ANNOUNCE: Gnucash 2.3.12 released

Phil Longstaff plongstaff at rogers.com
Wed Apr 21 18:54:46 EDT 2010


Announcement: GnuCash 2.3.12 (Unstable) Release 2010-04-21 

GnuCash 2.3.12 (Unstable) released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.3.12, the
thirteenth of several unstable 2.3.x releases of the GnuCash Free
Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable version
2.4.0. With this new release series, GnuCash can use an SQL database
using SQLite3, MySQL or PostgreSQL. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris,
Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX.

WARNING: This is an *UNSTABLE* version of Gnucash.

This release is intended for developers and testers who want to help
tracking down all those bugs that are still in there.

Make sure you make backups of any files used in testing versions of
GnuCash in the 2.3.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.


NOTE: The latest stable version is 2.2.9.


PLEASE TEST TEST AND TEST SOME MORE any and all features important to
you. Then post any bugs you find to bugzilla

Major changes in the 2.3.x release include; 

        
      * In addition to the XML backend, Gnucash can now use a SQLite3,
        MySQL or PostgreSQL database to store the data. This is a new
        implementation using libdbi. It supports all features including
        the business features. In order to build with this, add
        --enable-dbi to the configure command. In addition to the
        libdbi-dev package for your distribution, you will also need the
        appropriate DBD (libdbi driver) package for sqlite3, mysql or
        postgresql.
      * As a replacement for the current GtkHTML HTML engine used to
        display reports and graphs, Gnucash can use WebKit. WebKit is
        the engine used by Google Chrome on Windows and Safari on Apple.
        In order to build with this, add --enable-webkit to the
        configure command. You will need an appropriate webkit-dev
        package. On win32, you will need to download the
        webkit-1.1.5-win32.zip file from the source repository and put
        it into the downloads directory of your gnucash build area.
      * Updated to AqBanking 3 on Win32.


Strings are frozen. This means no new changes will be introduced which
change any text displayed by Gnucash. Therefore, final translations for
2.4.0 release may begin.

Changes between 2.3.11 and 2.3.12 include: 

