Release of GnuCash 1.7.4: "The water of life"

[Chris Lyttle]

The GnuCash team is pleased to announce the release of the second beta
version 1.7.4: "The water of life".
What's New in GnuCash 1.7.4?

- Scheduled Transactions: 
	GnuCash now has the ability to automatically create and enter
	transactions, remind when a transaction is due, give a choice of
	entering a transaction or postponing it	and remove an automated
	transaction after a certain period.
- Mortgage & Loan Repayment Druid:
	Used to setup a variable payment loan scheduled transaction.
- Small Business Accounting Features: 
	GnuCash now can be used for Customer and Vendor tracking, 	Invoicing
and Bill Payment, and using different Tax and Billing 	Terms in a small
business.
- OFX Import:
	GnuCash is the first free software application to support the 	Open
Financial Exchange	protocol that many banks and financial 	services are
moving to use. The development of OFX and HBCI 
	support has also resulted in an improved transaction matching 	system
that more accurately picks duplicate transactions.
- HBCI Support: 
	GnuCash is the first free software application to support the 	German
Home Banking Computer Information protocol which includes 	statement
download, initiate bank transfers and direct debits.
- New User Manual and Help:
	A brand new user help has been written which focuses on how to 	do
tasks in conjunction with a Tutorial and Concepts guide that gives 	the
user background information on using GnuCash.
- New Multi-Currency Transaction Handling:
	GnuCash no longer requires separate currency exchange accounts 	to
handle multiple currency transfers.
- Redesigned Menu's
	The GnuCash menu's have been redesigned to conform more with the 	new
GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.

Specifically updated in this version;

	 o Second beta release
	 o Problems with importing 1.6 data files fixed
	 o Updates to generic transaction matching
	 o More postgres backend fixes
	 o New progress bar when making reports
	 o Payment schedule review page added to loan druid
	 o Fixes to multi-currency support
	 o Added Brazilian Portugese account templates by Lucimar 	   Moresco
	 o Added doxygen documentation support, and integrated it into 	   the
build system. There is a new target, make doc, that can
	   be used to build the documentation if you have doxygen 	  
installed.
	 o Catch the condition gracefully when OpenHBCI config file does 	  
not exist.
	 o Compute the implicit exchange rates for ALL transactions when
	   necessary. No longer requires the pricedb for printing split 	  
values. This will display all transactions in the currency of 	   the
current account, regardless of the number of splits in 
	   the transaction.
	 o First pass at getting multi-currency transactions to work 	   from
the register.
	 o Lots more bugfixes

Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash


Chris
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RedHat Certified Engineer #807302549405490.
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