GnuCash 2.3.2 (Unstable) released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.3.2, the third of several unstable 2.3.x releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.4.0. With this new release series, GnuCash can use an SQL database using SQLite3, MySQL or PostgreSQL. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX.

PLEASE TEST TEST AND TEST SOME MORE any and all features important to you. Then post any bugs you find to bugzilla

Major changes in the 2.3.x release include;

• In addition to the XML backend, Gnucash can now use a SQLite3, MySQL or PostgreSQL database to store the data. This is a new implementation using libdbi. It supports all features including the business features. In order to build with this, add --enable-dbi to the configure command. In addition to the libdbi-dev package for your distribution, you will also need the appropriate DBD (libdbi driver) package for sqlite3, mysql or postgresql.
• In addition to the current GtkHTML HTML engine used to display reports and graphs, Gnucash can use WebKit. WebKit is the engine used by Google Chrome on Windows and Safari on Apple. In order to build with this, add --enable-webkit to the configure command. You will need an appropriate webkit-dev package. On win32, you will need to download the webkit-1.1.5-win32.zip file from the source repository and put it into the downloads directory of your gnucash build area.
• Updated to AqBanking 3 on Win32.

Changes between 2.3.1 and 2.3.2 include:

• Daily win32 builds can be found in http://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/trunk
• Win32 builds now include mysql and postgresql client libraries and libdbi drivers
• Bug #567709: Register: Don't assume that cells outside the cursor are valid
• Bug 563598: QSF XML Export: Remove the tooltip from the GtkCalendar?.
• Fix bug 586558 - When a scheduled transaction is deleted, the objects aren't cleaned up properly
• Fix bug 586901: Price editor creates price before all information is available
• Bug #582048: Fix missing GUI callbacks for online transfer.
• Bug #580968: Register: Keep track of the account when an exchange rate is set
• Fix bug 339726 - Cannot set fractional discount rates in Billing Terms
• Fix bug 586296/586419/585785 - Fix win32 install script problems
• Fix bug 586425 - update version of gnutls for win32
• Fix bug #586295 - when building win32 version, use those versions of executables, not installed ones
• Fix bug #415127 - updating address doesn't mark object as dirty
• Fix bug 585789/586121: Files not opened correctly
• Bug 587913 - "Edit exchange rate" marks account cell as changed
• Add initial support for eguile template-based reports
• Rework split queries to improve performance
• When opening a file, "sqlite3" and "xml" dropdown list items are replaced by "file"
• Add Korean translation by Jin-Hwan Jeong.
• Updated Korean translation by yongdoria
• Mark transaction dirty when setting enter-date
• Decrease verbosity of libgwenhywfar debugging output.
• Some memory leaks fixed
• Add AqB 3.8.3 patch for Win32
• Handle BUILD_FROM_TARBALL special for tag builds.
• Separate environment variable setup into common file
• Use pwd instead of assuming $0 is a full path. Set URL in a variable
• QIF Import: Documentation .txt file patch by Daniel Convissor.

Caveats for Testers

Any 2.3.x version might crash unexpectedly at any point during runtime. If you test some serious work in a 2.3.x release and are using the XML file backend for data storage, make sure you hit "Save" after every non-trivial workstep. If you are using the SQL backend, this is not required as every change is saved immediately to the database.

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.

Translating: The new release comes with some new translation strings. If you consider contributing a translation, we invite you to test this release already. A string freeze will be announced in one of the later 2.3.x releases. Please check http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status for updates on this.

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 2.4.0 release in a few weeks. Then post any bugs you find to bugzilla

Getting GnuCash

Source code for GnuCash 2.3.2 can be downloaded from multiple locations:

• The GnuCash website
• Sourceforge: bzip2, gzip, all files.
• You can also checkout the sources directly from the subversion repository with this command:
  
  svn co http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk gnucash

To install GnuCash, you will need Gnome 2, guile, slib. In addition you will need swig if compiling from subversion.

Win32 binary

The Gnucash 2.3.2 Win32 setup executable can be downloaded from Sourceforge as well.

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, Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows. Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.

GnuCash 2.3.1 (Unstable) released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.3.1, the second of several unstable 2.3.x releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.4.0. With this new release series, GnuCash can use an SQL database using SQLite3, MySQL or PostgreSQL. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX.

PLEASE TEST TEST AND TEST SOME MORE any and all features important to you. Then post any bugs you find to bugzilla

Major changes in the 2.3.x release include;

• In addition to the XML backend, Gnucash can now use a SQLite3, MySQL or PostgreSQL database to store the data. This is a new implementation using libdbi. It supports all features including the business features. In order to build with this, add --enable-dbi to the configure command. In addition to the libdbi-dev package for your distribution, you will also need the appropriate DBD (libdbi driver) package for sqlite3, mysql or postgresql.
• In addition to the current GtkHTML HTML engine used to display reports and graphs, Gnucash can use WebKit. WebKit is the engine used by Google Chrome on Windows and Safari on Apple. In order to build with this, add --enable-webkit to the configure command. You will need an appropriate webkit-dev package. On win32, you will need to download the webkit-1.1.5-win32.zip file from the source repository and put it into the downloads directory of your gnucash build area.
• Updated to AqBanking 3 on Win32.

Changes between 2.3.0 and 2.3.1 include:

• Bug #582976 - install.sh - webkit-1.1.5-win32.zip is not available
• Bug #583535 - Problem with mysql database
• Bug #583883 - Customer report produces error
• Bug #584564: Patch by Chris Dennis to allow a report to be either a string or html-doc
• Fix all business exports to force file type QSF
• Fix SQL statement which calculates account balances
• Fix port number, especially for postgresql
• Clean up include files and code related to goffice.
• Add qsf:// as a valid URI type
• Fix handling of GObjects when deleting a report
• Update aqbanking version to 3.8.3, which means one patch isn't needed
• Fix WEBKIT path so that correct DLLs will be copied to output directory
• Register: Add some header comments for a confusing function.
• Create and upload the WIN32 daily builds
• If postgres database does not exist, create it.
• Update German translation.
• Minor i18n string improvements
• Remove obsolete glade file.
• Modify packing on URI type combo box to fix its size
• Patch by Mike Alexander to speed up price db loading in sql backend.
• Add Lithuanian translation by Tadas Masiulionis

Caveats for Testers

Any 2.3.x version might crash unexpectedly at any point during runtime. If you test some serious work in a 2.3.x release and are using the XML file backend for data storage, make sure you hit "Save" after every non-trivial workstep. If you are using the SQL backend, this is not required as every change is saved immediately to the database.