        
      * Bugs fixed
              * Fix #588816 - Heading Banner Image does not display or
                print on invoice reports Along with a new version of
                webkit which properly handles local image files, a
                change was needed so that instead of creating an html
                string and feeding it directly to webkit, it is exported
                to a temp file which is then loaded as a file:// URI. On
                Linux, if this is not done, any embedded images do not
                appear, and there is a console message that local
                resources can't be loaded. On Windows, the embedded
                images don't appear, possibly for the same reason, but
                I'm not sure where the console messages go. 
              * Bug #525821 - new or edited account names should be
                checked for reserved chars like ":" Addendum: Fix
                compatibility with older Gtk versions.
              * Bug #525821 - new or edited account names should be
                checked for reserved chars like ":" This patch checks if
                the separator character is used in account names when
                loading a data file, or when changing the separator
                character in the preferences. If the separator character
                is incompatible with some account names, a warning
                dialog box is popped up explaining the situation. This
                dialog also lists the violating account names.
                Additionally, the preferences dialog will show a warning
                sign as long as the separator clashes with some account
                names. The tooltip for this sign will also display the
                violating account names.
              * Bug #613963 - GnuCash opens empty window when no state
                file is found
              * Bug #612566 - Build failure with glib 2.10 - undefined
                gdk_color_to_string - part 2 Create the necessary
                HAVE_GTK_2_12 check in configure.in
              * Bug #612566 - Build failure with glib 2.10 - undefined
                gdk_color_to_string From modified patch by Bob
              * Bug #605802 - Can't input Japanese characters at an
                account register window on windows with SCIM, IIIMF and
                XIM This patch by Yasuaki Taniguchi fixes the business
                register.
              * Bug #613655 - Cannot load MYsql data, fix invalid state
                file name
              * Fix #613574 - Cannot create/save new employees using
                MySQL backend Wrong gobject property name used when
                creating "username" property - sql backend couldn't read
                it. 
              * Fix bug #613375 Odd that this affected only OSX, as the
                fix is clearly consistent with the GtkLabel "ellipsize"
                property documentation. (I.e., the packing "expand"
                property must be TRUE on notebook labels.) 
              * Bug #610675: Re-apply r18918, and now with the account
                color.
              * Bug #610675: Re-apply r18918, but only the tooltip
                fixing.
              * Bug #610675: Re-apply r18918 but with the relevant
                event_box not visible on Windows. This patch contains
                only the changed widget order (no color yet).
              * Make sure we include glade headers (#613326)
      * Updated translations or translation-related changes
              * Update Japanese names of accounts. And remove empty
                ja_JP.EUC directory. Patch by Yasuaki Taniguchi.
              * Update of Brazilian Portuguese translation by Miguel
                Rozsas
              * Updated Dutch translation, copied from the Translation
                Project.
              * Update German translation.
              * Updated Danish translation, copied from the Translation
                Project.
              * Merge po templates with latest string changes (mostly
                the removal of taxtxf.scm from translation)
              * I18n: Remove strings of the US tax report from
                translation because this report makes sense only in
                English.
              * I18n: Mark forgotten string for translation. Pointed out
                by Yasuaki Taniguch.
              * Updated Japanese translation, copied from the
                Translation Project.
      * Other user-visible changes
              * Enable the use of gnome-keyring during loading and
                saving of data. - The database passwords will no longer
                be stored in history - During save as, the user-entered
                password will be stored in gnome-keyring - During open,
                the user-entered password will be stored in
                gnome-keyring - When a file is opened from history (no
                file specified at startup or user selects an entry in
                the File menu's history) the password is fetched from
                the gnome-keyring. This currently works on linux. On Mac
                OS X or Windows no passwords are stored and the user is
                asked for a password when a file is loaded from history.
                Adding keyring/keychain capability on these systems is
                tbd.
              * When printing WebKit based reports respect the Page
                Setup settings. If webkit_web_frame_print_full exists in
                the version of WebKit being used then use it with a
                GtkPrintOperation which has been initialized from the
                Page Setup data.
              * Make the calculations more nearly the same as the older
                balance sheet report Calculate retained earnings or loss
                from income and expense accounts and label the amount
                needed to balance the books as the imbalance amount
                instead of retained earnings or loss.
              * Update eguile based balance sheet report to work with
                current GnuCash.
              * Add the eguile based balance sheet report. This version
                is directly from the wiki at
                <http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports_Using_Eguile> and won't work in the current version of GnuCash. It is included for reference purposes.
              * Can't add or update currencies in 2.3.11 Reported by
                Markus Scheffler on Apr 2 via gnucash-user ML
              * Open/Save As...: configure enter/double click to run the
                default action.
      * Other code/build changes
              * Add functions to compare 2 business objects for
                equality, and use them in 'make check' tests. Adds
                functions to compare 2 business objects for equality.
                The 'make check' tests can then use these functions to
                store and reload objects and compare them for equality.
                This allows the sql backend to be tested. 
              * Check for webkit_web_view_load_uri() function, and if
                not available, fall back to
