[GNC] [GNC-dev] GnuCash 4.9 Released

prl prl at ozemail.com.au
Sun Dec 19 19:56:47 EST 2021


Thanks, John.

Fixed for me now. Download installed and the macOS crash-on-exit bug 
fixed :)

Peter

On 20/12/2021 10:58, John Ralls wrote:
> 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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