Gnucash 2.4.0 released
Donald Allen
donaldcallen at gmail.com
Wed Dec 22 12:36:25 EST 2010
Congratulations to all of you who have worked so hard on this release.
/Don
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com>wrote:
> Announcement: GnuCash 2.4.0 Release 2010-12-21
> GnuCash 2.4.0 released
> The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.4.0, the latest
> stable release of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software. 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.
>
> WARNING: You should uninstall any earlier GnuCash version from your
> system prior to installing 2.4.0.
>
> Failing to do so may result in startup errors. In particular on Windows
> this may cause "Parse error: entry point not found" errors.
>
>
> Major changes in the 2.4.0 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 for your distribution, you will also need the
> appropriate DBD (libdbi driver) package for sqlite3, mysql or
> postgresql.
> * As a replacement for 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 will need to download the
> webkit-1.1.90-win32.zip file from the source repository and put
> it into the downloads directory of your gnucash build area.
> * Updated AqBanking on Win32.
> Getting GnuCash
> Source code for GnuCash 2.4.0 can be downloaded from:
>
> * Sourceforge: bzip2, gzip, all files.
> * You can also checkout the sources directly from the subversion
> repository with this command:
>
> svn co http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/tags/2.4.0 gnucash
>
> To install GnuCash, you will need Gnome 2, guile, slib. In addition you
> will need swig if compiling from subversion.
>
>
> Win32 binary
> The Gnucash 2.4.0 Win32 setup executable can be downloaded from
> Sourceforge as well.
>
>
> Mac OSX binary
> The Gnucash 2.4.0 MacOSX package can be downloaded from Sourceforge as
> well.
>
> Changes between 2.3.17 and 2.4.0 include:
>
> * User-visible changes
> * Update copyright notice dates to include 2010
> * Use proper decimal separator for monetary amounts
> * If you have a parent account with a subaccount whose
> commodity allows more decimal places in the amount field
> than the parent account does things don't work right if
> you open a register for the parent account and all
> subaccounts. This situation can occur if you have a
> broker account with subaccounts for the securities held
> in that broker account. If you open a register for the
> top account and all subaccounts, it is impossible to
> enter a transaction to buy or sell a fractional share of
> the security where there are more digits after the
> decimal point than the parent account allows. This
> change fixes this if the subaccount allows no more than
> six digits after the decimal point.
> * When creating a new style sheet, make sure the name for
> it is non-empty.
> * Implement (but currently deactivated) auto-completion in
> the invoice ledger using all entries from the current
> book. Eventually, this will enable drawing the
> auto-completion from all entries in the previous
> invoices (i.e. book-wide), but in order to give the user
> a good enough feedback during typing we additionally
> need a quick-fill object over those book-wide entries.
> Currently, the user cannot see whether the current
> description would result in an auto-completion from
> another invoice, and that's not yet enough.
> * Implement auto-completion in the invoice/bill entry
> ledger.
> * Take a first shot at adding auto-completion in the
> business ledger, but currently it doesn't do anything
> yet.
> * Updated translations or translation-related changes
> * Updated POTFILES.in
> * Mark erroneous translation as fuzzy because it doesn't
> have the correct c-format.
> * Reverse inadvertent mods to po/POTFILES.in in r19904
> * Updated Greek translation provided by Nikos
> Charonitakis.
> * Updated Japanese translation, copied from the
> Translation Project.
> * Add "discount" to all glossary files because some
> languages use different translations in billing terms
> and invoices. Additional the german translation is added
> to glossary/de.po. This change does not break the string
> freeze as it is not user visible.
> * Update German translation. (This includes the 14 new
> strings which are already there but not yet being used.)
> * Merge German translation with latest pot template. This
> is merged using msgmerge --no-location de.po gnucash.pot
> -o de.new.po and we use "--no-location" to make the
> updates actually readable. (Unfortunately this doesn't
> prevent the strings from changing ordering anyway. Oh
> well.)
> * Remove superfluous whitespace at end of string.
> Incidentally, this way the string already exists and no
> broken translation results.
> * When extracting the translation strings from the scheme
> files, sort the scheme files to obtain a stable ordering
> of the output.
> * Bugs fixed
> * Bug #637346: Adding python-bindings to doxygen
> documentation Patch by Christoph Holtermann.
> * Bug #637041: Revert r19861 as the patch from bug#635439
> causes a crash. The patch can be re-applied after the
> 2.4.0 release is out, but for now I prefer to defer it
> until after the release. To be precise, this patch
> reverts all parts of bug#635439: r19861, r19860, r19854,
> r19853.
> * Bug #629446: TRY is now called plain Turkish Lira.
> * Bug #454109: Online banking: grey out online actions
> when there is no online account Patch by Manfred
> Usselmann: Online actions are disabled for accounts
> which have no bankcode and account id assigned This fix
> does not require initialization of the AB_BANKING
> object.
> * Bug #635926: Lower-case the name of the lock table to
> avoid confusing Postgres. Also abstract it to a static
> variable instead of repeating the string everywhere.
