Users of version 5 can now download a free upgrade to Release Candidate 5.0.1. ‘Release Candidate’ means that the new version has not yet been confirmed as an official release. This upgrade will only work if you currently have version 5 installed (as a ‘full’ version – unregistered trial versions and starter editions cannot be upgraded). Users of earlier versions who wish to upgrade should see the Buy Now page for upgrade options. See also Understanding Family Historian Version Numbers for more information about version numbers.
To download the upgrade to your PC, click the Download button below. The download file is ‘upgrade_fh5_to_5.0.1.exe’ (3.8 MB). Save this file to your hard disk and then run it. We recommend saving the file to ‘Desktop’. After saving, the installation program will appear on the screen desktop and you can double-click it to run it.
Once you have upgraded, to confirm that you now have 5.0.1, click on ‘About Family Historian’ on the Help menu.
What’s New in 5.0.1
- Problems with date entry caused by specifying ‘YYYY-MM-DD’ as preferred short date format in the Windows Control Panel have been fixed.
- Date entry has been made more flexible (e.g. “1953 3″ or “3 1953″ will both now be recognised as March 1953), and error messages have been improved and made more helpful.
- Long chart names were being truncated in the ‘Saved Charts’ list. Now fixed.
- The thickness of the border of pictures inserted into charts, was not accurate for the supplied point size. Now fixed.
- Tabs in Free Text in Books, are now automatically converted to 4 spaces (tabs are not supported in this context and their presence caused various problems).
- Fixed problem whereby a cause of death was not displayed in some reports if an address was supplied.
- Family Historian had problems loading some GEDCOM files generated by Family Search. Now fixed.
- Place information was not being displayed where it should have been in some reports – that is, immediately after attribute values such as Occupation. Now fixed.
- The Backup facility failed to create backup files larger than 2GB. Now fixed.
- The Backup facility also had problems backing up very large individual files (e.g. video files). Also now fixed.
- Various problems and issues with TMG import have been addressed: Some 6.x versions of TMG (e.g. 6.12) were not importing correctly. In the latest version of TMG, Family Historian record ids did not always match TMG record ids. Family record notes and ‘Count of Children’ fields were not being included in the import. In some situations, too many source records were being generated. All these have now been fixed. Also, Family Historian now automatically generates a family record for two people if TMG has a recorded marriage or divorce event for them.
- Family Historian now supports the way that recent versions of Family Tree Maker store links to multimedia in GEDCOM files.
- There is a new ‘Destination’ field in the Export Gedcom dialog box, with options ‘Default’, ‘Family Tree Maker’, or ‘Strict Gedcom’. Choosing ‘Family Tree Maker’ will ensure that links to multimedia are output in a way that FTM will accept. You will also be warned if options are unsuitable for FTM when you export. If you choose ‘Strict Gedcom’ you will be warned if options do not conform strictly to the Gedcom specification.
- Fixed a problem with generated links in web-pages (in the ‘Publication Information’ field within source records).
- Corrected a minor error in generated HTML.
- Unrecognised Data Fields (UDFs) are no longer deleted if empty, when a project is saved.
- In rare circumstances, some branches in ‘All Relatives’ diagrams could be closed incorrectly when the tree was created, if the option to hide duplicated branches was ticked. Now fixed.
- If you double-clicked on Property Box Tab custom definition files in some versions of Windows, the file type was not recognised. Now fixed.