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.

Translating: The new release comes with some new translation strings. If you consider contributing a translation, we invite you to test this release already. A string freeze will be announced in one of the later 2.3.x releases. Please check http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status for updates on this.

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 2.4.0 release in a few weeks. Then post any bugs you find to bugzilla

Getting GnuCash

Source code for GnuCash 2.3.1 can be downloaded from multiple locations:

• The GnuCash website
• Sourceforge: bzip2, gzip, all files.
• You can also checkout the sources directly from the subversion repository with this command:
  
  svn co http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk gnucash

To install GnuCash, you will need Gnome 2, guile, slib. In addition you will need swig if compiling from subversion.

Win32 binary

The Gnucash 2.3.1 Win32 setup executable can be downloaded from Sourceforge as well.

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, Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows. Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.

GnuCash 2.3.0 (Unstable) released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.3.0, the first of several unstable 2.3.x releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.4.0. With this new release series, GnuCash can use an SQL database using SQLite3, MySQL or PostgreSQL. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX.

PLEASE TEST TEST AND TEST SOME MORE any and all features important to you. Then post any bugs you find to bugzilla

Major changes in this release include;

• In addition to the XML backend, Gnucash can now use a SQLite3, MySQL or PostgreSQL database to store the data. This is a new implementation using libdbi. It supports all features including the business features. In order to build with this, add --enable-dbi to the configure command. In addition to the libdbi-dev package for your distribution, you will also need the appropriate DBD (libdbi driver) package for sqlite3, mysql or postgresql.
• In addition to the current GtkHTML HTML engine used to display reports and graphs, Gnucash can use WebKit. WebKit is the engine used by Google Chrome on Windows and Safari on Apple. In order to build with this, add --enable-webkit to the configure command. You will need an appropriate webkit-dev package. On win32, you will need to download the webkit-1.1.5-win32.zip file from the source repository and put it into the downloads directory of your gnucash build area.
• Updated to AqBanking 3 on Win32.

Caveats for Testers

Any 2.3.x version might crash unexpectedly at any point during runtime. If you test some serious work in a 2.3.x release and are using the XML file backend for data storage, make sure you hit "Save" after every non-trivial workstep. If you are using the SQL backend, this is not required as every change is saved immediately to the database.

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.

Translating: The new release comes with some new translation strings. If you consider contributing a translation, we invite you to test this release already. A string freeze will be announced in one of the later 2.3.x releases. Please check http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status for updates on this.

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 2.4.0 release in a few weeks. Then post any bugs you find to bugzilla

Getting GnuCash

Source code for GnuCash 2.3.0 can be downloaded from multiple locations:

• The GnuCash website
• Sourceforge: bzip2, gzip, all files.
• You can also checkout the sources directly from the subversion repository with this command:
  
  svn co http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk gnucash

To install GnuCash, you will need Gnome 2, guile, slib. In addition you will need swig if compiling from subversion.

Win32 binary

The Gnucash 2.3.0 Win32 setup executable can be downloaded from Sourceforge as well.

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, Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows. Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.

GnuCash 2.2.9 released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.2.9 aka "Mirror-like", the ninth bug fix release in a series of stable releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software.

Getting GnuCash

GnuCash 2.2.9 can be downloaded from gnucash.org or sourceforge.net. It is available as source code. For the Microsoft Windows operating system there is a self-installing setup program which includes all necessary additional libraries.

To install GnuCash on other platforms, users will need Gnome 2, guile, and slib. Neither the currently used swig nor the previously used g-wrap packages are needed anymore when compiling from tarball or when installing a binary.

• http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=192 (Source code and Windows binary)
• http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/ (Source code only)

What's New in GnuCash 2.2.9?

Fixed Bugs

• #339027: Reconcile window should display the date
• #435642: Crash editing results of a find
• #438132: Warning about commodity being NULL for root account on save
• #462148: Report output is vertically inverted and bottom up printed (mirror, reverse, &c.)
• #514455: Dutch (Netherlands) translation of account templates
• #526775: Win32: Crashes when importing brokerage account data
• #542382: Assign GnuCash to file name extension .gnucash
• #564209: Improved debuggability for module loading
• #564450: HUF currency handling incorrect as 1HUF divided into 100FILLERs
• #564928: Segfault when closing a invoice tab
• #565421: gnc-date-edit.c did not compile with Gtk < 2.10
• #565721: Multicolumn report options: Report names are not translated
• #566198: Slovakia joined the Euro
• #566352: Crash during OFX import under Win 2000 / SP4
• #566567: Scheme modifications are not built on windows
• #567174: Files with NIS stocks fail to open
• #568327: Using most "budget" reports, without a budget defined crashes gnucash
• #568653: Add SKR49 template
• #568945: The gnc_pricedb_convert_balance_... methods should look for the reciprocal of the exchange rate
• #569734: Give the template root account a name
• #570166: Weird text entry box when typing on Account Tree page
• #570894: Use of symbol t, which is not defined in all guile versions
• #571220: Program won't start if SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH is set

Other Changes

• Added German account template for a Wohnungswirtschaft business
• Fixed french business account templates
• Updated translations: Catalan, Chinese, German, Italian

GnuCash 2.2.8 released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.2.8 aka "Crisis-Proof", the eighth bug fix release in a series of stable releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software.

Getting GnuCash

GnuCash 2.2.8 can be downloaded from gnucash.org or sourceforge.net. It is available as source code. For the Microsoft Windows operating system there is a self-installing setup program which includes all necessary additional libraries.

To install GnuCash on other platforms, users will need Gnome 2, guile, and slib. Neither the currently used swig nor the previously used g-wrap packages are needed anymore when compiling from tarball or when installing a binary.

