r16172 - htdocs/trunk/news - update to release 2.1.4

[Chris Lyttle]

Author: wilddev
Date: 2007-06-16 14:43:31 -0400 (Sat, 16 Jun 2007)
New Revision: 16172
Trac: http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/16172

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update to release 2.1.4

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+<b>Announcement:</b> GnuCash 2.1.4 Release
+2007-06-16 12:35
+
+<h2>GnuCash 2.1.4 released</h2>
+
+<p>The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.1.4 aka "Release
+Candidate 1", the first release candidatefor 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>  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 2.1.4?</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 or newer
+is required; GnuCash does not run on Windows 98 or 95.</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> 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 2.1.3.
+</li></ul>
+<p>Bugfixes and improvements since the last version 2.1.3 include:</p>
+<ul><li> Bugfixes with the graphical reports
+</li><li> Fixing the Online Banking wizard
+</li><li> Updated translations
+</li><li> Improvements to Windows packaging
+</li></ul>