r16147 - htdocs/trunk/news - add news for 2.1.3

Chris Lyttle wilddev at cvs.gnucash.org
Sat Jun 2 14:58:54 EDT 2007


Author: wilddev
Date: 2007-06-02 14:58:53 -0400 (Sat, 02 Jun 2007)
New Revision: 16147
Trac: http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/16147

Added:
   htdocs/trunk/news/070602-2-1-3.news
Log:
add news for 2.1.3

Added: htdocs/trunk/news/070602-2-1-3.news
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--- htdocs/trunk/news/070602-2-1-3.news	2007-06-02 17:34:47 UTC (rev 16146)
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+<b>Announcement:</b> GnuCash 2.1.3 Release
+2007-06-02 12:47
+
+<h2>GnuCash 2.1.3 released</h2>
+
+<p>The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.1.3 aka "at
+last!", the fourth of several unstable 2.1.x releases of the GnuCash Open
+Source 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><b>DATA FILE NOTICE</b>  If you are using Scheduled Transactions, the
+data file saved by GnuCash 2.1.2 and higher is <b>NOT</b> backward-compatible
+with GnuCash 2.0 anymore.   Please make a safe backup of your 2.0 data before
+upgrading to 2.1.2.
+<h3> Download: </h3>
+<ul><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>
+</li><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>
+</li></ul>
+<h3> What's New in GnuCash 2.1.3?</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.</li>
+<li> The Scheduled Transaction code has been refactored.  The Scheduled
+Transaction list view is now integrated into the main window, the Editor has
+been re-designed for compactness, and the Since-Last-Run dialog has been
+simplified.</li>
+<li> The Scheduled Transaction code has been refactored.  The Scheduled
+Transaction list view is now integrated into the main window, and the
+Since-Last-Run dialog has been simplified.
+</li><li> SWIG is now used instead of g-wrap for providing language bindings. 
+</li><li> Check printing has been improved, with new formats and simpler
+format descriptions.
+</li><li> <b>DATA FILE NOTICE</b> If you are using Scheduled Transactions, the
+data file saved by GnuCash 2.1.2 and higher is <b>NOT</b> backward-compatible
+with GnuCash 2.0 anymore because of extensions in the file format.  Please
+make a safe backup of your 2.0 data before upgrading to 2.1.2.
+</li></ul>
+<p>Bugfixes and improvements since the last version 2.1.2 include:</p>
+<ul><li> Fixes to crashes and slowness in Scheduled Transaction Editor
+</li><li> Fix to crash when editing style sheets and selecting images using
+Windows version
+</li><li> Fix crash on QIF import with german umlaut
+</li><li> Updated translations
+</li><li> Improvements to Windows packaging
+</li></ul>



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