[GNC-dev] [GNC] GnuCash 4.902 Released
john
jralls at ceridwen.us
Mon Mar 6 12:23:01 EST 2023
If you mean the download links on https://www.gnucash.org/, that's because it's still not accepting updates. Use https://code.gnucash.org/website/.
Regards,
John Ralls
> On Mar 6, 2023, at 3:17 AM, David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 <mailto: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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