Announcement: GnuCash 2.4.6 Release

[Christian Stimming]

GnuCash 2.4.6 released
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The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.4.6, the sixth bug 
fix release in a series of stable of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software. 
With this 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.

Getting GnuCash for Windows (Win32 binary)
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The Gnucash 2.4.6 Win32 setup executable 
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.4.6-setup.exe 
can be downloaded from Sourceforge. It will install everything needed to run 
GnuCash.

Mac OSX binary
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The Gnucash 2.4.6 MacOSX package 
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/Gnucash-Intel-2.4.6.dmg 
can be downloaded from Sourceforge as well.

Getting GnuCash as source code
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If you want to compile GnuCash 2.4.6 for yourself, the source code can be 
downloaded from:

    * Sourceforge: 
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.4.6.tar.bz2 
    * You can also checkout the sources directly from the subversion 
repository as described here http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Subversion

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
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Between 2.4.5 and 2.4.6, the following bugfixes were included:

    * Preserve selection around the call to gtk_editable_set_position. This 
lets us drop the racy gnucash_sheet_select_data_cb, which fixes problems with 
lost input.
    * Add a gnc_quartz_set_menu call to main_window_new() so that newly 
created windows get their menus on the mac menu.
    * Fix up the Mac shutdown process to give Gnucash a chance to clean up 
without spewing critical errors about the main loop already running (because 
of calling gnc_shutdown in an event handler).
    * Bug #650241: Fix style for aging table in owner reports that has changed 
(after defining doctype) Prevent inheriting the parent tablestyle for aging 
table in owner-report.
    * Bug #650757: Fix Easy & footer styles output wrong tags </btd> iso 
</b></td> preventing HTML 4.01 Transitional validation This patch removes the 
wrong </btd> tags and closes the center tag in the footer and easy 
stylesheets.
    * Bug #645221: Patch to show the headline as an h3 across all stylesheets 
The attached patch makes sure that the title fonts set through the options 
menu behaves consistently across all style sheets.
    * Bug #620123: Patch to make account name a header cell, iso td in trial-
balance
    * Bug #648554: SQL backend doesn't correctly save taxable flag on bills.
    * Bug #650163: Fix Technicolor style that outputs wrong tags <btd> instead 
of <b><td>
    * Bug #650139: Fix missing doctype preventing HTML 4.01 transitional 
validation Exported reports lack a document type, preventing HTML validation. 
When exporting this may lead browsers to incorrectly read the reports 
generated by GnuCash.
    * Bug #650138: Style plain: Fix incorrect <p> tag around <h3> preventing 
HTML 4.01 transitional validation
    * Bug #649992: Let owner-report aging table include due date / post date 
options in aging. The attached patch patches the owner report to: *Allow a 
choice between the use of Due Date and Date Posted *Report with the current 
bucket
    * Bug #649608: Skip non-enabled Scheduled Transactions for Future Txn 
report
    * Update Slovak translation, copied from the Translation Project.
    * Bug #646729: Create the lockfile with at least read write user 
permissions
    * Bug #647945: Add sanity check to hopefully fix crash when running custom 
reports
    * Bug #644897: Correctly link in libgncmod-report-gnome.la to avoid 
linking against an installed version.
    * Bug #646268: Fix missing GWEN_SYNCIO initialization.
    * Bug #644762: Deprecated __new__() call in function_class.py
    * Bug #647360: Invoice entries in expense voucher are created in old 
voucher, not in new one. It worked fine for customer invoices, and vendor 
bills, but not expense vouchers, where the feature was broken all along.
    * Bug #647242: Fix broken averaging for quarter or half-year step size
    * Bug #647316: Fix crash when deleting custom report if no backup file 
existed. Before deleting the backup file by (delete-file), it must be checked 
whether the to-be-deleted file exists, otherwise the guile procedure will 
crash.
    * Fix warning about NULL guid_list in xaccQueryAddAccountGUIDMatch, which 
caused some total amounts in reports to disappear. Apparently gnc:account-get-
trans-type-splits-interval didn't watch out for empty lists of accounts, and 
the resulting split list somehow was bogus. Now that we check for empty 
account list, all is fine again. This was broken for some months by now, maybe 
since r20404?
    * Bug #628342 - Quick open on File menu deleted if failed
    * Bug #629156 Recently Used Filenames incorrectly displayed

In 2.4.6, translations for Japanese language were updated.

About the Program
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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.