Gnucash 2.4.4 released
Phil Longstaff
plongstaff at rogers.com
Mon Mar 14 18:55:33 EDT 2011
Announcement: GnuCash 2.4.4 Release 2011-03-14
GnuCash 2.4.4 released
The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.4.4, the fourth
bug fix release in a series of stable 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.
Note: 2.4.1 was partially released but was pulled at the last minute
when critical problems were found. 2.4.1 should NOT be used.
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 for Windows (Win32 binary)
The Gnucash 2.4.4 Win32 setup executable can be downloaded from
Sourceforge. It will install everything needed to run GnuCash.
Mac OSX binary
The Gnucash 2.4.4 MacOSX package can be downloaded from Sourceforge as
well.
Getting GnuCash as source code
If you want to compile GnuCash 2.4.4 for yourself, the source code 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/2.4.4 gnucash
To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need Gnome
2, guile, slib. In addition you will need swig if compiling from
subversion.
Changes between 2.4.3 and 2.4.4 include:
* User-visible changes
* Update rev to 2.4.4
* Implement automatic creation of stock account for newly
imported OFX stocks. Only active if "auto-create
commodity" is switched on in the preferences from
r20376.
* When setting the report print name, check whether this
exact name has been used before. Append an increasing
number if that was the case.
* When setting a printer job name, remove slashes because
they are not allowes in filenames.
* Add the invoice number in the output printer job name,
if an invoice report is printed.
* Add option in OFX import to have newly encountered
commodities automatically created.
* Modify Tax Info on Account Page to display or not
display sub-account info based on whether row is
expanded. Re-apply changes reverted in r20251. The only
difference between this commit and r20207 is that,
contrary to the recommendation given in gnc-tree-view.h,
"Use GNC_TREE_VIEW_COLUMN_DATA_NONE if you plan on using
a non-model data source for this column", it cobtinues
to use "GNC_TREE_MODEL_ACCOUNT_COL_TAX_INFO". Using
"GNC_TREE_VIEW_COLUMN_DATA_NONE" generates problems
later in the "gnc_tree_view_add_text_column" routine
when it tries to set up sorting for the column ("CRIT
<Gtk> gtk_tree_sortable_set_sort_func: assertion
`sort_column_id >= 0' failed"). Define a new column,
GNC_TREE_MODEL_ACCOUNT_COL_TAX_INFO_SUB_ACCT, in
gnc-tree-model-account.c filled with
gnc_ui_account_get_tax_info_sub_acct_string. Modify
gnc-tree-view-account.c to define a tax_info_data_func
that displays only the the data in the
GNC_TREE_MODEL_ACCOUNT_COL_TAX_INFO model column if the
row is expanded; otherwise it combines it with the data
in the GNC_TREE_MODEL_ACCOUNT_COL_TAX_INFO_SUB_ACCT
model column. Modily the view creation function to use
the new tax_info_data_func for the text after having
first set it to GNC_TREE_MODEL_ACCOUNT_COL_TAX_INFO to
prevent the problem mentioned above, thereby overriding
it.
* Update page name if invoice/bill is renamed.
* Present already open budget page if the user tries to
open a budget more than once
* Update page name if budget is renamed.
* Updated translations or translation-related changes
* Update POTFILES.in
* Updated Dutch translation copied from the translation
project.
* Updated Ukranian translation copied from the translation
project.
* Updated Traditional Chinese translation, glossary and
win32 txt.
* Fix typo in German translation
* Add Traditional Chinese translation for win32 package
system.
* Updated Traditional Chinese translation by Kuang-che.
* Improved French translation by Sebastien Daniel.
* Bugs fixed
* Bug #570042: Better default for book-closing entries in
Income Statement Report Options Patch by Tristan
Faujour: Proposed patch: make reports ignore
book-closing entries I chose to: - Change the reports'
default behavior to have them ignore the book-closing
entries. - Do not change anything in reports that deal
explicitly with them. Here is the content of this patch
(everything is under gnucash/src/report): - In function
gnc:account-get-trans-type-balance-interval, depending
on an argument, closing entries can be ignored (they are
identified by xaccTransGetIsClosingTxn). - Some report
utility functions are duplicated (with a "-with closing"
suffix) to provide the legacy feature. - Equity
statement and Profit & Loss reports are modified to call
the *-with-closing functions.
* Bug #644556: Running the test as root happened to
remove /dev/null. Check for this and also fix the
respective test. Additionally, it turned out the log
system never gave notice about a log output file that
was unwritable. Added an appropriate CRITICAL error
message.
* Bug #644557 - gnucash-2.4.3: downstream patches to fix
tests linking Patches kindly provided by Gilles
Dartiguelongue <eva at gentoo.org> of the Gentoo project.
* Bug #642739 - Translog files being created in Gnucash
program installation directory Translog files for
databases are now created in a directory "translog"
inside the .gnucash dir. The files will be named
following this scheme:
<dbtype>_<hostname>_<user>_<dbname>.<timestamp>.log
* Bug #644036: Counter format validation fails on Windows
because the number format is I64i there. Note: Users
will run into a problem when copying a windows file to
linux and vice versa because the counter format will
have to be changed on the other operating system each
time.
* Bug #521817 - Guid_init causes very long startup delay
if Novell Network active P_tmpdir is set to "\" by
mingw. The way P_tmpdir is used by GnuCash, this seems
to trigger unwanted network activity. So on Windows, I'm
replacing it with "C:/temp" for now, based on
suggestions found on the internet regarding this issue.
* Bug #347265 - budget column resizing/options applies to
all budget windows
* Other code/build changes
* Tag 2.4.4
* Add some more sanity checking in common importer module.
* Refactor KVP-related functions of OFX into separate
file.
* Revert r20405, "Correct memory leaks..." - does not
compile with guile-1.6 The patch will be re-applied once
trunk requires guile-1.8, which will be done right after
the oncoming branching.
* Code cleanup in ofx importer; refactoring to get away
from the single giant long function.
* Add some more const-correctness.
* Configure simplification: Use pkg-config for libofx.
Remove obsolete external qof detection. (Somehow the
argument --with-qt3-wizard-package was writting right
inside the qof code stuff. This has been moved to the
aqbanking section now.)
* Win32: Tweak cross compiling script for webkit so that
is seems to almost compile.
* Correct memory leaks found with valgrind
* Remove unused functions for wall clock timing.
Facilities such as this should be used from external
expert libraries. Also, this is in the way when cleaning
up some log system problems in subsequent commits.
* Fix r20394: Output string clean-up was missing the date
part.
* Move business-options.[hc] from business-utils to
app-utils. As "business-core" has been dissolved, the
"business-utils" code has no more requirements than
app-utils and can be moved there because of this.
* Add ChangeLog.2010.
* Fix missing timestamp in trace files on Windows
* Additional svn:ignore settings
* Add yet more gitignores.
* Add more gitignore entries.
* Add comments to warn about lack of Windows support in
the guid_init function.
* Fix an accelerator.
* Correct memory leaks found with valgrind
* Add more debug logging.
* Minor code cleanup: Move gconf section name into header;
clarify argument name.
* Minor code cleanup in ofx importer; improve
const-correctness.
* Use qualified include path for cmake/automake
simplification
* Add additional debug markers
* Correct memory leak found with valgrind
* Remove some obsolete files These files were once copied
from gtk 2.8 to work around pre-2.8 gtk bugs when that
was still our baseline. Our baseline is currently 2.10,
so these files are no longer needed/used.
* Fix Gtk CRIT warnings introduced in r20351
* Small spelling corrections in comments and some
whitespace adjustments
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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