[GNC] GnuCash 3.904 Released
David Carlson
david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 7 17:05:09 EDT 2020
Lots of improvements coming to the next stable release! Thanks o the
developers for their hard work!
On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 3:11 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 3.904, the third testing
> release for what will soon be GnuCash 4.0.
>
> Changes
>
> Baseline requirements
>
> Operating Systems:
>
> • Linux: Ubuntu 18.04LTS
> • MacOS: 10.13
> • Windows: 8.1
> Software Dependencies:
>
> • C++ standard is now C++17, requires gcc 8.0 or clang 6.0.
> • Cmake 3.10
> • boost 1.67.0
> • gettext 0.19.6 for general use, 0.20 to generate gnucash.pot.
> • glib-2.0 2.56.1, gtk 3.22.30
> • googletest 1.8.0
> • ICU, any version.
> • libdbi 0.8.3
> • libxml2 2.9.4
> • swig 3.0.12 Now required for building from tarballs as well as
> from git.
> • Webkit 2.4.11 Mac & Win32, 2.14.1 Linux/BSD
> New Features
>
> 3.903 was the feature-freeze release. However, the command-line arguments
> for both gnucash and gnucash-cli have been adjusted as follows:
>
> • --add-price-quotes is changed to --quotes get
> • --run-reports is changed to --report run --name <report name>
> • Added --report list to produce a list of available reports.
> • Added --report show --name to describe the options changed from
> the default values in the named report.
> The intent is to have command categories with subcommands to better enable
> a richer command line capability as illustrated with the new report
> commands list and show.
>
> • A new separate executable, gnucash-cli (gnucash-cli.exe on
> Microsoft Windows) for doing command-line things like updating the prices
> in your book. gnucash-cli gains the ability to run reports from the command
> line. Specify reports to run by name or guid. It also provides an export
> format and an output file name without which it will output the report to
> stdout.
> • gnucash --report run --name=[reportname/guid]
> datafile.gnucash
> • gnucash --report run --name=[reportname/guid]
> --output-file=x.html datafile.gnucash
> • gnucash --report run --name=[reportname/guid]
> --output-file=x.html --export-type=TYPE datafile.gnucash
> • When deleting accounts the destination accounts of moved splits
> will be checked to ensure that they have the same commodity as the source
> account. If they don't you'll get a warning and the opportunity to pick
> another account or to carry on regardless.
> • New type-ahead search added to sequential search when selecting
> an account in the register: Instead of typing the first few characters of a
> top level account, the separator, the first few characters of the next
> level account and so on you may instead type a few characters of any part
> of a full account name and the drop-list will be filtered to contain only
> matching accounts. Once you have a small enough list you can use the arrow
> keys to select the account that you want.
> • Python bindings are now localized and their strings available
> for translation.
> • The new reports introduced in the Experimental Reports menu are
> moved to the main menu and the old reports hidden; the old reports can be
> unhidden by running GnuCash from the commandline with the --extra argument.
> That will cause the old reports to appear in their regular locations on the
> menu labeled (legacy). Note that new reports use different options and
> layouts and you may need to adjust your saved report configurations.
> • A new Transaction Association dialog, available from the new
> Update Transaction Association item in the register context menu, provides
> the ability to have multiple associations for a single transaction.
> Associations may now be easily removed.
> • Allow Associations to be added to invoices. The actual
> association when present is added as a link button which is shown below the
> notes.
> • A symbol is now displayed on transactions in the register when
> they have an attachment and the selected font supports the symbol.
> • The OFX file importer can now import more than one file at a
> time.
> • A new report menu supbmenu Multicolumn contains the old
> custom-multicolumn report and a new Dashboard report containing Account
> reports for expenses and income, an income-expense chart, and an account
> summary.
> • When importing, the matcher will no longer offer to match a
> transaction to one that has already matched in a previous import, nor will
> it offer to match more than one imported transaction to a single existing
> transaction.
> • Support for UK VAT and Australian GST added to the Income-GST
> report. The reports options are changed from source accounts to source
> sales and purchase accounts to permit proper reporting of capital
> purchases. N.B. This is incompatible with previous versions of the report
> and will require regenerating saved configurations.
> • Add option to save Layout for Business items
> Add two menu items under windows, one to save an existing layout for
> Invoices, Bills and Vouchers to their respective default layouts so the
> user set column widths will be used. The second menu item will reset the
> column widths to defaults and remove the default layout. Open Business
> items will also save there column widths to the page section so these can
> temporarily have different widths.
