Stable 1.8.0 coming up this Sunday

[Ed Warnicke]

Has the issue of accounting for stock transactions ( ie, the magical 
disappearing
loss/gain ) been fixed?

Ed
Christian Stimming wrote:

> All,
>
> The stable gnucash version 1.8.0, our first stable version after 
> almost 6 months, is scheduled to be released this Sunday/Monday.
>
> During the last release candidate versions, we got Gnucash into a 
> pretty good shape, and now I think we managed to fix all outstanding 
> showstopper bugs in there. I was the last one who complained about 
> serious bugs (with respect to multi-currency register UI issues), but 
> those have been fixed nicely now. Bugzilla still hovers at 56 normal 
> bugs but is down to 7 major bugs, and none of the major ones actually 
> complains about any problems with the core functionality. Therefore I 
> have a quite good feeling about moving ahead with the stable release 
> this weekend.
>
> With a new stable release there is still some work to be done. We need to
>
> * update the README and
>
> * write a "What's new in 1.8"-Document 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99456 , probably in 
> gnucash-docs, referenced in a Tip-of-the-Day 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95602 and the README.
>
> * A press release needs to be written. 
> http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2001-June/003918.html 
> was our last one, and I'm also going to write a German press release 
> http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2001-June/003921.html 
> probably similar to the openhbci announcement 
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=2649500
>
> Which topics should be covered in the press release? I guess that's 
> mostly what has been mentioned in each of the release candidate 
> announcements, as seen on http://www.gnucash.org . I think the really 
> "easy-to-sell" new features are:
>
> - Scheduled Transactions
> - Small Business Accounting Features
> - OFX Import
> - (Germany) HBCI Support
>
> and additionally the following new features might get mentioned but 
> don't have to:
>
> - Mortgage & Loan Repayment Druid
> - New User Manual and Help
> - New Multi-Currency Transaction Handling
> - Redesigned Menus
>
> What do people think? Can somebody please write up an English press 
> release?  (My English is not good enough for that)
>
> Christian
>
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