r15893 - htdocs/trunk/news - update to release 2.1.0

Chris Lyttle wilddev at cvs.gnucash.org
Sat Apr 14 22:48:03 EDT 2007


Author: wilddev
Date: 2007-04-14 22:48:02 -0400 (Sat, 14 Apr 2007)
New Revision: 15893
Trac: http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/15893

Added:
   htdocs/trunk/news/070414-2-1-0.news
Log:
update to release 2.1.0

Added: htdocs/trunk/news/070414-2-1-0.news
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+<b>Announcement:</b> GnuCash 2.1.0 Release
+2007-04-14 20:29
+
+<h2>GnuCash 2.1.0 released</h2>
+
+<p>The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.1.0 aka "Opening
+Windows", the first of several unstable 2.1.x releases of the GnuCash
+OpenSource Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable
+version 2.2.0. With this new release series, GnuCash is available on Microsoft
+Windows for the first time, and it also runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and
+Mac OSX. This release is intended for developers and testers who want to help
+tracking down all those bugs that are still in there.</p>
+<p> WARNING WARNING WARNING - Make sure you make backups of any files used in testing versions of GnuCash in the 2.1.x series. Although the developers go to great lengths to ensure that no data will be lost we cannot guarentee that your data will not be affected if for some reason GnuCash crashes in testing these releases.</p>
+<p>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</p>
+<p>Major changes in this release include;
+<ul>
+<li>GnuCash has been ported to the Microsoft Windows OS.</li>
+<li>Improved Scheduled Transaction editor and management dialogs.</li>
+<li>Internally, the programming language wrappers are no longer being
+generated by the not-so-well-maintained package "g-wrap" but instead by the
+well-established wrapper generator "SWIG". In effect, gnucash does no longer
+depend on g-wrap anymore but uses SWIG now.</li>
+<li>New printing formats for check printing.</li>
+<li>GtkPrint integrated.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><b>Caveats for Testers</b></p>
+<p>Any 2.1.x version might crash unexpectedly at any point during runtime. If
+you test some serious work in a 2.1.x release, make sure you hit "Save" after
+ever non-trivial workstep.<p>
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p><b>How can you help?</b></p>
+<p>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.</p>
+<p>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 2.1.x releases.
+Please check http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status for updates on
+this.</p>
+<p></p>
+<p>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 2.2.0 release in a few weeks. Then post any
+bugs you find to bugzilla
+http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash</p>



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