                webkit_web_view_load_html_string(). This change also
                changes the config #define name from
                HAVE_WEBKIT_PRINT_FULL to
                HAVE_WEBKIT_WEB_FRAME_PRINT_FULL to be a bit more
                descriptive. 
              * Change default from --disable-dbi to --enable-dbi. This
                is needed so that 'make distcheck' will work with the
                business sql backend tests. 
              * Disable transaction log in backend test so that there
                aren't log files left lying around to make 'distcheck'
                fail. 
              * Add .h files to EXTRA_DIST to ensure they are put into
                tarball 
              * Fix test dependencies 
              * Ensure necessary .h files are included in EXTRA_DIST 
              * Remove reference to GNC_TEST_SRFI_LOAD_CMD since we no
                longer support local srfi's. 
              * Assume webkit functions exist on win32 
              * Small corrections in the comments of gnc-commodity.h 1
                typo 1 moved file 1 complement Patch by Frank H.
                Ellenberger
              * When updating book counters for business objects (in
                book slots), ensure they're saved.
              * Allow QTDIR to be defined either in pure windows format
                (c:\xyz\def) or unix format (/c/xyz/def) without ISS
                bailing out. Previously, only unix format worked.
              * pexports is only available if MSVC is installed.
                Encapsulate it in a conditional.
              * Move one more MSVC-only line inside the MSVC test
              * Fix gnucash-gdb.in to use gdb from the right place 
              * Change the iso-4217 generator script to accept the
                srcdir as cmdline argument instead of an env variable.
              * Insert missing "format:" - otherwise it didn't build for
                me. Additional simplifying git expressions. Patch by
                Frank H. Ellenberger
              * Remove unneeded path conversion on Windows
              * Add note about required Qt for dist.sh + some typo fixes
              * Fix crash when trying to unset a parameter via the
                environment config file
              * Fix Windows build after introduction of the environment
                config file.
              * Revive gnucash-setup-env on OSX/Quartz. This fixes the
                OSX issues caused by the introduction of the environment
                config file.
              * Fix MacOSX keyring test in configure to work and make
                gnc-keyring.c compile if it does.
              * Initialize new_val in environment_override to avoid a
                compiler warning.
              * G_PATH_SEPARATOR is not used in the environment config
                file. Remove it from the make script.
              * Make sure only the quartz build uses environment-osx.in
              * Remove local srfi's and require guile 1.6.7 or better.
                All now supported versions of guile come bundled with
                these srfi's, so there's no need to keep our own copies.
              * Have the gnucash binary setup its required environment
                by itself - New "environment" config file that holds the
                environment modifications to make - Added a parser for
                this file that does the actual modification of the
                environment (in gnucash-bin.c) - Eliminate the old
                gnucash-setup-env script
              * Configure: fix password store test
              * Upgrade win32 version of webkit from 1.1.5 to 1.1.90.
                This version contains changes required to fix #588816
                (Heading Banner Image does not display or print on
                invoice reports). Note that this bug won't be fixed
                until some gnucash changes are checked in as well.
              * Configure: group platform dependent tests
              * Fix missing printf format string
              * Fix indentation with astyle The indentation was mixed up
                due to the unusual IF_TYPE macro, now removed.
              * Replace IF_TYPE macro with a validation function The
                macro is quite ugly: it's not a complete if condition
                (missing closing bracket) which makes the code using it
                difficult to read and error-prone. Even astyle got
                confused by it. The replacement code is slightly longer
                (two lines per replaced IF_TYPE invocation) but clean
                and readable.
              * Remove redundant page tab setting code. The tab is set
                again some time later in the gnc_main_window_connect
                function.
              * Add svn:ignore properties
              * Code cleanup in binreloc: Remove unused init_lib
                function. Add possibility to set the looked-up exe path
                from somewhere else. Remove symbol mangling because
                r18940 already added the gnc_* prefix, hence the symbol
                names are unique to gnucash anyway.
              * Re-indentation of source code (sql parts). This also
                strips trailing whitespaces from lines where they
                existed. This re-indentation was done using astyle-1.24
                using the following options: astyle --indent=spaces=4
                --brackets=break --pad-oper --pad-header --suffix
              * Re-indentation of source code. This also strips trailing
                whitespaces from lines where they existed. This
                re-indentation was done using astyle-1.24 using the
                following options: astyle --indent=spaces=4
                --brackets=break --pad-oper --pad-header --suffix=none
              * Rename the type GUID into GncGUID because on Windows,
                the system headers have a type GUID which clashes with
                ours. Note that only the type was renamed, but not any
                enums or function names. Hence, the scheme wrappers
                should be unchanged completely (hopefully). Discussed at
                http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2010-March/027679.html
              * Add business backend sql test infrastructure. At this
                point, the test creates a customer, saves it to an
                sqlite3 db, loads it and compares the original and the
                loaded customer. Will be expanded to test other business
                objects. 
              * Add deep comparison routines for test purposes 1) Add
                routine gncCustomerEqual() which will do a deep
                comparison between two customers 2) Add routine
                gncAddressEqual() which will do a deep comparison
                between two addresses 3) Add more GncAddress gobject
                parameters for the remaining data items 
              * Changes in dbi test infrastructure 1) Now that the
                various objects .c files can compare objects in
                different books, remove the duplicate copies. 2) Create
                a .la so that the business sql test code can use some
