DRAFT: release announcement 1.8.10

[Chris Lyttle]

Sorry I've been MIA lately, life has been insanely busy for me. Seen as
how Nov 14th has come and gone and I'm flying out to look for a new
place to live in Denver friday for a week, I don't think a release this
month is feasable. I will try to get organized to get a release out the
4th or 5th of december so people will have at least the changes.

Thanks for this Christian
Chris


On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 13:50 +0100, 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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