>
> • The matcher window columns are changed from R to C and from U+R
> to U+C, reflecting that the matcher marks transactions cleared but doesn't
> reconcile them. (Bug 797338)
> • OFX imports having balance information will now offer to
> immediately reconcile, passing the balance information in the file to the
> reconcile info.
> • Improve quickfill in the account pickers to filter the choices
> based on any part of the name.
> • The GnuCash widget hierarchy for CSS has been revised to be more
> consistent with Gtk practice. You may need to spend some time with the
> GtkInspector to get your custom CSS back the way you like it.
> • When creating a new account hierarchy it's now possible to load
> account templates from locales other than the one set for the user
> interface. (Bug 797472)
> • New Account - Online Account match list to the Import Map Editor.
> • New invalid maps dialog in the Import Map Editor. (Bug 797612)
> • Optionally include the account code option in budget view.
> • Account matcher will decline to match accounts with a different
> commodity from the imported split if the import information includes the
> commodity.
> • Ellipsize the Description and Memo fields in the account matcher.
> • Enable adding notes to budgets. (Bug 693180)
> • Support for AQBanking Version 6. This is required to support new
> FinTS protocols and the European Privacy Directive.
> • GnuCash 4.x will not migrate old gconf settings from GnuCash
> 2.4.x.
> • Reversing transactions will now pop a dialog box to request a
> posting date. (Bug 782455)
> • The Accounts page has a new optional column for the hidden
> property to make it easier to toggle it. Note that in order to see hidden
> accounts you must still enable that in the Filter by... dialog. (Bug 797486)
> • The Customer, Vender, and Employee overviews have a
> process-payment toolbar. (Bug 797605).
> • Account codes may now optionally be displayed in the Budget Tree
> View. (Bug 797489).
> New/Revised Reports
>
> • Income-GST
> • Owner Report
> Significant Code Changes
>
> In 3.904
>
> • The signature for qof_session_begin(), QofSession::begin(), and
> QofBackend::begin() are changed to use an enum SessionOpenMode instead of
> three booleans.
> In previous 3.9xx releases
>
> • gnucash-bin.c has been split into 4 parts, mostly C++:
> • gnucash.cpp, the GUI executable.
> • gnucash-cli.cpp, the command-line executable.
> • gnucash-commands.cpp, implementation for the commands
> that can be run from the command-line.
> • gnucash-app-core.cpp, common code required by both the
> command line and gui programs.
> • There's also an auxiliary file, gnucash-windows-locale.c
> because the localization code proved resistant to compiling as C++. We're
> planning another auxiliary file for the MacOS localization.
> • A new mock facility for several engine classes to permit
> better-isolated unit testing of components that depend on those classes.
> • Register filter and sort values are saved in the book's state
> file (book.gcm) in the user's configdir instead of in the book.
> • QofSession no longer creates its book, instead one must create a
> book first and pass that to qof_session_new()/QofSession::QofSession().
> • Add option to save Layout for Register items
> Add two menu items under windows, one to save an existing register layout
> based on the register type to there respective default layouts so the user
> set column widths will be used when opening registers. The second menu item
> will reset the column widths to defaults and remove the associated default
> layout. Open registers will also save their column widths to the page
> section so these can temporarily have different widths.
>
> • Input Method handling in the register is moved to the GtkEntry
> where it belongs.
> • gnc_get_current_session() no longer creates an empty session if
> there isn't one already open.
> • The source directories have been rearranged and most of the
> loadable modules (e.g. libgncmod-engine.so) are now normal dynamic
> libraries (libgnc-engine.so), shorn of their gnc-module adapters. Make sure
> that you clean and rebuild your build directory.
> • All functions marked as deprecated in 3.x are now removed. If
> you have custom reports be sure to examine gnucash.trace for deprecation
> warnings and update your reports before trying them in GnuCash 3.904.
> • libgncmod-generic-import is now libgnc-generic-import.
> • Scheme no longer uses libgncmodule, always do (use-modules
> (gnucash foo))
> • Autocompletion improvements for the transfer-account field.
> • New test for invalid mappings for online accounts and a dialog
> to fix them.
> • jqplot is replaced by chartjs.
> • Separate most Guile binding code from the code that it wraps.
> It's now located in bindings/guile.
> • Improve Google test integration in cmake. CMake now requires
> only GTEST_ROOT and only when cmake isn't able to find Google test without
> help.
> • Unit tests for Scheme code with SRFI64.
