gnucash-htdocs master: Announce Release of Gnucash-2.6.16

John Ralls jralls at code.gnucash.org
Mon Mar 27 00:40:10 EDT 2017 

Updated	 via  https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-htdocs/commit/729240c8 (commit)
	from  https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-htdocs/commit/26efb7d2 (commit)



commit 729240c86d243fd5c3096b3a43e53f82d081481a
Author: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
Date:   Sun Mar 26 21:39:58 2017 -0700

    Announce Release of Gnucash-2.6.16

diff --git a/externals/footer.phtml b/externals/footer.phtml
index b269a57..fe5dcd0 100644
--- a/externals/footer.phtml
+++ b/externals/footer.phtml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img src="https://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml-rdfa" alt="Valid XHTML + RDFa" height="31" width="88" /></a>
 </p>
 </div>
-<p><b>Copyright © 2001-2016 The GnuCash Project</b></p>
+<p><b>Copyright © 2001-2017 The GnuCash Project</b></p>
 <p><?= T_("Server & email outage reports to:")?> <a href="mailto:gnucash-devel at gnucash.org"><b>gnucash-devel at gnucash.org</b></a></p>
 <p><?= T_("Translation problems? Contact:");?> <a href="mailto:gnucash-devel at gnucash.org"><b>gnucash-devel at gnucash.org</b></a></p>
 </div>
diff --git a/externals/global_params.php b/externals/global_params.php
index 15bb190..047078f 100644
--- a/externals/global_params.php
+++ b/externals/global_params.php
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
      // Each platform can define its own latest version or follow the default.
      // Both a latest stable version and a latest unstable version are defined.
      $major_stable		="2.6";
-     $minor_stable		="15";
+     $minor_stable		="16";
      $latest_stable             = $major_stable.".".$minor_stable;
      $latest_stable_win		= $latest_stable;
 #     $latest_stable_win         = $latest_stable."-1";
diff --git a/news/170326-2.6.16.news b/news/170326-2.6.16.news
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..79ace72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/170326-2.6.16.news
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+<b>Announcement:</b> GnuCash 2.6.16 Release
+2017-03-26
+
+<h2>GnuCash 2.6.16 released</h2>
+
+<p>The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 2.6.16, the sixteenth maintenance release in the 2.6-stable series.
+<h3>Changes</h3>
+
+<p>Between 2.6.15 and 2.6.16, the following bugfixes were accomplished:</p>
+<ul>
+     <li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516920">Bug 516920 - Calendar Pop up disappears of the left side.</a></li>
+     <li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603379">Bug 603379 - Prevent changing some Account Options if it has transactions.</a></li>
+     <li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670731">Bug 670731 - Future Value not working with Loan Scheduled transaction.</a></li>
+     <li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739571">Bug 739571 - Matching imported transactions doesn't indicate previously matched entries.</a></li>
+     <li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759934">Bug 759934 - Tiny reports in HiDPI (workaround).</a></li>
+     <li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766630">Bug 766630 - gui dialog for sorting transactions to accounts after aqbanking import broken.</a></li>
+     <li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767032">Bug 767032 - Bad invoices from importing "posted" needing currency conversion Only auto-post if the posted_to account name is valid, there's no currency conversion, or the invoice customer's currency matches the A/R account currency. Tell the user what happened with a dialog.</a></li>
+     <li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773945">Bug 773945 - Select Security Dialog Not User Friendly: Add a new namespace “ALL NON-CURRENCY” to the namespace (type) selector lists on the security picker and price editor which causes the commodity list to include all non-security commodities.</a></li>
+     <li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776247">Bug 776247 - PriceEditor thinks Currency XXX is an actual currency and tries to retrieve prices for it.</a></li>
+     <li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776380">Bug 776380 - Gross value of bills charged back instead of net value.</a></li>
+     <li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776494">Bug 776494 - Wrong menu entry in Tip of the day.</a></li>
+     <li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776517">Bug 776517 - Trial Balance Report: Total Debits Issue re $0 Commodity Accounts and Price Source Mode Set to "Nearest in Time" or "Most Recent".</a></li>
+     <li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776564">Bug 776564 - Creating a scheduled transaction from an existing transaction does not include the notes field.</a></li>
+     <li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778208">Bug 778208 - Scheduling 2nd, 3rd or 4th Wed doesn't seem to work.</a></li>
+     <li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779217">Bug 779217 - Transactions rounded to 5 decimal places when opening file.</a></li>
+     <li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779411">Bug 779411 - jqplot fixes for piechart and syntax error.</a></li>
+     <li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777875">Bug 777875 - Reports with charts are flickering in certain circumstances.</a></li>
+     <li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777949">Bug 777949 - Accounts implicitly created in ledger attempt creation twice.</a></li>
+
+</ul>
+<p>Some other fixes not associated with reported bugs:
+<ul>
+      <li>Use "Billing Information" as in other biz modules.</li>
+      <li>Update local symbol for MUR.</li>
+      <li>Online banking: Add output of bank messages that might occasionally be received.</li>
+      <li>Allow only date entry for opening balances on new accounts.</li>
+      <li>Enable taxinvoice to show net price: Add gncEntryGetNetPrice. Create an option in taxinvoice to either use gncEntryGetNetPrice or gncEntryGetPrice.</li>
