Gnucash 2.4.5 released
Phil Longstaff
plongstaff at rogers.com
Mon Apr 11 23:13:24 EDT 2011
Please send gnucash questions to the gnucash-user list.
Yes, it will.
Phil
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I used to be a hypochondriac AND a kleptomaniac. So I took something for it.
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From: Alexandre Vigneault <alexandre.vigneault at gmail.com>
To: Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com>
Sent: Mon, April 11, 2011 11:11:08 PM
Subject: Re: Gnucash 2.4.5 released
maybe a dump question, but if I download the new version and install it, will it
delete automatically my older version?
Thanks,
Alexandre
2011/4/10 Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com>
Announcement: GnuCash 2.4.5 Release 2011-04-10
>GnuCash 2.4.5 released
>The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.4.5, the fifth
>bug fix release in a series of stable 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.
>
>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 for Windows (Win32 binary)
>The Gnucash 2.4.5 Win32 setup executable can be downloaded from
>Sourceforge. It will install everything needed to run GnuCash.
>
>
>Mac OSX binary
>The Gnucash 2.4.5 MacOSX package can be downloaded from Sourceforge as
>well.
>
>
>Getting GnuCash as source code
>If you want to compile GnuCash 2.4.5 for yourself, the source code 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/2.4.5 gnucash
>
>To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need Gnome
>2, guile, slib. In addition you will need swig if compiling from
>subversion.
>
>Changes between 2.4.4 and 2.4.5 include:
>
> * User-visible changes
> * [20457] Improve message printed on screen
> * Note last stable version number
> * Updated translations or translation-related changes
> * [20507] Various spelling fixes in comments and
> translatable strings.
> * Updated Dutch translation, copied from the translation
> project.
> * Updated Italian translation.
> * Bugs fixed
> * [20496] Bug #645518: Partly revert r20378, "Correct
> memory leaks found with valgrind" The original author
> (Alex) asked to have this part reverted as it seems to
> cause the crash explained in the bugreport, but he
> doesn't have time to investigate this in detail right
> now.
> * [20481] Bug #645640: Online transfer must not allow to
> change amount in second window
> * Bug #642176: Add four decimals to CLF (Chilean Unidades
> de fomento) Oops, I forgot 1 digit
> * Bug #642176: Add four decimals to CLF (Chilean Unidades
> de fomento) While we could not find a document, which
> defines the decimals, they are indispensable for the
> conversion of payments in "real" CLP.
> * Bug #645173 - [PATCH] Configure check uses hardcoded
> webkit library name Patch by Andy Clayton.
> * Bug #641645 - Support ActivePerl 5.12 for Finance:Quote
> on Windows
> * Bug #644688: Account edit fails to detect that no
> changes have been made and marks the account 'dirty'.
> * Other code/build changes
> * [20501] During win32 build, if a component is already
> installed, print the installation path Original patch by
> plongstaff.
> * [20491] Fix glade message with unintended whitespaces.
> * [20487]Windows nightly build: fix webserver directory
> creation hack
> * [20475] Windows build: fix weekly 2.4 build and move log
> files into separate directory
> * [20461] Windows build: allow reset.sh to remove mingw
> * [20460] Windows build: fix upload code
> * [20456] Some additional Windows nightly build fixes: -
> restore the original mingw/msys link, even when the
> build script abort (due to a die command) - only restore
> the mingw/msys link if it was saved before - weekly
> builds should be on Monday, not Tuesday - upload tag
> rebuilds to a directory named 'releases' instead of
> 'tags'
> * [20455] Build server: automatically create directories
> on webserver for new branches
> * [20454] Rework the Windows weekly 2.4 build to avoid
> parallel builds (which would fail)
> * [20452] Adapt the windows build system to deal with
> swapping mingw installations on one build machine
> * Start the 2.4 stable branch so that trunk is now
> experimental again
> * Add some convenience getter functions to gncOwner.
> * Whitespace and spelling corrections
> * Make error message on missing <dbi/dbi.h> more verbose.
> Also mention the infamous dbi database drivers here,
>
> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2011-February/031171.html
>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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