> * Bug #635967: Slots didn't correctly read the path
> semantics stored by 2.3.15 and earlier. Corrected, but
> note that 2.3.15 and earlier didn't write lists to the
> database, so users should re-save from XML using 2.3.17
> or later.
> * Bug #635355: Partly implement the correct "DTAUS import
> and send" feature again. Patch by Manfred Usselmann. The
> main part of the feature is delayed until the string
> freeze is lifted. This part (without adding strings)
> implements the infrastructure for sending only the
> correctly imported transactions to the bank later.
> * Bug #636459: Recursively delete slots contained in slots
> of type KVP_TYPE_FRAME or KVP_TYPE_LIST.
> * Bug #635859: Strip all trailing '/'es from kvp_slot
> paths when loading. This changes round-tripping slightly
> (because the resulting slot key won't have the trailing
> slash when it's re-saved as xml). It may also change the
> behavior of the facility using the slot, because the key
> is changed. So far, the only known instances which trip
> this bug are import-map-bayes, because descriptions may
> have '/'es in them (and why shouldn't they).
> Unfortunately, fixing this right (so that key values can
> have embedded '/''es and be saved/retrieved from sql
> databases will require changing the slot architecture in
> ways that impact the engine. Since we don't have
> adequate unit tests to be confident of not introducing a
> regression, I'm applying this instead.
> * Bug #609472: Fix translation of displayed style sheet
> names in the style sheet editor.
> * Bug #635911 GnuCash crashes out when trying to save-as
> MySQL Disclaimer: This fix attempt is purely based on
> the information given in the bug report and code
> reading. I never could reproduce this bug but the code
> suggests an unitialized pointer may be the the cause.
> * Bug #635469: Add a (typemap for a) QofQueryParamList
> typedef. Patch by Matthijs Kooijman: This is a typedef
> for a GSList, that is used to identify the path from an
> object to one of its parameters in search queries and
> sorting. This typedef replaces GSList everywhere where
> it's applicable. This relieves the need to special case
> a few functions in the swig bindings and makes the
> bindings for a bunch of other functions work as well.
> Note this is (still) only an in typemap, since no useful
> functions that return a QofQueryParamList are exposed in
> the bindings right now anyway.
> * Bug #635632: Update existing eguile reports to use new
> for syntax. Patch by Matthijs Kooijman
> <matthijs at stdin.nl>: This makes use of the new for
> syntax introduced in the previous commit, making these
> reports and templates a bit easier to read and modify.
> * Bug #635632: Add custom for loop syntax for eguile
> templates Patch by Matthijs Kooijman
> <matthijs at stdin.nl>: The built-in for-each loop
> construct is a bit cumbersome: It always requires an
> explicit lambda and the list to loop over is the last
> argument. Especially the latter makes it very hard to
> read when the lambda is big and multiple for-each'es are
> nested. For hashes, this prevents the need of the
> cumbersome hash-fold and slightly better hash-for-each
> (which still suffers from the same problems as for-each
> and is not available in guile 1.6). This new syntax
> allows for three distinct syntaxes: * Looping over a
> single list: (for a in lst do (display a)) * Looping
> over multiple lists: (for (a b) in (lsta lstb) do
> (display (+ a b))) * Looping over a hash: (for key =>
> value in hash do (display (* key value)))
> * Bug #635469: Add bindings for running a qofquery on
> invoices. This adds a new typedef "GncInvoiceList" with
> the corresponding typemap, and adds two new functions
> qof_query_create_for_invoices and
> qof_query_run_for_invoices, which are trivial wrappers
> around qof_query_create_for and qof_query_run
> respectively.
> * Bug #635355: Add public declaration of gnc_info_dialog.
> Patch by Manfred Usselmann.
> * Bug #635439: Patch to autoset owner in the payment
> dialog Patch by Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs at stdin.nl>
> * Revert "Bug #635439: Patch to autoset owner in the
> payment dialog" This reverts commit
> 232ae4064952cb65e9703d61778cb1531d2e4f56.
> * Bug #635439: Fix "Pay invoice" while the invoice dialog
> is open. Patch by Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs at stdin.nl>:
> If you use "Pay invoice", normally a new payment dialog
> is opened which is completely filled in. However, when
> there was already a dialog open, it was reused but only
> the owner would be filled in. This patch makes sure that
> the invoice and amount are filled in as well.
> * Bug #635439: Patch to autoset owner in the payment
> dialog Patch by Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs at stdin.nl>:
> In the payment dialog, set the owner when an invoice is
> selected Before, you would always need to select an
> owner manually. If you would just select an invoice
> (which was possible, since the invoice selection is not
> disabled when no owner has been selected yet), pressing
> OK would error out because no owner was selected. This
> patch makes sure that when an invoice is selected, but
> no owner is selected yet, the right owner is filled into
> the owner selection box automatically. This also happens
> when the wrong owner is selected, which can happen
> because the invoice autocompletion is not limited to
> invoices from the selected owner, but always completes
> all invoices. This could cause weird behaviour: Select
> an owner, then use completion to select an invoice by
> another owner and press ok. This would cause the amount
> for the invoice by the other owner to be charged against
> the first owner. This patch prevents that by replacing
> the first owner by the other owner in the dialog. This
> patch also changes gnc_invoice_set_owner to no longer
> reset the invoice selection to NULL. Instead, this is
> now handled by
> * Other code/build changes
> * Update configure.ac to 2.4.0 Update gnucash-bin.c to
> indicate stable version is 2.4.0, next stable version
> 2.6 Here we go...
