[GNC] GnuCash 5.0 Released

Sun Mar 26 19:25:05 EDT 2023

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> On 27 Mar 2023, at 7:09 am, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> 
> The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 5.0.
> 
> New Features
> 
>    A new Stock Transaction Assistant to guide you through entering most investment transactions for stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. You can access it from Actions>Stock Assistant when the focus tab is the Accounts page or a Stock or Fund account register.
>    A new Investment Lots report showing a graph of capital gains and losses in a period by investment lot. Note that if you don't use the View Lots dialog to manage capital gains and losses this report won't have anything to show you. Use Reports>Assets & Liabilities>Investment Lots to see the report.
>    The Online Quotes facility has been completely rewritten and the old gnc-fq-check, gnc-fq-dump, and gnc-fq-helper programs have been replaced with finance-quote-wrapper. The functions performed by those programs may now be accomplished by passing commands to gnucash-cli -Q, see gnucash-cli --help for specifics. The perl module requirements have changed with the rewrite: The new version doesn't need Date::Manip but needs JSON::Parse instead. gnc-fq-update has been, er, updated to reflect that.
>    A new tab on the New/Edit Account dialog called More Properties includes entries to set a high and low limit on an account. That's coupled to a new column that's available on the Accounts Page, Balance Limit. If you set a high or low limit and the account balance falls above or below the respective limit an indicator will be shown in the Balance Limit column.
>    The description field quickfill in the register now displays a drop-down list of possible completions instead of just one inline completion.
>    File import menu items for the MT940, MT942, and DTAUS formats is replaced with a single Import from AQBanking that supports importing any file format supported by AQBanking, including the frequently requested CAMT. (Note that some CAMT profiles are under the XML format.)
>    The import matcher now permits editing descriptions, notes, and memo fields in the matcher window before creating the transactions. Right-click and select from the context menu.
>    The report generated by the Print Invoice button on the Edit Invoice tab can now be configured as a book option at the bottom of the Business tab; this permits selecting a saved configuration of one of the standard invoice reports. Another option enables a delay, during which a dialog box will appear enabling the user to select a different report. Note: When saving a configuration make sure that the invoice number is not set or you'll get that particular invoice instead of the one that you pressed the button for.
> 
> Significant Code Changes
> Deprecations (will be removed in GnuCash 6.0)
> 
>    _ (the alias for gettext. Use G_ instead)
>    gnc:make-account-list-limited-option
>    gnc:make-account-list-option
>    gnc:make-account-sel-limited-option
>    gnc:make-account-sel-option
>    gnc:make-budget-option
>    gnc:make-color-option
>    gnc:make-commodity-option
>    gnc:make-complex-boolean-option
>    gnc:make-counter-format-option
>    gnc:make-counter-option
>    gnc:make-currency-option
>    gnc:make-date-format-option
>    gnc:make-font-option
>    gnc:make-internal-option
>    gnc:make-invoice-option
>    gnc:make-list-option
>    gnc:make-multichoice-callback-option
>    gnc:make-multichoice-option
>    gnc:make-number-plot-size-option
>    gnc:make-number-range-option
>    gnc:make-owner-option
>    gnc:make-pixmap-option
>    gnc:make-query-option
>    gnc:make-radiobutton-option
>    gnc:make-simple-boolean-option
>    gnc:make-string-option
>    gnc:make-taxtable-option
>    gnc:make-text-option
>    gnc:option-set-default-value
>    gnc:option-set-value
>    gnc:option-setter
>    gnc:option-value
>    gnc:register-option
>    The invoice option to gnc:register-report-create-internal
> 
> Report and Book Options
> 
>    This major change will affect everyone who has written custom reports in Guile Scheme.
>    The report and book options code has been completely rewritten in C++ with SWIG providing Guile Scheme access for reports. The new design requires directly registering options with for example gnc-optiondb-register-string-option instead of calling gnc:make-string-option to create an option followed by gnc:register-option to insert it in the report's options.
