GnuCash 2.6.4 released

Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Mon Sep 29 08:47:29 EDT 2014


Hi Dmitry,

Thank you for pointing this out and sorry for the omission. I have just 
pushed a correction to the website.

Regards,

Geert

On Monday 29 September 2014 06:58:25 Dmitry Pavlov wrote:
> Russian translations is missibg in the list of updated ones.
> 29 сент. 2014 г. 1:48 пользователь "John Ralls" <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> 
> написал:
> > The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.6.4, the
> > fourth maintenance release in the 2.6-stable series.
> > 
> > Changes
> > 
> > Between 2.6.3 and 2.6.4, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
> >         • Bug #120199 - Incorrect sort order in "Sort by Statement
> >         Date".
> >         • Bug #434462 - register color don't work correct with
> >         system
> > 
> > theme color.
> > 
> >         • Bug #509263 - Since Last Run dialog won't allow resizing
> >         of
> > 
> > Status column.
> > 
> >         • Bug #610202 - gnucash silently closes when no X11/$DISPLAY
> >         is
> > 
> > present.
> > 
> >         • Bug #630638 - 'Process payment' should allow to select
> >         equity
> > 
> > accounts for payment
> > 
> >         • Bug #671615 - French: 'New Customer' button in Find
> >         Customer
> > 
> > dialog is translated to 'Nouvel onglet'
> > 
> >         • Bug #688965 - Page Up, Page Down keys cause GnuCash to
> >         hang.
> >         • Bug #692249 - Add Help button in Custom Reports dialog
> >         box,
> >         • Bug #695240 - mortgage wizard empty table.
> >         • Bug #707243 - Hard-coded font colors in account tree?
> >         • Bug #711440 - Tab labels have different background colour
> >         than
> > 
> > containing gui element.
> > 
> >         • Bug #711567 - Cannot save a custom report if a path
> >         contain
> > 
> > diacritic chars
> > 
> >         • Bug #719457 - Template for Home Mortgage Loan isn't
> >         properly
> > 
> > nested.
> > 
> >         • Bug #719457 - Template for Home Mortgage Loan isn't
> >         properly
> > 
> > nested.
> > 
> >         • Bug #720427 - Review of french account templates
> >         • Bug #720934 - Barcharts with many data points have
> >         overlapping
> > 
> > x-axis labels.
> > 
> >         • Bug #722140 - Add option to control inclusion of trading
> > 
> > accounts in cash flow report.
> > 
> >         • Bug #722200 - configure script does not pick the correct
> > 
> > am_cv_scanf version.
> > 
> >         • Bug #723145 - Currency display does not respect locale.
> >         • Bug #723442 - Report Options - Report Name too short.
> >         • Bug #725054 - Re-numbering sub accounts crashes the
> >         program.
> >         • Bug #725366 - Formula Parsing Error with Scheduled
> >         Mortgage
> > 
> > Transactions
> > 
> >         • Bug #726449 - Budget Barchart does not show up if running
> >         sum is
> > 
> > selected.
> > 
> >         • Bug #726888 - cancel button is available on all pages of
> > 
> > assistant.
> > 
> >         • Bug #727130 - Crash when newline in Report Title
> >         • Bug #727338 - Translation and Account file updates for
> >         Latvian.
> >         • Bug #728103 - Invoice opened does not contain the Job
> >         under
> > 
> > circumstances.
> > 
> >         • Bug #728717 - Ubuntu 14.04 - GNUcash crashes on close.
> >         • Bug #728841 - XML backend does not always store KVP slots.
> >         • Bug #729157 - Bill Term discount days are allowed to be
> >         more
> > 
> > than due days.
> > 
> >         • Bug #729497 - Saved Report Configuration selection window
> >         resize.
> >         • Bug #730255 - Python bindings: Assigns bill entries to
> > 
> > non-existant invoice.
> > 
> >         • Bug #731519 - The fix sets the upper limit before it sets
> >         the
> > 
> > value of the end row spin button.
> > 
> >         • Bug #733107 - Search for reconcile status doesn't work
> >         right.
> >         • Bug #733283 - [PATCH] Loss of fractions when importing OFX
> > 
> > investment transactions.
> > 
> >         • Bug #733506 - (ForwadDisableQIF) The forward button is not
> > 
> > active even though a file is selected.
> > 
> >         • Bug #734183 - Set all of the denominators correctly on the
> > 
> > currency values.
> > 
> >         • Bug #736703 - Scheduled transaction are registered without
> > 
> > credit/debit.
> > 
> >         • Bug #732545 - gnucash-2.6.3 segfaults when started.
> > 
> > Some other fixes not associated with reported bugs were 