• http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=192 (Source code and Windows binary)
• http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/ (Source code only)

What's New in GnuCash 2.2.8?

Fixed Bugs

• #115066: "Search For" dialog shows all when criteria is left as default
• #128774: "Edit exchange rate" context menu item disfunctional often
• #137017: date of transaction change with time zone change
• #339433: TiaaCref price quote dates off by one day
• #340041: 0 as an amount should be allowed in Exchange Editor
• #345980: changing Stylesheet doesn't commit
• #347274: to track the difference between budgeted and actual amounts in the budget report
• #348860: Error with saved multicolumn reports
• #405472: Unable to save changes on files opened over FUSE and sshfs
• #432457: Security/stock import should follow tutorial regarding Account Name
• #435427: "Generic import transaction matcher" dialog does not sort by date
• #436342: Currency exchange druid does not show on changed
• #436920: crash on loading OFX data for a commodity that exists without cusip field
• #492417: currency mapping of New Israeli Shekel
• #529494: Wrong fractional precision in register with multi-currency transactions
• #532889: Monthly scheduled payments preview shows wrong dates
• #536299: Fix two underlinking issues
• #539947: OpenSolaris:__FUNCTION__ not defined in sun cc
• #543332: Severe performance regression in Average Balance report
• #548218: OpenSolaris: $(expression) cause configure error on solaris
• #554042: OpenSolaris: configure fail on checking 'unsigned long is at least as big as guint32'
• #557604: date-utilities.scm typos
• #557374: MT940 import does not work
• #563160: Multicolumn report: Confusing order of "Column span" and "Row span"
• #563273: crash in GnuCash Finance Management: Starting GnuCash
• #564033: aqbanking plugin: g_module_open failed: WEXITSTATUS undefined

Other Changes

• Fix account defaulting for posting vendor bill
• Fix tax-related inconsistency in UI
• Fix the average cost price source computation for a certain case
• Add account templates: Dutch, Finnish
• Update account templates: Italian, Slovak
• Update translations: Finnish, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Slovak, Simplified Chinese

GnuCash 2.2.7 released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.2.7 aka "Dates'n'Prices", the seventh bug fix release in a series of stable releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software.

Getting GnuCash

GnuCash 2.2.7 can be downloaded from gnucash.org or sourceforge.net. It is available as source code. For the Microsoft Windows operating system there is a self-installing setup program which includes all necessary additional libraries.

To install GnuCash on other platforms, users will need Gnome 2, guile, and slib. Neither the currently used swig nor the previously used g-wrap packages are needed anymore when compiling from tarball or when installing a binary.

• http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=192 (Source code and Windows binary)
• http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/ (Source code only)

What's New in GnuCash 2.2.7?

Fixed Bugs

• #139651: Register: Split transaction with multiple currencies fails
• #309863: Balance Sheet: Rounding errors with prices from pricedb
• #341362: Price Editor: Price is displayed as fraction instead of decimal
• #376298: Price Editor: Window Contents Corrupted After Manually Adding a Price
• #378734: Drop down calendar only works once
• #430121: Incorrect Sign Symbol for Fractional Commodity/Security Sale
• #454340: Security Editor: duplicate rows after editing a security
• #454827: Reports: Incorrect share value of stocks in foreign currency
• #464771: Investment Portfolio: Report crashes without price data
• #483393: Reports: Allow mixed denominators in numeric collectors
• #504935: Add currencies XDR and XXX
• #506873: Win32: Cannot install online price retrieval with ActivePerl 5.10
• #520570: Drop-down calendar for "reconcile information" non-responsive
• #522095: Updating stock prices does not update totals shown in windows
• #526313: GnuCash does not support the new currency in Venezuela
• #529816: Supplement "CUSIP" by "ISIN", to give people outside USA a hint
• #539640: Price Editor: Security disappears from price list
• #539962: Void function cannot return value with sun cc
• #540148: GnuCash cannot be built with libgoffice-0.8
• #541970: Balance Sheet: "Nearest in time" exchange rate not correct
• #543061: Fractional not working in IDR (rupiah) currency
• #543780: Transfer Dialog: CRIT messages in gnucash.trace from exchange rate dialog
• #545316: Drop-down calendar is not clickable when posting invoice
• #545722: Can't change date in dialog boxes
• #546064: gnucash.desktop file does not comply with desktop-file-validate
• #548601: AqBanking Import: Obscuring zero balance windows after getting transactions
• #548891: QIF Import: GnuCash crashes when .gnucash/qif-accounts-map is readonly
• #549115: Popup calendar unresponsive in modal dialogs
• #549595: Silently removes main files while trying to save without lock
• #549738: Reports: Default date on aging and customer reports is too far in the future
• #551038: Reports: Alt-O shortcut in report options dialog crashes app
• #552306: Fails to save file when using a network filesystem on Mac

Other Changes

• New Finnish translation
• Complete Romanian translation
• Usability improvements in the price and the security editor
• Lower number of false positives when checking aqbanking results for failures
• Correct import of remote names, zero balances from aqbanking3
• Update translations: Catalan, Dutch, German, Italian, Polish

GnuCash 2.2.6 released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.2.6 aka "Stay@Home v3", the sixth bug fix release in a series of stable releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software.

Getting GnuCash

GnuCash 2.2.6 can be downloaded from gnucash.org or sourceforge.net. It is available as source code. For the Microsoft Windows operating system there is a self-installing setup program which includes all necessary additional libraries.

To install GnuCash on other platforms, users will need Gnome 2, guile, and slib. Neither the currently used swig nor the previously used g-wrap packages are needed anymore when compiling from tarball or when installing a binary.

• http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=192 (Source code and Windows binary)
• http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/ (Source code only)

What's New in GnuCash 2.2.6?

