Release of GnuCash stable version 1.8.9

[Graeme Nichols]

On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 16:07, Chris Lyttle wrote:
> What's New in GnuCash 1.8.9?
> 
>  o Updated Polish translation by GNOME PL Team, updated French, Czech,
>    Spanish, Russian, Dutch, German and Italian translations.
>  o dump-finance-quote - Be more explicit when a lookup fails.
>  o log-replay - Increase read buffer size.
>  o Make sure to verify that the items in the reconcile hash are still
>    around after a refresh.
>  o When the commodity is changed, then set the currency to the
>    currency of the last price entered for this commodity.
>  o Add Hungarian account templates by Sulyok Peter
>  o Patch by Geoff Kassel to work on OpenBSD (allow user to set
>    diffcmd).
>  o Don't test double KVPs, on the theory that they will soon be
>    deprecated.
>  o  When computing the aging report, ignore splits that belong to
>    closed lots.  This way we wont get the wrong values when the invoice
>    falls outside the 360-day window but its payment falls inside the
>    window.
>  o Add gnc_getline() function to read an unlimited line-length from a
>    file (so you're not limited to a buffer size with fgets() and the
>    like). It is similar to the getline(3) on Linux except the API is
>    different and it will always set the return string.
>  o Add workaround code for openhbci/chipcard problem.
>  o Add gnc_lookup_date_option() function.
>  o Add gnc_ui_account_get_balance_in_currency() function.
>  o Add preferences for summarybar.
>  o Add xaccAccountConvertBalanceToCurrencyAsOfDate() function
>  o Summarybar can now display a grand total of all commodities,
>    profits of a period of time and net assets at the end of the period;
>    summarybar can be configured with some options under
>    edit->preferences.
>  o Create two new functions to centralize date-selection option
>    creation.
>  o Export the new scheme functions.
>  o Modify Herbert's patch to centralize the date-selection option
>    code.
>  o Use the new centralized date-selection option-creation code.
>  o Fix a typo in the help (was --diable-gui).
>  o Add db-4.2 to the list of databases we search.
>  o Fix a problem with opt style installs.
>  o Rename from_xxx and to_xxx account tree widgets to left_xxx and
>    right_xxx.
>  o If in "accountant mode" call "transfer from" "credit account" and
>    "transfer to" "debit account" and interchange account trees.
>  o Remove the RECN cell from payable/receivable to stop confusing
>    people.
>  o Change Ukrainian "UAG" into "UAH"
>  o Commented out setting the memo always to "Auto-created split" due
>    to popular request.
>  o Fix for part of bug only allow auto-create SXes which have splits 
>    to be created.
>  o HBCI transfer template management GUI added by Bernd Wagner.
>  o Added instructions about running under valgrind.
>  o Added a large set of valgrind suppressions for both guile and
>    gnucash.
>  o Change the reg_type to SEARCH_LEDGER so all the 'action' types
>    appear.
>  o Remove unused 'ledger_status' widget.
>  o At least be consistent about the background coloring of the month
>    labels, even if we're still not using GTK themeage correctly.
>  o Destroy the transient window when the widget is destroyed.
>  o Make the advance and remind spin-buttons editable.
>  o Change the upper bound on the advance and remind spins to 365
>    [days], with a page-size of 30 [days].
>  o Disallow the Scheduling of being-editing transactions in the
>    Register, preventing a class of unbalacned SX template transactions
>    from being entered and propogated through the system.
>  o Fix nasty memory-corruption issue; insufficent bounds checking on
>    array index.
>  o Better handling of various error cases in transaction-creation.
>  o When we have a problem parsing a credit/debit cell, indicate to the
>    user what occurred.
>  o Use the account-list filtering capability of the GncAccountSel to
>    only show/allow-creation-of valid account-types in the loan-druid.
>  o Add ':' to the token list of allowable characters in the formula
>    cell.
>  o Fix precedence bug screwing up loan review page.
>  o Don't need to require format; main.scm handles it, and the default
>    "format" (simple-format) is sufficient to handle everything we need.
>    This allows gnucash to work with slib3.
>  o Add code to remove "intl/Makefile po/Makefile" from AC_OUTPUT in
>    configure.in prior to calling gettextize to make sure that you can
>    build from CVS with recent versions of gettextize.  Tested with both
>    RH9 and RH7.3 to make sure it works with both old and new.
>  o Move variable declaration to the top of the block.
>  o Make sure we always have intl and po Makefiles in the configure
>    script.  Sometimes it was ripped out without being replaced.
> 
> Available at the usual places!
> 
> http://www.gnucash.org
> 
> http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

Hello Chris, will there be a RH8 rpm of gnucash 1.8.9 and gnucash-ofx
1.8.9 available rsn??
-- 

Kind regards,

Graeme Nichols

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