ANNOUNCE: Re: Release of GnuCash stable version 1.8.10

[Christian Stimming]

Chris: Thanks a lot for this release work. Just for information, a 
slightly more compact release announcement had been proposed here 
earlier, so I just copy this once again:

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The GnuCash development team proudly announces a new stable release of
the GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software.

FAQ: "Is this a gnome2 application?" A: "No." This release still belongs
to GnuCash's 1.8.x series which is not yet ported to gtk2/gnome2. Read
more below.

New features in 1.8.10:

- HBCI online banking improved and ported to the new library AqBanking.
   Those who are using HBCI online banking need to perform some extra
steps when upgrading, see http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnuCash
(or in German: http://www.linuxwiki.de/GnuCash )
- OFX import improved and based on the new libofx version 0.7, which
gives Microsoft OFC support among other things
- Added saving and restoring of customized reports

Improvements and bugs fixed:

- Updated Brazilian Portugese, British English, Czech, Dutch, French,
German, Italian, Russian translations
- HTML export of transaction report improved
- Reports and accounts with zero balance work nicer
- Problems with libltdl3 resolved
- Improved performance when opening large register windows
- Checque printing for Quicken cheques added
- Fixes for the x64_64 platform
- Fixes for the new g-wrap 1.9
- C99/C89 compatibility problems resolved

FAQ: "Is this a gnome2 application?" A: "No." This release still belongs
to GnuCash's 1.8.x series which is not yet ported to gtk2/gnome2. In
other words, this release is still based on gtk1.2/gnome1. The
developers are working on a gtk2/gnome2 version of GnuCash, but it still
takes a lot of time. See
http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnuCashPortingStatus for the
status of the Gtk2 port. GnuCash makes use of several custom widgets as
well as the Guppi graphing library. To port to gtk2 involves rewriting
those widgets (e.g. the ledger, or the account hierarchy which uses
GtkCTree) into the appropriate GTK2 widgets and would require the
changing of the graphing code to probably use Jody's new
gnome-office-graph code in Gnumeric (Guppi was never ported to gtk2 and
is a dead project). But given that the GnuCash team is extremely short
on programmers, the process has to exist in parallel to existing product
improvements, resulting in a very gradual porting process. If you can
code C, by all means, volunteer your time, see
http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnuCashDevelopment

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Chris Lyttle schrieb:
> What's New in GnuCash 1.8.10?
> 
>  o Don't use C++/C99 declarations.  Declare variables at the top of
>  the function.
>  o Updated British English, Czech, Italian, Russian, German,
>  Brazilian Portugese, Dutch, French, Spanish, translations.
>  o Fabien COELHO's zero-balance patch to remove accounts of zero
>  balance from the report.
>  o Fix a broken recursion problem.  Don't call show-acct? from
>  use-acct? so we don't recurse ad flictum.  This recursive call isn't
>  necessary, just have use-acct? recurse unto itself.
>  o look in ${srcdir} for build-config.scm.in
>  o Work around problems with libltdl3.
>  o don't automatically try to (require 'format), so gnucash will build
>  on an slib-3 system.
>  o Added quote sources for Indian Mutual Funds.
>  o Skip the case when a token is the empty string. This caused many
>  warnings about a NULL kvp_frame lookup.
>  o Luigi Ballabio's automake patch to gnucash.m4
>  o guile-1.6 complains about string->symbol when passed a symbol.
>  o applied Vasil's patch to improve the transaction report for HTML
>  export purposes.
>  o Backport of CVS-head changes to improve register open performance
>  when working with large account trees (>500 accounts).  The new code
>  caches the quickfill tree so that it is shared by all register
>  windows.
>  o create gnc:current-saved-reports, as the file to store saved
>  reports from cstim.  Autoload the saved-reports file at startup
>  (after config.user/config.auto is loaded).
>  o Added gnc:report-generate-saved-forms that will generate the scheme
>  code necessary to create a new report from the saved options of an
>  old report.
>  o Added example Menu item "File -> Save all reports" that will call
>  the new report saving function for all reports. This would need more
>  work so that not all reports are saved but only the currently
>  selected one -- any volunteer may feel free to add that.
>  o Fix saving of report: It now appends to
>  ~/.gnucash/saved-reports-1.8 Statusbar tip is now more verbose.
>  o Add toolbar element for saving the current report.
>  o Add function for saving one particular report to the
>  ~/.gnucash/saved-reports-1.8 file. Add extra menu only for customized
>  reports.
>  o Remove the previous function for saving all reports since it is no
>  longer necessary.
>  o Apply David Reiser's patch for Quicken(tm) cheques with stub.
>  o Apply David Grant's patch to add TD Efunds.
>  o make the desktop file HIG compliant.
>  o change the gtkhtml order to search for >= 1.1 before < 1.1, in
>  order to try to fix #84707 on systems with multiple versions of
>  gtkhtml.
>  o Perry Smith's Null Account Patch.  Make sure the security is a real
>  string before appending an account separator, so we don't try to
>  create a "null" account.
>  o Add option to include zero-amount splits in computations.
>  o fix xaccAccountGetBalanceAsOfDate() to properly compute the balance
>  at the end of the split list.
>  o Major change for HBCI, back-ported from HEAD. The HBCI online
>  banking is no longer based on the openhbci library but instead on the
>  aqbanking library http://sf.net/projects/aqbanking which is Martin
>  Preuss' successor of openhbci. This means that now aqbanking-0.9.5 is
>  required instead of any openhbci package.
>  o Fixes for x86_64
>  o Update for new LibOfx, this among other things, gives gnucash
>  Microsoft OFC support.
>  o Duplicate match tweaks in import code
>  o Andreas Rottmann's patch to support g-wrap 1.9.
>  o provide a default account name so we don't crash when someone
>  imports a broken QIF that has a !Account without an account name.
>  o Daniel Lindenaar's patch to implement a check-box in the Invoice
>  Post Dialog (with a default in the File Preferences) to choose to
>  accumulate splits when posting an invoice, or post a 1:1 mapping.
>  o Phil Longstaff's patch to prevent duplicate pricedb entries.
>  o Heath Martin's x86_64 patch
>  o Mark search criteria for translation -- somehow this had been
>  missed all the time.
>  o Change currency mnemonic for "New Israeli Shekel" from "ILS" to
>  "NIS".
>  o Identified and fixed several places with untranslated strings.
>  o Add configure check for libofx version 0.7.0 and respective error
>  message. Update docs.
>  o Improve importer performance by matching imported transactions only
>  against transactions in the proper time interval.
>  o send an event when a payment is processed so the invoice gets
>  updated as "paid" in the search window.
>  o Make sure we set the proper search-type when we create the query,
>  otherwise the search will fail later.
> 
> Available at the usual places!
> 
> http://www.gnucash.org
> 
> http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash
> 
> 
> Chris