Fixed Bugs

• #129099: Register: Optionally show leaf names instead of full names
• #144669: Register: Shortcut to filter accounts by account number
• #313660: QIF Import: Can't stop progress on long importing process
• #336192: QIF Import: Allow new namespaces when defining new securities
• #353880: Reports: Options dialog violates HIG, add borders.
• #309359: QIF Import: "unknown Action '..'" shown many times
• #452354: Average Balance Report: Translate account type option names
• #454305: Trial Balance Report: Wrong after negative Stock Split
• #460721: Balance Sheet: Should have a "value at cost" option
• #463320: Trial Balance Report: Does not add up correctly
• #470656: Preferences, Win32: Crash when setting accounting period
• #475980: QIF Import: Forward and Back don't follow same path
• #489502: Register: Account autocompletion ignores new separator until restart
• #501490: Balance Sheet: Incorrect in presence of stock sale
• #502646: Win32: Crash entering dates before 1/1/1970 in dialogs
• #506499: Win32: Crash after online banking transfer
• #512991: Invoices: Do not allow posting to placeholder accounts
• #514210: QIF Import: Allow multiple selections for account mapping
• #515163: QIF Import: Eliminate pointless mappings
• #521403: Reports: One more option in "Price Source" in Stock Value Reports
• #526883: Transaction Report: Question marks instead of month in cyrillic locale
• #528835: Crash when creating SKR04 accounts with German locale
• #530924: Customer Report: Honor the used column list
• #531662: Budget report: Crash on #f in budget->guid
• #532405: Win32: Guile crashes on strftime formats containing %e
• #535407: QIF Import: Crash on invalid or unsupported date format
• #538800: Balance Sheet: Gives wrong results
• #539654: Reports: html-table-append-column! in html-table.scm crashes
• #539829: Build Process: qofsession.c compile warning
• #540207: Reports: Show a table of data beneath barcharts
• #542472: Reports: Period does not default to Accounting Period
• #542967: Reports: Options dialog title shows GUID

Other Changes

• New Hebrew translation
• Add support for aqbanking3
• Correct quickfill directions in transfer dialogs
• Add QIF importer support for importing to A/R and A/P account types
• QIF importer loading speedup and visual feedback, further improvements
• Avoid crashing if a report's option generating procedure causes a Scheme exception
• Make the new option Average Cost the default for several reports
• Make weighted average price source computations ignore zero amount splits
• Support calculation of unrealized gains/losses on liabilities in balance sheet
• Allow creating new accounts from the general ledger
• Fix some compiler warnings, minor build system improvements
• Update translations: Catalan, German, Russian, Traditional Chinese

GnuCash 2.2.5 released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.2.5 aka "Do what I mean", the fifth bug fix release in a series of stable releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software.

Getting GnuCash

GnuCash 2.2.5 can be downloaded from gnucash.org or sourceforge.net. It is available as source code. For the Microsoft Windows operating system there is a self-installing setup program which includes all necessary additional libraries.

To install GnuCash on other platforms, users will need Gnome 2, guile, and slib. Neither the currently used swig nor the previously used g-wrap packages are needed anymore when compiling from tarball or when installing a binary.

• http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=192 (Source code and Windows binary)
• http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/ (Source code only)

What's New in GnuCash 2.2.5?

Fixed Bugs

• #166101: Register: Topmost splits' accounts are rewritten confusingly
• #341414: QIF Import: Changing account separator breaks saved account mappings
• #341608: Transaction Report: Filtering void/non-void doesn't work
• #347474: Register: Tab goes to wrong split
• #396665: QIF Import: Detect and convert non-ascii character encoding of QIF files
• #450354: QIF Import, Win32: Can only load files from ascii paths
• #475960: Reconciliation: Postponed balances of liability accounts are not reversed correctly
• #467529: Check Printing: Align_n not working in custom check definitions
• #509089: QIF Import: Duplicates windows shown after Scheme error
• #511182: QIF Import: Saved commodity mappings lost after import to new GnuCash file
• #511231: QIF Import: Use QIF security type to provide better default namespace
• #512208: QIF Import: New commodities remain if import canceled
• #512841: Register: Crash in expression parser on nullary functions, like pmt()
• #514027: QIF Import: Commodities page is skipped if you go back to currency page
• #519988: QIF Import: Error reporting doesn't follow GnuCash guidelines
• #520606: QIF import: Memo mappings for non-split, non-investment transactions are ignored
• #521957: Auto-save not canceled on opening other files
• #522795: QIF Import: Does not support "ShtSell" or "CvrShrt" transactions
• #523194: QIF Import: Existing commodities can cause import failure
• #523922: GnuCash ships the wrong scalable icon and no small (22x22, 24x24) sizes
• #527459: QIF Import: Support voided transactions
• #527886: QIF Import: Support QIF numeric formats of 12'345.67 as produced by Quicken 4
• #529232: Average Balance Report: Reversing the starting balance distorts the numbers

Other Changes

• Add a new Liberty(tm) check format
• Show QIF import documentation by default
• Improve cancel behavior in reconciliation window
• Fix a few memory leaks
• Update translations: Brazilian Portuguese, German, Romanian, Russian, Swiss German

GnuCash 2.2.4 released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.2.4 aka "Kicking QIF", the fourth bug fix release in a series of stable releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software.

Getting GnuCash

GnuCash 2.2.4 can be downloaded from gnucash.org or sourceforge.net. It is available as source code. For the Microsoft Windows operating system there is a self-installing setup program which includes all necessary additional libraries.

To install GnuCash on other platforms, users will need Gnome 2, guile, and slib. Neither the currently used swig nor the previously used g-wrap packages are needed anymore when compiling from tarball or when installing a binary.

• http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=192 (Source code and Windows binary)
• http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/ (Source code only)

What's New in GnuCash 2.2.4?

