[GNC] [GNC-dev] GnuCash 4.9 Released
John Ralls
jralls at ceridwen.us
Sun Dec 19 18:58:38 EST 2021
Sorry, all. I forgot to unmask the Sourceforge download directory and update the Big Green Button links. I just did so, the SF downloads should work now.
Regards,
John Ralls
> On Dec 19, 2021, at 3:06 PM, <pyz01 at cox.net> <pyz01 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> Getting the same for Windows. No links for 4.9 -- still shows 4.8
>
> Maybe it's a timing thing -- will try later this afternoon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+pyz01=cox.net at gnucash.org> On Behalf Of prl
> Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2021 3:03 PM
> To: David H <hellvee at gmail.com>; GnuCash-User <gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org>
> Cc: GnuCash Developers <gnucash-devel at lists.gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] [GNC-dev] GnuCash 4.9 Released
>
> 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_sev
>>> erity=critical&bug_severity=major&bug_severity=normal&bug
>>> _severity=minor&bug_severity=trivial&bug_status=NEW&bug_s
>>> tatus=ASSIGNED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=REOPENED&li
>>> mit=0&list_id=8149&order=priority%2Cbug_severity&query_fo
>>> rmat=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-Inte
>>> l-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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>>> gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
>>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
>>>
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