Release of GnuCash stable version 1.8.10

Wed Dec 15 15:25:15 EST 2004

This compact one misses the Spanish translation update ;)

El lun, 13-12-2004 a las 10:07 +0100, Christian Stimming escribió:
> Chris: Thanks a lot for this release work. Just for information, a 
> slightly more compact release announcement had been proposed here 
> earlier, so I just copy this once again:
> 
> -- 
> 
> The GnuCash development team proudly announces a new stable release of
> the GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software.
> 
> FAQ: "Is this a gnome2 application?" A: "No." This release still belongs
> to GnuCash's 1.8.x series which is not yet ported to gtk2/gnome2. Read
> more below.
> 
> New features in 1.8.10:
> 
> - HBCI online banking improved and ported to the new library AqBanking.
>    Those who are using HBCI online banking need to perform some extra
> steps when upgrading, see http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnuCash
> (or in German: http://www.linuxwiki.de/GnuCash )
> - OFX import improved and based on the new libofx version 0.7, which
> gives Microsoft OFC support among other things
> - Added saving and restoring of customized reports
> 
> Improvements and bugs fixed:
> 
> - Updated Brazilian Portugese, British English, Czech, Dutch, French,
> German, Italian, Russian translations
> - HTML export of transaction report improved
> - Reports and accounts with zero balance work nicer
> - Problems with libltdl3 resolved
> - Improved performance when opening large register windows
> - Checque printing for Quicken cheques added
> - Fixes for the x64_64 platform
> - Fixes for the new g-wrap 1.9
> - C99/C89 compatibility problems resolved
> 
> FAQ: "Is this a gnome2 application?" A: "No." This release still belongs
> to GnuCash's 1.8.x series which is not yet ported to gtk2/gnome2. In
> other words, this release is still based on gtk1.2/gnome1. The
> developers are working on a gtk2/gnome2 version of GnuCash, but it still
> takes a lot of time. See
> http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnuCashPortingStatus for the
> status of the Gtk2 port. GnuCash makes use of several custom widgets as
> well as the Guppi graphing library. To port to gtk2 involves rewriting
> those widgets (e.g. the ledger, or the account hierarchy which uses
> GtkCTree) into the appropriate GTK2 widgets and would require the
> changing of the graphing code to probably use Jody's new
> gnome-office-graph code in Gnumeric (Guppi was never ported to gtk2 and
> is a dead project). But given that the GnuCash team is extremely short
> on programmers, the process has to exist in parallel to existing product
> improvements, resulting in a very gradual porting process. If you can
> code C, by all means, volunteer your time, see
> http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnuCashDevelopment
> 
> -- 
> 
> Chris Lyttle schrieb:
> > What's New in GnuCash 1.8.10?
> > 
> >  o Don't use C++/C99 declarations.  Declare variables at the top of
> >  the function.
> >  o Updated British English, Czech, Italian, Russian, German,
> >  Brazilian Portugese, Dutch, French, Spanish, translations.
> >  o Fabien COELHO's zero-balance patch to remove accounts of zero
> >  balance from the report.
> >  o Fix a broken recursion problem.  Don't call show-acct? from
> >  use-acct? so we don't recurse ad flictum.  This recursive call isn't
> >  necessary, just have use-acct? recurse unto itself.
> >  o look in ${srcdir} for build-config.scm.in
> >  o Work around problems with libltdl3.
> >  o don't automatically try to (require 'format), so gnucash will build
> >  on an slib-3 system.
> >  o Added quote sources for Indian Mutual Funds.
> >  o Skip the case when a token is the empty string. This caused many
> >  warnings about a NULL kvp_frame lookup.
> >  o Luigi Ballabio's automake patch to gnucash.m4
> >  o guile-1.6 complains about string->symbol when passed a symbol.
> >  o applied Vasil's patch to improve the transaction report for HTML
> >  export purposes.
> >  o Backport of CVS-head changes to improve register open performance
> >  when working with large account trees (>500 accounts).  The new code
> >  caches the quickfill tree so that it is shared by all register
> >  windows.
> >  o create gnc:current-saved-reports, as the file to store saved
> >  reports from cstim.  Autoload the saved-reports file at startup
> >  (after config.user/config.auto is loaded).
> >  o Added gnc:report-generate-saved-forms that will generate the scheme
> >  code necessary to create a new report from the saved options of an
> >  old report.
> >  o Added example Menu item "File -> Save all reports" that will call
> >  the new report saving function for all reports. This would need more
> >  work so that not all reports are saved but only the currently
> >  selected one -- any volunteer may feel free to add that.
> >  o Fix saving of report: It now appends to
> >  ~/.gnucash/saved-reports-1.8 Statusbar tip is now more verbose.
> >  o Add toolbar element for saving the current report.
> >  o Add function for saving one particular report to the
> >  ~/.gnucash/saved-reports-1.8 file. Add extra menu only for customized
> >  reports.
> >  o Remove the previous function for saving all reports since it is no
> >  longer necessary.
> >  o Apply David Reiser's patch for Quicken(tm) cheques with stub.
> >  o Apply David Grant's patch to add TD Efunds.
> >  o make the desktop file HIG compliant.
> >  o change the gtkhtml order to search for >= 1.1 before < 1.1, in
> >  order to try to fix #84707 on systems with multiple versions of
> >  gtkhtml.
> >  o Perry Smith's Null Account Patch.  Make sure the security is a real
> >  string before appending an account separator, so we don't try to
> >  create a "null" account.
> >  o Add option to include zero-amount splits in computations.
> >  o fix xaccAccountGetBalanceAsOfDate() to properly compute the balance
> >  at the end of the split list.
> >  o Major change for HBCI, back-ported from HEAD. The HBCI online
> >  banking is no longer based on the openhbci library but instead on the
> >  aqbanking library http://sf.net/projects/aqbanking which is Martin
> >  Preuss' successor of openhbci. This means that now aqbanking-0.9.5 is
> >  required instead of any openhbci package.
> >  o Fixes for x86_64
> >  o Update for new LibOfx, this among other things, gives gnucash
> >  Microsoft OFC support.
> >  o Duplicate match tweaks in import code
> >  o Andreas Rottmann's patch to support g-wrap 1.9.
> >  o provide a default account name so we don't crash when someone
> >  imports a broken QIF that has a !Account without an account name.
> >  o Daniel Lindenaar's patch to implement a check-box in the Invoice
> >  Post Dialog (with a default in the File Preferences) to choose to
> >  accumulate splits when posting an invoice, or post a 1:1 mapping.
> >  o Phil Longstaff's patch to prevent duplicate pricedb entries.
> >  o Heath Martin's x86_64 patch
> >  o Mark search criteria for translation -- somehow this had been
> >  missed all the time.
> >  o Change currency mnemonic for "New Israeli Shekel" from "ILS" to
> >  "NIS".
> >  o Identified and fixed several places with untranslated strings.
> >  o Add configure check for libofx version 0.7.0 and respective error
> >  message. Update docs.
> >  o Improve importer performance by matching imported transactions only
> >  against transactions in the proper time interval.
> >  o send an event when a payment is processed so the invoice gets
> >  updated as "paid" in the search window.
> >  o Make sure we set the proper search-type when we create the query,
> >  otherwise the search will fail later.
> > 
> > Available at the usual places!
> > 
> > http://www.gnucash.org
> > 
> > http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash
> > 
> > 
> > Chris
> 
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