ANNOUNCE: Gnucash 2.4.3 released

Phil Longstaff plongstaff at rogers.com
Sun Feb 27 21:19:11 EST 2011


Announcement: GnuCash 2.4.3 Release 2011-02-27 
GnuCash 2.4.3 released
The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.4.3, the third
bug fix release in a series of stable of the GnuCash Free Accounting
Software. 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.

Note: 2.4.1 was partially released but was pulled at the last minute
when critical problems were found. 2.4.1 should NOT be used.

Major changes in the 2.4.0 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 --with-html-engine=webkit to
        the configure command. You will need an appropriate webkit-dev
        package. On win32, you will need to download the
        webkit-1.1.90-win32.zip file from the source repository and put
        it into the downloads directory of your gnucash build area.
      * Updated AqBanking on Win32.
Getting GnuCash for Windows (Win32 binary)
The Gnucash 2.4.3 Win32 setup executable can be downloaded from
Sourceforge. It will install everything needed to run GnuCash. 


Mac OSX binary
The Gnucash 2.4.3 MacOSX package can be downloaded from Sourceforge as
well. 


Getting GnuCash as source code
If you want to compile GnuCash 2.4.3 for yourself, the source code can
be downloaded from: 
        
      * 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/tags/2.4.3 gnucash

To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need Gnome
2, guile, slib. In addition you will need swig if compiling from
subversion.

Changes between 2.4.2 and 2.4.3 include: 
        
