[GNC-dev] GnuCash 4.0 Released
David H
hellvee at gmail.com
Sun Jun 28 17:02:56 EDT 2020
John,
Thanks for that, just an fyi that the dmg pops up with the name
Gnucash-3.906 when opened on my desktop instead of 4.01 ??
Cheers David H.
On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 05:09, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> You were a bit too fast, I hadn't uncloaked the directory yet; I just did.
> But don't you want
>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/Gnucash-Intel-4.0-1.dmg
> ?
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
> > On Jun 28, 2020, at 12:04 PM, jean laroche <ripngo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > John,
> >
> > This link
> >
> >
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/gnucash-4.0.setup.exe
> >
> > is apparently broken!
> > But thanks for the new release!!!
> > J.
> >
> >
> > On 6/28/2020 11:53 AM, John Ralls wrote:
> >> The GnuCash development team announces 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
> >>
> >> • A new separate executable, gnucash-cli (gnucash-cli.exe on
> Microsoft Windows) for doing command-line things like updating the prices
> in your book. gnucash-cli gains the ability to run reports from the command
> line. Specify reports to run by name or guid. It also provides an export
> format and an output file name without which it will output the report to
> stdout.
> >> • gnucash-cli --report run --name=[reportname/guid]
> datafile.gnucash
> >> • gnucash-cli --report run --name=[reportname/guid]
> --output-file=x.html datafile.gnucash
> >> • gnucash-cli --report run --name=[reportname/guid]
> --output-file=x.html --export-type=TYPE datafile.gnucash
> >> • Register Column Widths
> >> Register column widths are no longer saved per-account except for open
> tabs and even widths for open tabs will be reset after upgrading from 3.x
> or earlier. Instead widths are saved by register type group. The type
> groups are:
> >>
> >> • Currency: Ledgers that display amount in debit and
> credit columns.
> >> • APAR: Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable accounts.
> >> • Stock: Ledgers that display amount in a single column
> with additional columns for Price and Value, the last in Debit and Credit
> columns.
> >> • Journal: Ledgers displaying transactions from multiple
> accounts where all accounts would be displayed with a Currency type ledger.
> >> • Portfolio: Ledgers displaying transactions from multiple
> accounts where one or more accounts would be displayed with a Stock type
> ledger.
> >> • Customer: Ledgers embedded in invoices.
> >> • Employee: Ledgers embedded in expense vouchers.
> >> • Vendor: Ledgers embedded in bills.
> >> Two menu items are added to the Windows menu when a Register, Bill,
> Invoice, or Voucher tab has focus:
> >>
> >> • Use as Default Layout for this Register Group
> >> • Reset Default Layout for this Register Group
> >> The first saves the currently focused register's column widths and
> saves them for use by all registers in the same type group. Note that
> currently open registers will not be affected until they are closed and
> reopened, and that open registers widths will persist through quitting and
> restarting GnuCash. The second menu item removes the customization and
> registers of that type group will therafter use the computed default widths.
> >> • When deleting accounts the destination accounts of moved splits
> will be checked to ensure that they have the same commodity as the source
> account. If they don't you'll get a warning and the opportunity to pick
> another account or to carry on regardless.
> >> • New type-ahead search added to sequential search when selecting
> an account in the register: Instead of typing the first few characters of a
> top level account, the separator, the first few characters of the next
> level account and so on you may instead type a few characters of any part
> of a full account name and the drop-list will be filtered to contain only
> matching accounts. Once you have a small enough list you can use the arrow
> keys to select the account that you want.
> >> • Python bindings are now localized and their strings available
> for translation.
> >> • A new Transaction Association dialog, available from the Update
> Association for Transaction menu item that has replaced the two association
> items in 3.x, allows setting, changing, and deleting associations.
> >> • Allow Associations to be added to invoices. The actual
> association when present is added as a link button which is shown below the
> notes.
> >> • A symbol is now displayed on transactions in the register when
> they have an attachment and the selected font supports the symbol.
> >> • The OFX file importer can now import more than one file at a
> time.
> >> • A new report menu supbmenu Multicolumn contains the old
> custom-multicolumn report and a new Dashboard report containing Account
> reports for expenses and income, an income-expense chart, and an account
> summary.
> >> • Support for UK VAT and Australian GST added to the Income-GST
> report. The reports options are changed from source accounts to source
> sales and purchase accounts to permit proper reporting of capital
> purchases. N.B. This is incompatible with previous versions of the report
> and will require regenerating saved configurations.
