Release of GnuCash 1.9.4 (unstable)

[Chris Lyttle]

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 1.9.4 aka
"Better late than never", the fifth of several unstable 1.9.x
releases of the GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software which will
eventually lead to the stable version 2.0.0. This release contains many
bugfixes since the fourth release but is still only intended for
developers and adventurous testers who want to help tracking down bugs.

What's New in GnuCash 1.9.4?

o WARNING WARNING WARNING - Make sure you make backups of any files
  used in testing versions of GnuCash in the 1.9.x series. Although the
  developers go to great lengths to ensure that no data will be lost we
  cannot guarantee that your data will not be affected if for some
  reason GnuCash crashes in testing these releases.
o PLEASE TEST TEST AND TEST SOME MORE any and all features important
  to you. Then post any bugs you find to bugzilla
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash
o If you have the urge to help beyond testing please get involved in
  the discussions on the GnuCash mailing lists which you will find at
  http://www.gnucash.org. We especially need people to help with
  updating the documentation as all texts refer currently to the 1.8.x
  series. Please see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development on how to
  get involved.
o Major bugfixes include -
o More Register fixes.
o Fixes to Scheduled Transactions
o Report fixes
o Add support for renumbering the account codes for all the children
   of a given account.
o Fixes to the hierarchy druid.
o Regularize capitalization of the word 'GnuCash' where its user
   visible.
o Fixes for Scheduled Transactions.
o Added new toolbar icons and buttons.
o Fix the lack of action strings in the popup menu.
o Add a context menu to the reconcile window.
o Fix the dialog so that the 'Cancel' button cancels all changes made
   since the dialog was opened.
o Fixes for currencies and  currency quote retrievals.

Caveats

Caveats for testers:
Any 1.9.x version might crash unexpectedly at any point during
runtime. If you test some serious work in a 1.9.x release, make sure you
hit "Save" after ever non-trivial workstep.
Keep in mind that features which are not used in everyday work might
crash unexpectedly at all times. This includes but is not limited to:
graphical reports, scheduled transaction editor, price editor, financial
calculator, OFX/QIF/HBCI import.
Especially all the new features might crash instantly on
testing. This applies in particular to any of the budget-related
features. We may always decide to disable such new features for the
initial 2.0.0 release, and re-enable them in a later release.
The documentation is completely outdated. All help texts
usually only refer to the 1.8.x series; please expect all descriptions
in the help texts to be totally wrong when applied to the upcoming 1.9.x
series. Everyone is invited to help improve the documentation; see
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development" on how to get involved.

How can you help?

Testing: Test it and help us discover all bugs that might show up in
there. Please enter each and every bug into bugzilla at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash
Translating: The new release comes with plenty of new translation
strings. If you consider contributing a translation, we invite you to
test this release already, but please keep in mind that we are not yet
in our string freeze phase. Please check
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status for updates
on this, as we recommend to wait for the string freeze phase for the
serious translation work.

Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org
http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash