Announcement: GnuCash 2.4.8 Release

[David Bergum]

I don't see it spelled out explicitly in the changes, but does this release support MAC OS 10.7?  I searched around and couldn't find anything definitive.  Sorry if I missed something obvious.


On Oct 22, 2011, at 8:40, Geert Janssens wrote:

> GnuCash 2.4.8 released
> 
> The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.4.8, the eigth 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)
> 
> The Gnucash 2.4.8 Win32 setup executable can be downloaded from Sourceforge. 
> It will install everything needed to run GnuCash.
> Mac OSX binary
> 
> The Gnucash 2.4.8 MacOSX package can be downloaded from Sourceforge as well.
> Getting GnuCash as source code
> 
> If you want to compile GnuCash 2.4.8 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 
> as described here.
> 
> 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 2.4.7 and 2.4.8, the following bugfixes were included:
> 
>  * Bug #655901 - Fix build with guile 2.0
>  * Fix handling a directory as a dataset file.
>  * Bug #626970 - Crash when saving a transaction whose destination account
>    was deleted in the meantime
>  * Bug #661721 - Exposed Password
>  * Bug #651522 - crash in query_free_compiled, gnc_query_list_reset_query
>  * Use "Nimbus" gtk theme on Windows. A previous attempt failed to set this
>    in the installer.
>  * Bug #644977 - Add new Quicken Check 21 format. Thanks to Steve Holland
>    <sholland at napervillegi.com>
>  * Update Mac customizations for gtk-mac-integration-1.0.0. Mac integration
>    has had a name and api change from ige-mac-integration as part of
>    migration from Sourceforge to Gnome.
>  * Bug #553432 - Status line of edit invoice page mixes invoice currency
>    amount with default currency symbol
>  * Bug #365928 - Jobs do not stick in Expense Vouchers
>  * Find the python libraries and includes even if the path to them includes a
>    symlink. When python is installed using MacPorts there is a symlink in the
>    path.
>  * Bug #612562 - Transfer Funds dialog - 'Show Income/Expense' checkboxes are
>    not working. Subaccounts of income and expense are not always shown.
>  * Make sure that exiting conn_test_dbi_library on a failure doesn't leave
>    the locale at "C".
>  * Bug #645216 - Fix wrong permissions on server result in bogus error
>    message.
>  * Change default post date:
>    * customer invoices: post at the current date
>    * bills/vouchers: post at the last date on the bill/voucher
>  * Bug #658244 - Custom css stylesheet and logo in Tax Invoice report require
>    protocol in exported HTML
>  * Bug #655901 - Fix build with guile 2.0 Patch by Petr Gajdos
>  * Fix critical error regarding the color tabs when trying to display the
>    search results and also on the scheduled transactions template.
>  * Patch by Robert Fewell
> 
> In 2.4.8, the following languages had their translations updated: Japanese, 
> Lithuanian, Latvian, Russian, Hungarian.
> 
> 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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