[GNC] [GNC-dev] GnuCash 4.9 Released
David H
hellvee at gmail.com
Sun Dec 19 16:11:46 EST 2021
John,
Thanks for that, much appreciated. Sourceforge links aren't working for me
- no 4.9 folder under gnucash (stable) ??? Github links work.
Cheers David H.
On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 at 06:24, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 4.9, the tenth release in
> the stable 4.x series
>
> Between 4.8 and 4.9, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
>
> • Bug 797502 - (RTL) - Right edge of the reports are locked while
> scrolling down
> Running gnucash in Hebrew, the right edge of the reports are locked while
> scrolling down and do not scroll with the rest of the report.
>
> • Bug 797618 - Spanish translation of Shares and Stock
> • Bug 797678 - OFX importer should supplement, not replace,
> existing Notes (and Description and Memo) fields
> Add an "Append" checkbox to the bottom of the "Generic import transaction
> matcher" window to the left of the "Reconcile after match" checkbox. When
> ticked, this causes the imported Description/Notes to be appended to the
> matched transaction Description/Notes respectively. The selected
> ticked/unticked state of the "Append" checkbox is saved in a key value pair
> for the import account, so the next import for that account will
> automatically default it to the saved state. As these mods are limited to
> the code for the matcher window, this should work for all the imports that
> use it - ie ofx & csv file imports (both tested) & aqbanking (cannot test).
>
> • Bug 797772 - Allow reconciliation report to double filter by
> both posting and reconciliation date
> • Bug 798222 - Account search dialog: Pushing enter does nothing
> • Bug 798266 - Dropdown picker menu for category does not appear
> • Bug 798313 - "File/Import/Import Transactions From CSV" crashes
> Gnucash.
> • Bug 798320 - Error message indicating a crash of GNUcash when
> closing application - MacOS 10.15.7 (19H1419)
> • Bug 798325 - New Currency for Venezuela (VED)
> • Bug 798327 - Ofx import stops too early for multi-account OFX
> and one account has no new transactions
> • Bug 798335 - No longer possible to change trading account
> Strip trading splits only if "Use Trading Accounts" is enabled for the
> book so that users who want to manage trading accounts by hand may do so.
>
> • Bug 798341 - Right align in Hebrew - Account screen
> • Bug 798346 - crashes when running check & repair
> • Bug 798352 - Decimal Precision when Entering Mutual Fund
> Transaction
> Let xaccParseAmount parse up to 12 decimal places instead of 8.
>
> • Bug 798382 - Typo corrections in comments
> The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:
>
> • More memory leak plugging and GList efficiency improvements.
> • Fix build with cmake older than 3.18
> 3.18 introduced 'cmake -E cat', but we still have to support versions
> starting from 3.14.
>
> • [account-piecharts] don't use gnc:make-internal-option
> • Several improvements to the experimental IFRS cost-basis report.
> • Fix two minor issues with displaying links in the Document Link
> dialog.
> • Fix obsolete links to bugzilla.gnome.org in translations.
> • L18N: Fix glossary/es.po:906: duplicate message definition...
> 901: ...this is the location of the first definition
>
> • [budget-flow] delay creating exchange-fn until a valid budget
> exists
> because it needs budget period end-date.
>
> • [options.scm] Addon previous commit... need to initialize with
> guid
> • [options.scm] gnc:make-budget-option stores guid instead of
> object
> because object may become stale if UI is used to delete it, leading to
> stale pointer and segfault. storing guid is safer, and will return null if
> budget is deleted.
>
> • support SEPA internal transfer
> • Fix issue with failure to run reconciliation with all accounts
> present in a multi-account OFX file. Do that by saving a GList of
> statements, rather than a pointer to a single one. Also freeing of info
> happens during the call to process_next_file.
> • Import of OFX files with many securities opens too many matching
> dialogs Because ofx import is currently split per target account, and since
> each security has its own accounts, importing such OFX is a tedious
> process. The fix is to only split the transactions if we identify a
> potential transfer, currently based on amount, date and accounts. To do
> that, we insert transactions one by one into a list, making sure we have
> not already inserted one that has the same date, and the same absolute
> amount. If we have, we keep this potential transfer for a second phase. A
> naive approach would loop through added transactions for each new
> transaction by that ends up being O(N^2), which matters if we have many
> transactions. Instead, I'm using a hash to make this O(N log N).
> • [date-utilities.scm] remove unused date selectors code & string
> • Adjust GNC_DEFINE_TYPE_EXTENDED_END
> To match new signature of g_once_init_enter and g_once_init_leave.
>
> • Fix build with glib2 2.67.x.
> glib headers should not be included with 'extern "C"'.
>
> • Add explanatory note for gnc_add_scheme_deprecated_module test
> code
> The immediate parent commit removes old deprecated scheme modules. Link to
> the old modules for example code.
>
> • [test-engine-extras] don't create splits of opposing amt/value
> signs
> Splits' value and amount should never be of opposite signs. Fix test book
> which had created this incorrect value/amount pair. Strengthen
> env-create-multisplit-transaction to disallow test book errors.
>
> • [dialog-search] another QofQuery "q" must be destroyed
> because qof_query_merge creates a newly allocated QofQuery, its 2 QofQuery
> must be freed separately.
