Next stable gnucash, 1.8.10?

[Derek Atkins]

Actually, a few of us were already discussing this on IRC about 2-4
weeks ago and seemed to agree that we should release a 1.8.10 sometime
around the end of October-Mid November-ish.  I'll let Chris Lyttle
decide on an actual date based on his schedule.

-derek

PS: It would also be nice if we could get the code compiling on x86_64
before the 1.8.10 release -- anyone with an x86_64 platform running a
64-bit linux willing to help port the code?

PPS: Are there any other "critical" bugs that need to get fixed before
a 1.8.10 release?

Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> writes:

> Dear all,
>
> I would like to ask for a new release of the stable gnucash branch. That would 
> be a gnucash-1.8.10. 
>
> There have been plenty of changes in the 1-8-branch, plus a whole lot of 
> translation updates. The HEAD branch and gnome2 branch both had plenty of 
> changes, too, but AFAIK none of them made huge progress in terms of 
> stability. I would therefore propose to have yet another 1.8 release within 
> the next weeks, e.g. on Oct 10th or Oct 17th, so that at least the latest 
> bugfixes and translation updates are out of the door. IMHO the 1-8-branch 
> doesn't need any further polishing before a new release -- it could directly 
> be packed up in a new release. So it would not mean any additional work for 
> us except for wilddev's release tasks. But at least the latest bugfixes and 
> translation updates would be available for a larger audience. (Oh, and my 
> HBCI changes would be available to a larger audience, too. Which is a good 
> thing, because for an increasing number of German banks the new hbci library 
> is required. Personal itch scratching...)
>
> What do people think? As soon as we decide on a new release date, I will 
> upload the translation template as 1.8.10-pre to the Translation Project.
>
> Christian

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