[GNC] [GNC-dev] GnuCash 4.9 Released
prl
prl at ozemail.com.au
Sun Dec 19 18:03:20 EST 2021
I'm getting the same as David H. When I click on the GnuCash home page
link for 'GnuCash 4.9 for Apple macOS ≥ 10.13—"High Sierra" ', I get a
SourceForge "Whoops, we can't find that page." error page, presumably
for a HTTP 404 Not Found error.
Peter
On 20/12/2021 08:11, David H 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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