Please consider making a 5.10 release

Jonathan Corbet corbet at lwn.net
Sat Nov 2 12:44:24 EDT 2024


Today I went to run my various (Python) programs to import October's
accounting data into my GnuCash file...only to find that the first of
them had reinitialized the file and thrown away years worth of
accounting data.  This happens repeatably, even with SESSION_READ_ONLY
set.

As a way to wake up out of my current jetlagged funk it was effective,
but it's still hard to recommend in general.  I'm surprised nobody else
has been burned by this problem.  Backups are wonderful things.

You have already fixed it - it's 6cabb5d8843 in your repository.  I
would like to respectfully suggest that making a release containing this
fix - for a data-loss regression - should happen soon.

Thanks, as always, for GnuCash...

jon


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