Gnucash 2.4.0 released
Ian Waddington
iwaddox at gmail.com
Wed Dec 22 12:58:54 EST 2010
Thirded, thank you for such a great product
On 22 Dec 2010, at 17:45, "Stephen J. Gowdy" <gowdy at cern.ch> wrote:
> Seconded!
>
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Donald Allen wrote:
>
>> Congratulations to all of you who have worked so hard on this release.
>>
>> /Don
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Announcement: GnuCash 2.4.0 Release 2010-12-21
>>> GnuCash 2.4.0 released
>>> The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.4.0, the latest
>>> stable release of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software. With this new
>>> release series, GnuCash can use an SQL database using SQLite3, MySQL or
>>> PostgreSQL. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows and
>>> Mac OSX.
>>>
>>> WARNING: You should uninstall any earlier GnuCash version from your
>>> system prior to installing 2.4.0.
>>>
>>> Failing to do so may result in startup errors. In particular on Windows
>>> this may cause "Parse error: entry point not found" errors.
>>>
>>>
>>> Major changes in the 2.4.0 release include;
>>>
>>> * In addition to the XML backend, Gnucash can now use a SQLite3,
>>> MySQL or PostgreSQL database to store the data. This is a new
>>> implementation using libdbi. It supports all features including
>>> the business features. In order to build with this, add
>>> --enable-dbi to the configure command. In addition to the
>>> libdbi-dev package for your distribution, you will also need the
>>> appropriate DBD (libdbi driver) package for sqlite3, mysql or
>>> postgresql.
>>> * As a replacement for the current GtkHTML HTML engine used to
>>> display reports and graphs, Gnucash can use WebKit. WebKit is
>>> the engine used by Google Chrome on Windows and Safari on Apple.
>>> In order to build with this, add --with-html-engine=webkit to
>>> the configure command. You will need an appropriate webkit-dev
>>> package. On win32, you will need to download the
>>> webkit-1.1.90-win32.zip file from the source repository and put
>>> it into the downloads directory of your gnucash build area.
>>> * Updated AqBanking on Win32.
>>> Getting GnuCash
>>> Source code for GnuCash 2.4.0 can be downloaded from:
>>>
>>> * Sourceforge: bzip2, gzip, all files.
>>> * You can also checkout the sources directly from the subversion
>>> repository with this command:
>>>
>>> svn co http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/tags/2.4.0 gnucash
>>>
>>> To install GnuCash, you will need Gnome 2, guile, slib. In addition you
>>> will need swig if compiling from subversion.
>>>
>>>
>>> Win32 binary
>>> The Gnucash 2.4.0 Win32 setup executable can be downloaded from
>>> Sourceforge as well.
>>>
>>>
>>> Mac OSX binary
>>> The Gnucash 2.4.0 MacOSX package can be downloaded from Sourceforge as
>>> well.
>>>
>>> Changes between 2.3.17 and 2.4.0 include:
>>>
>>> * User-visible changes
>>> * Update copyright notice dates to include 2010
>>> * Use proper decimal separator for monetary amounts
>>> * If you have a parent account with a subaccount whose
>>> commodity allows more decimal places in the amount field
>>> than the parent account does things don't work right if
>>> you open a register for the parent account and all
>>> subaccounts. This situation can occur if you have a
>>> broker account with subaccounts for the securities held
>>> in that broker account. If you open a register for the
>>> top account and all subaccounts, it is impossible to
>>> enter a transaction to buy or sell a fractional share of
>>> the security where there are more digits after the
>>> decimal point than the parent account allows. This
>>> change fixes this if the subaccount allows no more than
>>> six digits after the decimal point.
>>> * When creating a new style sheet, make sure the name for
>>> it is non-empty.
>>> * Implement (but currently deactivated) auto-completion in
>>> the invoice ledger using all entries from the current
>>> book. Eventually, this will enable drawing the
>>> auto-completion from all entries in the previous
>>> invoices (i.e. book-wide), but in order to give the user
>>> a good enough feedback during typing we additionally
>>> need a quick-fill object over those book-wide entries.
>>> Currently, the user cannot see whether the current
>>> description would result in an auto-completion from
>>> another invoice, and that's not yet enough.
>>> * Implement auto-completion in the invoice/bill entry
>>> ledger.
>>> * Take a first shot at adding auto-completion in the
>>> business ledger, but currently it doesn't do anything
>>> yet.
>>> * Updated translations or translation-related changes
>>> * Updated POTFILES.in
>>> * Mark erroneous translation as fuzzy because it doesn't
>>> have the correct c-format.