                common test infrastructure. 
              * Extend xaccXXXXXEqual() routines so that they can
                compare objects in different books to see if they have
                the same contents. 
              * Set some more line-ending style properties.
              * Set the desired line-ending style to the correct value
                on the server side. Without the svn:eol-style property,
                SVN checkouts on windows tend to appear with varying
                line endings. The only possible way around this in svn
                is to set the expected line endings as svn properties.
              * Update dbi tests - more object types are now saved and
                loaded 
              * Add new CPP macros which make it cleaner to have
                conditional compilation based on compiler/system and
                options selected during config Examples: #if
                COMPILER(MSVC) #if COMPILER(GCC) #if ENABLE(NLS) #if
                HAVE(PUTENV) This platform.h file includes config.h, so
                that doesn't need to be included any more. PLATFORM(X)
                is based on the definition of GNC_PLATFORM_X COMPILER(X)
                is based on the definition of GNC_COMPILER_X. At this
                point, only COMPILER(GCC), COMPILER(MSVC),
                COMPILER(MSVC7) and COMPILER(MINGW) are determined.
                HAVE(X) is based on HAVE_X from config.h ENABLE(X) is
                based on ENABLE_X from config.h USE(X) is based on
                GNC_USE_X from config.h Having these determinations at a
                central point makes it easier to add new platforms and
                easier to conditionally compile based on them. 
              * Create splits->accounts sql index and tx->post_date
                index when creating new databases 
              * Cleanup cruft and an error from r18945
              * Whitespace cleanup
              * Forgot to delete a diagnostic in 18941
              * Fixup binreloc, which wasn't working correctly on OSX
                Most changes are to rename the functions named gbr_* to
                gnc_gbr_*, so that our modified binreloc (to provide mac
                bundle support) doesn't collide with binreloc
                implementations in other libraries. (The instant case
                was in libenchant.) Also moved the IGE_MAC_CFLAGS and
                IGE_MAC_LIBS lines from engine/Makefile.am to
                core-utils/Makefile.am. This was missed when binreloc
                was moved. And last, there was a minor error in the
                original OSX binreloc patch: At line 68, #elif
                MAC_INTEGRATION should be (and now is) #elif defined
                MAC_INTEGRATION. 
              * Add getter/setter for transaction posted-date as a
                GDate. In addition to the known timespec, the date is
                also stored as a kvp_value of TYPE_GDATE so that we know
                afterwards this date has really been set as a date.
              * Add a GDate kvp_value type including conversions from
                and to all sorts of thingys. Also, removed the default:
                switch clauses when handling a kvp_value so that the
                compiler will already complain about unhandled enum
                values.
              * Fix Windows installer doc to have perl >= 5.8 instead of
                5.10
      * Cutecash
        Some of the GnuCash developers have decided to rewrite the UI
        for the cross-platform Qt toolkit from TrollTech. The goal is a
        simpler UI which is more powerful and easier to develop. This
        project has gotten the name "Cutecash". It uses the same
        back-ends and engine as gnucash. Only the UI is different. The
        source for the Cutecash UI is in the same tree (and therefore,
        the tarballs) as GnuCash, but at this point, no MAC or Win32
        builds are being produced. 
              * Cutecash: Add install and packaging rules. Running "make
                package" will produce a binary package. Running "make
                package_source" will produce a source package.
              * Win/MSVC compatibility: Replace g_* file operations by
                the direct calls into the MSVC runtime. This tries to
                avoid a collision between glib's C runtime vs. the one
                that is used by MSVC (and hence also Qt) by using file
                access only through MSVC's one.
              * Win32: Add mingw cutecash build to the install.sh
                script, enabled by WITH_CUTECASH=yes.
              * Cutecash: Slightly decrease debug output verbosity.
              * MSVC: Add creation of MSVC import library of libdbi.
              * Fix CMake for building the dbi backend.
              * Cutecash: Fix missing #ifdefs for dbi calls.
              * Cutecash: Compile & link SQL backend as well (but there
                is no GUI for this yet)
              * Cutecash: Fix memory leak of missing cleanup of
                RecentFileMenu object.
              * MSVC compatibility: MSVC must not use g_fopen because it
                uses a different C runtime than the rest of (MSVC)
                file-handling functions.
              * MSVC compatibility: Always initialize all members of the
                QofObject struct.
              * Cutecash: Add more event handler to the account windows
                so that they will be deleted upon book closing.
              * Cutecash: Code cleanup. Avoid crashes when undoing
                adding of new transactions by not deleting the tmp
                transaction object. Also, correctly set the document
                state to "clean" after saving.
              * Cutecash: Implement account selection in new transaction
                correctly.
              * Cutecash: Implement entering new transactions in the
                register. Only the account selection is still missing.
              * Cutecash: Add empty line for entering a new transaction
                in the register. Doesn't yet store data, though.
              * Cutecash: Introduce separate base class GncInstance for
                QofInstance methods. This is the base class for Account,
                Book, Commodity, Split, Transaction.
              * Cutecash: Add deletion of rows/transactions (through
                "Cut"). With Undo. Hee Hee.
              * Cutecash: Fix file loading, saving, and save-as. Works
                fine now. Also, use the new GDate setter/getter for the
                transaction time.
              * Cutecash: Add separate Cmd class for setting the
                amount/value. Setting the amount in the register now
                works.
              * Enable editing of the "other" account of a transaction.
                Register Account and our other types in the QMetaType
                system so that QVariant can hold it and pass it between
                the model, view, and delegate. Implement
                AccountSelectionDelegate that presents a QComboBox
                editor widget for account selection.
        Caveats for Testers
        
