Gnucash 2.4.0 released
Stephen J. Gowdy
gowdy at cern.ch
Wed Dec 22 12:43:42 EST 2010
Seconded!
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Donald Allen wrote:
> 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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