[GNC-dev] GnuCash 3.902 released

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Mon Apr 27 20:58:15 EDT 2020


The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 3.902, the first testing release for what will soon be GnuCash 4.0.

Changes

Baseline requirements

Operating Systems:

	• Linux: Ubuntu 18.04LTS
	• MacOS: 10.13
	• Windows: 8.1
Software Dependencies:

	• C++ standard is now C++17, requires gcc 8.0 or clang 6.0.
	• Cmake 3.10
	• boost 1.67.0
	• gettext 0.19.6 for general use, 0.20 to generate gnucash.pot.
	• glib-2.0 2.56.1, gtk 3.22.30
	• googletest 1.8.0
	• ICU, any version.
	• libdbi 0.8.3
	• libxml2 2.9.4
	• swig 3.0.12 Now required for building from tarballs as well as from git.
	• Webkit 2.4.11 Mac & Win32, 2.14.1 Linux/BSD
New Features

	• The matcher window columns are changed from R to C and from U+R to U+C, reflecting that the matcher marks transactions cleared but doesn't reconcile them. (Bug 797338)
	• OFX imports having balance information will now offer to immediately reconcile, passing the balance information in the file to the reconcile info.
	• Improve quickfill in the account pickers to filter the choices based on any part of the name.
	• The GnuCash widget hierarchy for CSS has been revised to be more consistent with Gtk practice. You may need to spend some time with the GtkInspector to get your custom CSS back the way you like it.
	• When creating a new account hierarchy it's now possible to load account templates from locales other than the one set for the user interface. (Bug 797472)
	• New Account - Online Account match list to the Import Map Editor.
	• New invalid maps dialog in the Import Map Editor. (Bug 797612)
	• Optionally include the account code option in budget view.
	• Account matcher will decline to match accounts with a different commodity from the imported split if the import information includes the commodity.
	• Ellipsize the Description and Memo fields in the account matcher.
	• Enable adding notes to budgets. (Bug 693180)
	• Support for AQBanking Version 6. This is required to support new FinTS protocols and the European Privacy Directive.
	• GnuCash 4.x will not migrate old gconf settings from GnuCash 2.4.x.
	• Reversing transactions will now pop a dialog box to request a posting date. (Bug 782455)
	• The Accounts page has a new optional column for the hidden property to make it easier to toggle it. Note that in order to see hidden accounts you must still enable that in the Filter by... dialog. (Bug 797486)
	• The Customer, Vender, and Employee overviews have a process-payment toolbar. (Bug 797605).
	• Account codes may now optionally be displayed in the Budget Tree View. (Bug 797489).
New/Revised Reports

	• Owner Report
Significant Code Changes

	• The source directories have been rearranged and most of the loadable modules (e.g. libgncmod-engine.so) are now normal dynamic libraries (libgnc-engine.so), shorn of their gnc-module adapters. Make sure that you clean and rebuild your build directory.
	• All functions marked as deprecated in 3.x are now removed. If you have custom reports be sure to examine gnucash.trace for deprecation warnings and update your reports before trying them in GnuCash 3.91.
	• libgncmod-generic-import is now libgnc-generic-import.
	• Scheme no longer uses libgncmodule, always do (use-modules (gnucash foo))
	• Autocompletion improvements for the transfer-account field.
	• New test for invalid mappings for online accounts and a dialog to fix them.
	• jqplot is replaced by chartjs.
	• Separate most Guile binding code from the code that it wraps. It's now located in bindings/guile.
	• Improve Google test integration in cmake. CMake now requires only GTEST_ROOT and only when cmake isn't able to find Google test without help.Unit tests for Scheme code with SRFI64.
Deprecations (will be removed in GnuCash 5.0

	• gnc:substring-replace-from-to
Between 3.10 and 3.902, the following bugfixes were accomplished. Some of these will also be fixed in GnuCash 3.11, some are for 4.0 only.

