[GNC-dev] [GNC] GnuCash 3.4 Released
Adrien Monteleone
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net
Sun Dec 30 15:59:23 EST 2018
Awesome! Thanks to the devs for their hard work.
FYI, the GitHub download links for the installers should point to /downloads/3.4 instead of /downloads/3.3 or you’ll get a 404.
Regards,
Adrien
> On Dec 30, 2018, at 2:15 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Wow, that looks like a lot of progress has been made! Thanks to the
> developers for their hard work!
>
> David C
>
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 2:03 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
>> The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 3.4, the fifth release of
>> the 3.x stable release series.
>>
>> Changes
>>
>> Between 3.3 and 3.4, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
>>
>> • Bug 498072 - GnuCash show taxes on invoice when individual taxes
>> is not checked
>> • Bug 760825 - On duplicating a bill, the entry dates should be
>> set to the bill date, not to the current date - followup:
>> Use neutral time on entry post dates instead of canonical time
>> • Bug 767772 - Associated file with transaction is lost when
>> moving entry between accounts
>> • Bug 775580 - Inaccurate information provided for "Common
>> Accounts" when using "New Account Hierarchy Setup"
>> • Bug 779565 - Treeview header combos do not work at first load
>> • Bug 788332 - Last Reconcile Date column sorts by day of month
>> not date
>> • Bug 789674 - Close Book tool regression
>> • Bug 793156 - Incorrect date sort order in Generic import matcher
>> window
>> • Bug 795080 - Some dates reset to 01/01/1970
>> • Bug 795237 - Update of "wohnungsw" template
>> • Bug 795425 - Version 2018 of german account template SKR49
>> • Bug 796772 - Receivable Ageing Report invalid URL for Totals
>> column
>> • Bug 796806 - Crash after OFX import if line item dragged
>> • Bug 796842 - Add new employee window may not fit on screen
>> • Bug 796849 - Load another QIF file causes "that file already
>> loaded" dialog
>> • Bug 796875 - Unable to use arrow keys to advance past pre-filled
>> text in register
>> • Bug 796878 - test-qofsession fails on x86_32.
>> • Bug 796883 - Register text oddities
>> HOME and END need to be treated like right and left arrow keys.
>> • Bug 796886 - OFX Import does not show source account in the
>> transaction matching window
>> • Bug 796887 - Remove account slot key color if there is no valid
>> color
>> • Bug 796893 - invoice.GetDatePosted() and other date related
>> functions returns strange values for uninitalised dates.
>> • Bug 796896 - Button to complete an export not intuitively placed
>> or discoverable
>> • Bug 796903 - Crash when searching invoice by Invoice Owner
>> • Bug 796914 - Customer Summary is giving error
>> • Bug 796915 - Update Account colour background
>> • Bug 796940 - Invalid transaction date-posted KVP causes
>> date-posted to not be saved.
>> • Bug 796944 - Tab navigation From Company Address field in New
>> Book Options
>> • Bug 796945 - Search Search Criteria window does not scroll when
>> added criteria exceed a certain amount
>> • Bug 796948 - Scheduled Transactions Entered Since Last Run Are
>> not Visible
>> • Bug 796949 - Incorrect conversion of 0,01 USD to EUR
>> • Bug 796960 - Incorrect amount sort order in Generic import
>> matcher window
>> • Bug 796961 - Can't overwrite existing MYSQL database, V3.3.
>> • Bug 796967 - gnclock table not removed when using PostgreSQL.
>> • Bug 796978 - Deleting a split of same account as register
>> cancels the transaction without warning
>> • Bug 796981 - Gnucash crashes with critical error when selecting
>> another file
>> • Bug 796982 - Import Bills & Invoices: change in un_escape()
>> routine causes description and notes fields to be mangled.
