[GNC-dev] [GNC] GnuCash 4.902 Released
David H
hellvee at gmail.com
Mon Mar 6 06:17:27 EST 2023
John,
Ta for that. 1 question - download links seem to be pointing to 4.900 /
4.901 not 4.902 ?
Thanks David H.
On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 at 14:20, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 4.902, the second unstable
> release leading to GnuCash 5.0.
>
> This is an unstable release for testing purposes. Do not use it with
> production data! Make a copy of your book to test this release.
>
> New Features
>
> • A new Stock Transaction Assistant to guide you through entering
> most investment transactions for stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. You can
> access it from Actions>Stock Assistant when you have the Accounts page ora
> Stock or Fund account register open.
> • A new Investment Lots report showing a graph of capital gains
> and losses in a period by investment lot. Note that if you don't use the
> View Lots dialog to manage capital gains and losses this report won't have
> anything to show you. Use Reports>Assets & Liabilities>Investment Lots to
> see the report.
> • A new tab on the New/Edit Account dialog called More Properties
> includes entries to set a high and low limit on an account. That's coupled
> to a new column that's available on the Accounts Page, Balance Limit. If
> you set a high or low limit and the account balance falls above or below
> the respective limit an indicator will be shown in the Balance Limit column.
> • The description field quickfill in the register now displays a
> drop-down list of possible completions instead of just one inline
> completion.
> • File import menu items for the MT940, MT942, and DTAUS formats
> is replaced with a single Import from AQBanking that supports importing any
> file format supported by AQBanking, including the frequently requested CAMT.
> • The report generated by the Print Invoice button on the Edit
> Invoice tab can now be configured as a book option at teh bottom of the
> Business tab; this permits selecting a saved configuration of one of the
> standard invoice reports. Another option enables a delay, during which a
> dialog box will appear enabling the user to select a different report.
>
> Note: When saving a configuration make sure that the invoice number is not
> set or you'll get that particular invoice instead of the one that you
> pressed the button for.
>
> Between 4.901 and 4.902, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
>
> The following fixes will also appear in GnuCash 4.14:
>
> • Bug 798748 - Transaction Notes field's value does not appear in
> reverse transaction.
> • Bug 798754 - Build fails with gcc 13 and glib > 2.76
> • Bug 798759 - Register widths for 'with sub-account' not saved
> • Bug 798600 - CSV import of multi-split security transactions
> fails to load capital gain
> Transactions with capital gains processing can have splits in transaction
> currency with a zero amount and a non-zero value. To properly import those,
> prefer the value column even if transaction currency equals account
> commodity. Previous (wrong) assumption was that in case of a same-currency
> split, the amount would always be the value.
>
> Update csv transaction export format to include split values. In the csv
> importer the 'GnuCash Export Format' option will now include values. For
> compatibility with filex exported from older gnucash versions the previous
> preset is still available under the name 'GnuCash Export Format (4.x and
> older)'.
>
> The following additional bug fixes are in unstable only:
>
> • Bug 782141 - Import CSV - Multi-currency support can cause
> rounding errors
> Replace the column types 'Deposit' and 'Withdrawal' with 'Amount' and
> 'Amount (Negated)' that are conceptually applicable more widely. Also
> introduce column types 'Value' and 'Value (Negated)' to allow construction
> of splits in commodities different from the transaction currency. While
> Value is the number in the transaction currency, always use 'Amount' in
> single-currency transactions.
>
> • Bug 793306 - Price is not imported from CSV
> • Bug 796955 - Import CSV - Single-line two-currency transactions
> can't be imported
> • Bug 797033 - The CSV Importer should not obey with the
> "automatic digital point" setting
> • Bug 797383 - Import transaction via CSV selects the commodity as
> a currency, results in an invalid transaction that is uneditable, and a
> corrupted price database.
> Change the transaction currency to the from or base account's parent
> account currency if the from or base account is not denominated in a
> currency. This allows to import stock transactions directly into the stock
> account.
>
> • Bug 797903 - Transaction window: The 'blue line' is always
> (erroneously) topmost when t. sorting order is inverted.
> • Bug 798334 - Importing transactions from CSV with space as
> thousand separator
> • Bug 798572 - Parse numbers with two minus signs as a positive
> numbers
> • Bug 798691 - Memo field not updated on CSV import using U+C
> • Bug 798732 - : Type of balance carry forward accounts for german
> skr49 account template fixed
> The accounts listed are of the EQUITY type and not ASSET.
