gnucash-htdocs master: Release 2.5.6
John Ralls
jralls at code.gnucash.org
Tue Oct 8 20:32:34 EDT 2013
Updated via https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-htdocs/commit/8343d7b6 (commit)
from https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-htdocs/commit/bc9557b2 (commit)
commit 8343d7b6c89cbc2c4c22fd8f556f8972b3ab39b7
Author: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
Date: Tue Oct 8 17:32:08 2013 -0700
Release 2.5.6
diff --git a/externals/global_params.php b/externals/global_params.php
index d49d69a..71327c0 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 = "2.5.5";
+ $latest_unstable = "2.5.6";
// There's currently no unstable release being worked on, so disable it
# $latest_unstable = False;
$latest_unstable_win = $latest_unstable;
diff --git a/news/131008-announce-2.5.6.news b/news/131008-announce-2.5.6.news
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8b52d3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/131008-announce-2.5.6.news
@@ -0,0 +1,234 @@
+<b>Announcement:</b> GnuCash 2.5.6 (Unstable) Release
+2013-10-08
+
+<h2>GnuCash 2.5.6 (Unstable) released</h2>
+
+<p>The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.5.6,
+the seventh 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>
+ <p> Note that this introduces some new preferences:</p>
+
+ <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><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><em><b>WARNING: Preferences are not completely migrated
+ from GConf</b></em> <br/>Some preferences are not yet
+ migrated. What's more, the migration occurs every time you
+ start up, over-writing anything that you've changed, so you
+ may want to move ~/.gconf aside after the first time you run
+ GnuCash-2.5.6. You can move it back when you need to use
+ 2.4.13 for real work.</p> </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> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632362">Bug
+ #63362</a>: Unable to create "reversing transaction" again
+ after it is removed with the SQL backend. </li>
+
+<li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654196">Bug
+#654196</a>: "Make check" fails when built with --enable-dbi and no
+dbi backends are installed. Now fails in configure, as it
+should. </li>
+
+<li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674862">Bug
+ #674862</a>: 2038 Bug with Postgres and MySql backends. </li>
+
+<li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682280">Bug
+#682280</a>: Bill/Invoice importer fails to save the imported item to
+the SQL backend. </li>
+
+<li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684670">Bug
+#684670</a>: Interest amount calculation is wrong in SQL backend. The
+backend wasn't storing the already-elapsed periods. </li>
+
+<li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=699450">Bug
+#699450</a>: New budgets cause Account Name column to expand until
+display bigger than screen. – Robert Ratliff </li>
+
+<li> <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708700">Bug
+ #708700</a>: Make check fails from missing glib bits РFr̩d̩ric Perrin </li>
+
+ <li> Translations updated: Dutch</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 2.5.6 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 2.5.6 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-2.5.6.tar.bz2">bzip2</a>,
+ <a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.5.6.tar.gz">gzip</a>,
+ <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash%20(unstable)/2.5.6/">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-2.5.6-setup.exe">GnuCash 2.5.6 Win32 setup executable</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/unstable/gnucash-Intel-2.5.6.dmg">GnuCash 2.5.6 MacOSX dmg for Intel Macs</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/unstable/gnucash-PPC-2.5.6.dmg">GnuCash 2.5.6 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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copy news/{130805-announce-2.5.4.news => 131008-announce-2.5.6.news} (73%)
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