Release of GnuCash 1.9.0 (unstable)

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 22:28:53 -0700
Chris Lyttle <chris at wilddev.net> wrote:

top-posting alert.

Congrat's guys and good job!

A


> The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 1.9.0 aka "We're
> gonna make it!", the first of several unstable 1.9.x releases of the
> GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software which will eventually lead to
> the stable version 2.0.0. This release is the very first of the
> gtk2-based GnuCash series, and is intended for developers and
> adventurous testers who want to help tracking down all those bugs that
> are still in there.
> 
> What's New in GnuCash 1.9.0?
> 
> o Welcome to GnuCash 1.9.0 aka "We're gonna make it!" the first of
>   several unstable releases of the GnuCash Open Source Accounting
>   Software which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.0.0. This
>   release is the very first of the gtk2-based GnuCash series and is
>   intended for developers and adventurous testers who want to help
>   tracking down bugs.
> o WARNING WARNING WARNING - Make sure you make backups of any files
>   used in testing versions of GnuCash in the 1.9.x series. Although the
>   developers go to great lengths to ensure that no data will be lost we
>   cannot guarentee that your data will not be affected if for some
>   reason GnuCash crashes in testing these releases.
> o PLEASE TEST TEST AND TEST SOME MORE any and all features important
>   to you. Then post any bugs you find to bugzilla
>   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash
> o If you have the urge to help beyond testing please get involved in
>   the discussions on the GnuCash mailing lists which you will find at
>   http://www.gnucash.org. We especially need people to help with
>   updating the documentation as all texts refer currently to the 1.8.x
>   series. Please see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development on how to
>   get involved.
> o PS I'm not going to list the many features changed or updated in
>   this release because obviously there is so much that has changed.
> 
> Caveats
> 
> Caveats for testers:
> Any 1.9.x version might crash unexpectedly at any point during
> runtime. If you test some serious work in a 1.9.x release, make sure you
> hit "Save" after ever non-trivial workstep.
> Keep in mind that features which are not used in everyday work might
> crash unexpectedly at all times. This includes but is not limited to:
> graphical reports, scheduled transaction editor, price editor, financial
> calculator, OFX/QIF/HBCI import.
> Especially all the new features might crash instantly on
> testing. This applies in particular to any of the budget-related
> features. We may always decide to disable such new features for the
> initial 2.0.0 release, and re-enable them in a later release.
> The documentation is completely outdated. All help texts
> usually only refer to the 1.8.x series; please expect all descriptions
> in the help texts to be totally wrong when applied to the upcoming 1.9.x
> series. Everyone is invited to help improve the documentation; see
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development" on how to get involved.
> 
> How can you help?
> 
> Testing: Test it and help us discover all bugs that might show up in
> there. Please enter each and every bug into bugzilla at
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash
> Translating: The new release comes with plenty of new translation
> strings. If you consider contributing a translation, we invite you to
> test this release already, but please keep in mind that we are not yet
> in our string freeze phase. Please check
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status for updates
> on this, as we recommend to wait for the string freeze phase for the
> serious translation work.
> 
> Available at the usual places!
> 
> http://www.gnucash.org
> http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash
> 
> 
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