>>> * Reverse inadvertent mods to po/POTFILES.in in r19904
>>> * Updated Greek translation provided by Nikos
>>> Charonitakis.
>>> * Updated Japanese translation, copied from the
>>> Translation Project.
>>> * Add "discount" to all glossary files because some
>>> languages use different translations in billing terms
>>> and invoices. Additional the german translation is added
>>> to glossary/de.po. This change does not break the string
>>> freeze as it is not user visible.
>>> * Update German translation. (This includes the 14 new
>>> strings which are already there but not yet being used.)
>>> * Merge German translation with latest pot template. This
>>> is merged using msgmerge --no-location de.po gnucash.pot
>>> -o de.new.po and we use "--no-location" to make the
>>> updates actually readable. (Unfortunately this doesn't
>>> prevent the strings from changing ordering anyway. Oh
>>> well.)
>>> * Remove superfluous whitespace at end of string.
>>> Incidentally, this way the string already exists and no
>>> broken translation results.
>>> * When extracting the translation strings from the scheme
>>> files, sort the scheme files to obtain a stable ordering
>>> of the output.
>>> * Bugs fixed
>>> * Bug #637346: Adding python-bindings to doxygen
>>> documentation Patch by Christoph Holtermann.
>>> * Bug #637041: Revert r19861 as the patch from bug#635439
>>> causes a crash. The patch can be re-applied after the
>>> 2.4.0 release is out, but for now I prefer to defer it
>>> until after the release. To be precise, this patch
>>> reverts all parts of bug#635439: r19861, r19860, r19854,
>>> r19853.
>>> * Bug #629446: TRY is now called plain Turkish Lira.
>>> * Bug #454109: Online banking: grey out online actions
>>> when there is no online account Patch by Manfred
>>> Usselmann: Online actions are disabled for accounts
>>> which have no bankcode and account id assigned This fix
>>> does not require initialization of the AB_BANKING
>>> object.
>>> * Bug #635926: Lower-case the name of the lock table to
>>> avoid confusing Postgres. Also abstract it to a static
>>> variable instead of repeating the string everywhere.
>>> * Bug #635967: Slots didn't correctly read the path
>>> semantics stored by 2.3.15 and earlier. Corrected, but
>>> note that 2.3.15 and earlier didn't write lists to the
>>> database, so users should re-save from XML using 2.3.17
>>> or later.
>>> * Bug #635355: Partly implement the correct "DTAUS import
>>> and send" feature again. Patch by Manfred Usselmann. The
>>> main part of the feature is delayed until the string
>>> freeze is lifted. This part (without adding strings)
>>> implements the infrastructure for sending only the
>>> correctly imported transactions to the bank later.
>>> * Bug #636459: Recursively delete slots contained in slots
>>> of type KVP_TYPE_FRAME or KVP_TYPE_LIST.
>>> * Bug #635859: Strip all trailing '/'es from kvp_slot
>>> paths when loading. This changes round-tripping slightly
>>> (because the resulting slot key won't have the trailing
>>> slash when it's re-saved as xml). It may also change the
>>> behavior of the facility using the slot, because the key
>>> is changed. So far, the only known instances which trip
>>> this bug are import-map-bayes, because descriptions may
>>> have '/'es in them (and why shouldn't they).
>>> Unfortunately, fixing this right (so that key values can
>>> have embedded '/''es and be saved/retrieved from sql
>>> databases will require changing the slot architecture in
>>> ways that impact the engine. Since we don't have
>>> adequate unit tests to be confident of not introducing a
>>> regression, I'm applying this instead.
>>> * Bug #609472: Fix translation of displayed style sheet
>>> names in the style sheet editor.
>>> * Bug #635911 GnuCash crashes out when trying to save-as
>>> MySQL Disclaimer: This fix attempt is purely based on
>>> the information given in the bug report and code
>>> reading. I never could reproduce this bug but the code
>>> suggests an unitialized pointer may be the the cause.
>>> * Bug #635469: Add a (typemap for a) QofQueryParamList
>>> typedef. Patch by Matthijs Kooijman: This is a typedef
>>> for a GSList, that is used to identify the path from an
>>> object to one of its parameters in search queries and
>>> sorting. This typedef replaces GSList everywhere where
>>> it's applicable. This relieves the need to special case
>>> a few functions in the swig bindings and makes the
>>> bindings for a bunch of other functions work as well.
>>> Note this is (still) only an in typemap, since no useful
>>> functions that return a QofQueryParamList are exposed in
>>> the bindings right now anyway.