Fixed Bugs

• #106242: qif Importer should warn users about dates before 1970
• #106383: feature request: close year end
• #123312: QIF Import: Autoselection of Stock Exchange during import
• #336211: QIF Import generates spurious duplicate transactions
• #360058: GnuCash crashes on QIF-import after changing account's separator to * (asterisk)
• #373584: Rounding error in QIF import of commodity transactions
• #454834: Memo Incorrect or missing in Transaction Report
• #457591: QIF import does not handle tabs at top of file
• #481528: QIF importer should show imported transaction as possible duplicate if original transaction is split
• #503166: QIF Import Druid Flow incorrect
• #506798: Custom Reports don't allow sorting by Account Code
• #506873: 'Install Online Price Retrieval' fails with ActivePerl 5.10
• #506810: QIF Import can mismatch account transfers
• #510221: Include Mexican Accounts
• #510630: typo in description of BUYMF transaction (OFX import)
• #510725: crash importing a .OFX file
• #510940: Unrecognized date format causes crash
• #510962: QIF transactions without dates are silently ignored
• #511006: Commodity creation skipped due to saved mappings
• #512166: doesn't build with glib-2.15.3
• #512173: Empty "match payees/memos" druid step shown
• #512497: Investment transactions ignore payee/memo mappings
• #513088: "Find" immediately unmaps window
• #513829: Investment account may be created with Stock account type
• #516178: Scheme error during progress dialog causes freeze

Other Changes

• Recognize 401k/403b in QIF import
• Remove superfluous trailing colons of de_DE SKR04 account names
• Add russian account templates
• Add Swiss German translation
• Update translations: Brazilian Portugese, German, Greek, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish

GnuCash 2.2.3 released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.2.3, the third bug fix release in a series of stable releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software. GnuCash is available on Microsoft Windows since the release of 2.2.0, and it also runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX.

Getting GnuCash

GnuCash 2.2.3 can be downloaded from gnucash.org or sourceforge.net. It is available as source code. For the Microsoft Windows operating system there is a self-installing setup program which includes all necessary additional libraries.

To install GnuCash on other platforms, users will need Gnome 2, guile, and slib. Neither the currently used swig nor the previously used g-wrap packages are needed anymore when compiling from tarball or when installing a binary.

• http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=192 (Source code and Windows binary)
• http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/ (Source code only)

What's New in GnuCash 2.2.3?

Fixed Bugs

• #114724: QIF importer drops split details for transfers with identical amount
• #463678: xfer dialog from CC auto-payment from reconcile doesn't display accounts
• #495219: QIF-Importer handles memo from transactions wrong
• #497517: Transactions set to 'c' in the R(econciled) field of the register are incorrectly set to 'n' when postponing a reconciliation
• #503889: Should install icons into expected locations
• #504007: QIF Import Druid does not allow selecting currency
• #504257: Need to replace old Afghanistan Afghani (AFA) with new Afghanistan Afghani (AFN)
• #504261: Start on W2K fails with Entry Point Not Found (KERNEL32.dll)
• #505386: Gnucash looses transactions if the file contains special characters
• #505972: SX-related segfaults in 2.2.2
• #506074: Fractional timezone offsets not always handled correctly
• #506429: "Last Day of Month" SXes saved on wrong day of week
• #506671: Add cyprus, maltese and slovenian currencies to EURO support
• #506714: progress bar during launching

Other Changes

• New Vietnamese translation
• Improve several minor strings
• Update translations: Dutch, German
• Some business report improvements regarding date parameters
• Fix gcc 4.2.x compiler warnings
• Use aqbanking pkg-config file and require < v2.9, allow goffice v0.6

GnuCash 2.2.2 released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.2.2, the second bug fix release in a series of stable releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software. GnuCash is available on Microsoft Windows since the release of 2.2.0, and it also runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX.

Getting GnuCash

GnuCash 2.2.2 can be downloaded from gnucash.org or sourceforge.net. It is available as source code. For the Microsoft Windows operating system there is a self-installing setup program which includes all necessary additional libraries.

To install GnuCash on other platforms, users will need Gnome 2, guile, and slib. Neither the currently used swig nor the previously used g-wrap packages are needed anymore when compiling from tarball or when installing a binary.

• http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=192 (Source code and Windows binary)
• http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/ (Source code only)

What's New in GnuCash 2.2.2?

Fixed Bugs:

• #336240: advanced portfolio - the basis calculation is not working properly in funds
• #343245: Advanced Portfolio gets basis wrong with stock split
• #343448: Hide unused horizontal scrollbar
• #344566: Advance Portfolio has wrong Realized Gain
• #347739: Advanced Portfolio calculates values incorrectly when it involves a capital loss
• #438360: Case-insensitive search for non-ascii characters broken
• #460232: advanced portfolio report fails
• #467521: Persistent splash screen blocks "could not obtain lock" warning
• #467532: Clipping check fields in gtkprint is not consistent with clipping in gnomeprint
• #468681: RFE: Customizable summary bar position
• #470750: src/design/*.texinfo refers to non-existent GncBooks API
• #470801: Tip Of The Day says 2.2.1 is development version
• #473827: chinese translate for gnucash account
• #475666: Missing national currency CUC
• #476189: Configure script should fail when gettext is not installed
• #481110: Win32: Crash when opening SX Editor
• #482177: Customer report shows no invoices or detail with 2nd A/Receivable
• #483796: Fancy Invoice - Report Error
• #484576: Configuration error with goffice 0.5
• #487317: QIF import druid crash when stepping back and forth from the "loaded files page" without selection
• #487326: Preferences dialog does not remove all its gconf callbacks
• #487572: advanced portfolio breaks on "Most Recent to Report"
• #488001: speed up several reports that rely on html-acct-table.scm
• #488004: provide a two-column income-statement
• #490679: GnuCash doesn't honor the GNOME toolbar settings
• #491581: Import 'Cash' Action (in Investment Accounts)
• #492137: Lot scrubber doesn't add splits to existing lots correctly
• #496023: Pressing ESC Cancels modifications whether you choose yes or no.
• #496178: gnucash segfaults with troublesome automatic transactions
• #499360: Crash when editing a commodity whose quote source timezone is set to local time
• #499788: gnucash-make-guids does not work, fails with "Unbound variable: gnc:guid-new"
• #500026: [PATCH] Report correct package for qt3-wizard
• #500427: SX creation doesn't include template transaction "Notes"
• #501059: GnuCash leaks since last run dialogs
• #502755: GnuCash hangs after modifying SX
• #503579: win32 packaging fails installing mingw

Other Changes

• Many changes to the german SKR03 and SKR04 account templates
• Include updated GNOME libraries and a patched ORBit2 in Win32 build
• Improve resizing of search and invoice posting dialogs
• Add MimeType directive for GnuCash data files
• Fix some new compiler warnings
• Add AZN [Azerbaijani Manat]
• Add COU [Colombian Unidad de Valor Real]
• Add MZN [Mozambique Metical]
• Some occurrences of "Open Source" were changed to "Free".
• Update translations: Brazilian Portugese, Czech, German, Japanese, Traditional Chinese

GnuCash 2.2.1 released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.2.1, the first bug fix release in a series of stable releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software. GnuCash is available on Microsoft Windows since the release of 2.2.0, and it also runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX.

