Release of GnuCash 1.7.2 alpha: "Antipodean Nightmare"

[Chris Lyttle]

The GnuCash team is pleased to announce the release of the second alpha
version 1.7.2: "Antipodean Nightmare".
This release is the result of the development team working so hard the
GnuCash developers topped the GNOME Summary commits list last week.

Highlights of this release are:
o you can now search by reconcile flag for transactions
o ability to set posted invoices and payments read-only in the small   
business module.
o New commodity matcher for OFX generic import.
o latest libofx is needed for OFX support
o Investment transactions now create two accounts, one is for the
  stock, the other is the account defined by the FI, where the
  cash is swapped.
o Updated glossary
o HBCI improvements to transaction retrieval
o Add Direct Debit HBCI action and add caching of the
  PIN to user preferences.
o HBCI suport requires OpenHBCI 0.9.3 or current OpenHBCI CVS
o loads of bugfixes, keep those bugs coming!
o NOTE: Report bugs to bugzilla.gnome.org

This release features HBCI online banking support. This makes it the
world's first *free* HBCI-enabled personal finance manager.

HBCI (Home Banking Computer Interface) is a standard used by German
banks for offering online banking service. Through this standard,
business actions like statement retrieval, bank transfer, or direct
debits can be invoked by any HBCI-compliant client application, i.e. now
also from GnuCash. Authentification and encryption is done through a
bank-issued chip card or a self-generated file-based RSA key pair. (In
the latter case, the user prints out his public key finger print on
paper, signs it, and sends it to his bank.)


Chris Lyttle
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RedHat Certified Engineer #807302549405490.
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