>>> * Bug #635632: Update existing eguile reports to use new
>>> for syntax. Patch by Matthijs Kooijman
>>> <matthijs at stdin.nl>: This makes use of the new for
>>> syntax introduced in the previous commit, making these
>>> reports and templates a bit easier to read and modify.
>>> * Bug #635632: Add custom for loop syntax for eguile
>>> templates Patch by Matthijs Kooijman
>>> <matthijs at stdin.nl>: The built-in for-each loop
>>> construct is a bit cumbersome: It always requires an
>>> explicit lambda and the list to loop over is the last
>>> argument. Especially the latter makes it very hard to
>>> read when the lambda is big and multiple for-each'es are
>>> nested. For hashes, this prevents the need of the
>>> cumbersome hash-fold and slightly better hash-for-each
>>> (which still suffers from the same problems as for-each
>>> and is not available in guile 1.6). This new syntax
>>> allows for three distinct syntaxes: * Looping over a
>>> single list: (for a in lst do (display a)) * Looping
>>> over multiple lists: (for (a b) in (lsta lstb) do
>>> (display (+ a b))) * Looping over a hash: (for key =>
>>> value in hash do (display (* key value)))
>>> * Bug #635469: Add bindings for running a qofquery on
>>> invoices. This adds a new typedef "GncInvoiceList" with
>>> the corresponding typemap, and adds two new functions
>>> qof_query_create_for_invoices and
>>> qof_query_run_for_invoices, which are trivial wrappers
>>> around qof_query_create_for and qof_query_run
>>> respectively.
>>> * Bug #635355: Add public declaration of gnc_info_dialog.
>>> Patch by Manfred Usselmann.
>>> * Bug #635439: Patch to autoset owner in the payment
>>> dialog Patch by Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs at stdin.nl>
>>> * Revert "Bug #635439: Patch to autoset owner in the
>>> payment dialog" This reverts commit
>>> 232ae4064952cb65e9703d61778cb1531d2e4f56.
>>> * Bug #635439: Fix "Pay invoice" while the invoice dialog
>>> is open. Patch by Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs at stdin.nl>:
>>> If you use "Pay invoice", normally a new payment dialog
>>> is opened which is completely filled in. However, when
>>> there was already a dialog open, it was reused but only
>>> the owner would be filled in. This patch makes sure that
>>> the invoice and amount are filled in as well.
>>> * Bug #635439: Patch to autoset owner in the payment
>>> dialog Patch by Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs at stdin.nl>:
>>> In the payment dialog, set the owner when an invoice is
>>> selected Before, you would always need to select an
>>> owner manually. If you would just select an invoice
>>> (which was possible, since the invoice selection is not
>>> disabled when no owner has been selected yet), pressing
>>> OK would error out because no owner was selected. This
>>> patch makes sure that when an invoice is selected, but
>>> no owner is selected yet, the right owner is filled into
>>> the owner selection box automatically. This also happens
>>> when the wrong owner is selected, which can happen
>>> because the invoice autocompletion is not limited to
>>> invoices from the selected owner, but always completes
>>> all invoices. This could cause weird behaviour: Select
>>> an owner, then use completion to select an invoice by
>>> another owner and press ok. This would cause the amount
>>> for the invoice by the other owner to be charged against
>>> the first owner. This patch prevents that by replacing
>>> the first owner by the other owner in the dialog. This
>>> patch also changes gnc_invoice_set_owner to no longer
>>> reset the invoice selection to NULL. Instead, this is
>>> now handled by
>>> * Other code/build changes
>>> * Update configure.ac to 2.4.0 Update gnucash-bin.c to
>>> indicate stable version is 2.4.0, next stable version
>>> 2.6 Here we go...
>>> * Add gnc-backend-dbi-priv.h to list of header files so
>>> that 'make distcheck' passes
>>> * Fixed date problem in MySql backend
>>> * Removed accidentally created directory.
>>> * Add enumeration of indexes in sql backends. This is a
>>> first step to rewriting databases in a safe way. Indexes
>>> are named entities in sql databases and so need to be
>>> renamed along with the tables before creating and
>>> populating a new set. This change also introduces a unit
>>> test of the new enumeration, and that test has to be
>>> able to see data structures which are private to
>>> gnc-backend-dbi.c, so those data structures are moved to
>>> a new file, gnc-backend-dbi-priv.h, which both
>>> gnc-backend-dbi.c and tests/test-stuff.c can include.
>>> * Add debug helper function qofeventid_to_string.