Getting GnuCash

GnuCash 2.2.1 can be downloaded from gnucash.org or sourceforge.net. It is available as source code. For the Microsoft Windows operating system there is a self-installing setup program which includes all necessary additional libraries.

To install GnuCash on other platforms, users will need Gnome 2, guile, and slib. Neither the currently used swig nor the previously used g-wrap packages are needed anymore when compiling from tarball or when installing a binary.

• http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=192 (Source code and Windows binary)
• http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/ (Source code only)

What's New in GnuCash 2.2.1?

Fixed Bugs:

• #170729: locale-specific delimiters in scheduled transactions templates and mortgage druid
• #339260: Right-click doesn't select txn but works on the previously selected in the register
• #361604: Balance sheet report shows incorrect prices for commodities when using "nearest in time" option
• #445917: Dialog says, Click "Next"..., Button says "Forward"
• #452496: Dirtying a split does not dirty the parent txn or book
• #457027: About dialog shows wrong year in Copyright string
• #457213: Resizing SLR window causes it to show up as blank next time
• #457228: AqBanking Wizard QtCore4.dll error on WinXP, procedure entry point not found
• #457944: startup delay, keep splash screen during file loading
• #458080: RPM .spec file still depends on g-wrap
• #458567: Ship with windows gtkrc
• #458783: Doesn't start if installed into a directory with an "umlaut"
• #459259: Unshortened column-title in Scheduled Transactions editor for some locales
• #460432: Crash when running Account Report or Account Transaction Report against A/R account
• #460924: Fox for warning: the address of '*' will always evaluate as 'true'
• #462567: win32: GnuCash improperly interprets filenames as URLs and fails
• #465338: hbci module init fails on FreeBSD due to change 15799
• #468115: Save Account Tree Sort Preference

Other Changes

• Fix XPF [CFP Franc Pacifique] to not use cents, add YER [Yemeni Riyal]
• Update gnome libraries in Win32 build
• Avoid a few critical warnings and improve logging
• Completely remove FreqSpec
• Disable Close books and QSF Import again
• Update translations: British English, Catalan, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Ukrainian

GnuCash 2.2.0 released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.2.0, the new stable release of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software. With this new release series, GnuCash is available on Microsoft Windows for the first time, and it also runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX.

Download:

• http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=192 (Source code and Windows binary)
• http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/ (Source code only)

What's New in GnuCash 2.2.0?

This release has only a few user-visible new features, except for the completed port to the Microsoft Windows operating system. In summary, the following features are new, compared to the older 2.0.x series:

• Port to Microsoft Windows completed.
• Data file notice: In version 2.1.2 the format for scheduled transactions in the data file was changed. Files using the old format will be read without problems by this new version, but the new version of GnuCash only writes the new format. The new file format cannot be loaded by older versions of GnuCash. (If you try, the file will fail to be loaded with an error message.) As a result, if you begin using the new Gnucash, and you have data files with scheduled transactions, then these files will not be readable by older versions. If you have to make a new data file readable by older versions of GnuCash, this can be achived by deleting all records of scheduled transactions in the scheduled transaction editor.
• SWIG is now used instead of g-wrap for providing language bindings.
• The Scheduled Transaction list view is now improved and summarized more compactly. The Since-Last-Run dialog has been simplified.
• Check printing has been improved, with new formats and simpler format descriptions.
• Automatic saving of the data file was added

Bugfixes and improvements since the last version 2.1.5 include:

• Updated translations
• Improved DLL handling on Windows
• Improved handling of Online Banking on Windows

GnuCash 2.1.5 released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.1.5 aka "Release Candidate 2", the second release candidate for the upcoming 2.2.0 stable release of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software. With this new release series, GnuCash is available on Microsoft Windows for the first time, and it also runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX. This release is intended for developers and testers who want to help tracking down all those bugs that are still in there.

Data file notice: In version 2.1.2 the format for scheduled transactions in the data file was changed. Files using the old format will be read without problems by this new version, but the new version of GnuCash only writes the new format. The new file format cannot be loaded by older versions of GnuCash. (If you try, the file will fail to be loaded with an error message.) As a result, if you begin using the new Gnucash, and you have data files with scheduled transactions, then these files will not be readable by older versions. If you have to make a new data file readable by older versions of GnuCash, this can be achived by deleting all records of scheduled transactions in the scheduled transaction editor.

Please test any and all features important to you. Then post any bugs you find to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash

Download:

• Sourceforge (Source code and Windows binary)
• http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/unstable/2.1.x/ (Source-code only)

What's New in GnuCash 2.1.5?

This release has only a few user-visible new features, except for the completed port to the Microsoft Windows operating system. In summary, the following features are new, compared to the older 2.0.x series:

• Port to Microsoft Windows completed. Note that Windows 2000, XP, or Vista is required; GnuCash does not run on Windows 98 or 95.
• SWIG is now used instead of g-wrap for providing language bindings.
• The Scheduled Transaction list view is now improved and summarized more compactly. The Since-Last-Run dialog has been simplified.
• Check printing has been improved, with new formats and simpler format descriptions.
• Automatic saving of the data file was added

Bugfixes and improvements since the last version 2.1.4 include:

• Updated translations
• German translation of Online Banking wizard is activated on Windows
• Improvements to Windows packaging
• When adding custom reports to the menu, appropriate user feedback will be given
• Automatic saving of the data file was added

GnuCash 2.1.4 released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.1.4 aka "Release Candidate 1", the first release candidatefor the upcoming 2.2.0 stable release of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software. With this new release series, GnuCash is available on Microsoft Windows for the first time, and it also runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX. This release is intended for developers and testers who want to help tracking down all those bugs that are still in there.

