r16315 - htdocs/trunk/news - update to announce release 2.2.0

[Chris Lyttle]

Author: wilddev
Date: 2007-07-15 16:24:42 -0400 (Sun, 15 Jul 2007)
New Revision: 16315
Trac: http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/16315

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update to announce release 2.2.0

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+<b>Announcement:</b> GnuCash 2.2.0 Release
+2007-07-15 14:17
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+<h2>GnuCash 2.2.0 released</h2>
+
+<p>The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.2.0, the new
+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.
+</p>
+<h4> Download: </h4>
+<ul><li> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=192"
+class='external free'
+title="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group id=192"
+rel="nofollow">http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=192</a>
+(Source code and Windows binary)
+</li><li> <a href="http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/"
+class='external free'
+title="http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/"
+rel="nofollow">http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/</a> (Source
+code only)
+</li></ul>
+<h4> What's New in GnuCash 2.2.0? </h4>
+<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.
+</li><li> <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.
+</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 2.1.5 include: 
+</p>
+<ul><li> Updated translations
+</li><li> Improved DLL handling on Windows
+</li><li> Improved handling of Online Banking on Windows
+</li></ul>