      * User-visible changes
              * Only show the Save As dialog at the end of the Hierarchy
                druid if it was called at the beginning of a new book,
                not when a hierarchy is added to from the actions menu.
              * Set a printer job name when printing reports and cheques
              * Update revision to 2.4.3 
              * Fix invoice line ordering mismatch between register
                window and reports. The new code was missing the call to
                gncInvoiceSortEntries.
              * Add extra toolbar buttons as shortcuts for some business
                functions, "New Invoice" for now. The extra toolbar
                buttons are disabled until the user enables them
                manually in Preferences -> Business -> Extra buttons.
              * Implement command for changing the ordering of invoice
                entries by moving them up or down one row. Turned out
                this is rather easy: Just swap the "date-entered" of
                both items.
              * Fix r20272: The text selection after auto-completion
                should work correctly now.
              * Extend the addr2/addr3 auto-completion also to the
                shipping addr2/addr3 lines.
              * Implement auto-completion on the addr2/addr3 lines of
                the "New Customer" dialog box.
              * Fix missing copying of invoice currency on "Copy
                Invoice". Unfortunately this feature has been creating
                invoices with no currency set. This leads to weird
                amounts that have more digits than expected and don't
                sum up correctly, and it also triggers the warning
                dialog "One or more of the entries are for accounts
                different from the invoice/bill currency. (...)"
              * Minor tweaking of icon for duplicate invoice so that it
                doesn't look grayed out
      * Updated translations or translation-related changes
              * Update Russian translation by Sergey Belyashov.
              * Update translation po files: Merge latest pot template.
              * Update Dutch translation by Mark Haanen, copied from the
                Translation Project.
              * Updated Spanish translation, by Francisco Javier F.
                Serrador.
              * Updated Lithuanian translation by Mantas Kriaučiūnas.
              * Update German translation.
              * I18n improvement: Unify two very similar strings.
              * Updated Italian translation.
              * Updated Slovak translation, copied from the translation
                project.
              * Updated Traditional Chinese translation, by Kuang-che
                Wu.
              * Remove translation markers from already-translated
                strings in German tax report.
              * Update German tax report, by Franz Stoll. The
                contributor also sent some explanatory documents, which
                I for now copied into tax/us/de_DE/, but I just didn't
                know whether they better belong anywhere else.
              * Updated Italian translation.
              * Unify two very similar strings.
      * Bugs fixed
              * Bug #635552: Rename "Financial Calculator" into "Loan
                Repayment Calculator" I've been told (by users who know
                the subject well enough) the "Financial Calculator"
                should rather be called a "Loan Repayment Calculator" or
                a "Mortgage Payment Calculator", as this is what is
                being offered there. So I finally made this renaming.
              * Bug #640357: Adding very limited Perl-Support for
                doxygen Adding Doxygen commands to the Perl-scripts in
                the sources I searched for every *.pl file in the
                GnuCash source and added Doxygen commands like @file,
                @brief, @author to better include them in doxygen. Patch
                by Christoph Holtermann.
              * Bug #640357: Adding very limited Perl-Support for
                doxygen There are a few Perl-scripts scattered through
                the GnuCash sources. This patch enables doxygen to
                interpret them so that they can be provided with
                information about author, date and so on. This is done
                by telling doxygen that their python-files. So
                python-comments can be used. The actual Perl-source is
                commented out by using @cond Perl ...PERL-CODE...
                @endcond Perl Patch by Christoph Holtermann
              * Bug #640347: Adding Example Skripts for historic Stock
                Quotes This patch adds the example skripts from
                http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Stocks/get_prices to the
                directory python-bindings/example_scripts. Patch by
                Christoph Holtermann.
              * Bug #640328: This patch makes Transaction.GetSplitList
                and Account.GetSplitList return Split instances I
                changed gnucash_core.py so that GetSplitList methods of
                Transaction and Account return Split-instances so that
                the user doesn't need to call
                Split(instance=GetSplitList()[n]). I checked the
                examples and changed one either. Patch by Christoph
                Holtermann
              * Bug #639906: Changing the way __format__ works for Split
                and Transaction Patch by Christoph Holtermann
              * Bug #641832: Workaround to avoid the current crashes on
                windows. On win32 the queryf() calls below seem to
                crash. On the other hand, we know the used libdbi on
                windows is fine, so as a first workaround, we assume
                libdbi is safe.
              * Bug #642445 [PATCH] Segfault when tip_of_the_day.list is
                empty
              * Bug #642284: Fails to build on Ubuntu Natty Patch by
                Ahmed El-Mahmoudy.
              * Bug #641832: Use g_strdup_printf() instead of
                dbi_conn_queryf() to format the query; the latter
                crashed msvcrt. Also reverts r20287 because the root bug
                is fixed.
              * Bug #641909: Fix broken price scatter plot The report
                was unknowingly broken by the move of one function in
                r20209 namely gnc-locale-default-iso-currency-code from
                app-utils to core-utils, and somehow this needs a
                re-export in the core-utils.scm declaration. (I don't
                know why. For me, this confirms again this whole scheme
                plugin stuff sucks, royally.)
      * Other code/build changes
              * Tag 2.4.3 
              * Re-indentation of source code. 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
              * Update gtk include headers to follow gtk recommendations
                (only include gtk/gtk.h)
              * qofinstance.h: Delete duplicate declarations and
                consolidate editlevel declarations in one place.
              * Extend gtkmm/C++ plugin to include an actual gnc-plugin
                implementation.
              * Really fix conditional configure test for gtkmm.
              * Add optional module that compiles with gtkmm, i.e. in C
                ++. This was just a crazy idea, but it turns out to be
                extremely easy. This can be used as a place for new GUI
                elements which people prefer to write in gtkmm/C++
                instead of C. It's disabled by default. Use configure
                --enable-gtkmm to enable it.
              * Fix const-correctness of gnc-module interface.
              * Add missing run-time typechecks in new code.
              * Fix CRIT gtk warning if the old_page_long_name was NULL
                but still passed to g_strrstr.
              * Win32 build: Updated aqbanking5 version numbers
              * Add accessor of GtkUIManager in GncMainWindow.
              * Win32 build: Fix outdated (and broken) URL of
                ActivePerl.
              * QofSession: Don't push a new generic error if there's
                already one available that might be more descriptive.
              * Remove no-longer-correct warning about the aqbanking5
                setup wizard not being implemented: It is.
              * Add a Timespec constructor for the current clock time.
              * Win32 build: Fix some cross-compiling issues.
              * Win32 build: Update some version numbers: libofx,
                gwenhywfar, aqbanking
              * Fix potential parsing of NULL strings by correctly use
                an empty non-NULL string instead.
              * Another error message somewhat more verbose.
              * Make log warning about bad gnc_numeric print the actual
                error code.
              * Add address auto-completion of r20272 also for address
                line 4.
              * Add a common shared quickfill object for the addr2/addr3
                lines of a GncAddress.
              * Minor code cleanup - remove includes from header if not
                necessary.
              * Fix CRIT error message on program quit in the aqbanking
                module.
How can you help?
Translating: The new release comes with some new translation strings. If
you consider contributing a translation, we invite you to test this
release already. 

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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