DATA FILE NOTICE If you are using Scheduled Transactions, the data file saved by GnuCash 2.1.2 and higher is NOT backward-compatible with GnuCash 2.0 anymore. Please make a safe backup of your 2.0 data before upgrading to 2.1.2.

Download:

• http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/unstable/2.1.x/
• http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

What's New in GnuCash 2.1.4?

This release has only a few user-visible new features, except for the completed port to the Microsoft Windows operating system. In summary, the following features are new, compared to the older 2.0.x series:

• Port to Microsoft Windows completed. Note that Windows 2000 or newer is required; GnuCash does not run on Windows 98 or 95.
• The Scheduled Transaction code has been refactored. The Scheduled Transaction list view is now integrated into the main window, the Editor has been re-designed for compactness, and the Since-Last-Run dialog has been simplified.
• SWIG is now used instead of g-wrap for providing language bindings.
• Check printing has been improved, with new formats and simpler format descriptions.
• DATA FILE NOTICE If you are using Scheduled Transactions, the data file saved by GnuCash 2.1.2 and higher is NOT backward-compatible with GnuCash 2.0 anymore because of extensions in the file format. Please make a safe backup of your 2.0 data before upgrading to 2.1.3.

Bugfixes and improvements since the last version 2.1.3 include:

• Bugfixes with the graphical reports
• Fixing the Online Banking wizard
• Updated translations
• Improvements to Windows packaging

GnuCash 2.1.3 released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.1.3 aka "at last!", the fourth of several unstable 2.1.x releases of the GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.2.0. With this new release series, GnuCash is available on Microsoft Windows for the first time, and it also runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX. This release is intended for developers and testers who want to help tracking down all those bugs that are still in there.

DATA FILE NOTICE If you are using Scheduled Transactions, the data file saved by GnuCash 2.1.2 and higher is NOT backward-compatible with GnuCash 2.0 anymore. Please make a safe backup of your 2.0 data before upgrading to 2.1.2.

Download:

• http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/unstable/2.1.x/
• http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

What's New in GnuCash 2.1.3?

This release has only a few user-visible new features, except for the completed port to the Microsoft Windows operating system. In summary, the following features are new, compared to the older 2.0.x series:

• Port to Microsoft Windows completed.
• The Scheduled Transaction code has been refactored. The Scheduled Transaction list view is now integrated into the main window, the Editor has been re-designed for compactness, and the Since-Last-Run dialog has been simplified.
• SWIG is now used instead of g-wrap for providing language bindings.
• Check printing has been improved, with new formats and simpler format descriptions.
• DATA FILE NOTICE If you are using Scheduled Transactions, the data file saved by GnuCash 2.1.2 and higher is NOT backward-compatible with GnuCash 2.0 anymore because of extensions in the file format. Please make a safe backup of your 2.0 data before upgrading to 2.1.2.

Bugfixes and improvements since the last version 2.1.2 include:

• Fixes to crashes and slowness in Scheduled Transaction Editor
• Fix to crash when editing style sheets and selecting images using Windows version
• Fix crash on QIF import with german umlaut
• Updated translations
• Improvements to Windows packaging

GnuCash 2.1.2 released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.1.2 aka "Financially secure yet?", the third of several unstable 2.1.x releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.2.0. With this new release series, GnuCash is available on Microsoft Windows for the first time, and it also runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX. This release is intended for developers and testers who want to help tracking down all those bugs that are still in there. With this release, the 2.1.x series will go into string freeze for translators to update their translations until 2.2.0 comes out.

DATA FILE NOTICE If you are using Scheduled Transactions, the data file saved by GnuCash 2.1.2 and higher is NOT backward-compatible with GnuCash 2.0 anymore. Please make a safe backup of your 2.0 data before upgrading to 2.1.2.

Download:

• http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/unstable/2.1.x/
• http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

What's New in GnuCash 2.1.2?

This release has only a few user-visible new features, except for the completed port to the Microsoft Windows operating system. In summary, the following features are new, compared to the older 2.0.x series:

• Port to Microsoft Windows completed.
• The Scheduled Transaction code has been refactored. The Scheduled Transaction list view is now integrated into the main window, and the Since-Last-Run dialog has been simplified.
• SWIG is now used instead of g-wrap for providing language bindings.
• Check printing has been improved, with new formats and simpler format descriptions.
• DATA FILE NOTICE If you are using Scheduled Transactions, the data file saved by GnuCash 2.1.2 and higher is NOT backward-compatible with GnuCash 2.0 anymore because of extensions in the file format. Please make a safe backup of your 2.0 data before upgrading to 2.1.2.

Bugfixes and improvements since the last version 2.1.1 include:

• Internal GObject integration is much more advanced by now
• Crash on OFX import crashing has been fixed
• Windows timezone problems fixed
• Some memory leaks have been fixed

GnuCash 2.1.1 released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.1.1 aka "Bug-begone", the second of several unstable 2.1.x releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.2.0. With this new release series, GnuCash is available on Microsoft Windows for the first time, and it also runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX. This release is intended for developers and testers who want to help tracking down all those bugs that are still in there.

WARNING: Make sure you make backups of any files used in testing versions of GnuCash in the 2.1.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 any and all features important to you. Then post any bugs you find to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash

Download:

• http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/unstable/2.1.x/
• http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

What's New in GnuCash 2.1.1?

