Core
Editing/Layout

• Fix German smart-quotes (Patrik Fimml)
• Bug 12552: fp_TextRun::itemize() leaks memory (Obin Hickory)
• Bug 12508: Prevent some crashes in recent-files code (Paul Bolle)
• Bug 12346: Pressing TAB removes text in the Windows version (Martin Sevior)

Collaboration

• Support non-TLS connections for the abicollab service backend (Marc Maurer)

GUI

• Bump the copyright date to 2010 (sum1)
• Bug 12551: Fix a memory leak in the menu code (Patrik Fimml)

Windows

• Fix a potential crash in the Windows menu code (Marc Maurer)

GTK+

• Bug 10377: Fix GTK+ landscape printing (again) (Patrik Fimml)
• Bug 12501: Fix GTK+ build to work without PATH_MAX (e.g. Hurd) (Patrik Fimml, sum1)
• Fix paths to the offline documentation (Patrik Fimml)
• Add an abiword(1) manpage and install it (Patrik Fimml)
• Restore/fix the AbiWidget focus grabbing behaviour (Daniel Drake)
• Prevent selection events to be emitted by the AbiWidget during smart quote operation (Martin Sevior)

Maemo

• Fix a bug whereby AbiWord crashes when the user tries to load the font chooser dialog box while having text with multiple fonts/font styles selected (Ersin Akinci).

Import/Export
OpenDocument

• Bug 12488: Set the office:version to 1.1 (Marc Maurer)
• Bug 12489: svg:title and svg:desc are exported in wrong order (Marc Maurer)
• Bug 11883: Section/paragraph numbers not imported. This fixes bugs when dealing with complex numbered lists. (Martin Sevior)

Office OpenXML

• Fix two crashes that occurred when importing the file from bug 12502 (sum1)

RTF

• Bug 9581: Assert when importing document (Obin Hickory)

HTML

• Don't allow non-numeric font-sizes when importing from HTML. If a non-numeric font-size is found, use a fall-back sane number (Martin Sevior)

Plugins
GNOME Office

• Fix contextual menu problems that made charts uneditable (Jean Bréfort)
• Fix goffice object snapshots (Jean Bréfort)
• Adapt to the new goffice API (Jean Bréfort)

Equation Editor

• Bug 12380: Equations are slightly larger in print than on screen (Patrik Fimml)

Grammar Checker

• Bug 12558 Grammar plugin leaks memory (Obin Hickory)

Internationalization

• Add Mandika (Senegal) translation to the list of supported languages (Marc Maurer)
• Update the Mandinka Senegal (mnk-SN) translation (Dominique Rochefort)
• Update the Esperanto translation (Keith Bowes)
• Update the Portugese (pt-PT) translation (Pedro Lino)
• Update the Slovak translation (Jaroslav Rynik)
• Update the German translation (Volker Ribbert).

Development

• Maintain and release 2.8.2 (Marc Maurer)
• The plugin.m4 file from the grammar plugin is not included in the tarball (Marc Maurer)
• Bug 12447: Source tarball doesn't include NIB files (Obin Hickory)
• Bug 12446: Compile error (gr_CocoaCairoGraphics.cpp) on Snow Leopard (Obin Hickory)
• Fix OSX plugin system to use xcode (Obin Hickory)
• Bug 12537: SunOS is not defined for src/af/util/xp/ut_endian.h ('The Written Word')
• Kill off gucharmap support, which fixes crashes with gucharmap < 2.24. Their API is not stable, which means we can't depend on it to work (Marc Maurer, sum1)
• Bug 12550: configure override CXX (Obin Hickory)
• Try to detect libpng so that we support 1.2.x and 1.4.x (Fridrich Strba)
• Fix unused variable warnings (sum1, Patrik Fimml)
• Update code comments (sum1)
• Add an additional "break" option to the assert prompt (Patrik Fimml)