Download AbiWord 2.5.1

AbiWord is a word processor whose greatest strength is its compatibility with the most diverse formats of text files. In addition, the program runs on many different operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. The developers of AbiSource released the second development version in the 2.5.x branch with 2.5.1 as the version number and announced it as follows:

The AbiWord team joyfully announces AbiWord v2.5.1, the second snapshot of the development that will lead to AbiWord 2.6. This snapshot allows interested developers, testers and users a sneak preview into the future of AbiWord.

The changes from v2.5.0 to v2.5.1 include, amongst others:

• Automatic font substitution using fontconfig when a specific font is not available (Unix)
• Numerous fixes to our import/export filters, most notably the OpenDocument filter
• Lots of fixes in our GTK+ frontend, such as fixing those pesky tooltips that just wouldn’t go away

The full Changelog can be found here.

AbiWord v2.5.x is parallel installable with AbiWord v2.4 so users can try it out without disturbing their stable AbiWord 2.4 version (make sure you specify an installation directory separate from your AbiWord 2.4 installation on Windows systems!). We are very much interested in any bug you may find. Please report these to Binaries will hopefully show up within a few days.

While we encourage people to try out the new snapshot, please be aware that is a development snapshot and is not expected to be stable in any sort of way.

Enjoy!
The AbiWord Development Team[break]The following files can be downloaded:
AbiWord 2.5.1 – Source
AbiWord 2.5.1 – Source plugins
AbiWord 2.5.1 – Source extras (templates, dictionaries, etc.)
AbiWord 2.5.1 – Source documentation
AbiWord 2.5.1 – Windows installer
AbiWord 2.5.1 – Windows import/export plugin
AbiWord 2.5.1 – Windows tools plugin