accomplished:
> >         • Add business lot scrubbing to Check & Repair->All/This
> > 
> > transaction(s).
> > 
> >         • Add context to generic translatable string. This was
> >         suggested
> > 
> > in bug 671615 by Jérôme Rapinat.
> > 
> >         • Add scrub function to reduce the amount of lot links used.
> >         Only
> > 
> > lot links between two or more document lots must remain. All lot
> > links between document and payment lots can be scrubbed.
> > 
> >         • Add some date format checking and make sure generated
> >         dates are
> > 
> > the correct user selected format, not always locale format.
> > 
> >         • Allow the ability to skip rows when importing
> >         transactions.
> >         • Always use the price we display to calculate the current
> >         value
> > 
> > of an account.
> > 
> >         • Better period totals formatting in Invoices.
> >         • CSV Export: factor out function to generate regular
> >         expression.
> >         • CSV Import transform macro into function.
> >         • Convert ISO-8859-1 account chart templates to UTF-8.
> >         • Correct txf output to use a minus sign, rather than
> >         parenthesis.
> >         • Fix document type dispay for credit notes on owner report.
> >         • Fix test-backend-dbi segfault with libdbi-0.9.0.
> >         • Handle the case of scrubbing a lot link between two
> >         non-document
> > 
> > lots.
> > 
> >         • Make scrub in lot viewer scrub business lots using the new
> >         scrub
> > 
> > functions.
> > 
> >         • Move account type checking functions into the engine.
> >         • Prevent older gnucash versions from opening a data file if
> > 
> > previously unhandled kvps are used.
> > 
> >         • Python bindings. Add function gncVendorNextID,
> >         complementary to
> > 
> > gncCustomerNextID.
> > 
> >         • Re-enable loading and saving
> >         gnucashdotdir/accelerator-home on
> > 
> > OSX.
> > 
> >         • Refactor OS-specific ifdef to reduce code duplication,
> >         which
> > 
> > results in reduced risk on typos in either branch
> > 
> >         • Refactor get_pay_split into gncOwnerFindOffsettingSplit.
> >         In this
> > 
> > form it can be used both for scrubbing lot links and for adding new
> > payments> 
> >         • Refactor gncOwnerReduceSplitTo out of
> >         reduce_biggest_split. It
> > 
> > can now be used both for scrubbing and when applying payments
> > 
> >         • Refactor gnc_doc_doc_link into gncOwnerSetLotLinkMemo and
> >         move
> > 
> > it. It can now be used both for scrubbing and when applying payments
> > 
> >         • Refactor scrub_doc_pay_link into scrub_other_link and make
> >         it
> > 
> > more generic. It can now be used both to:
> >                 • move a payment to a document lot (its original use
> >                 case)
> >                 • move a refund to a payment lot or the other way
> >                 around
> >         
> >         • Relax requirements for booleans in invoice line, accepting
> >         'y'
> > 
> > as well as 'yes', 't' as well as 'true'.
> > 
> >         • Replace C++ reserved words for future compatibility with
> >         C++.
> >         • Rework assistant csv import regex code to eliminate the
> > 
> > mandatory dummy field.
> > 
> >         • Rewrite invoice payment logic to fix lot link
> >         proliferation.
> >         • SQL: Save commodity namespace changes from template.
> >         • Set default currency for French account chart templates.
> >         • Tweak the get_pay_split function to prefer the best
> >         possible
> > 
> > match.
> > 
> >         • Use libsecret if available since gnome-keyring has been
> > 
> > deprecated.
> > 
> >         • Use more significant digits for SX function returns.
> >         • Use same default setting for quotes in csv import and
> >         export.
> >         • Widen the scope of the subsplit merge scrub function. When
> >         used
> > 
> > in a strict sense it will only merge splits that are marked as
> > subsplits of each other. In relaxed mode it will merge any split
> > two splits that are both in the same lot and the same transaction.
> > 
> >         • double_to_gnc_numeric: Return overflow error immediately
> >         on
> > 
> > invalid input.
> > 
> >         • Ensure that the root account is saved to the SQL backend.
> > 
> > Chart-of-Account Templates Updated: Latvian, French, Swedish
> > 
> > Translations Updated: Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Konkani (includes
> > replacing Raman character set with Devangari) ,Latvian, Marathi,
