"The AbiWord team continues to make great progress towards 1.0.
In the 4 weeks since 0.99.2 was released we've closed tons of bugs,
completed RTF import/export, added great new image handling
facilities and have made AbiWord significantly faster.
"Users may particularly enjoy the new Script plugin which
imports the output of any program into AbiWord, the AbiGimp plugin
to enable image editing using the GIMP and the image resize
dialog.
"Finally users may rest easy in the knowledge that Abiword uses
the latest (fixed) zlib in this release..."