Some important news about LibOFX development

[Benoit Grégoire]

New LibOFX release to accompany GnuCash 1.7.3 (with ofx support):
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A new version of LibOFX (0.6.1) has been released minutes ago:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61170

This version is necessary for compiling ofx support in the new GnuCash 1.7.3 
released two days ago.  Important changes include:
LibOFX 0.6.1:
Fix a critical bug in 0.6.0.  Parsing of a file would fail and hang for users 
of OpenSP 1.5pre5 (and possibly others).
LibOFX 0.6.0:
	-Beta version, released to accompany the new GnuCash 1.7.3 beta release.
	-Full investment transaction support (ofx2qif not yet updated however).
	-Now uses an Autoconf/Automake build system.
	-Proprietary tag striper is now much smarter and read routines have been 
corrected.  Importing a file written on a single line will no longer cause an 
infinite loop.  
	-Added yet more spaghetti code and global variables to improve the work 
around for OpenSP 1.3 bugs.  I beg of you, please convince your distro to 
make openjade and the OpenSP library independently upgradeable.

VERY IMPORTANT:  When upgrading from LibOFX <=0.5.0, make sure you make 
uninstall the previous version, or you will run in all kinds of problems.


Mailing list for LibOFX news:
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A new mailing list for users and developers interested in following LibOFX 
development has been created: 
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libofx-devel Most news about 
LibOFX will be posted there from now on.


New LibOFX site:
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The LibOFX site has now moved to SourceForge:  http://libofx.sourceforge.net/
With this move comes new services, the most important of which are CVS, a bug 
tracker and a mailing list.


Incompatibility with Mandrake cooker:
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 Before I get an avalanche of emails about this, the version of openjade 
released today by Mandrake in the cooker distribution (openjade-1.3.1-12mdk) 
seems to have a broken generic interface to OpenSP. Specifically the data 
event will sometimes send an empty string instead of the expected data from 
the SGML element. There is nothing I can do about this. But as usual all 
users are encouraged to use OpenSP 1.5pre5 or higher instead.

-- 
Benoit Grégoire
http://step.polymtl.ca/~bock/