Stable 1.8.0 coming up this Sunday
Christian Stimming
stimming at tuhh.de
Wed Jan 29 11:32:45 CST 2003
All,
The stable gnucash version 1.8.0, our first stable version after almost
6 months, is scheduled to be released this Sunday/Monday.
During the last release candidate versions, we got Gnucash into a pretty
good shape, and now I think we managed to fix all outstanding
showstopper bugs in there. I was the last one who complained about
serious bugs (with respect to multi-currency register UI issues), but
those have been fixed nicely now. Bugzilla still hovers at 56 normal
bugs but is down to 7 major bugs, and none of the major ones actually
complains about any problems with the core functionality. Therefore I
have a quite good feeling about moving ahead with the stable release
this weekend.
With a new stable release there is still some work to be done. We need to
* update the README and
* write a "What's new in 1.8"-Document
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99456 , probably in
gnucash-docs, referenced in a Tip-of-the-Day
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95602 and the README.
* A press release needs to be written.
http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2001-June/003918.html was
our last one, and I'm also going to write a German press release
http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2001-June/003921.html
probably similar to the openhbci announcement
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=2649500
Which topics should be covered in the press release? I guess that's
mostly what has been mentioned in each of the release candidate
announcements, as seen on http://www.gnucash.org . I think the really
"easy-to-sell" new features are:
- Scheduled Transactions
- Small Business Accounting Features
- OFX Import
- (Germany) HBCI Support
and additionally the following new features might get mentioned but
don't have to:
- Mortgage & Loan Repayment Druid
- New User Manual and Help
- New Multi-Currency Transaction Handling
- Redesigned Menus
What do people think? Can somebody please write up an English press
release? (My English is not good enough for that)
Christian
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