[GNC] GnuCash 3.905 Released

[Christopher Lam]

A couple of notes:
- Balance-sheet is reverted back to the legacy report: multicolumn
balance-sheet had a few more bugs identified related to currency
conversions, so, isn't ready yet. The latter is downgraded back to
experimental submenu.
- gnucash-cli --report run --name "VAT Report" --export-type CSV
--output-file VAT.CSV, when "Income and GST Statement" is properly set up
and saved as "VAT Report", would be a convenient way to generate the VAT
figures and save as CSV. Also applicable for Australian BAS reports.

On Sun, 14 Jun 2020 at 23:21, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 3.905, the fourth 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
>
> 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-cli --report run --name=[reportname/guid]
> datafile.gnucash
>                 • gnucash-cli --report run --name=[reportname/guid]
> --output-file=x.html datafile.gnucash
>                 • gnucash-cli --report run --name=[reportname/guid]
> --output-file=x.html --export-type=TYPE datafile.gnucash
> The GUI command, gnucash responds to the same command line arguments. In
> order to provide more options its syntax (and gnucash-cli's) for quote
> retrieval is changed from --add-quotes to --quotes get.
>
>         • 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 their 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 3.905
>
> None
>
> In previous 3.9xx releases
>
>         • The signature for qof_session_begin(), QofSession::begin(), and
> QofBackend::begin() are changed to use an enum SessionOpenMode instead of
> three booleans.
>         • 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 3.905.
>         • 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 3.904 and 3.905, the following bugfixes were accomplished. Some of
> these will also be fixed in GnuCash 3.11, some are for 4.0 only.
>
>         • Bug 796993 - Gnucash should warn the user in case of missing
> Alphavantage API key instead of silently failing
>         • Bug 797531 - Improve behaviour when following a hyperlink to a
> split that's filtered in the register
> Currently if a jump to a filtered register is made, this could be from a
> report, other register, reconcile window and transaction associations and
> the destination split is not shown the jump will end up at the last active
> cell. This could be confusing so add a test for the destination split being
> visible and warn the user with an option to temporarily clear the filter.
>
>         • Bug 797746 - [reports] German umlauts not escaped
>         • Bug 797790 - [Transaction Association] Change dialogue: use
> existing information to determine the default folder
> When there is no association set, if the file option is chosen set the
> default folder for the file chooser to that of the path head preference.
>
>         • Bug 797791 - [Windows] list of command line options after
> 'gnucash.exe --help'?
> Make gnucash-cli a console application on Windows so that its output will
> be redirected to the connected console.
>
>         • Bug 797799 - Add Tip of the Day for "Notes" field
>         • Bug 797804 - Date entry field is glitchy (v3.904 regression)
> The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports
> or new features:
>
>         • Ensure balance-sheet balances do not ignore closing entries,
> including them in closing balances from profit&loss.
>         • [balsheet-pnl] value-collector doesn't need to ignore closing
> The value-collector is only used to tally account balances for
> asset&liability accounts. These accounts never have closing entries. No
> need to test closing property.
>
>         • [trep-engine] don't create intermediate cells object
> from cell-calculators (a list of column-info), the cells object (list of
> column-data) was created unnecessarily. use cell-calculators directly.
>
>         • [gnucash-cli] --report show/list outputs to stdout
> and their error messages output to stderr
>
>         • I18N: Improve tooltip about double-line-mode
> Suggestion by Adrien Monteleone
> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2020-June/091425.html
>
>         • Drop unused boost::locale::generator instantiations
> We now have one single case in gnc-locale-utils and all code uses
> gnc_get_boost_locale to get the proper locale.
>
>         • Fix translations using boost::locale::translate
>         • Fix report dependencies that caused Xcode build failure.
>         • Update Schedule Transaction Template dialog status bar
> Copy the functions from gnc_main_window that updates the status bar with
> the action tooltips to gnc_window so that both GncMainWindow and
> GncEmbeddedWindow can use without duplicating code.
>
>         • Add the Register width menu options to the Scheduled Transaction
> Template dialog.
>         • [balance-sheet] hide trading-accounts if use-trading-accts? is
> unset
>         • Fix a null parent error in the New Account Hierarchy Assistant.
> Updated Translations: German
>
> Known Problems
>
>         • Bug 797786 - New Balance Sheet does not balance when multiple
> currencies and commodities (stock holdings) are included
>         • Bug 797800 - [help screen items] clarification welcome
> Complete list of all open bugs.
>
> .
> Documentation
>
> Between 3.904 and 3.905, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
>
>         • Bug 770132 - Price editor does not find ASX:XRO
>         • Bug 797783 - [PATCH] The "over" and "under" estimate in the
> unrealized capital gain chapter should be reversed.
> The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:
>
>         • L12N:it, pt update: Vanguard is part of AlphaVantage
> This changed already, when yahoo shut csv interface
>
>         • Update fq-sources.html: asx source is working again
> Also explain why you need F::Q 1.41
>
>         • Tell travis to use ubuntu-18.04-docker file
>         • Appendix: add "Ticker" to distinguish from security numbers
>         • Note on dots in yahoo symbols
> 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:
>
>         •
> 20409d89f7e2af6756dcec85b7321b0cbe68e8c6eaaf300c6741136a58d9e2a0
> gnucash-3.905.tar.bz2
>         •
> 7a95263708bc0960d870f50d29fd20cfb3d7fcedbb16ee6d1aaac8f91b9a93d0
> gnucash-3.905.tar.gz
>         •
> 9a92191796416cce934aebd0458dbf84e326a633fae9d457a1fd0d4fd55050fa
> gnucash-3.905.setup.exe
>         •
> b0a9a4f69bdc33defe5f29a5d7956fcf42001ba04f62ec72b07ff401e853bd7a
> Gnucash-Intel-3.905-1.dmg
>         •
> 565bd71b89dbce29f6ae9530cf44d9290df89000500f0a68602a056f95caa6c6
> gnucash-docs-3.905.tar.gz
>
> Windows:
>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.905/gnucash-3.905.setup.exe
>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/gnucash-3.905.setup.exe
>
> MacOS:
>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.905/Gnucash-Intel-3.905-1.dmg
>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/Gnucash-Intel-3.905-1.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 3.905 for yourself, the source code can be
> downloaded from:
>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.905/gnucash-3.905.tar.bz2
>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.905/gnucash-3.905.tar.gz
>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/gnucash-3.905.tar.bz2
>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/gnucash-3.905.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 3.905 for yourself, the
> source code can be downloaded from:
>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.905/gnucash-docs-3.905.tar.gz
>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/gnucash-docs-3.905-1.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.
> 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,
> MacOS, and Microsoft Windows. Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its
> first stable release was in 1998.
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