>
> • Bug 798749 - Fails to read gsettings on startup
> • Bug 798753 - UX improvements in new import dialog
> • Bug 798763 - "Manage Document Link" keyboard shortcut is missing
> The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:
>
> • Always use the Company Name from book options in reports,
> removing the Company Name report option.
> • Fix the register sheet being insensitive when in reverse order
> • Allow C decls after statements.
> Legal since C99.
>
> • Make the scheme tests fail immediately if they load an external
> gnucash file.
> • [c++options] Restore the ability to set plot sizes in pixels.
> • [c++ options] Restore forward & backward compatibility, fix
> crash.
> • CsvTokenizer - add additional test case for escaped quotes
> It simulates the case where csv fields are fully quoted and an escaped
> quote ("") is found in some field. This case is handled correctly, adding
> the test to guard this in potential future modifications.
>
> • [dialog-employee] toggle sensitivity instead of visibility of
> GncAccountSel
> • [eguile-utilities.scm] remove fmtnumber
> deprecated in maint.
>
> • Sort the gnc tree view column menu
> • Delete action on account page not disabled on edits.
> • L10N:DE:Updating accounts from 0001 to 8000 DATEV-SKR04
> 2022-01-01
> • GSettings migration: Ensure that the current version is set on a
> new GnuCash installation and that migrations applicable to versions of
> GnuCash later than the current one do not run.
> • Turn on -Wunused
> • Rename Hellow World report to Sample Report.
> • Generic Importer - allow user to modify exchange rates for
> unbalanced transactions.
> • Make logging accessible from python modules
> • Allow C declarations after statements
> Good for declaring variables at point of use
>
> New and Updated Translations: Czech, Hungarian
>
> Help translate GnuCash on Weblate:
> https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/gnucash/
>
> Translators note that there is a new project Program-beta on weblate for
> this unstable branch. Having twice the strings causes us to exceed the free
> account limit, but Weblate has so far just warned us about it. If we need
> to change the branch we'll announce it on gnucash-devel.
>
> Known Problems
>
> Complete list of all open bugs:
> 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
>
> Documentation
>
> There have been no documentation changes since 4.900 so continue to use
> that 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.
>
> GnuCash is also available as a flatpak from Flathub.org. Instructions for
> installing and running.
>
> The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are:
>
> •
> 424e477ef82a171dfe74db14433d6ff73002fa659619f325730041b1d15e7b4e
> gnucash-4.902.tar.bz2
> •
> c5da520e4afe3fc89c220fec3147edfd283f83954962b944e79e077b23fe2e1e
> gnucash-4.902.tar.gz
> •
> 290144cad57d73fc135c63f16f20ecf274500edc92d027d6438de98459760996
> gnucash-4.902.setup.exe
> •
> 340b6eecf12c74670621cd94861ea2e6780f809d2e42fd11ffe971604fe18d57
> Gnucash-Intel-4.902-1.dmg
> •
> c81a99d8e9ae287abad1a38f93fdac1a66e27f4f24aed85b25259df30bd1db83
> gnucash-docs-4.900.tar.gz
>
>
> Microsoft Windows:
>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.900/gnucash-4.901.setup.exe
>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/4.901/gnucash-4.901.setup.exe
>
> Apple macOS:
>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.900/Gnucash-Intel-4.901-1.dmg
>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/4.901/Gnucash-Intel-4.900-1.dmg
>
> GnuCash is also available as a flatpak from Flathub.org. Instructions for
> installing and running may be found at
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak.
>
> Getting GnuCash as source code
> If you want to compile GnuCash 4.901 for yourself, the source code can be
> downloaded from:
>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.901/gnucash-4.901.tar.bz2
>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.901/gnucash-4.901.tar.gz
>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/4.901/gnucash-4.901.tar.bz2
>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/4.901/gnucash-4.901.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+ 3.24, Guile 2.0, Boost 1.54, WebKitGtk 2.4, GoogleTest 1.7.0,
> cmake 3.10 and SWIG 2.0.12. Please consult the README.dependencies file in
> the sources for the exact list of dependencies and versions.
>
> Getting the documentation
>
> Note that the documentation for unstable 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.
>
> If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 4.900 for yourself, the
> source code can be downloaded from:
>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.900/gnucash-docs-4.900.tar.gz
>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/4.900/gnucash-docs-4.900.tar.gz
>
> 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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