>> • Bug 796988 - Untranslated string in CSV transaction importer
>> • Bug 796989 - some date/time does not honor user locale
>> • Bug 796994 - Unable to generate Tax Report because of pricedb
>> error
>> The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:
>>
>> • Set up filepath utils to determine the GNC_CONFIG_HOME in the
>> same way as GNC_DATA_HOME.
>> Until now GNC_CONFIG_HOME was more or less hard-coded. Now it can be set
>> via environment variable GNC_CONFIG_HOME. In addition it will automatically
>> be created to avoid potential user confusion.
>> • Redesign gnc-uri-utils
>> • gnc_uri_get_components will now return NULL as protocol
>> if the input is a normal file system path instead of a uri (it used to
>> return 'file')
>> • gnc_uri_get_protocol will now return NULL if the input
>> is a normal file system path instead of a uri (it used to return 'file')
>> • gnc_uri_is_file_protocol now returns FALSE if protocol
>> is NULL (it used to return TRUE)
>> • gnc_uri_is_file_uri now returns FALSE if input is a
>> normal file system path instead of a uri (it used to return TRUE)
>> • a new function gnc_uri_targets_local_fs will return TRUE
>> only if its input is either a file uri or a normal file system path. This
>> function is now mostly used instead of gnc_uri_is_file_uri in the current
>> code base
>> • a new function gnc_uri_is_uri is added to check whether
>> its input is a valid uri (has protocol, path and hostname for non-file uris)
>> • refer to 'scheme' instead of 'protocol' as that's the
>> more formal term used in uris This involves renaming 3 functions:
>> • gnc_uri_get_protocol -> gnc_uri_get_scheme
>> • gnc_uri_is_known_protocol ->
>> gnc_uri_is_known_scheme
>> • gnc_uri_is_file_protocol ->
>> gnc_uri_is_file_scheme
>> • The *_protocol variants are marked as deprecated.
>> • Additionally a number of local variables have been
>> renamed from protocol to scheme to support this change.
>> • Show warnings for deprecated declarations
>> We're about to announce our own set of deprecated functions in libgnucash.
>> That would be pretty pointless if we also would silence all deprecation
>> warnings at the same time...
>> • More report code-cleanup by Chris Lam, including deprecating the
>> following functions:
>> • gnc:account-get-balance-at-date
>> • gnc:account-get-total-flow
>> • gnc-commodity-numeric-string
>> • gnc-commodity-value->string
>> • gnc:double-col
>> • gnc:options-add-include-subaccounts
>> • gnc:options-add-group-accounts
>> • gnc:options-add-currency-selection
>> The following modules are deprecated:
>> • report-system/collectors
>> • report-system/report-collectors
>> • Invoice: Remove H1 title and superflous option.
>> Printing the title twice is silly, so remove the option and the H1 display
>> of the title. Note that the remaining title is in a div named
>> "invoice-title" so it can be styled with CSS as the user pleases from the
>> Report Options Layout tab.
>> • The preference, use formal accounting labels does not update the
>> header With a register open and you change preference 'use formal
>> accounting labels' it does not update the register header so add a call
>> back for the preference.
>> • Make the grid lines of totals Budget tree view track the
>> preferences.
>> Make the grid lines of the totals tree view track the preferences to match
>> the account tree view above it.
>> • Add routine to fix Account Color being set to "Not Set"
>> Previously the account color slot has been populated with "Not Set" when
>> any field for the account has been edited and saved. This routine should
>> run once and remove all such entries.
>> • Performance fix in dom_chars_handler: use g_strndup instead of
>> g_strdup
>> • In the appdata/metadata file, rename the ID from
>> org.gnucash.Gnucash to org.gnucash.GnuCash to match flathub, and add a
>> launchable ID to link it to the desktop file.
>> • Added double-click-on-file for the CSV transaction, price, and
>> account importers and exporters.
>> • Cleaned up a variety of issues reported by the clang static
>> analyzer.
