Release of GnuCash 1.7.7 "It ain't easy, livin free"

[Chris Lyttle]

What's New in GnuCash 1.7.7?

- Scheduled Transactions: 
	GnuCash now has the ability to automatically create and enter
	transactions, remind when a transaction is due, give a choice of
	entering a transaction or postponing it	and remove an automated
	transaction after a certain period.
- Mortgage & Loan Repayment Druid:
	Used to setup a variable payment loan scheduled transaction.
- Small Business Accounting Features: 
	GnuCash now can be used for Customer and Vendor tracking,
	Invoicing and Bill Payment, and using different Tax and Billing
	Terms in a small business.
- OFX Import:
	GnuCash is the first free software application to support the
	Open Financial Exchange protocol that many banks and financial
	services are moving to use. The development of OFX and HBCI 
	support has also resulted in an improved transaction matching
	system that more accurately picks duplicate transactions.
- HBCI Support: 
	GnuCash is the first free software application to support the
	German Home Banking Computer Interface protocol which includes
	statement download, initiate bank transfers and direct debits.
- New User Manual and Help:
	A brand new user help has been written which focuses on how to
	do tasks in conjunction with a Tutorial and Concepts guide that
	gives the user background information on using GnuCash.
- New Multi-Currency Transaction Handling:
	GnuCash no longer requires separate currency exchange accounts
	to handle multiple currency transfers.
- Redesigned Menu's
	The GnuCash menu's have been redesigned to conform more with the
	new GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.

Specifically updated in this version;

 o Welcome to Release Canidate 2
 o Give the user better feedback on exactly what the exchange rate
   means.
 o Better handling of corrupt XML data files.  Print better error
   messages for unknown tags, or mismatched start/end tags.
 o When checking for gtkhtml-1.1, make the lack of pkg-config a fatal
   error. Also check for pkgconfig
 o Updated translations, po/de.po, 
 o Fix HBCI reparent warnings. Make the PIN dialog a bit nicer.
 o Fixes to Postgresql backend.
 o Changed the "ALTER TABLE table ADD COLUMN..." statements to conform
   to the current Postgres implementation (and SQL 92) standard by
   putting the DEFAULT modifier in a separate ALTER statement.  This was
   reported by Christopher B. Browne.
 o Implement unpost function in invoices.
 o Correctly open a help window when the initial URL contains a label
   component to it.
 o Make the reconciliation window respect the 'include subaccount'
   flag any time it opens a register.  Consolidate logic for opening a
   new register. Enhance the reconciliation start window to update the
   ending value when this flag is changed.
 o If the amount is monetary, map the keypad decimal key to the
   correct decimal character for the locale.
 o Fix malformed URLs for bringing up a report options window.
 o Add new option for specifying sort critera for piecharts and
   barcharts.
 o The report title should change when the report name field is
   changed in the options.
 o Add a smart function for going "back" from the "load a file" page.
   If there are any files loaded it returns to the "loaded files" page
   instead of the initial druid page.
 o Add support for i18n of price source strings.
 o Add icons to gtk only windows.
 o Search on NOTES add code to prevent searching on template-txn
   accounts so SXes don't show up in find results.
 o Create a 'file compression' option and pass the data into the
   backend. This is an option in the preferences.
 o Provide a simple checkbook set of accounts
 o When editing an exchange rate, always change the _VALUE_ of the
   split, not the amount.  This has the affect of keeping the visible
   number the same and changing the "other" account.
 o Add a set of business accounts to the account setup
 o Give a much higher importance to the date heuristics in the OFX
   import. 
 o Disable skipping transactions which already have an online id
   during matching, untill a fix for the "transfer between two accounts"
   bug is properly fixed.
 o Large set of fixes to the build system by John H. Pierce
   <john@killterm.org>
 o Lots more bugfixes

Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash


Chris
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RedHat Certified Engineer #807302549405490.
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