gnucash-htdocs master: Announce release of 4.901.
John Ralls
jralls at code.gnucash.org
Sun Feb 5 14:46:48 EST 2023
Updated via https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-htdocs/commit/33073291 (commit)
from https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-htdocs/commit/18ad2c58 (commit)
commit 33073291363c2c4f33b81c1afbea52b242d1a3df
Author: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
Date: Sun Feb 5 11:46:33 2023 -0800
Announce release of 4.901.
diff --git a/externals/global_params.php b/externals/global_params.php
index 8629870..88dc8eb 100644
--- a/externals/global_params.php
+++ b/externals/global_params.php
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
$tarball = $latest_stable."";
$major_unstable ="4";
- $minor_latest_unstable ="900";
+ $minor_latest_unstable ="901";
$latest_unstable = $major_unstable.".".$minor_latest_unstable;
// To publicize an unstable release:
$show_unstable = $major_unstable >= $major_stable;
diff --git a/news/230205-4.901.news b/news/230205-4.901.news
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+<b>Announcement:</b> GnuCash 4.901 Released
+2023-02-05
+
+<h2>GnuCash 4.901 Released</h2>
+
+<p>The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 4.901, the second unstable release leading to GnuCash 5.0.</p>
+
+<h3>This is an unstable release for testing purposes. Do not use it with production data! Make a copy of your book to test this release. </h3>
+<h4>New Features</h4>
+<ul>
+ <li> A new Stock Transaction Assistant to guide you through entering most investment transactions for stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. You can access it from <em>Actions>Stock Assistant</em> when you have the Accounts page ora Stock or Fund account register open.</li>
+ <li> A new Investment Lots report showing a graph of capital gains and losses in a period by investment lot. Note that if you don't use the View Lots dialog to manage capital gains and losses this report won't have anything to show you. Use <em>Reports>Assets & Liabilities>Investment Lots</em> to see the report.</li>
+ <li>A new tab on the New/Edit Account dialog called <em>More Properties</em> includes entries to set a high and low limit on an account. That's coupled to a new column that's available on the Accounts Page, <em>Balance Limit</em>. If you set a high or low limit and the account balance falls above or below the respective limit an indicator will be shown in the Balance Limit column.</li>
+ <li>The description field quickfill in the register now displays a drop-down list of possible completions instead of just one inline completion.</li>
+ <li>File import menu items for the MT940, MT942, and DTAUS formats is replaced with a single <em>Import from AQBanking</em> that supports importing any file format supported by AQBanking, including the frequently requested CAMT.</li>
+ <li><p>The report generated by the Print Invoice button on the Edit Invoice tab can now be configured as a book option at teh bottom of the Business tab; this permits selecting a saved configuration of one of the standard invoice reports. Another option enables a delay, during which a dialog box will appear enabling the user to select a different report.</p><p>Note: When saving a configuration make sure that the invoice number is <em>not set</em> or you'll get that particular invoice instead of the one that you pressed the button for.</p></li>
+</ul>
+<h4>Between 4.900 and 4.901, the following bugfixes were accomplished:</h4>
+<h5>The following fixes will also appear in GnuCash 4.14:
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797477">Bug 797477 - Manual foreign transaction from APAR to another doesn't trigger price input</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797725">Bug 797725 - Untranslatable string "For Period Covering ~a to ~a"</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798734">Bug 798734 - Aging Reports don't handle mixed currency payments and invoices without Trading Accounts</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798737">Bug 798737 - Minor grammatical error - 'for' missing in 'You will be asked a conversion rate for each.'</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798740">Bug 798740 - Build fails with gcc 13</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798740">Bug 798747 - Crash in Investment Portfolio report</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h5>The following additional bug fixes are in unstable only:</h5>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753307">Bug 753307 - Custom Report be selectable as default Report for Printing</a><p>Change the preference in Business->'Report for Printing' to be saved as a book property and allow the selection of any Invoice Report to be used as the default. </p></li>
+<li><a href="https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794028">Bug 794028 - CSV import, default to matching full account name</a><p>If the account map doesn't yield a result, try to map the import string against existing accounts' full names </p></li>
+<li><a href="https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796955">Bug 796955 - Import CSV - Single-line two-currency transactions can't be imported</a><p>
+ <ul><li>Use a provided price if the transfer account uses a different commodity from the base account's; apply it as transfer amount = base amount * price.</li>
+ <li>Add a transfer amount column option to avoid the rounding that might arise from having an inexact price.</li></ul></p>
+<li><a href="https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797756">Bug 797756 - Currency format setting is ignored</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798292">Bug 798292 - csv Import Transactions Ignores Multi-Splits</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798475">Bug 798475 - GNCAccountSel could have shortcuts</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798730">Bug 798730 - Open report doesn't remember selected accounts over restart</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798739">Bug 798739 - Advanced Portfolio report fails</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:</h4>
+<ul>
+ <li>Move the Balance Sheet P&L Report out of experimental into regular menu.</li>
+ <li>Rename the Deposit and Withdrawal column labels in the CSV import assistant to Amount and Amount(Negated) for clarity when importing into something other than a bank account.</li>