	• Bug 693180 - Add notes to budgeting values
	• Bug 773198 - Move several reports to Example directory/menu
	• Bug 773199 - Rename and rebuild Welcome to GnuCash Report
	• Bug 773200 - Rename Sample & Custom Report Group
	• Bug 782455 - Modify Add Reversing Transaction feature
	• Bug 797114 - Fixing an SX due to deleted account stuck in an error loop
	• Bug 797270 - Budget Chart report - translation of header and dates
	• Bug 797338 - Change "U+R" and "R" labels to "U+C" and "C" in Import matcher
	• Bug 797351 - General ledger register transaction becomes "zombie" after deletion
	• Bug 797415 - cannot build without libsecret-1-dev
	• Bug 797472 - Add option to choose account templates
	• Bug 797485 - Show account hidden column on CoA.
	• Bug 797486 - Add dialog to cascade placeholder and hidden
	• Bug 797489 - No option to use account codes in Budget View - Part2
Add option to allow the account code column to be shown in the budget tree view and as such the account tree view can be sorted by this column

	• Bug 797605 - RFE: Customer/Vendor/Employee Overview should also have "Process Payment" toolbar
	• Bug 797612 - Add a dialog to the imap_dialog to show invalid maps
	• Bug 797670 - scheduled transaction editor can remain open when switching file, which causes seg fault when later closed
	• Bug 797677 - Price Database Saving Wrong Price for Foreign Currency
	• Bug 797684 - GTK_DEBUG=interactive - Bail out - gdk_window_set_cursor_internal
	• Bug 797697 - Enable DEP and ASLR for the Windows build
The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:

	• Fix 3 problems with the scheduled transactions calculations
		• Set a monthly recurrence on the 10th with a start date on the 20th of this month. The editor correctly shows the next occurrence to be on the 10th of the following month. The schedule transaction summary dialog incorrectly shows the next occurrence to be on the 10th of this month (before the start date!)
		• Set a monthly recurrence on the 19th, with a start date on the 20th of this month. The editor's calendar marks incorrectly show the next occurrence to be on the 19th of this month (before the start date).
		• Set a monthly recurrence on the 18th, with a start date on the 20th and an end date on the 17 of the following month. The calendar should show no mark, but fails to erase the marks that were present.
	• Fix issue when editing the account tree view notes field
When you try to edit a multiline account notes field in the account tree view you end up with just one line with control characters as it is being edited with a GtkCellRenderText cell. To fix this I have added a new cell renderer based on a text view.

	• Fix failed build of python tests and failed test in 3.10 tarball.
Updated Translations: Croatian, Hebrew, Ukrainian

Known Problems

None specific to this unstable series yet, see for a complete list of all open bugs.

.
Documentation

Concurrent with the release of Gnucash 3.902 we're pleased to also release a new version 3.902 of the companion Help and Tutorial and Concepts Guide. There are no differences between this and the previous 3.10 release.

Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS

GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows 8.1® and later and MacOS 10.13 (High Sierra)® and later in pre-built, all-in-one packages. An installer is provided for Microsoft Windows® while the MacOS® package is a disk image containing a drag-and-drop application bundle.

The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are:

	• 24bb79f8307af626df714170182d827e6a3b180422e02eed4dc6c361f81178ca  gnucash-3.902.tar.bz2
	• b3433be62710e1d0f0b1d38ce7133a0199f4e4981c8f47d978bfbb48881681b4  gnucash-3.902.tar.gz
	• 77ad3328cdf334bb7ea009bfa2346d780db69b6d522ede77a639a751ee76a838  gnucash-3.902.setup.exe
	• b109c984171c3d9bbf092d651edddd9ce2b1540da0800e2ed7380c34b18a1254  Gnucash-Intel-3.902-1.dmg
	• 640dda16e4c238c560e32bde4b3445aa4f2cd8c4ae60c910caef076fee045485  gnucash-docs-3.902.tar.gz

The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 3.902, the first testing release for what will soon be GnuCash 4.0.