> > Tamil,
> > 
> > New Translations: Bodo, Hindi, Kashmiri, Telugu, Urdu. Thanks to The
> > Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune, India.
> > Translation Team Leader: Chandrakant Dhutadmal
> > 
> > Documentation
> > 
> > Concurrent with the release of Gnucash 2.6.4 we're pleased to also
> > release a new version 2.6.4 of the companion Help and Tutorial and
> > Concepts Guide.> 
> >         • Add sentence about manually editing payment information
> >         for
> > 
> > customers.
> > 
> >         • Add warning and tip about account separator character.
> >         • Correct field format in python-import-fields.
> >         • Currency movements .. remain fully balanced if "Trading
> > 
> > Accounts" is enabled; "double entry" was not sufficient.
> > 
> >         • Ersetze umgangssprachliches "Passiva" durch "Fremdkapital"
> >         und
> > 
> > zugehöriges Bild
> > 
> >         • German translation of Transactions chapter.
> >         • Guide C oview: update processor architecture: "backport"
> >         from de
> >         • Guide C txns: Add a warning about dummy transactions and
> > 
> > auditors.
> > 
> >         • Guide C txns: Thinking is not enough for the cleared state
> >         of an
> > 
> > transaction
> > 
> >         • Guide C txns: Upgrade note to warning "It is important to
> > 
> > understand that reconciliation..."
> > 
> >         • Guide C txns: explain reconcilation state "cleared";
> >         improved
> > 
> > wordening by lmat
> > 
> >         • Guide de ch_accts: Several minor corrections.
> >         • Guide de ch_basics: several corrections.
> >         • Guide de ch_oview: orthography and processor architecture
> >         update.
> >         • Guide de ch_txns: several improvements, txns-sxn1
> >         complete.
> >         • Help Documentation: Add Advanced Portfolio Rpt details,
> >         Thanks
> > 
> > to Chris Good
> > 
> >         • Improve explanation that Credit does NOT decrease equity
> >         accounts
> >         • Improve readability of "Credit does NOT decrease ...".
> >         • New chapters in the German translation: Overview, Basics,
> >         and
> > 
> > Accounts. Thanks to Mechtilde.
> > 
> >         • Reduced proportional width of description column to
> >         increase
> > 
> > overall font size for a 510 pixel width image.
> > 
> >         • Remove a few discrepancies between the german guide
> >         overview and
> > 
> > other components.
> > 
> >         • Update of translators in gnucash-guide-de.omf
> >         • Updated documentation to explain how to tie dividends
> >         received
> > 
> > in cash to the appropriate stock holding.
> > Getting GnuCash for Windows (Win32 binary)
> > 
> > The Gnucash 2.6.4 Win32 setup executable can be downloaded from
> > Sourceforge. It will install everything needed to run GnuCash.
> > 
> > Mac OSX binary
> > 
> > The Gnucash 2.6.4 MacOS X Intel and PPC packages can be downloaded
> > from Sourceforge as well.
> > 
> > Getting GnuCash as source code
> > 
> > If you want to compile GnuCash 2.6.4 for yourself, the source code
> > can be> 
> > downloaded from:
> >         • Sourceforge: bzip2, all files.
> >         • You can also checkout the sources directly from the git
> > 
> > repository as described here.
> > To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need
> > at
> > least Gnome 2, Guile, and slib. In addition you will need swig if
> > compiling from git. Please consult the README file in the sources
> > for the exact list of dependencies and versions.
> > 
> > Reading the documentation online
> > 
> > An online version of the documentation is available on the
> > Documentation page of the GnuCash website. The 2.6.4 documentation
> > can be found under "GnuCash v2.6 (current stable release)" in
> > multiple languages.
> > 
> > Getting GnuCash Documentation in pdf, epub or mobi formats
> > 
> > The documentation can equally be downloaded in pdf, epub or mobi
> > formats from the Documentation page of the GnuCash website. The
> > 2.6.4 documentation can be found under "GnuCash v2.6 (current
> > stable release)" in multiple languages.
> > 
> > Getting GnuCash Documentation as source code
> > 
> > If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 2.6.4 for yourself,
> > the> 
> > source code can be downloaded from:
> >         • Sourceforge
> >         • You can also checkout the sources directly from the
> >         subversion
> > 
> > repository as described here.
> > 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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