+<li>Improve muti-currency invoice payment:<ul><li>Show proper amount in dialog when applying or editing an existing transaction as payment.</li><li>Be more careful not to waste the existing payment split</li><li>If the user changed the payment amount while starting from an existing transaction unreconcile the changed payment split</li><li>Avoid needlessly changing transaction currency (only do so if the user chose a new transfer account and the old currency is neither the new transfer account's currency nor the post account's currency) </li<li>Payment dialog - always list all possible post accounts instead of only those in the currency of the selected vendor or customer</li>
+ <li>Refuse to continue when a transaction has splits in more than one AP/AR account to avoid losing data.</li>
+</ul></p></li>
+<li>Add widget names to import dialogs so they can be manipulated with css</li>
+<li>Fix some memory leaks</li>
+<li>Ensure original splits are freed in xaccTransRollbackEdit</li>
+<li>Add ability to show placeholder and hidden accounts in the GNCAccountSel widget to hide placeholder and hidden accounts. By default these accounts are hidden, but with the use of a secondary icon a popup menu is presented where the list can be configured to show them. Also when the GNCAccountSel is set to a specific account with with gnc_account_sel_set_account, the placeholder and hidden properties are checked and appropriate changes made so the account will be visible. </p></li>
+<li>Activate feature GNC_FEATURE_EQUITY_TYPE_OPENING_BALANCE</li>
+<li>Wrap function decls in extern "C" in all headers so that they can be included without wrapping the include statements.</li>
+</ul>
+
+
+<p>New and Updated Translations: French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian</p>
+
+<p><a href="https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/gnucash/">Help translate GnuCash on Weblate</a>. </p>
+<p>Translators note that there is a new project <em>Program-beta</em> on <a href="https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/gnucash/">weblate</a> for this unstable branch. Having twice the strings causes us to exceed the free account limit, but Weblate has so far just warned us about it. If we need to change the branch we'll announce it on <em>gnucash-devel</em>.</p>
+
+<h4>Known Problems</h4>
+<p><a href="https://bugs.gnucash.org/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=blocker&bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=major&bug_severity=normal&bug_severity=minor&bug_severity=trivial&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=REOPENED&limit=0&list_id=8149&order=priority%2Cbug_severity&query_format=advanced">Complete list of all open bugs.</a></p>
+
+<h2>Documentation</h2>
+<p>There have been no documentation changes since 4.900 so continue to use that release.</p>
+
+<h3>Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS</h3>
+<p>GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows 8.1® and later
+ and MacOS 10.13 (High Sierra)® and later in pre-built, all-in-one
+ packages. An installer is provided for Microsoft Windows® while
+ the MacOS® package is a disk image containing a drag-and-drop
+ application bundle.</p>
+
+<p>GnuCash is also available as a flatpak from Flathub.org. <a href="https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak">Instructions for installing and running.</a></p>
+
+<p>The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are:</p>
+<ul>
+ <li><code>199defcc8e4381542190069445e495dd5f448249d94ff0719c28b1ff3816090e</code> gnucash-4.901.tar.bz2</li>
+ <li><code>10743662d03cab2562b272d956c65700498041bfb7135f1a01a6461c6b66d770</code> gnucash-4.901.tar.gz</li>
+ <li><code>7b66c0a3fcd8e8bdc7f1bf3403d2afe24d450ccf52317a442d22284337fa2805</code> gnucash-4.901.setup.exe</li>
+ <li><code>87ba9e41aefa5eadf81afb323b4d400aa8a7551a91ddb6c35cd2a0c86dfdb084</code> Gnucash-Intel-4.901-1.dmg</li>
+ <li><code>c81a99d8e9ae287abad1a38f93fdac1a66e27f4f24aed85b25259df30bd1db83</code> gnucash-docs-4.901.tar.gz</li>
+</ul>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>SourceForge:
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/4.901/gnucash-4.901.setup.exe">Win32</a></li>
+ <li><a href="https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/4.901/Gnucash-Intel-4.901-1.dmg">Mac-Intel</a></li>
+ </ul></li>
+ <li>Github
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.901/gnucash-4.901.setup.exe">Win32</a></li>
+ <li><a href="https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.901/Gnucash-Intel-4.901-1.dmg">Mac-Intel</a></li>
+ </ul></li></ul>
+
+<h3>Getting GnuCash as source code</h3>
+<p>If you want to compile GnuCash 4.901 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:</p>
+<ul>
+
+ <li>Sourceforge: <a href="https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/4.901/gnucash-4.901.tar.bz2">bzip2</a>, <a href="https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/4.901/gnucash-4.901.tar.gz">gzip</a>.</li>
+
+ <li>Github: <a href="https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.901/gnucash-4.901.tar.bz2">bzip</a>, <a href="https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.901/gnucash-4.901.tar.gz">gzip</a></li>
+
+ <li>You can also checkout the sources directly from the git repository as <a href="https://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 <a href="https://www.gtk.org">Gtk+</a> 3.22.29, <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/">Guile</a> 2.0, <a href="https://www.boost.org/">Boost</a> 1.67, <a href="https://webkitgtk.org/">WebKitGtk</a> 2.4, <a href="https://github.com/google/googletest">GoogleTest</a> 1.8.0, <a href="https://cmake.org/">cmake 3.10</a> and <a href="http://www.swig.org/">SWIG</a> 2.0.12. Please consult the README.dependencies file in the sources for the exact list of dependencies and versions.</p>
+
+<h3>Getting the documentation</h3>
+
+<p><b>Note that the documentation for unstable releases is not on <a href="https://www.gnucash.org">the GnuCash website</a>.</b> It is built daily and may be found on the <a href="https://code.gnucash.org/docs">development server</a> under the locale directory; "C" is English, "de" is German, and so on.</p>
+<p>The documentation is included in the MacOS and Windows application bundles.</p>
+
+<p>If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 4.901 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:</p>
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/4.901/gnucash-docs-4.901.tar.gz">Sourceforge</a> or <a href="https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.901/gnucash-docs-4.901.tar.gz">GitHub</a></li>
+ <li>You can also checkout the sources directly from the git repository as <a href="https://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, MacOS, and Microsoft Windows. Programming on GnuCash
+ began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.</p>
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