> * Add gnc-backend-dbi-priv.h to list of header files so
> that 'make distcheck' passes
> * Fixed date problem in MySql backend
> * Removed accidentally created directory.
> * Add enumeration of indexes in sql backends. This is a
> first step to rewriting databases in a safe way. Indexes
> are named entities in sql databases and so need to be
> renamed along with the tables before creating and
> populating a new set. This change also introduces a unit
> test of the new enumeration, and that test has to be
> able to see data structures which are private to
> gnc-backend-dbi.c, so those data structures are moved to
> a new file, gnc-backend-dbi-priv.h, which both
> gnc-backend-dbi.c and tests/test-stuff.c can include.
> * Add debug helper function qofeventid_to_string.
> * Support for GncCommodityNamespace, better support for
> GncCommodity, and example enhancements. Patch supplied
> my Mark Jenkins.
> * Changes to example Script to include added namespace
> functionality This patch changes the example script to
> reflect the capability of reading all namespaces. Patch
> provided by Christoph Holtermann.
> * Cutecash: Add generation of dummy gnc-version.h file.
> * Add missing newline at end of file
> * Replace more obsolete #define'd function names by their
> current names.
> * Add gitignore for backup files from make check.
> * Replace more obsolete #define'd function names by their
> current names.
> * Make "make check" work when run from "make distcheck".
> * Replace obsolete <QueryNew.h> #defines by the current
> <qof.h> function names.
> * Follow-up to r19928: Include gnc-version.h with
> directory path to avoid picking the wrong file.
> * Improve the cached quickfill for GncEntry description
> lines of r19941.
> * Add APIs to get/set a flag signifying that a transaction
> is a book-closing txn. This is necessary for Bug #570042
> but doesn't completely solve it until the reports are
> updated to use the new API. This is backwards-compatible
> with the slot data inserted by the book closing since
> 2010-03-02.
> * Adds checking of gnc_commodity_namespace in glists In
> src/base-typemaps.i check for return type
> gnc_commodity_namespace is added so that it is returned
> instead of gnc_type_monetary. Thanks to Christoph
> Holtermann for the patch.
> * Move price_database_example.py to the correct place and
> remove incorrect path/file
> * Change indent to 4 sp
> * Implement prerequisites for full auto-completion in the
> entry ledger. Added a cached quickfill for GncEntry
> description lines. Extend QuickFillCell interface to be
> able to use a common cached quickfill.
> * Remove doubled include files. (Also, QuickFill.h doesn't
> depend on gdk.h)
> * Add messages to backend errors, ensuring that
> qof_session_backend_get_message() will actually get a
> useful message, or that there will be a descriptive
> warning immediately before in the trace file.
> * Move gnc-version.h and gnc-svninfo.h from gnome-utils to
> core-utils.
> * If the build directory is not the source directory and
> the source directory is read only, the build fails. Fix
> by only making guile-strings.c if building from SVN.
> * Get rid of the rest of the gnc-prices man page, r19921
> is incomplete
> * Remove variable names that conflict with Python
> keywords. Relevent when using SWIG autodoc feature for
> python bindings.
> * Add %feature("autodoc", "1"); to gnucash_core.i to pass
> C documentation through to python interface.
> * New example script for prices dababase. Thanks to
> Christoph Holtermann for contributing to this.
> * Remove obsolete gnc-prices man page
> * Add Gnucash svn version to sql versions table.
> * Insert missing space
> * Re-enable -Werror in Makefile.am and remove %
> feature("autodoc", "1"); from gnucash_core.i
> * Add commodity price functions to bindings. See Bug
> 636457 for more details.
> * Add PriceList to typemap for Python bindings
> * Patch by Matthijs Kooijman. In r19863, some qofquery
> bindings were added. For those to compile,
> business-core.i now includes qofquery.h. However, this
> causes the bindings for qofquery.h to be generated
> twice: Once through engine.i and once through
> business-core.i. The latter generated broken versions of
> the bindings, breaking (at least) the receivable aging
> report. This commit changes the %include to an %import,
> so the new bindings still compile but the query bindings
> don't get generated twice.
> * Re-indentation of source code. This re-indentation was
> done using astyle-1.24 using the following options:
> astyle --indent=spaces=4 --brackets=break --pad-oper
> --pad-header --suffix=none
> * Make prototype for gnc_entry_ledger_get_entry public.
> Add documentation.
> * Fix GtkSpinButton with page-size deprecated warning in
> gnucash.trace
> How can you help?
> Translating: The new release comes with some new translation strings. If
> you consider contributing a translation, we invite you to test this
> release already.
>
> 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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