+      <li>Make SQL full-DB sync safer and clean up automatically if it's interrupted by a system or network failure.</li>
+      <li>Extend account color to all columns in the account hierarchy page.</li>li>
+      <li>Localize the word “CURRENCY” used in the commodity namespace selectors.</li>
+</ul></p>
+<p>Translation Updates: Catalan, Dutch, Finnish, German, Portuguese,
+Russian, Serbian</p>
+
+<h2>Important update notification</h2>
+<p>If you are updating from gnucash 2.6.0-2.6.4 on linux, you are advised to remove the guile user cache or several parts of gnucash may fail to work properly. This user cache can be found in <em>.cache/guile/ccache/2.0-LE-8-2.0/</em> in your home directory. It's safe to remove the whole contents of this directory.</p>
+<p>Note .cache is a hidden folder in your home directory. You may have to change your file manager's settings in order to view hidden files and folders.</p>
+
+<h2>Documentation</h2>
+<p>Concurrent with the release of Gnucash 2.6.16 we're pleased to also release a new version 2.6.16 of the companion <em>Help</em> and <em>Tutorial and Concepts Guide</em>.</p>
+<ul>
+    <li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=755174">Bug 755174 - How to handle commission when buying and selling securities.</a></li>
+    <li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769457">Bug 769457 - More info re register views.</a></li>
+    <li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774658">Bug 774658 - Add warning to delete lot before deleting a cap gain/loss transaction.</a></li>
+    <li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777318">Bug 777318 - Restructure Business Features Chapters.</a></li>
+    <li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777287">Bug 777287 - add tips on changing reconcile status of all transactions in reconcile window panes.</a></li>
+    <li>Remove section "Changing the Register View" as better handled in Guide section 4.2</li>
+    <li>Glossary: Transactions have at least 2 splits</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS X</h3>
+<p>GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows XP® and later
+and MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard)® and later in pre-built, all-in-one
+packages. An installer is provided for Microsoft Windows® while
+the MacOS X® package is a disk image containing a drag-and-drop
+application bundle.</p>
+<p>The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are:
+<ul>
+<li><code>2c556299a6a610fc93dd2ea8d432357e3d43d4630d66d7f888fcf5f4b4ce0881</code>  gnucash-2.6.16.tar.bz2</li>
+<li><code>84c79c333937ccfdcc0b94f9eec78b707e27043402560c3fbc85a3eefa211c56</code>  gnucash-2.6.16.tar.gz</li>
+<li><code>33152c867d2e470c01d5964674193dd8568bffd21e8965baa2ce4fce9b77138e</code>  gnucash-2.6.16.setup.exe</li>
+<li><code>a1e0fe408b9bc34a9d7ecff1fdaf66846289032636e44b37f6ef18b71867aec8</code>  Gnucash-Intel-2.6.16-1.dmg</li>
+<li><code>dad213032651eaef485d919030ec4e2a30cfec5cdcfb7505f94502fffec2dabe</code> &nbspgnucash-docs-2.6.16.tar.gz</li>
+</ul></p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>SourceForge:
+<ul>
+<li><a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.6.16-setup.exe">Win32</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/Gnucash-Intel-2.6.16-1.dmg">Intel</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/Gnucash-PPC-2.6.16-1.dmg">PPC</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Github
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.6.16/gnucash-2.6.16-setup.exe">Win32</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.6.16/Gnucash-Intel-2.6.16-1.dmg">Intel</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.6.16/Gnucash-PPC-2.6.16-1.dmg">PPC</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+
+<h3>Getting GnuCash as source code</h3>
+<p>If you want to compile GnuCash 2.6.16 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:</p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>Sourceforge: <a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.6.16.tar.bz2">bzip2</a>, <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash%20(stable)/2.6.16/">all files</a>.</li>
+
+<li>Github: <a href="https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/archive/2.6.16.tar.gz">gzip</a></li>
+
+<li>You can also checkout the sources directly from the git repository as <a href="http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git">described here.</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need at least Gnome 2, Guile, and slib. In addition you will need swig if compiling from git. Please consult the README file in the sources for the exact list of dependencies and versions.</p>
+
+<h3>Getting the documentation</h3>
+
+<p>The documentation is available at <a href="https://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml">Documentation page</a> of the <a href="https://www.gnucash.org/">GnuCash website</a>. The 2.6.16 documentation can be found under "GnuCash v2.6 (current stable release)" in multiple languages both for reading online and for download in pdf, epub, and mobi formats.</p>
+
+<p>If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 2.6.16 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-docs-2.6.16.tar.gz">Sourceforge</a> or <a href="https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-docs/archive/2.6.16.tar.gz">GitHub</a></li>
+<li>You can also checkout the sources directly from the git repository as <a href="http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git">described here.</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+
+<h3>About the Program</h3>
+
+<p>GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under
+the GNU General Public License (GPL) and available for GNU/Linux,
+*BSD, Solaris, Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows.  Programming on GnuCash
+began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.</p>



Summary of changes:
 externals/footer.phtml      |   2 +-
 externals/global_params.php |   2 +-
 news/170326-2.6.16.news     | 119 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 news/170326-2.6.16.news

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