> Deprecations (will be removed in GnuCash 5.0
>
> • gnc:substring-replace-from-to
> Between 3.903 and 3.904, the following bugfixes were accomplished. Some of
> these will also be fixed in GnuCash 3.11, some are for 4.0 only.
>
> • Bug 797739 - Tweak Transaction Report Column Defaults
> • Bug 797774 - Add tooltips to abreviated header columns for all
> table like GUI elements
> The Bill/Invoice due reminder has a column header of 'CN?' which was
> unclear of meaning which is 'Is this xxx a Credit Note'. A tooltip was
> suggested but a better fix is to change the column to display the 'Type' so
> you would see Bill, Invoice or 'Credit Note' just like you see in the find
> dialog.
>
> • Bug 797775 - Rate/Price displayed as fractional in CSV Export
> Change the CSV transaction exporter to follow the Preference setting of
> 'General->Force Prices to display as decimals'.
>
> • Bug 797781 - Num Field Regression - characters in wrong order
> when typed.
> The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports
> or new features:
>
> • Add a tooltip for the 'C' column in the Chart of Accounts
> Add a tooltip to the header for column 'C' of 'Account Color' to match
> existing one character headings for 'Place Holder' and 'Hidden' columns.
>
> • Add first version of gnucash-cli manpage
> • Rework command line option parsing to store values directly in
> class member variables
> • [cli-reports] modify to open session readonly
> Updated Translations: Romanian, Ukrainian
>
> Known Problems
>
> • Bug 797708 - Reconcile Dialog on Import
> • Bug 797746 - [reports] German umlauts not escaped
> Complete list of all open bugs.
>
> .
> Documentation
>
> There have been no changes to the documentation since the release fo 3.903.
>
> Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS
>
> GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows 8.1® and later and MacOS
> 10.13 (High Sierra)® and later in pre-built, all-in-one packages. An
> installer is provided for Microsoft Windows® while the MacOS® package is a
> disk image containing a drag-and-drop application bundle.
>
> The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are:
>
> •
> eea37c24d696088b2b70f4464580b00cd47544ff077d5c954ac20398db6242e7
> gnucash-3.904.tar.bz2
> •
> 90d26f5b07a90fd596ba0116827f7771b066073fee1ff78117e4c6208192456d
> gnucash-3.904.tar.gz
> •
> 290de7607a4fd3ff4aecb40024f37b225de5bbbfe1a37a6e3926430ae996964d
> gnucash-3.904.setup.exe
> •
> b7abec0bc611fb759d9d89af890fb720d3d3a6c233599d42b1d3e253bf7555a8
> Gnucash-Intel-3.904-1.dmg
> •
> 9067a2521527840d49b1f234b2534fedfad8f74a0cf6f02c4b15421b82bcefb0
> gnucash-docs-3.904.tar.gz
>
> Windows:
>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.904/gnucash-3.904.setup.exe
>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/gnucash-3.904.setup.exe
>
> MacOS:
>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/Gnucash-Intel-3.904-1.dmg
>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.904/Gnucash-Intel-3.904-1.dmg
>
> GnuCash is now available as a flatpak from Flathub.org. Instructions for
> installing and running.
>
> Getting GnuCash as source code
> If you want to compile GnuCash 3.904 for yourself, the source code can be
> downloaded from:
>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/gnucash-3.904.tar.bz2
>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/3.904/gnucash-3.904.tar.gz
>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.904/gnucash-3.904.tar.bz2
>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.904/gnucash-3.904.tar.gz
>
> You can also checkout the sources directly from the git repository, see
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git for instructions.
>
> To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need at
> least Gtk+ 3.22.29, Guile 2.0, Boost 1.67, WebKitGtk 2.4, GoogleTest 1.8.0,
> cmake 3.10 and SWIG 2.0.12 if compiling from git. Please consult the
> README.dependencies file in the sources for the exact list of dependencies
> and versions.
>
> Getting the documentation
> If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 3.904 for yourself, the
> source code can be downloaded from:
>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/gnucash-docs-3.904-1.tar.gz
>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.904/gnucash-docs-3.904.tar.gz
>
> Note that the documentation for unstable releases is not on the GnuCash
> website. It is built daily and may be found on the development server under
> the locale directory; "C" is English, "de" is German, and so on.
>
> The documentation is included in the MacOS and Windows application bundles.
>
> GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under the GNU
> General Public License (GPL) and available for GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris,
> MacOS, and Microsoft Windows. Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its
> first stable release was in 1998.
>
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