> >> • 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 for the European Payment Services Directive (PSD2).
> >> • 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, Vendor, 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
> >>
> >> • Income-GST
> >> • Owner Report
> >>
> >> Significant Code Changes
> >>
> >> • The signature for qof_session_begin(), QofSession::begin(), and
> QofBackend::begin() are changed to use an enum SessionOpenMode instead of
> three booleans.
> >> • gnucash-bin.c has been split into 4 parts, mostly C++:
> >> • gnucash.cpp, the GUI executable.
> >> • gnucash-cli.cpp, the command-line executable.
> >> • gnucash-commands.cpp, implementation for the commands
> that can be run from the command-line.
> >> • gnucash-app-core.cpp, common code required by both the
> command line and gui programs.
> >> • There's also an auxiliary file, gnucash-windows-locale.c
> because the localization code proved resistant to compiling as C++. We're
> planning another auxiliary file for the MacOS localization.
> >> • A new mock facility for several engine classes to permit
> better-isolated unit testing of components that depend on those classes.
> >> • Register filter and sort values are saved in the book's state
> file (book.gcm) in the user's configdir instead of in the book.
> >> • QofSession no longer creates its book, instead one must create a
> book first and pass that to qof_session_new()/QofSession::QofSession().
> >> • Input Method handling in the register is moved to the GtkEntry
> where it belongs.
> >> • gnc_get_current_session() no longer creates an empty session if
> there isn't one already open.
> >> • 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 4.0.
> >> • 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
> >> Known Problems
> >>
> >> Complete list of all open bugs.
> >>
> >> .
> >> Documentation
> >>
> >> Concurrent with the release of GnuCash 4.0 we're pleased to also
> release a new version of the companion Help and Tutorial and Concepts Guide
> >>
> >> 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:
> >>
> >> •
> aa523c4f1721b19ff51ac534c049644f175e3c3c01139555eb3d9cfa50949bb7
> gnucash-4.0.tar.bz2
> >> •
> 956da4f9e0301f02291d0b840c2ef2027c5b65a03bd42cf8df966d2407eb5330
> gnucash-4.0.tar.gz
> >> •
> 66dae273935f57714ee36e0b761f00f63f3802598752b9cc02b568a0a07d2032
> gnucash-4.0.setup.exe
> >> •
> f49fbcca3766104d7dcf5ef6d65bf9b6deceee3afc9f472c64cfc62e67b32e22
> Gnucash-Intel-4.0-1.dmg
> >> •
> 519f4e83d964be92b0cfcda93b8322eb38d3e3626e52070505c4a28b65302ce0
> gnucash-docs-4.0.tar.gz
> >>
> >> Windows:
> >>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.0/gnucash-4.0.setup.exe
>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/gnucash-4.0.setup.exe
> >>
> >> MacOS:
> >>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.0/Gnucash-Intel-4.0-1.dmg
> >>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/Gnucash-Intel-4.0-1.dmg
> >>
> >> GnuCash is now available as a flatpak from Flathub.org. Instructions
> for installing and running.
> >>
> >> Getting GnuCash as source code
> >> If you want to compile GnuCash 4.0 for yourself, the source code can be
> downloaded from:
> >>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.0/gnucash-4.0.tar.bz2
> >>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.0/gnucash-4.0.tar.gz
> >>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/gnucash-4.0.tar.bz2
> >>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/gnucash-4.0.tar.gz
> >>
> >> You can also checkout the sources directly from the git repository, see
> >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git for instructions.
> >>
> >> To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need at
> least Gtk+ 3.22.29, Guile 2.0, Boost 1.67, WebKitGtk 2.4, GoogleTest 1.8.0,
> cmake 3.10 and SWIG 2.0.12 if compiling from git. Please consult the
> README.dependencies file in the sources for the exact list of dependencies
> and versions.
> >>
> >> Getting the documentation
> >>
> >> If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 4.0 for yourself, the
> source code can be downloaded from:
> >>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.0/gnucash-docs-4.0.tar.gz
> >>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/gnucash-docs-4.0-1.tar.gz
> >>
> >> Note that the documentation for stable releases is not on the GnuCash
> website. It is built daily and may be found on the development server under
> the locale directory; "C" is English, "de" is German, and so on.
> >>
> >> The documentation is included in the MacOS and Windows application
> bundles.
> >> 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, MacOS, and Microsoft Windows. Programming on GnuCash began in
> 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.
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