sample release notice

[Dave Peticolas]

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This is a *sample* release notice, posted for comments & feedback.
Gnucash 1.6.0 is *not* released :)

What is missing? What need to be changed?

thanks,
dave


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The GnuCash Development Team proudly announces the release of GnuCash 1.6.0.

Thanks go to all the testers and bug reporters who made this
release possible.

And a special thanks goes to all the hard-working translators!


This release of GnuCash contains many new features including:

  + Over 20 new and improved reports, including pie charts
    and bar charts via Guppi (http://canvas.gnome.org:65348/guppi)

  + Persistant reports (reports are saved between sessions)

  + XML file format (old binary files are converted automatically)

  + Improved, faster checking register and a general ledger entry window

  + Improved QIF importing

  + Account hierarchy creation wizard

  + PostgreSQL back-end (disabled by default)

  + Financial calculator

  + Better support for multiple currencies

  + Account hierarchy export

  + Online quotes integrated with the GUI

  + Expression evaluation (you can type in 40.45 + 31.23)


GnuCash 1.6.0 requires the Gnome 1.4 platform, Guppi, slib, and g-wrap.
Details can be found at: http://www.gnucash.org/en/required.phtml

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