>    Value access is also changed: Instead of retrieving an option and then querying or setting its value with gnc:option-value one will query the optiondb with gnc-option-value, the arguments to which are the optiondb, the section, and the option name.
>    Supporting the new options backend the options dialog code in gnc-dialog-options, gnc-business-options, and the new gnc-option-gtk-ui have also been rewritten in C++.
> 
> Online Price Retrieval
> 
>    As noted under New Features the interface to Finance::Quote has been completely rewritten in C++ with much of the behavior previously coded in external perl scripts moved into GnuCash proper. This permits much better access to Finance::Quotes's facilities and in particular should provide much richer error reporting.
> 
> Stability Improvements
> 
>    There are hundreds of small changes to prevent memory leaks, reduce unnecessary memory allocations, and fix compiler and static analyzer warnings.
>    Use of deprecated API in C/C++ is now an error (with 3 exceptions), including for the minimum required version of GLib and Gtk.
>    Extensive changes to the CSV importer, resolving most known bugs.
>    Remove all unused variables and made an unused variable a compile error.
>    Move all extern "C" declarations into the respective header files and remove extern "C" wrappers around #include statements.
>    Separate the scheme financial functions into a separate module so that all other scheme code can be banished from libgnucash to bindings.
> 
> Modernization
> 
>    The menus and toolbars now use the GAction and GActionGroup actuation functions, replacing the deprecated GtkAction and GtkActionGroup APIs.
>    The experimental Register2 implementation is removed, as is the never-used Jalali calendar code and partly-written option code for creating a book currency.
> 
> New and Updated Translations: Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Czech, English (Australia), English (New Zealand), English (United Kingdom), Hungarian, Japanese, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian
> 
> Help translate GnuCash on Weblate: https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/gnucash/
> 
> Known Problems: A 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 5.0 we're pleased to also release a new version of the companion Manual and Tutorial and Concepts Guide
> 
> Note that the document formerly titled Help is now the Manual
> 
> The installation of the documentation has changed to match the XDG-Documentation recommendations so that recent releases of Gnome Desktop's Yelp can find it.
> 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:
> 
>    cfc13bab31aed8e4962805ef56530f9772889604910b5678cb5c79c283138824  gnucash-5.0.tar.bz2
>    66dd5e32829cb6d8dd9a7e017a894583c7579932d13c4fe024329d9c6cfe956d  gnucash-5.0.tar.gz
>    e9d30e36163a7f047daf2523ac35bf2218d2e661bcfc7f279d57d4d396caa33d  gnucash-5.0.setup.exe
>    c8ea60b2ccbeab5f6997a927939a0fad715fbbe494644e586c6c386bfec6857a  Gnucash-Intel-5.0-2.dmg
>    02a1d6d0d8c61aae47b1200af482967ed16322a41f31dd8cf3a6679e7159edb1  gnucash-docs-5.0.tar.gz
> 
> Microsoft Windows:
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.0/gnucash-5.0.setup.exe
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/5.0/gnucash-5.0.setup.exe
> 
> Apple macOS:
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.0/Gnucash-Intel-5.0-1.dmg
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/5.0/Gnucash-Intel-5.0-1.dmg
> 
> Getting GnuCash as source code
> If you want to compile GnuCash 5.0 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.0/gnucash-5.0.tar.bz2
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.0/gnucash-5.0.tar.gz
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/5.0/gnucash-5.0.tar.bz2
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/5.0/gnucash-5.0.tar.gz
> 
> To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need at least Gtk+ 3.22.29, Guile 2.0, Boost 1.67, WebKitGtk 2.4, GoogleTest 1.8.0, 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
> 
> Note that the documentation for unstable releases is not on the GnuCash website. It is built daily and may be found on the development server under the locale directory; "C" is English, "de" is German, and so on.
> 
> The documentation is included in the MacOS and Windows application bundles.
> 
> If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 5.0 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:
> 
>   Sourceforge: https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/5.0/gnucash-docs-5.0.tar.gz 
>   GitHub: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.0/gnucash-docs-5.0.tar.gz
> 
>   You can also checkout the sources directly from the git repository as described at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
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