>>> * Support for GncCommodityNamespace, better support for
>>> GncCommodity, and example enhancements. Patch supplied
>>> my Mark Jenkins.
>>> * Changes to example Script to include added namespace
>>> functionality This patch changes the example script to
>>> reflect the capability of reading all namespaces. Patch
>>> provided by Christoph Holtermann.
>>> * Cutecash: Add generation of dummy gnc-version.h file.
>>> * Add missing newline at end of file
>>> * Replace more obsolete #define'd function names by their
>>> current names.
>>> * Add gitignore for backup files from make check.
>>> * Replace more obsolete #define'd function names by their
>>> current names.
>>> * Make "make check" work when run from "make distcheck".
>>> * Replace obsolete <QueryNew.h> #defines by the current
>>> <qof.h> function names.
>>> * Follow-up to r19928: Include gnc-version.h with
>>> directory path to avoid picking the wrong file.
>>> * Improve the cached quickfill for GncEntry description
>>> lines of r19941.
>>> * Add APIs to get/set a flag signifying that a transaction
>>> is a book-closing txn. This is necessary for Bug #570042
>>> but doesn't completely solve it until the reports are
>>> updated to use the new API. This is backwards-compatible
>>> with the slot data inserted by the book closing since
>>> 2010-03-02.
>>> * Adds checking of gnc_commodity_namespace in glists In
>>> src/base-typemaps.i check for return type
>>> gnc_commodity_namespace is added so that it is returned
>>> instead of gnc_type_monetary. Thanks to Christoph
>>> Holtermann for the patch.
>>> * Move price_database_example.py to the correct place and
>>> remove incorrect path/file
>>> * Change indent to 4 sp
>>> * Implement prerequisites for full auto-completion in the
>>> entry ledger. Added a cached quickfill for GncEntry
>>> description lines. Extend QuickFillCell interface to be
>>> able to use a common cached quickfill.
>>> * Remove doubled include files. (Also, QuickFill.h doesn't
>>> depend on gdk.h)
>>> * Add messages to backend errors, ensuring that
>>> qof_session_backend_get_message() will actually get a
>>> useful message, or that there will be a descriptive
>>> warning immediately before in the trace file.
>>> * Move gnc-version.h and gnc-svninfo.h from gnome-utils to
>>> core-utils.
>>> * If the build directory is not the source directory and
>>> the source directory is read only, the build fails. Fix
>>> by only making guile-strings.c if building from SVN.
>>> * Get rid of the rest of the gnc-prices man page, r19921
>>> is incomplete
>>> * Remove variable names that conflict with Python
>>> keywords. Relevent when using SWIG autodoc feature for
>>> python bindings.
>>> * Add %feature("autodoc", "1"); to gnucash_core.i to pass
>>> C documentation through to python interface.
>>> * New example script for prices dababase. Thanks to
>>> Christoph Holtermann for contributing to this.
>>> * Remove obsolete gnc-prices man page
>>> * Add Gnucash svn version to sql versions table.
>>> * Insert missing space
>>> * Re-enable -Werror in Makefile.am and remove %
>>> feature("autodoc", "1"); from gnucash_core.i
>>> * Add commodity price functions to bindings. See Bug
>>> 636457 for more details.
>>> * Add PriceList to typemap for Python bindings
>>> * Patch by Matthijs Kooijman. In r19863, some qofquery
>>> bindings were added. For those to compile,
>>> business-core.i now includes qofquery.h. However, this
>>> causes the bindings for qofquery.h to be generated
>>> twice: Once through engine.i and once through
>>> business-core.i. The latter generated broken versions of
>>> the bindings, breaking (at least) the receivable aging
>>> report. This commit changes the %include to an %import,
>>> so the new bindings still compile but the query bindings
>>> don't get generated twice.
>>> * Re-indentation of source code. This re-indentation was
>>> done using astyle-1.24 using the following options:
>>> astyle --indent=spaces=4 --brackets=break --pad-oper
>>> --pad-header --suffix=none
>>> * Make prototype for gnc_entry_ledger_get_entry public.
>>> Add documentation.
>>> * Fix GtkSpinButton with page-size deprecated warning in
>>> gnucash.trace
>>> How can you help?
>>> Translating: The new release comes with some new translation strings. If
>>> you consider contributing a translation, we invite you to test this
>>> release already.
>>>
>>> About the Program
>>> GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under the GNU
>>> General Public License (GPL) and available for GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris,
>>> Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows. Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and
>>> its first stable release was in 1998.
>>>
>>>
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