Gnucash 2.3.7 released

[Roger Miskowicz]

Just tried it but it gives a Window's error when trying to load a SQLite 
file.   GnuCash 2.3.5 seems to work okay.

Phil Longstaff wrote:
> Announcement: GnuCash 2.3.7 Release
> 2009-10-07
>
> GnuCash 2.3.7 released
>
> The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.3.7, the eighth of 
> several unstable 2.3.x releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software which 
> will eventually lead to the stable version 2.4.0. With this new release 
> series, GnuCash can use an SQL database using SQLite3, MySQL or PostgreSQL. It 
> runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX. This release 
> is intended for developers and testers who want to help tracking down all 
> those bugs that are still in there.
>
> WARNING WARNING WARNING - Make sure you make backups of any files used in 
> testing versions of GnuCash in the 2.3.x series. Although the developers go to 
> great lengths to ensure that no data will be lost we cannot guarantee that 
> your data will not be affected if for some reason GnuCash crashes in testing 
> these releases.
>
> NOTE: This is an *UNSTABLE* version of Gnucash.  The latest stable version is
> 2.2.9.
>
> PLEASE TEST TEST AND TEST SOME MORE any and all features important to you.
> Then post any bugs you find to bugzilla
>
> Major changes in the 2.3.x release include;
> * In addition to the XML backend, Gnucash can now use a SQLite3, MySQL or 
> PostgreSQL database to store the data. This is a new implementation using 
> libdbi. It supports all features including the business features.  In order to 
> build with this, add --enable-dbi to the configure command.  In addition to the 
> libdbi-dev package foryour distribution, you will also need the appropriate 
> DBD (libdbi driver) package for sqlite3, mysql or postgresql.
> * In addition to the current GtkHTML HTML engine used to display reports and 
> graphs, Gnucash can use WebKit. WebKit is the engine used by Google Chrome on 
> Windows and Safari on Apple.  In order to build with this, add --with-html-
> engine=webkit to the configure command.  You will need an appropriate webkit-
> dev package.  On win32, you wil lneed to download the webkit-1.1.5-win32.zip 
> file from the source repository and put it into the downloads directory of your 
> gnucash build area.
> * Updated to AqBanking 3 on Win32.
>
> Changes between 2.3.6 and 2.3.7 include:
> * Revert changes which caused gnucash to crash on startup on windows
> * More recent version of gmp on win32
> * Postgresql binary package on win32 now includes msvcr71.dll
> * Fix compiler warnings.  Patch by Colin Law
> * Fix for balance column displayed in template register
> * Update of Polish translation by Jacek Baszkiewicz
>
> Caveats for Testers
> * Any 2.3.x version might crash unexpectedly at any point during runtime. If 
> you test some serious work in a 2.3.x release and are using the XML file 
> backend for data storage, make sure you hit "Save" after every non-trivial 
> work step.  If you are using the SQL backend, this is not required as every 
> change is saved immediately to the database.
> * The documentation has had screenshots updated, however, many help texts 
> usually only refers to the 1.8.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.
> * Translating: The new release comes with some new translation strings. If you 
> consider contributing a translation, we invite you to test this release 
> already. A string freeze will be announced in one of the later 2.3.x releases.  
> Please check http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status for updates on 
> this.
>
> We would like to encourage people to test this and any further releases as 
> much as possible and submit bug reports in order that we can polish GnuCash to 
> be as stable as possible for the 2.4.0 release in a few weeks. Then post any 
> bugs you find to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash
>
> Getting GnuCash
> * Source code for GnuCash 2.3.7 can be downloaded from 
> http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/unstable/2.3.x or 
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files under "gnucash (unstable)".
> * To install GnuCash, users will need Gnome 2, guile, slib and swig.
> * Win32 binary - The Gnucash 2.3.7 Win32 setup executable can be downloaded 
> from https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files.  Look under "gnucash 
> (unstable)".
>
> About the Program
> GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under the GNU 
> General Public License (GPL) and available for GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Mac 
> OSX and Microsoft Windows.  Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first 
> stable release was in 1998.
>
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