Difference between revisions of "Announcement 1.9.3"

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From https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2006-March/016947.html :

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 1.9.3 aka "Mo money, Mo problems", the fourth of several unstable 1.9.x releases 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 third release but is still only intended for developers and adventurous testers who want to help tracking down bugs.

Download:

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

What's New in GnuCash 1.9.2?

• WARNING WARNING WARNING - Make sure you make backups of any files used in testing versions of GnuCash in the 1.9.x series. Although the developers go to great lengths to ensure that no data will be lost we cannot guarantee that your data will not be affected if for some reason GnuCash crashes in testing these releases.
• PLEASE TEST TEST AND TEST SOME MORE any and all features important to you. Then post any bugs you find to bugzilla http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash
• 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 as all texts refer currently to the 1.8.x series. Please see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development on how to get involved.
• Major bugfixes include

  o More Register fixes.
  o Fixes for OFX importer.
  o Add printing support for the graphs.
  o Add multi-commodity SX support.
  o Fixes for windows/mingw32 porting.
  o Fixes for currency settings.
  o Add support for XSL.
  o Recode all po files into UTF-8 character encoding.
  o Lots of Qof fixes.
  o Fix the build-order (and install order) of the engine libs.
  o Fix a problem where account cell contents disappear when focusing in/out of an account cell.
  o Report fixes
  o More Qof fixes
  o More fixes for UTF-8 support
  o Fixes to Scheduled Transactions
  

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.
• Keep in mind that features which are not used in everyday work might crash unexpectedly at all times. This includes but is not limited to: graphical reports, scheduled transaction editor, price editor, financial calculator, OFX/QIF/HBCI import.
• Especially all the new features might crash instantly on testing. This applies in particular to any of the budget-related features. We may always decide to disable such new features for the initial 2.0.0 release, and re-enable them in a later release.
• The documentation is completely outdated. All help texts usually only refer to the 1.8.x series; please expect all descriptions in the help texts to be totally wrong when applied to the upcoming 1.9.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, but please keep in mind that we are not yet in our string freeze phase. Please check http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status for updates on this, as we recommend to wait for the string freeze phase for the serious translation work.