gnucash-htdocs master: Announce Release of 1.5.8
John Ralls
jralls at code.gnucash.org
Mon Nov 18 11:50:42 EST 2013
Updated via https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-htdocs/commit/7558ba81 (commit)
from https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-htdocs/commit/183ffab5 (commit)
commit 7558ba813ca42c19958cf5ba1680bb3697b7f94a
Author: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
Date: Sun Nov 17 15:52:01 2013 -0800
Announce Release of 1.5.8
diff --git a/externals/global_params.php b/externals/global_params.php
index 674a16f..9189945 100644
--- a/externals/global_params.php
+++ b/externals/global_params.php
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
# $latest_stable_mac_intel = $latest_stable."-2";
$latest_stable_mac_intel = $latest_stable;
- $latest_unstable = "2.5.7";
+ $latest_unstable = "2.5.8";
// There's currently no unstable release being worked on, so disable it
# $latest_unstable = False;
$latest_unstable_win = $latest_unstable;
diff --git a/news/131118-announce-2.5.8.news b/news/131118-announce-2.5.8.news
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dc36199
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/131118-announce-2.5.8.news
@@ -0,0 +1,200 @@
+<b>Announcement:</b> GnuCash 2.5.8 (Unstable) Release
+2013-11-18
+
+<h2>GnuCash 2.5.8 (Unstable) released</h2>
+
+<p>The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.5.8,
+the ninth 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>
+
+<p> This is the final "alpha" release. The next release will be the first release candidate, with 2.6.0 planned for release 29 December. <em>String and Feature Freeze are now in effect.</em> No new features affecting strings, API, or UI should be committed until after 2.6.0 is released. Translators should begin work immediately with this release.</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> Register2 is now a configure option. Default builds, including
+ the Windows and Mac All-in-one packages, will use only the old
+ register. We've decided that it isn't ready for general use and the
+ principal author doesn't have time to make it ready in time for a
+ 2.6 release.</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><p>Geert Janssens has rewritten the preferences system to use
+ GSettings from GIO (GLib) instead of GConf. This is a simpler
+ and more robust backend which writes to the OS's native prefs
+ — defaults on OS X and the Registry on MSWindows — and
+ allows us to remove several troublesome dependencies
+ including GConf, ORBit, and DBus.</p>
+
+ <p>Note that window position, column sizes, and sort orders
+ will not be migrated from GConf. Those settings will revert
+ to the default the first time you use Gnucash 2.5.6 or later,
+ but they will be saved once you've reset them. </p> </li>
+
+ <li> Patrick has contributed a new feature allowing one to link an
+ external file to a transaction. This long-requested feature is
+ available through the Transaction menu and a transaction's context
+ menu. The files are displayed in the default viewer for that file
+ type.</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> Frédéric Perrin has contributed a change to display currency
+ symbols whenever they are known and unambiguous.</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> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707311">Bug #707311</a>:Tax Invoice fails to open when using guile 2 </li>
+ <li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709589">Bug #709589</a>: make check fails with guile 2</li>
+<li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711289">Bug #711289</a>: Time Zone Handling is Inconsistent between 2.4 and 2.5<br/>
+ Partial fix that may also correct 699997</li>
+<li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711294">Bug #711294</a>: Gnucash repeatedly asks for associated income account when importing QFX file. Patch by Kuang-che Wu </li>
+<li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711493">Bug #711493</a>: Fix unselected account that is NULL </li>
+ <li> Translations updated: German</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, and while we haven't yet announced string freeze it's
+ imminent. 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 2.5.8 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-2.5.8.tar.bz2">bzip2</a>,
+ <a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.5.8.tar.gz">gzip</a>,
+ <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash%20(unstable)/2.5.8/">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-2.5.8-setup.exe">GnuCash 2.5.8 Win32 setup executable</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/unstable/gnucash-Intel-2.5.8-1.dmg">GnuCash 2.5.8 MacOSX dmg for Intel Macs</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/unstable/gnucash-PPC-2.5.8-1.dmg">GnuCash 2.5.8 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 Version 3 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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