DRAFT: release announcement 1.8.10

[David Grant]

I thought capital gains calculations were possible with the new 
release?  Or is that going to be in the release after 1.8.10?

Thanks,
David


Christian Stimming wrote:

> DRAFT
>
> This is a proposed draft for the release announcement of the 
> (hopefully) upcoming 1.8.10 release. I thought it might make life 
> easier for wilddev if I already summarize some points from the 
> ChangeLog. I thought the release announcement should probably be 
> rather short to read, but since the gnome2 question will immediately 
> be asked, we should answer this FAQ right up front.
>
> Also, the HBCI online banking library change is quite a big issue for 
> the people involved, so I would like to have this pointed out already 
> in the announcement.
>
> Here's what we might send out as release announcement:
>
> -- snip --
>
> 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
>
> -- snip --
>
>
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-- 
David J. Grant
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