Stable 1.8.0 coming up this Sunday

[Christian Stimming]

Ed Warnicke wrote:

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

It's not really a bug but rather a big issue on how to deal correctly 
with loss/gain. The full story is here: 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91661 If you want to add 
further comments, please do so there in bugzilla.

Current Status: Gnucash 1.6.x and 1.7.x does not have a general
implementation of the correct accounting of realized gains/losses with
stock trades. (Let alone that "correct accounting" in this context is
definitely non-trivial.)

Plans: Later in the 1.8.x cycle you can expect a fully general
implementation to record realized gains/losses (using "lots"), but it
will take some time to finish it.

Christian