Still asking for gnucash-1.8.12; draft release notes

[Christian Stimming]

Hi all,

earlier this year I asked whether we could have another 1.8 release, 
namely a 1.8.12. Especially in the HBCI section I had several 
improvements which I would very much like to be accessible to normal 
users as well. Is is possible to have the 1.8.12 release at any time soon?

For the convenience of the release manager I have already compiled some 
draft release notes below. Hopefully this makes it a bit easier to 
prepare the tarball for release. Thanks a lot if we can have the release.

Regards,

Christian


***** draft release notes for gnucash-1.8.12 ******* DRAFT *******

The GnuCash development team proudly announces a new stable release of 
the GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software version 1.8.12.

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.

What's New in GnuCash 1.8.12?

* Online Banking/HBCI improvements: Debit notes are fixed again; Setup 
wizard can now works with HBCI, OFX-Connect, and other AqBanking 
backends; Fix character encoding issues in utf-8 locales; Fix date 
interval in the import transaction matcher for OFX and HBCI import.

* New currencies added: Romanian Leu, Bulgarian Lev, Malagasy Ariary

* Add configure macros for mips, mipsel, arm, and m68k

* Updated translations: German, Italian, Kinyarwanda

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 changing the graphing 
code to use Jody's new gnome-office-graph code of 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

***** draft release notes for gnucash-1.8.12 ******* DRAFT *******