Depending exactly on when I mark the date, Tellico is turning 25 years old this month. The ChangeLog tells me I released Bookcase 0.1 on November 4, 2001. Bookcase was the original name of the application. I renamed it to Tellico after I was contacted by another software developer.
I thought it would be fun to look back at a few of the milestones.
- November 2001
- Bookcase 0.1 is released.
- February 2002
- Bookcase 0.2 is released, notable since the second release is harder than the first, right?
- November 2003
- The first home page goes live.
- January 2004
- Images are added to the collection for Bookcase 0.8. along with several new collection types.
- September 2004
- Bookcase is renamed Tellico, with version 0.12 the first release with the new name.
- May 2005
- The tellico-users mailing list is first established, hosted by Novell Forge.
- September 2005
- Tellico 1.0 is released!
- June 2006
- Templates for what later became KDE Store were launched.
- May 2009
- Tellico moves into KDE Extragear, hosted by KDE itself, and away from Novell Forge (which shut down not too long after).
- August 2009
- Tellico gets its own domain name, tellico-project.org. Having a dedicated domain finally implies a real project, no?
- September 2009
- Tellico 2.0, the first release for KDE4, is made available. I was very excited about it but rather quickly found a bug.
- May 2011
- Tellico followed the lead of many programs and transitioned from subversion to git.
- November 2016
- Tellico 3.0 is released, the first version using Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.
- February 2022
- The first testing version of Tellico for Windows is built.
- September 2024
- Tellico 4.0 is released, the first version to leverage Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6.
All told, it’s been a fun journey, with fits and spurts of development or personal life leading to a pause. I use Tellico for my books, videos, old music albums, and coin collection, personally. We’ll see how long it continues!
Tellico Turns 25!