>> • Allow the text options widget to use all remaining space
>> The text option widget used for report options has only about 3 lines
>> visible currently and will not use any available space in the dialogue.
>> Change the packing for this widget to expand and fill the remaining
>> dialogue space. If there are more than one text option widget on a page
>> then the available space will be shared equally.
>> • Add short_labels for a few toolbar buttons with long names. That
>> should fit a few more buttons on the toolbar.
>> • Update iso-4217-currencies.xml, adddding VES - Bolivar Soberano,
>> minor updates of other VE currencies.
>> • Python 3 bindings fixes and improvements from Christoph
>> Holterman and Sumit Bhardwaj.
>> We have revised translations for Chinese (Simplified), Farsi, German,
>> Japanese, Portuguese (Portugal), and Ukrainian
>>
>> Revised or added account templates for English (US), English (UK), German
>> (Austria), German (Germany), Portuguese (Portugal)
>>
>> Known Issues
>>
>> The following are open bug reports new to the 3.x series considered
>> significant by the development team:
>>
>> • Bug 775368 - "Average cost" price source problem
>> • Bug 795071 - new account entry screen keeps on disappearing and
>> coming back
>> • Bug 795251 - googletest detection cannot be overridden
>> • Bug 795362 - Special variable "i" not parsed in function calls
>> • Bug 795383 - Gnucash crashes on import of a 1400-transaction (or
>> more) CSV file
>> • Bug 795384 - GnuCash 3 is tremendously memory hungry on macOs
>> • Bug 795393 - Do not create .log files when using sqlite backend
>> • Bug 795614 - Unicode handling in amount fields [resubmission]
>> • Bug 795729 - Advanced Portfolio Report - Percentage rates not
>> displaying leadinga zeroes
>> • Bug 795804 - Extremely slow save
>> • Bug 796100 - Autosave Doesn't Always Work
>> • Bug 796122 - Poor Performance Scanning Old Files During Autosave
>> • Bug 796492 - Wrong calculation of the first occurrence
>> • Bug 796496 - CSV Importer: Column Selectors invisible on Windows.
>> • Bug 796500 - Scalability issue - importing large CSV to large
>> book won't finish
>> • Bug 796520 - Layout overlapping in Income & Expense Chart
>> • Bug 796656 - GnuCash frequently crashes, usually involving
>> unsaved transactions.
>> • Bug 796687 - Tax Entity name and type for an account won't work
>> under "Tax Reporting Options" in Gnucash 3.2
>> • Bug 796688 - "Next" Button Moves Repeatedly During New File
>> Wizard
>> • Bug 796728 - GnuCash 3.0-3.2 crashes when starting up under
>> Windows
>> • Bug 796736 - Column Widths calculator need to allow more padding
>> • Bug 796740 - Selecting register value with mouse fails
>> • Bug 796746 - Cannot copy and paste anything into the amount
>> field (both credit and debit)
>> • Bug 796750 - qof_query_search_for stores pointer of type string
>> argument
>> • Bug 796754 - Guile encoding certain strings not as UTF-8
>> • Bug 796758 - Improve error messages, why one can not remove a
>> tax table
>> • Bug 796761 - Newline (char(10) is inserted into the end of the
>> string if copy & paste text from excel into the description field of
>> transaction
>> • Bug 796767 - The importer shows read-only and placeholder
>> accounts
>> • Bug 796773 - Display of Negative numbers
>> • Bug 796774 - Investment account QIF Import does not import
>> transaction
>> • Bug 796779 - Window size in SEPA transaction
>> • Bug 796782 - Cannot import OFX file in new 3.2
>> • Bug 796799 - After Deleting Transaction Price, Enter Required 2x
>> • Bug 796810 - Account creation and editing dialogs do not allow
>> entering umlaut-u
>> • Bug 796824 - took more than 2 hours to import 220 transactions
>> • Bug 796844 - Amount column of Customer Report should net Credits
>> and Debits
>> • Bug 796847 - Error trying to do CSV import doesn't recognize
>> account specification
>> • Bug 796850 - Auto-decimal-point causes incorrect price to
>> display when amount is edited.
