sample release notice, 2nd pass

[Dave Peticolas]

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Thanks for all the feedback regarding the draft release notice.
The second draft is attached.

dave


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

GnuCash is a personal finance manager. A check-book like register GUI
allows you to enter and track bank accounts, stocks, income and even
currency trades. A full set of reports allow you to see the state of
your finances. The interface is designed to be simple and easy to use,
but is backed with double-entry accounting principles to ensure
balanced books.

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


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)

  + Persistent reports (reports are saved between sessions)

  + Printable reports

  + 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 druid

  + PostgreSQL back-end (beta, disabled by default)

  + Financial calculator

  + Better support for multiple currencies

  + Special support for the Euro

  + 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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