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→The releases so far: acknowledge backwards compatibility issues
Gramps officially started April 21, 2001 when Don Allingham shared his hobby project. Don has written up a great blog entry on [https://gramps-project.org/blog/2006/04/looking-back-over-5-years/ how it came about]. The first stable release was born on February 11, 2004 after a few years of gestation. More can can be learned about the early releases from the [[Previous_releases_of_Gramps|Previous Releases]] overview.
There have been major release about once a year on average. Each new version has recognized and imported all earlier the previous schema versionsversion. However, some releases required updates to the database backends which resulted in breaks in the backwards compatibility. See [[Gramps_XML|Database and XML schema version]] page for specifics.
The table below shows the main changes in some recent releases.