nightly build’). We try to ensure that this is never broken, so if you ever notice anything odd with it, please let us know on the mailing list.

As of writing this post, the latest version is an “almost ready” version of SocialCalc 1.1.0. This will be a major step up from SocialCalc 0.98 (which if you were following along with prior releases was mostly just wikiCalc 1.0 with some colour-scheme changes), due to the addition of support for Named Ranges, so you can say things like ‘=SUM(monthly_totals)’ rather than ‘=SUM(C3:C14)’.

We also have a whole bunch of other tiny little changes, improvements and tidy-ups that we hope to apply prior to the official release as well. We’re hoping to ship at some stage in the next few weeks, once the lawyers finish tidying up the license. Part of the change from wikiCalc to SoclalCalc involves a switch from the GPL to a new license, provisionally called the Common Public Attribution License (née Socaltext Public License) and once we get the all clear on that, we’re ready for release. As Casey has said, you can keep an eye on the Subversion repository or our RSS feed to watch our progress towards that.

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