>> • Bug 796852 - Context sensitive Help broken
>> • Bug 796857 - Import of QIF duplicates transfer transactions
>> • Bug 796867 - GNUCash crashes on startup with Mac Mojave 10.14 in
>> Dark mode.
>> • Bug 796870 - Cannot (occasionally) undo invoice billing
>> • Bug 796871 - GtkFileChooser Name Field and Sidebar Ignore UNC
>> Paths
>> • Bug 796877 - test-stress-options fails
>> • Bug 796878 - test-qofsession fails on x86_32
>> • Bug 796879 - GnuCash crashes on startup
>> • Bug 796880 - Menu Tooltips Interfere with All Dialogs
>> • Bug 796882 - Entering an amount as a calculation fails the first
>> time in bills
>> • Bug 796885 - SX Editor Calendar Sometimes Shows Wrong Year,
>> Wrong Next Date
>> • Bug 796890 - CSV import of multi-split transactions marks
>> reconciliation status of first line as cleared
>> • Bug 796892 - Startup warning: undefined symbol PyOS_getsig
>> • Bug 796894 - Edit -> Preferences results in gnucash.exe- No Disk
>> error box
>> • Bug 796895 - Report end and start dates not obeyed
>> • Bug 796896 - Button to complete an export not intuitively placed
>> or discoverable
>> • Bug 796899 - FTBFS on [mips]: segfault; test-backend-dbi;
>> endianness
>> • Bug 796900 - Problems in Description Editing. Select all
>> implemented with the Caps Key (plus no Ctrl Z Undo, grrr)
>> • Bug 796905 - GNUcash does not start after windows 10 update
>> • Bug 796907 - After a series of actions to the window of GnuCash,
>> some of or all of the contents will dispear and could not get them back
>> • Bug 796909 - Can't enter different notes and memos for an AR
>> payment transaction
>> • Bug 796911 - Minimum window width is too large, so it may not be
>> possible to maximise the window
>> • Bug 796926 - Scrolling Fails if Mouse Leaves Window
>> • Bug 796933 - Backspace key doesn't work, sometimes.
>> • Bug 796934 - Menu and message characters display as boxes
>> • Bug 796935 - Scrollbar indicator does not move while scrolling
>> • Bug 796936 - Saving XML-formatted file to CryFS volume crashes
>> GNUCash
>> • Bug 796938 - Typing account name no longer navigates to account
>> • Bug 796942 - Make Auto-Split Optional or Undo-Able for Data Entry
>> • Bug 796946 - Mortgage and Loan Repayment Setup tool crashes when
>> exiting "Loan Repayment Options" page
>> • Bug 796953 - Attempting to enter loan causes 3.3 to crash
>> • Bug 796954 - No scroll in invoice/billing and all columns not
>> visible. Column resizing is disastrous
>> • Bug 796955 - Import CSV - Single-line two-currency transactions
>> can't be imported
>> • Bug 796965 - Show Unused Accounts
>> • Bug 796968 - Screen display gets corrupted in some circumstances
>> when multiple windows stacked on top of each other
>> • Bug 796970 - Disable editing of currency retrieval settings for
>> currencies.
>> • Bug 796971 - Keys "Home" and "End" do not work after popup is
>> displayed
>> • Bug 796973 - Blocking problem when importing QIF - trading
>> commodities enter Information
>> • Bug 796974 - Feature Request - Headings for the Matcher column
>> Deposit/Withdrawal do not change to Debit/Credit when formal accounting
>> labels are preferenced
>> • Bug 796976 - saving file with scheduled transaction hangs: copy
>> of scheduled transactions missing in tmp file?