>
> • [trep-engine] new option "Date Filter" to specify dates to
> filter by
> • [dialog-sx-since-last-run] don't allocate repeatedly to combine
> strings
> • [test-transaction] "Report Currency" renamed to "Report's
> currency"
> • Separate the warnings for "cut split/transaction" and "delete
> split/transaction"
> • [gnc-autoclear] Move autoclear algorithm into gnome-utils
> • GSettings - fix GObject warning when old prefs-version is unset
> This will happen when current master (future 5.0) has been run at least
> once.
>
> • [utest-gnc-pricedb] add tests for gnc_price_list_equal
> Also need to change PWARN which causes test failure, to PINFO
>
> • [reconcile-view][bug] dr/cr query tests amount instead of value
> Because split->amount and split->value are generally of equal sign, EXCEPT
> in stock transactions whereby split->value can be zero and split->amount is
> non-zero. e.g. a stock split transaction. Querying the split amount instead
> will allow stock accounts with stock splits to be reconciled.
>
> • [split-register-model.c] Hide price==1 for zero-amount splits
> mainly of interest in zero-amount zero-value splits in the stock register
> eg dividend splits.
>
> • [core-utils] introduce gnc:format
> (gnc:format str [binding value]...) str will contain ${binding} which will
> be replaced to value.
>
> • [import-main-matcher] show destination acct for auto-match
> • GSettings - add 'deprecate' and 'obsolete' conversions for user
> preferences
> 'deprecate' is technically a noop. It serves to remind maintainers the
> 'deprecated' preference is to be obsoleted in the next major release.
> 'obsolete' goes one step further in that it will cause gnucash to reset the
> preference, effectively clearing the value stored in the preferences
> backend. This is the final phase of a preference. Following this it will be
> completely removed from the GSettings schema in the next major release.
> Notes * 'deprecate' and 'migrate' are related. Both are a reminder the
> preference is to be obsoleted in the next major release. 'deprecate' does
> only that though while 'migrate' will also trigger a copy of the old value
> to a new location in the databse. * This commit readds a couple of
> preferences that had been removed in the past to be able to properly
> obsolete them (and to test the obsoleting code)
>
> New API
>
> None
>
> Deprecations
>
> None
>
> New and Updated Translations: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional),
> Croatian, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese,
> Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Ukranian.
>
> Help translate GnuCash on Weblate:
> https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/gnucash/
>
> Known Problems
> Complete list of all open bugs:
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=blocker&bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=major&bug_severity=normal&bug_severity=minor&bug_severity=trivial&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=REOPENED&limit=0&list_id=8149&order=priority%2Cbug_severity&query_format=advanced
>
> Documentation
>
> Concurrent with the release of GnuCash 4.9 we're pleased to also release a
> new version of the companion Help and Tutorial and Concepts Guide
>
> Between 4.8 and 4.9, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
>
> • Bug 797950 - Reconcilation docs don't mention automatic credit
> card payment feature.
> The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:
>
> • Guide:C: Add a directory with datafiles for faster regeneration
> of images
> • Chapter "Online-Quotes" created.
> * Description of the installation and configuration of F::Q (moved from
> Help_ch_Account-Actions-xml).
>
> • Remove several Autotools remains
> • Drop TravisCI as we are using Github Workflows now.
> • Removed the information of HACKING file from README.
> • Add ghelp to the default target
> At some point in the past ghelp didn't have to be built, as one could
> develop and test simply from the source directory. That is no longer the
> case so perform a build by default if ghelp is enabled.
>
> New and Updated Translations: German
>
> 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:
>
> •
> 9a551c30c1b712199fc2227a109afb984d7bef18e138170bbc7225c6c1fab72d
> gnucash-4.9.tar.bz2
> •
> 01d6381d5c876a6210f037c922c59c79799bf663f2a71f46fe14dbaca5db7f74
> gnucash-4.9.tar.gz
> •
> c50fac9755958c3b5310c1f605149a88bb365eac32c5c361c4174ffa5e314921
> gnucash-4.9.setup.exe
> •
> ac288ffa06a759d6104b74f9c91449ce218de392ac8ca4739bce217e2f9817b1
> Gnucash-Intel-4.9-1.dmg
> •
> d901a08eb67310aac28ae9924a4c6d0f2ed423a6a2cf2adb10c5574dabba9b12
> gnucash-docs-4.9.tar.gz
>
> Microsoft Windows:
>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.9/gnucash-4.9.setup.exe
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/4.9/gnucash-4.9.setup.exe
>
> Apple macOS:
>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.9/Gnucash-Intel-4.9-1.dmg
>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/4.9/Gnucash-Intel-4.9-1.dmg
>
> GnuCash is also available as a flatpak from Flathub.org. Instructions for
> installing and running may be found at
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak.
>
> Getting GnuCash as source code
> If you want to compile GnuCash 4.9 for yourself, the source code can be
> downloaded from:
>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.9/gnucash-4.9.tar.bz2
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.9/gnucash-4.9.tar.gz
>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/4.9/gnucash-4.9.tar.bz2
>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/4.9/gnucash-4.9.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+ 3.24, Guile 2.0, Boost 1.54, WebKitGtk 2.4, GoogleTest 1.7.0,
> cmake 3.10 and SWIG 2.0.12. 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 4.9 for yourself, the
> source code can be downloaded from:
>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.9/gnucash-docs-4.9.tar.gz
>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/4.9/gnucash-docs-4.9.tar.gz
>
> 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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