Changes

Baseline requirements

Operating Systems:

	• Linux: Ubuntu 18.04LTS
	• MacOS: 10.13
	• Windows: 8.1
Software Dependencies:

	• C++ standard is now C++17, requires gcc 8.0 or clang 6.0.
	• Cmake 3.10
	• boost 1.67.0
	• gettext 0.19.6 for general use, 0.20 to generate gnucash.pot.
	• glib-2.0 2.56.1, gtk 3.22.30
	• googletest 1.8.0
	• ICU, any version.
	• libdbi 0.8.3
	• libxml2 2.9.4
	• swig 3.0.12 Now required for building from tarballs as well as from git.
	• Webkit 2.4.11 Mac & Win32, 2.14.1 Linux/BSD
New Features

	• The matcher window columns are changed from R to C and from U+R to U+C, reflecting that the matcher marks transactions cleared but doesn't reconcile them. (Bug 797338)
	• OFX imports having balance information will now offer to immediately reconcile, passing the balance information in the file to the reconcile info.
	• Improve quickfill in the account pickers to filter the choices based on any part of the name.
	• The GnuCash widget hierarchy for CSS has been revised to be more consistent with Gtk practice. You may need to spend some time with the GtkInspector to get your custom CSS back the way you like it.
	• When creating a new account hierarchy it's now possible to load account templates from locales other than the one set for the user interface. (Bug 797472)
	• New Account - Online Account match list to the Import Map Editor.
	• New invalid maps dialog in the Import Map Editor. (Bug 797612)
	• Optionally include the account code option in budget view.
	• Account matcher will decline to match accounts with a different commodity from the imported split if the import information includes the commodity.
	• Ellipsize the Description and Memo fields in the account matcher.
	• Enable adding notes to budgets. (Bug 693180)
	• Support for AQBanking Version 6. This is required to support new FinTS protocols and the European Privacy Directive.
	• GnuCash 4.x will not migrate old gconf settings from GnuCash 2.4.x.
	• Reversing transactions will now pop a dialog box to request a posting date. (Bug 782455)
	• The Accounts page has a new optional column for the hidden property to make it easier to toggle it. Note that in order to see hidden accounts you must still enable that in the Filter by... dialog. (Bug 797486)
	• The Customer, Vender, and Employee overviews have a process-payment toolbar. (Bug 797605).
	• Account codes may now optionally be displayed in the Budget Tree View. (Bug 797489).
New/Revised Reports

	• Owner Report
Significant Code Changes

	• The source directories have been rearranged and most of the loadable modules (e.g. libgncmod-engine.so) are now normal dynamic libraries (libgnc-engine.so), shorn of their gnc-module adapters. Make sure that you clean and rebuild your build directory.
	• All functions marked as deprecated in 3.x are now removed. If you have custom reports be sure to examine gnucash.trace for deprecation warnings and update your reports before trying them in GnuCash 3.91.
	• libgncmod-generic-import is now libgnc-generic-import.
	• Scheme no longer uses libgncmodule, always do (use-modules (gnucash foo))
	• Autocompletion improvements for the transfer-account field.
	• New test for invalid mappings for online accounts and a dialog to fix them.
	• jqplot is replaced by chartjs.
	• Separate most Guile binding code from the code that it wraps. It's now located in bindings/guile.
	• Improve Google test integration in cmake. CMake now requires only GTEST_ROOT and only when cmake isn't able to find Google test without help.Unit tests for Scheme code with SRFI64.
Deprecations (will be removed in GnuCash 5.0

	• gnc:substring-replace-from-to
Between 3.10 and 3.902, the following bugfixes were accomplished. Some of these will also be fixed in GnuCash 3.11, some are for 4.0 only.