>> • Bug 796977 - No amounts displaying after upgrade from 2.6.19 to
>> 3.3
>> • Bug 796979 - GnuCash segfaults on first startup when run from
>> remote X session
>> • Bug 796983 - fails when importing QIF exported by Quicken 2015
>> Deluxe
>> • Bug 796989 - some date/time does not honor user locale
>> • Bug 796990 - Budget : Newly created account and account with
>> zero transaction cannot be shown in Budget
>> • Bug 796992 - gnucash --add-price-quotes always fails
>> Documentation
>>
>> There were no content changes to the GnuCash Documentation, though the
>> build system was modified.
>>
>>
>> Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS
>>
>> GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows XP® and later and MacOS X
>> 10.9 (Mavericks)® and later in pre-built, all-in-one packages. An installer
>> is provided for Microsoft Windows® while the MacOS X® package is a disk
>> image containing a drag-and-drop application bundle.
>>
>> The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are:
>>
>> •
>> a254883c8f7e34f2e19ebdc6a0185489d9027341d7d62a6f1ef815a8c9e342d7
>> gnucash-3.4.tar.bz2
>> •
>> 95e8d340b7299e67ed9bedd29141cdc50824a1d6c17ebba302396b862e33b2ea
>> gnucash-3.4.tar.gz
>> •
>> 7ebbec0bc668e42d04178254a754aab7ba63c3177ed4e60bd5c6da917a2a316f
>> gnucash-3.4.setup.exe
>> •
>> 359d3ecbfc2143fe11901bd0319a60c5b802a8c13206c4da0041e510b7d39d59
>> Gnucash-Intel-3.4-1.dmg
>> •
>> 6575438811ecf8a208a33cd6055b4a10ed324b89e12a247a76cdecc5a82489ec
>> gnucash-docs-3.4.tar.gz
>>
>> SourceForge:
>>
>> Download GnuCash for Win32:
>> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-3.4.setup.exe
>> Download GnuCash for Mac-Intel:
>> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/Gnucash-Intel-3.4-1.dmg
>>
>> Github
>>
>> Download GnuCash for Win32:
>> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.3/gnucash-3.4.setup.exe
>> Download GnuCash for Mac-Intel:
>> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.3/Gnucash-Intel-3.4-1.dmg
>>
>> Getting GnuCash as source code
>>
>> If you want to compile GnuCash 3.4 for yourself, the source code can be
>> downloaded from:
>>
>> Sourceforge:
>> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-3.4.tar.bz2
>> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-3.4.tar.gz
>> Github:
>>
>> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.4/gnucash-3.4.tar.bz2
>>
>> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.4/gnucash-3.4.tar.gz
>> WARNING Do not try to use the github-generated files labelled "Source
>> Code". They have not been processed with swig and will not build.
>> You can also checkout the sources: git clone
>> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.
>>
>>
>> Please consult the README.dependencies file in the sources for the
>> required dependencies and versions needed to build GnuCash from source.
>> Additional information on building GnuCash may be found at
>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building.
>>
>> Getting the documentation
>>
>> The documentation is available at Documentation page of the GnuCash
>> website. The 3.4 documentation can be found under "GnuCash v3 (current
>> stable release)" in multiple languages both for reading online and for
>> download in pdf, epub, and mobi formats.
>>
>> If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 3.4 for yourself, the
>> source code can be downloaded from:
>>
>> Sourceforge:
>> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-docs-3.4.tar.gz
>> GitHub:
>> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.4/gnucash-docs-3.4.tar.gz
>> You can also checkout the sources directly from the git repository as
>> described at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git.
>>
>> Detailed instructions for building GnuCash may be found at
>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building and for the Documentation at
>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Initializing_Documentation_Build_Environment
>> .
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> gnucash-user mailing list
>> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe:
>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
>> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see
>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information.
>> -----
>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
> _______________________________________________
> gnucash-devel mailing list
> gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
More information about the gnucash-devel
mailing list