GnuCash 1.6.0 is released.

[Dave Peticolas]

The GnuCash Development Team <http://www.gnucash.org> proudly
announces the release of GnuCash 1.6.0, the GNU personal finance
manager.

GnuCash features an account hierarchy creation tool, a checkbook-like
register GUI to enter transactions, and a full set of reports to
visualize the state of your finances. The new release comes with a
configurable main window, a much improved checking and general ledger
entry window, and over ten completely new graphical reports including
pie charts and bar charts using the GNU plot program Guppi
<http://www.gnome.org/guppi>.

Thanks go to all the translators, testers, bug reporters, artists,
and programmers who made this release possible. And thanks to all
our users for choosing GnuCash!

The new release of GnuCash contains many new features including:

  + Printable, persistent reports (reports are saved between sessions)

  + XML file format (old binary files are converted automatically)

  + Account hierarchy creation druid, account hierarchy export

  + Much improved QIF importing

  + Financial calculator

  + Better support for multiple currencies, special support for the Euro

  + Online stock quotes integrated with the GUI

  + Expression evaluation (you can type in 40.45 + 31.23)

  + PostgreSQL back-end (beta, disabled by default)

The source packages for GnuCash are available for free under the GNU
General Public License (GPL) at ftp://ftp.gnucash.org/pub/... GnuCash
1.6.0 requires the Gnome 1.4 platform, Guppi, guile, slib, and g-wrap.
Detailed requirements are at <http://www.gnucash.org/en/required.phtml>.