[GNC] [GNC-dev] GnuCash 4.9 Released

Glenn Fowler gfowler1 at outlook.com
Sun Dec 19 16:34:09 EST 2021


THANK YOU to the GnuCash team!

On Sun, Dec 19, 2021, 4:11 PM David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
> >
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