ANNOUNCE: Release of GnuCash 1.9.2 (unstable)

[Chris Lyttle]

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 1.9.2 aka 
"With extra flavor enhancements", the third of several unstable 1.9.x
releases of the GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software which will
eventually lead to the stable version 2.0.0. This release contains many
bugfixes since the second release but is still only intended for
developers and adventurous testers who want to help tracking down bugs.

What's New in GnuCash 1.9.2?

o WARNING WARNING WARNING - Make sure you make backups of any files
  used in testing versions of GnuCash in the 1.9.x series. Although the
  developers go to great lengths to ensure that no data will be lost we
  cannot guarantee that your data will not be affected if for some
  reason GnuCash crashes in testing these releases.
o PLEASE TEST TEST AND TEST SOME MORE any and all features important
  to you. Then post any bugs you find to bugzilla
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash
o If you have the urge to help beyond testing please get involved in
  the discussions on the GnuCash mailing lists which you will find at
  http://www.gnucash.org. We especially need people to help with
  updating the documentation as all texts refer currently to the 1.8.x
  series. Please see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development on how to
  get involved.
o Major bugfixes include -
o More Register fixes.
o HIGify the scheduled transaction dialogs.
o Fix the qof configure test for OSX.
o Compile cleanly with when _FORTIFY_SOURCE is defined. This 
   definition is forced when building RPMs on FC4.
o Catch and defer the quit command if a file save is in progress.
o Disable quote related functionality when F::Q isn't installed.
o Lots of Qof fixes.
o Add ebuild for gnucash 1.9/2.0 series.
o Fix x-axis labeling and other barchart improvements.
o Get MT940 importer to compile again (experimental; requires
   aqbanking-1.9.7). It is not yet tested with actual files.
o Menu and toolbar fixes.
o Remember the order in which the notebook tabs are referenced.
o Updates to business invoicing functionality.
o Fix Chart of Accounts export so it works again.
o Add support for using multi-byte unicode thousands separator and
   decimal point characters when printing numbers.
o Lots of fixes to splits and transaction editing.
o Added new icons.

Caveats

Caveats for testers:
Any 1.9.x version might crash unexpectedly at any point during
runtime. If you test some serious work in a 1.9.x release, make sure you
hit "Save" after ever non-trivial workstep.
Keep in mind that features which are not used in everyday work might
crash unexpectedly at all times. This includes but is not limited to:
graphical reports, scheduled transaction editor, price editor, financial
calculator, OFX/QIF/HBCI import.
Especially all the new features might crash instantly on
testing. This applies in particular to any of the budget-related
features. We may always decide to disable such new features for the
initial 2.0.0 release, and re-enable them in a later release.
The documentation is completely outdated. All help texts
usually only refer to the 1.8.x series; please expect all descriptions
in the help texts to be totally wrong when applied to the upcoming 1.9.x
series. Everyone is invited to help improve the documentation; see
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development" on how to get involved.

How can you help?

Testing: Test it and help us discover all bugs that might show up in
there. Please enter each and every bug into bugzilla at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash
Translating: The new release comes with plenty of new translation
strings. If you consider contributing a translation, we invite you to
test this release already, but please keep in mind that we are not yet
in our string freeze phase. Please check
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status for updates
on this, as we recommend to wait for the string freeze phase for the
serious translation work.

Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org
http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash