[GNC-dev] [GNC] GnuCash 3.2 Released

[John Ralls]

> On Jul 11, 2018, at 1:03 PM, Wm via gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org> wrote:
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> On 11/07/2018 03:49, John Ralls wrote:
>>> On Jul 10, 2018, at 6:45 PM, Wm <wm_o_o_o at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>>> Aside: is there a reason why version changes aren't on (or easily found from) the front page  of gnucash.org? they used to be there.
>> David T. thought that it made the front page too busy and moved it to https://www.gnucash.org/news.phtml <https://www.gnucash.org/news.phtml>.
> 
> Hmmn.  Does anyone else think that news and release notes aren't quite the same?  That there has been a release, possibly with notes, is indeed news.  I'm sorta thinking the release notes should be close to the download, especially for a version change, rather than tucked away under some Bugzilla stuff that the vast majority of users don't care about.
> 
> I can't find the release notes on sourceforge.net (which is, I think, were most people get their GnuCash from) either.
> 
> Ho hum.  A thread nearby suggests someone else didn't have the 2.x to 3.x changes made clear to him.

I think most Windows and Mac users get GnuCash by clicking the OS-specific link from https://www.gnucash.org <https://www.gnucash.org/>. That does link to SourceForge but it takes one straight to the download page for the particular file, makes you wait 5 seconds so that you’ll be tempted to click on the misleading ads, then begins the download. After the download IIRC it takes you to the main project page.

The release notes are included in the distribution itself, in C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\share\docs\gnucash\NEWS, but you raise a good point: It would be simple enough to expand the README in the download directory to have the same information as the release page on Github instead of only the sha-256 hashes of the downloadable files.

Regards,
John Ralls