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Author: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
Date:   Mon Aug 5 07:10:30 2013 -0700

    Announce release of 2.5.4

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+<b>Announcement:</b> GnuCash 2.5.4 (Unstable) Release
+2013-08-04
+
+<h2>GnuCash 2.5.4 (Unstable) released</h2>
+
+<p>The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.5.4,
+the fifth release in the 2.5.x series of the GnuCash
+Free Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable
+version 2.6.0. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX.</p>
+
+<div class="dialog warning">
+<p><b>WARNING:</b> This is an <b>UNSTABLE</b> version of Gnucash.</p>
+
+<p>This release is intended for developers and testers who want to
+help find bugs and other problems to make the eventual stable release
+better.</p>
+
+<p> Make sure you make backups of any files used in testing versions
+of GnuCash in the 2.5.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>
+
+</div>
+
+<div class="dialog note">
+<p><b>NOTE:</b> The latest stable version is 2.4.13.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><b>Please TEST, TEST, and TEST some more</b> any and all features important to you.
+Then post any bugs you find to <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash">Bugzilla</a></p>
+<h3>Major changes in the 2.5 series </h3>
+<ul>
+
+<li> <p>Robert Fewell has contributed a rewrite of the register (Gnucash's
+primary interface window) to use the GtkTreeModel (select "register 2"
+from the menu) as well as a new CSV import/export facility for account
+trees.<em>Take care not to try to open a single account in both the old and
+new registers at the same time. Doing so will crash Gncuash</em>
+<p> Note that this introduces some new preferences:
+<ul>
+<li> In the Accounts Pane:
+<ul>
+<li>Show the Account Color as background</li>
+<li>Show the Account Color on tabs</li>
+</ul>These both default to "off", which means that if you have account colors on tabs in an earlier version of Gnucash, you'll want to enable the second one.</li>
+<li>In the Register Defaults Pane:
+<ul>
+<li>Number of characters for auto complete</li>
+<li>Show entered and reconciled dates on selection</li>
+<li>Show the calendar buttons</li>
+<li>Move the selection to the blank split on expand</li>
+</ul>These affect the behavior of only the new Register2 windows.</li></ul>These new preferences have not yet been documented in the Help Manual.</li>
+
+
+<li> Gnucash now requires Gtk+-2.24 and GLib-2.26. We've removed most
+ of the dependencies on libraries obsoleted by project Ridley and will
+ be in position to move to Gtk+-3.x once the GtkTreeModel register
+ window work is complete. This means that Gnucash 2.5 requires Debian
+ 6, RHEL 6, or one of the more aggressive distributions like
+ Ubuntu.</li>
+
+<li> Gnucash now works with Guile-2.0, but enabling Guile-2.0 support
+requires building Gnucash with <a
+href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/swig/swig-2.0.10.tar.gz">
+Swig-2.0.10</a>. The distribution tarballs were built with this version and should work with Guile-2.0</li>
+
+<li> The business module has been revamped and we introduce some new features:
+     <ul>
+     <li> Credit Notes </li>
+     <li> Customer and Vendor Overview Pages</li>
+     <li> Customer Overview Reports </li>
+     <li> Existing Transactions may be reassigned as invoice payments </li>
+     <li> Support for duplicate invoices </li>
+     <li> Improved invoice and bill handling: Post, print, or duplicate
+     multiple items directly from a search results list </li>
+     <li> Better invoice printing setup: Choose a default invoice report as a
+     preference </li>
+     <li> Reorder invoice entries in the invoice window </li>
+     </ul>
+</li>
+<li> The "Num" field is now optionally per-split rather than
+ per-transaction.</li>
+
+<li> Gnucash can print to a PDF for reports and invoices </li>
+<li> Account "Filter By" settings can be saved and recalled </li>
+<li> Account entries in the Chart of Account can be colored </li>
+<li> When opening a locked "book" one now has the option of opening it
+ read-only. Note that Gnucash is still a single-user program and that
+ the database backends are still used only as a data store.</li>
+
+<li>Tom Loft has contributed an initial version of REST API allowing minimal information about accounts, invoices and customers to be accessed in JSON format. Includes modifications to gnucash_core.py  to add additional functions.</li>
+
+<li> Gnucash is no longer subject to the "2038" bug, so that 30-year
+ mortgages can now be entered correctly.</li>
+
+<li> By agreement of all authors we have relicensed Gnucash to the Gnu
+ Public License Version 2 or later from just Version 2.</li>
