r16110 - htdocs/trunk/news - update to release 2.1.2

Sun May 20 00:52:49 EDT 2007

Author: wilddev
Date: 2007-05-20 00:52:49 -0400 (Sun, 20 May 2007)
New Revision: 16110
Trac: http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/16110

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   htdocs/trunk/news/070519-2-1-2.news
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update to release 2.1.2

Added: htdocs/trunk/news/070519-2-1-2.news
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+<b>Announcement:</b> GnuCash 2.1.2 Release
+2007-05-19 21:47
+
+<h2>GnuCash 2.1.2 released</h2>
+
+<p>The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.1.2 aka
+"Financially secure yet?", the third 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. With this release, the
+2.1.x series will go into string freeze for translators to update their
+translations until 2.2.0 comes out.</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.
+</p>
+<p>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 guarantee that your data will not
+be affected if for some reason GnuCash crashes in testing these releases.</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://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 2.1.2? </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, 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 2.1.1 include: 
+
+</p>
+<ul><li> Internal GObject integration is much more advanced by now
+</li><li> Crash on OFX import crashing has been fixed
+</li><li> Windows timezone problems fixed
+</li><li> Some memory leaks have been fixed
+</li></ul>
+<h3> Caveats for testers: </h3>
+<ul><li> 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.
+</li><li> The documentation has had screenshots updated, however, many help
+texts usually only refers to the 2.0.x or even 1.8.x series. Everyone is invited to help
+improve the documentation; see <a
+href="http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development" class='external free'
+title="http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development"
+rel="nofollow">http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development</a> on how to get
+involved. 
+</li></ul>
+<h3> How can you help? </h3>
+<ul><li> 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  <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> 
+</li><li> If you have the urge to help beyond testing please get involved in
+the discussions on the GnuCash mailing lists which you will find at <a
+href="http://www.gnucash.org" class='external free'
+title="http://www.gnucash.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.gnucash.org</a>. We
+especially need people to help with updating the documentation. Please see <a
+href="http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development" class='external free'
+title="http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development"
+rel="nofollow">http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development</a> on how to get
+involved.
+</li><li> 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 <a
+href="http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status" class='external free'
+title="http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation Status"
+rel="nofollow">http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status</a> for updates
+on this.
+</li></ul>
+
+<h2> Getting GnuCash </h2>
+<p>GnuCash 2.1.2 can be downloaded from gnucash.org or sourceforge.net. It is
+available as source code. For the Microsoft Windows operating system, a
+self-installing setup program will be made available in a few days which includes all necessary
+additional libraries.
+</p><p>To install GnuCash, users will need Gnome 2, guile, and slib. Neither
+the currently used swig nor the previously used g-wrap packages are needed
+when compiling from tarball or when installing a binary.
+</p>
+<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>
+</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>
+</li></ul>
+
+<h2> About the Program </h2>
+
+<p>GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under the GNU
+General Public License (GPL) and available for GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Mac
+OSX, and Microsoft Windows. It is collaboratively developed by 12 people from
+over 5 countries.
+</p><p>Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was
+in 1998.</p>