	• Bug 693180 - Add notes to budgeting values
	• Bug 773198 - Move several reports to Example directory/menu
	• Bug 773199 - Rename and rebuild Welcome to GnuCash Report
	• Bug 773200 - Rename Sample & Custom Report Group
	• Bug 782455 - Modify Add Reversing Transaction feature
	• Bug 797114 - Fixing an SX due to deleted account stuck in an error loop
	• Bug 797270 - Budget Chart report - translation of header and dates
	• Bug 797338 - Change "U+R" and "R" labels to "U+C" and "C" in Import matcher
	• Bug 797351 - General ledger register transaction becomes "zombie" after deletion
	• Bug 797415 - cannot build without libsecret-1-dev
	• Bug 797472 - Add option to choose account templates
	• Bug 797485 - Show account hidden column on CoA.
	• Bug 797486 - Add dialog to cascade placeholder and hidden
	• Bug 797489 - No option to use account codes in Budget View - Part2
Add option to allow the account code column to be shown in the budget tree view and as such the account tree view can be sorted by this column

	• Bug 797605 - RFE: Customer/Vendor/Employee Overview should also have "Process Payment" toolbar
	• Bug 797612 - Add a dialog to the imap_dialog to show invalid maps
	• Bug 797670 - scheduled transaction editor can remain open when switching file, which causes seg fault when later closed
	• Bug 797677 - Price Database Saving Wrong Price for Foreign Currency
	• Bug 797684 - GTK_DEBUG=interactive - Bail out - gdk_window_set_cursor_internal
	• Bug 797697 - Enable DEP and ASLR for the Windows build
The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:

	• Fix 3 problems with the scheduled transactions calculations
		• Set a monthly recurrence on the 10th with a start date on the 20th of this month. The editor correctly shows the next occurrence to be on the 10th of the following month. The schedule transaction summary dialog incorrectly shows the next occurrence to be on the 10th of this month (before the start date!)
		• Set a monthly recurrence on the 19th, with a start date on the 20th of this month. The editor's calendar marks incorrectly show the next occurrence to be on the 19th of this month (before the start date).
		• Set a monthly recurrence on the 18th, with a start date on the 20th and an end date on the 17 of the following month. The calendar should show no mark, but fails to erase the marks that were present.
	• Fix issue when editing the account tree view notes field
When you try to edit a multiline account notes field in the account tree view you end up with just one line with control characters as it is being edited with a GtkCellRenderText cell. To fix this I have added a new cell renderer based on a text view.

	• Fix failed build of python tests and failed test in 3.10 tarball.
Updated Translations: Croatian, Hebrew, Ukrainian

Known Problems

None specific to this unstable series yet, see https://bugs.gnucash.org/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=blocker&bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=major&bug_severity=normal&bug_severity=minor&bug_severity=trivial&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=REOPENED&limit=0&list_id=8149&order=priority%2Cbug_severity&query_format=advanced for a complete list of all open bugs.

.
Documentation

Concurrent with the release of Gnucash 3.902 we're pleased to also release a new version 3.902 of the companion Help and Tutorial and Concepts Guide. There are no differences between this and the previous 3.10 release.

Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS

GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows 8.1® and later and MacOS 10.13 (High Sierra)® and later in pre-built, all-in-one packages. An installer is provided for Microsoft Windows® while the MacOS® package is a disk image containing a drag-and-drop application bundle.

The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are:

	• 24bb79f8307af626df714170182d827e6a3b180422e02eed4dc6c361f81178ca  gnucash-3.902.tar.bz2
	• b3433be62710e1d0f0b1d38ce7133a0199f4e4981c8f47d978bfbb48881681b4  gnucash-3.902.tar.gz
	• 77ad3328cdf334bb7ea009bfa2346d780db69b6d522ede77a639a751ee76a838  gnucash-3.902.setup.exe
	• b109c984171c3d9bbf092d651edddd9ce2b1540da0800e2ed7380c34b18a1254  Gnucash-Intel-3.902-1.dmg
	• 640dda16e4c238c560e32bde4b3445aa4f2cd8c4ae60c910caef076fee045485  gnucash-docs-3.902.tar.gz

GnuCash is now available as a flatpak from Flathub.org. See https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak for instructions.


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