Announcement 1.9.7

From https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2006-June/017954.html :

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 1.9.7 aka "Seize the day", the second beta release of the GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.0.0. This release contains many bugfixes since the first beta release.

Download:

• http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/unstable/1.9.x/
• http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

Somebody was asking for screenshots every time: [1] and [2] ; Greek version though.

The GnuCash docs team also proudly announces GnuCash-docs 1.9.0 which is the first documentation update in preparation for GnuCash 2.0.0.

What's New in GnuCash 1.9.7?

• PLEASE TEST any and all features important to you. Then post any bugs you find to bugzilla http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash
• We would like to encourage people to test this and any further releases as much as possible and submit bug reports in order that we can polish GnuCash to be as stable as possible for the 2.0.0 release in a few weeks.

• If you have the urge to help beyond testing please get involved in the discussions on the GnuCash mailing lists which you will find at http://www.gnucash.org. We especially need people to help with updating the documentation. Please see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development on how to get involved.

• Major bugfixes include

  o Hide unfinished funtionality for the 2.0 release
  o Fixes to lots functionality
  o Fixes to XML import
  o Patches to work with guile 1.8
  o HBCI fixes
  o Many updated translations.
  o New splash screen from Joshua Facemyer / Impressus Art
  o Fix the help file names now the docs are xml instead of html.
  o Fixes for MacOS and Windows builds
  o Fixes to progress bar.
  o UTF8 fixes
  o Fixes for glib 2.6
  

Caveats for testers:

• Any 1.9.x version might crash unexpectedly at any point during runtime. If you test some serious work in a 1.9.x release, make sure you hit "Save" after ever non-trivial workstep.
• The documentation has had screenshots updated, however, many help texts usually only refers to the 1.8.x series. Everyone is invited to help improve the documentation; see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development on how to get involved.

How can you help?

• Testing: Test it and help us discover all bugs that might show up in there. Please enter each and every bug into bugzilla at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash
• Translating: The new release comes with plenty of new translation strings. If you consider contributing a translation, we invite you to test this release already. We are now in string freeze phase. Please check http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status for updates on this.