[GNC] Changes in gnucash 4 vs 3

[Peter Ratzlaff]

On 3/10/22 16:49, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 10/3/22 11:12 pm, Peter Ratzlaff wrote:
>> I've just upgraded from Ubuntu 21.10 (gnucash 3.8) to 22.04 (gnucash 
>> 4.9), and am seeing some odd behaviour. These are just the things I 
>> immediately notice.
>>
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>> When gnucash is run without a command line argument, it no longer 
>> opens the most recently-opened file. The specific filename must be 
>> given each time.
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>> Income accounts now have negative balances. Same for equity. Liability 
>> balance signs are flipped as well.
>>
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>> I have a saved report which generates a plot of assets over time, and 
>> that report no longer displays the plot. The table of values vs time 
>> is still printed and the numbers look correct. This seems like it 
>> could be some sort of unmet graphics package dependency, but there is 
>> no error message generated on the terminal or in the GUI.
>>
>>
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>> There seems to be nothing on the "GnuCash News" page at 
>> https://www.gnucash.org/news.phtml, on the changes introduced in 
>> gnucash 4.0. Is there somewhere else to find them?
>>
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>>
>> Thanks for any input.
> 
> I understood that Ubuntu 22.04 is not due to be released for another six 
> weeks.
> 
> Are you using an alpha  test version?
> 
> Thence, is the software (applications), also, alpha test version?
> 

True, the release has only seen a feature freeze so far, and beta status 
is a few weeks away. I've compiled gnucash 4.9 from source and it is 
working perfectly fine. For now I will assume the Ubuntu package is 
causing the problem.