        Any 2.3.x version might crash unexpectedly at any point during
        runtime. If you test some serious work in a 2.3.x release and
        are using the XML file backend for data storage, make sure you
        hit "Save" after every non-trivial workstep. If you are using
        the SQL backend, this is not required as every change is saved
        immediately to the database.
        
        The documentation has had screenshots updated, however, many
        help texts usually only refers to the 1.8.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.
        
        Translating: The new release comes with some new translation
        strings. If you consider contributing a translation, we invite
        you to test this release already. A string freeze will be
        announced in one of the later 2.3.x releases. Please check
        http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status for updates on
        this.
        
        We would like to encourage people to test this and any further
        releases as much as possible and submit bug reports in order
        that we can polish GnuCash to be as stable as possible for the
        2.4.0 release in a few weeks. Then post any bugs you find to
        bugzilla
        
        
        
        Getting GnuCash
        
        Source code for GnuCash 2.3.12 can be downloaded from multiple
        locations: 
                
              * The GnuCash website
              * Sourceforge: bzip2, gzip, all files.
              * You can also checkout the sources directly from the
                subversion repository with this command:
                
                svn co http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk gnucash
        
        To install GnuCash, you will need Gnome 2, guile, slib. In
        addition you will need swig if compiling from subversion.
        
        
        
        Win32 binary
        
        The Gnucash 2.3.12 Win32 setup executable can be downloaded from
        Sourceforge as well. 
        
        
        
        About the Program
        
        GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under
        the GNU General Public License (GPL) and available for
        GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows.
        Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable
        release was in 1998.
        
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