Release of GnuCash stable version 1.8.11

[Chris Lyttle]

The GnuCash development team proudly announces a new stable release of
the GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software.

FAQ: "Is this a gnome2 application?" A: "No." This release still belongs
to GnuCash's 1.8.x series which is not yet ported to gtk2/gnome2. Read
more below.

Improvements and bugs fixed in 1.8.11:

- Business invoices: Properly accumulate splits (bug #165053)
- Fix backup file naming; now existing files will no longer be
accidentally 
overwritten (bug #164875)
- HBCI: enable debit notes again
- HBCI initialization problems fixed 
- Fix the last-day-of-month computation for leap years.

FAQ: "Is this a gnome2 application?" A: "No." This release still belongs
to GnuCash's 1.8.x series which is not yet ported to gtk2/gnome2. In
other words, this release is still based on gtk1.2/gnome1. The
developers are working on a gtk2/gnome2 version of GnuCash, but it still
takes a lot of time. See
http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnuCashPortingStatus for the
status of the Gtk2 port. GnuCash makes use of several custom widgets as
well as the Guppi graphing library. To port to gtk2 involves rewriting
those widgets (e.g. the ledger, or the account hierarchy which uses
GtkCTree) into the appropriate GTK2 widgets and would require the
changing of the graphing code to probably use Jody's new
gnome-office-graph code in Gnumeric (Guppi was never ported to gtk2 and
is a dead project). But given that the GnuCash team is extremely short
on programmers, the process has to exist in parallel to existing product
improvements, resulting in a very gradual porting process. If you can
code C, by all means, volunteer your time, see
http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnuCashDevelopment