r16245 - htdocs/trunk/news - update to release 2.1.5

[Chris Lyttle]

Author: wilddev
Date: 2007-07-02 13:12:13 -0400 (Mon, 02 Jul 2007)
New Revision: 16245
Trac: http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/16245

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update to release 2.1.5

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+<b>Announcement:</b> GnuCash 2.1.5 Release
+2007-07-02 10:35
+
+<h2>GnuCash 2.1.5 released</h2>
+
+<p>The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.1.5 aka "Release
+Candidate 2", the second release candidate for the upcoming 2.2.0 stable release
+of the GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software. 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><b>Data file notice</b>: In version 2.1.2 the format for scheduled
+transactions in the data file was changed.  Files using the old format will be
+read without problems by this new version, but the new version of GnuCash only
+writes the new format.  The new file format cannot be loaded by older versions
+of GnuCash.  (If you try, the file will fail to be loaded with an error
+message.)  As a result, if you begin using the new Gnucash, and you have data
+files with scheduled transactions, then these files will not be readable by
+older versions.  If you have to make a new data file readable by older
+versions of GnuCash, this can be achived by deleting all records of scheduled
+transactions in the scheduled transaction editor.
+</p><p>Please test any and all features important to you. Then post any bugs
+you find to <a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash"
+class='external free' title="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter
+bug.cgi?product=GnuCash"
+rel="nofollow">http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash</a>
+</p>
+<h3> Download: </h3>
+<ul><li> <a href="http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash" class='external
+free' title="http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash"
+rel="nofollow">http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash</a> (Source code and
+Windows binary)
+</li><li> <a href="http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/unstable/2.1.x/"
+class='external free'
+title="http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/unstable/2.1.x/"
+rel="nofollow">http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/unstable/2.1.x/</a>
+(Source-code only)
+</li></ul>
+<h3> What's New in GnuCash 2.1.5?</h3>
+<p>This release has only a few user-visible new features, except for the
+completed port to the Microsoft Windows operating system. In summary, the
+following features are new, compared to the older 2.0.x series:
+</p>
+<ul><li> Port to Microsoft Windows completed. Note that Windows 2000, XP, or
+Vista is required; GnuCash does not run on Windows 98 or 95.
+</li><li> SWIG is now used instead of g-wrap for providing language bindings. 
+</li><li> The Scheduled Transaction list view is now improved and summarized
+more compactly. The Since-Last-Run dialog has been simplified.
+</li><li> Check printing has been improved, with new formats and simpler
+format descriptions.
+</li><li> Automatic saving of the data file was added
+</li></ul>
+<p>Bugfixes and improvements since the last version 2.1.4 include: 
+</p>
+<ul><li> Updated translations
+</li><li> German translation of Online Banking wizard is activated on Windows
+</li><li> Improvements to Windows packaging
+</li><li> When adding custom reports to the menu, appropriate user feedback
+will be given
+</li><li> Automatic saving of the data file was added
+</li></ul>