+
+</ul>
+<h3>Changes Since the Last Unstable Release</h3>
+<ul>
+<li>Register Rewrite Update:
+
+<ul>
+<li>Restore the delete-transaction-up/down feature</li>
+<li>Replace the filter-and-sort model with a qof query</li>
+<li>Date and Cursor improvements</li>
+</ul>
+Author: Robert Fewell</li>
+<li>Revert the Bitcoin support until the patch is rewritten for a better UI</li>
+<li>Localization Improvements:</li>
+<ul>
+<li>Make the CSV Account import table header tranlatable</li>
+<li>Fix translation of table headers</li>
+<li>Fix dash-marker usage</li>
+<li>Other translation issues</li>
+</ul>
+Author: Aurimas FiÅ¡eras
+</li>
+
+<li><a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703897">Bug #703897</a>: Functions which can return NULL always return a Python object (Tom Lofts)</li>
+<li><a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704183">Bug #704183</a>: OFX file import tries to match online_id against ACCTID[space]ACCTKEY even when ACCTKEY is empty. (G. Paul Ziemba)</li>
+<li><a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704185">Bug #704185</a>: Gnucash 2.5 doesn't build on FreeBSD</li>
+<li> Translations updated: Catalan, Danish, Italian, and Lithuanian</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Caveats for Testers</h3>
+<p><b>Any 2.5.x version might crash unexpectedly.</b> If you must test
+with important data in a 2.5.x release and are using the XML file
+backend for data storage, be sure to save the file frequently. If you
+are using the SQL backend, this is not required as every change is
+saved immediately to the database.</p>
+
+<p>Although the screenshots have been updated in the documentation,
+much of the wording still describes Gnucash-2.4. Please help update
+the documentation: See <a
+href="http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development">the development wiki
+page</a> on how to get involved.</p>
+
+<h3>How can you help?</h3>
+
+<ul>
+<li><b>Testing:</b> Please try out as many features as you can. Report
+problems either in <a
+href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash">bug
+reports</a>or on the <a
+href="https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel">devel
+mailing list</a></li>
+
+<li><b>Translating:</b> Translators may begin work on new strings at any time,
+though string freeze isn't planned until the 2.5.5 release in early
+September. Status of translations is shown on the <a
+href="http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status">translation
+status </a> page. If Gnucash isn't fully translated into your language
+and you'd like to pitch in, <a
+href="http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation">here's how to get
+involved</a>.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Getting GnuCash</h3>
+<p>Source code for GnuCash 2.5.4 can be downloaded from multiple locations:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="http://www.gnucash.org/download.phtml">The GnuCash website</a></li>
+<li>Sourceforge: <a
+href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.5.4.tar.bz2">bzip2</a>,
+<a
+href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.5.4.tar.gz">gzip</a>,
+<a
+href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash%20(unstable)/2.5.4/">all
+files</a>.</li>
+<li>You can also checkout the sources directly from the
+repository with subversion:<br/><br/><span style="font-family:
+monospace;">svn co http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk
+gnucash</span>
+<p>Or with git:</p><span style="font-family:
+monospace;">git clone git://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git</span></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>To install GnuCash, you will need Gnome 2 and guile 1.8 or 2.0,
+including devel packages. In addition you will need swig (swig-2.0.10
+for guile 2.0, see the note at the top) if compiling from subversion
+or git.</p>
+
+<h3>Win32 and MacOSX binary</h3>
+<p>The following pre-compiled application packages are also available:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/unstable/gnucash-2.5.4-setup.exe">Gnucash 2.5.4 Win32 setup executable</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/unstable/Gnucash-Intel-2.5.4.dmg">Gnucash 2.5.4 MacOSX dmg for Intel Macs</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/unstable/Gnucash-PPC-2.5.4.dmg">Gnucash 2.5.4 MacOSX dmg for PowerPC Macs</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>About the Program</h3>
+<p>GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under
+the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2 or later and available
+for GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows.
+Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was
+in 1998.</p>



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