I am happy to announce version 0.5.2 of pondus, your personal weight tracker. You can download it here and follow the installation instructions. This release includes the following changes:

• Add a file lock to prevent two instances of pondus from editing the same file
• Enable editing the selected row with “CTR-e” again
• Quit pondus with “CTR-q”
• Fix xml parsing problems when height element is missing
• Add Italian translation (Thanks Stefano Costa)
• Updated translations: de, es

I am happy to announce version 0.5.1 of pondus, your personal weight tracker. You can download it here and follow the installation instructions. This release includes the following changes:

• Fix crash on first startup

I am happy to announce version 0.5.0 of pondus, your personal weight tracker. You can download it here and follow the installation instructions. This release includes the following changes:

• Allow user to enter his/her height and to plot the body mass index
• Move option to plot the weight plan from the preferences dialog to the plot dialog
• Restructure xml scheme: all user data is now saved in a single file at ~/.pondus/user_data.xml and weight is always saved as kg
• Fix sensitivity of plot action when not using weight planner
• Require python-elementtree (only for python < 2.5)
• Add Spanish translation (Thanks Enrique José Hernández Blasco)
• Add Columbian Spanish translation (Thanks Abdón Sánchez)

Pondus now has a public mailing list: pondus-dev at sharesource dot org

Edit 2009-12-20:
The development mailing list has moved to BerliOS: pondus-dev at lists dot berlios dot de

I am happy to announce version 0.4.1 of pondus, your personal weight tracker. You can download it here and follow the installation instructions. This release includes the following changes:

• Fix crash if matplotlib is not available
• Add French translation

I am happy to announce version 0.4.0 of pondus, your personal weight tracker. You can download it here and follow the installation instructions. This release includes the following changes:

• Add an optional weight planner to define “target weights” for the future and an option to plot the plan for comparison with the measured weight
• Add CSV Im-/Export dialogs
• Update plot if ‘Enter’ is pressed in one of the date entry fields
• The edit dialog can no longer be opened with ‘CTR-e’ or the toolbar button, please use ‘Enter’ or double-click instead

I am happy to announce version 0.3.0 of pondus, your personal weight tracker. You can download it here and follow the installation instructions. This release includes the following changes:

• Add preferences dialog:

  • Option to use ‘kg’ or ‘lbs’ as the weight unit
  • Option to remember window size

• Plot can be saved to a file

• Disable plotting functions if matplotlib is not available to make matplotlib only recommended, but not required.

I am happy to announce version 0.2.0 of pondus, your personal weight tracker. You can download it here and follow the installation instructions. This release includes the following changes:

• Internationalization Support: Pondus can now be translated to languages other than English; see po/README for details on how to create a new translation.
• Select and scroll to newly created dataset after add
• Custom date range in plot: User can provide start/end date
• Add German translation

Pondus just entered Debian Sid and if nothing unexpected happens, it will soon also be available in Testing.

The Pondus source code is now hosted in a Mercurial repository at ShareSource. You can also report bugs there.

Edit 2009-12-20:
The mercurial repository has moved to Bitbucket, which also provides a new issue tracker.