[GNC] v3.8

[John Ralls]

Stable releases are certainly intended to work for ordinary users, though it's always possible to have regressions.

With AQBanking we have an unfortunate conundrum: The AQBanking developer wasn't paying attention to legal developments in Germany and the EU and was caught short by some substantial changes in the FinTS (formerly HBCI) system last September, to the point that the AQBanking completely stopped working there. He has since been playing catch-up with his development branch so that it mostly works again, but it's a development branch and isn't stable. Unfortunately that put us in the position of either bundling the last stable release of AQBanking that doesn't work at all in Germany or bundling the not-quite stable development beta release that mostly does work in Germany. I decided to go with the beta. If that turns out to be a problem for you you can review the changes in the release notes (see https://www.gnucash.org/news.phtml) and decide whether it's worth it to use 3.8 anyway or to stick with 3.7.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Jan 1, 2020, at 3:30 AM, Finbar Mahon <mahon.finbar at neuf.fr> wrote:
> 
> I very much appreciate, and depend a lot on, Gnucash. But could I make a small recommendation?
> 
> When a new version is launched would it be possible to announce when It works for 'ordinary' users?
> 
> I have no trouble waiting until it is 'clean'
> 
> HYN 2020 to all.
> 
> Finbar
> 
> On 01/01/2020 00:34, David Cousens via gnucash-user wrote:
>> It should but you will have to install all the dependencies and their
>> development headers to build successfully. There is a breakout page from the
>> building instruction which gives you the dependencies to install. (There are
>> occasionally some that are not covered as it depends on what the particular
>> Linux distribution installs as standard and what libraries have been
>> installed with other software but it is now pretty complete).
>> 
>> When you run cmake, it will stop with an error if anything is missing.
>> Identify the missing dependency or come back to the list, install it and
>> rerun cmake until it completes with out error. Library names can sometimes
>> vary slightly between distributions to complicate matters (usually addition
>> of a version number or "lib" in front
>> 
>> apt-cache search <string> is a good way to find libraries with a slightly
>> different package name.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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