Compared to the 2.0.x series, there are only very few user-visible new features, except for the completed port to the Microsoft Windows operating system. Minor new features compared to the 2.0.x series are

• The Scheduled Transaction Editor and Management dialogs have been integrated into the overall GnuCash User Interface to give the user a more consistent experience in creating scheduled transactions.
• Internally, the programming language wrappers are no longer being generated by the not-so-well-maintained package "g-wrap" but instead by the well-established wrapper generator "SWIG". In effect, gnucash does no longer depend on g-wrap anymore but uses SWIG now.
• New printing formats for check printing

Bugfixes and improvements since the last version 2.1.0 include:

• Start-up behaviour has been improved: Windows size is better, splash screen can be clicked away
• OFX DirectConnect import uses correct ID fields for transaction matching
• More Scheduled Transactions bugs have been fixed
• Windows: Reading/writing to compressed data files has been tested more thoroughly and fixed in various places
• Windows: Crash on changing default currencies fixed

Caveats for testers:

• Any 2.1.x version might crash unexpectedly at any point during runtime. If you test some serious work in a 2.1.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?

• 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 2.2.0 release in a few weeks. 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. Please see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development on how to get involved.
• Translating: The new release comes with some new translation strings. If you consider contributing a translation, we invite you to test this release already. A string freeze will be announced in one of the later 2.1.x releases. Please check http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status for updates on this.

Getting GnuCash

GnuCash 2.1.1 can be downloaded from gnucash.org or sourceforge.net. It is available as source code. For the Microsoft Windows operating system, a self-installing setup program is available which includes all necessary additional libraries.

To install GnuCash, users will need Gnome 2, guile, and slib. Neither the currently used swig nor the previously used g-wrap packages are needed when compiling from tarball or when installing a binary.

• http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash
• http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/unstable/2.1.x/

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, Mac OSX, and Microsoft Windows. It is collaboratively developed by 12 people from over 5 countries.

Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.

This Saturday, April 21st, we're going to have the first GnuCash Bug Day.

Of course, you're welcome to help triage, find, file and even resolve bugs at any point, but this Saturday we're going to focus on this explicitly, and would like your time and support to do so.

The primary things to do this Bug Day are:

• Join irc://irc.gnome.org/gnucash
• Help with any/all of the following
  • Testing the 2.1.0 release (or SVN)
  • Triage and confirming bugs

Specifically, we need to focus on the areas that the 2.1 code touched heavily:

• running the whole app on Windows
• reports (core and business)
• check printing
• scheduled transactions: data file reading/writing and UI

Bug Day will be ongoing from 15:00 - 22:00 UTC in #gnucash on irc.gnome.org ... please join us there!

GnuCash 2.1.0 released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.1.0 aka "Opening Windows", the first of several unstable 2.1.x releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.2.0. With this new release series, GnuCash is available on Microsoft Windows for the first time, and it also runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX. This release is intended for developers and testers who want to help tracking down all those bugs that are still in there.

WARNING WARNING WARNING - Make sure you make backups of any files used in testing versions of GnuCash in the 2.1.x series. Although the developers go to great lengths to ensure that no data will be lost we cannot guarentee 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

Major changes in this release include;

• GnuCash has been ported to the Microsoft Windows OS.
• Improved Scheduled Transaction editor and management dialogs.
• Internally, the programming language wrappers are no longer being generated by the not-so-well-maintained package "g-wrap" but instead by the well-established wrapper generator "SWIG". In effect, gnucash does no longer depend on g-wrap anymore but uses SWIG now.
• New printing formats for check printing.
• GtkPrint integrated.

Caveats for Testers

Any 2.1.x version might crash unexpectedly at any point during runtime. If you test some serious work in a 2.1.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.

Translating: The new release comes with some new translation strings. If you consider contributing a translation, we invite you to test this release already. A string freeze will be announced in one of the later 2.1.x releases. Please check http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status for updates on this.

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 2.2.0 release in a few weeks. Then post any bugs you find to bugzilla

Getting GnuCash

GnuCash 2.1.0 can be downloaded from sourceforge.net. It is available as source code.

To install GnuCash, users will need Gnome 2, guile, slib and swig.

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

http://www.gnucash.org

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 and Mac OSX. It is collaboratively developed by 10 people from over 5 countries.

Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.

GnuCash 2.0.5 released

Personal and small business accounting in GNU/Linux will be easier and better after today's release of GnuCash 2.0.5.

This release of the free, open source accounting program improves on the generational advances in the last version. GnuCash 2.0 is based on state-of-the-art gtk2 GUI technology. Developers worked hard to integrate the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) for a consistent behaviour and look-and-feel for the whole Desktop.

Major changes in this release include;

• Fix some strings not being translated.
• Use guiles native sort and record.
• Adjust how payment dialog resizes.
• Don't abort when F::Q fails to return a quote.
• Change Russian Ruble from RUR to RUB.
• The New Turkish Lira changed from TRL to TRY.
• Fix security problem with tmp filesystem and symlink attack.
• Add French and Canadian French translation updates.
• Do not crash on delete_event in new user dialog.
• Add sanity checks when accessing GncPluginPage.
• Make new windows the same size as the active one.

The GnuCash development team said these new features and changes will make GnuCash easier than ever for newcomers.

GnuCash is the leading free, open source accounting program and the leap to gtk2 will enable users to be able to enjoy cutting edge functionality with the freedom of not being locked into proprietory file formats.

Playing With Others

As with other leading GNU/Linux software that is designed to replace proprietory programs, GnuCash is a functional replacement for expensive accounting programs. Like OpenOffice.org and The Gimp, GnuCash is also programmed to communicate and interact with as many existing programs, institutions and people as possible.

The GnuCash development team has continued to improve file import filters, which allow users to import work from old programs like Microsoft Money and Quicken. GnuCash can load QIF and QFX files, which are used by both of those programs.

Developers have also continued to incorporate support for online banking into the program. GnuCash 2.0 supports OFX DirectConnect which can directly retrieve and import account statements over the Internet.

Ths release is available in 29 languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Norwegian, so people from around the world will have no difficulty operating the program

Off on the Right Foot

Users of GnuCash 2.0 will notice a few changes when they start the program. Improvements have been made on startup speed, scheduled transactions, currency support and currency quote retrievals.

After they enter the program, users will find a double-ledger account system, exhaustive report options and account hierarchy tools. Also at their disposal is a full system of tutorials and documentation.

Getting GnuCash

GnuCash 2.0 can be downloaded from sourceforge.net. It is available as source code.

To install GnuCash, users will need Gnome 2, guile, slib and g-wrap.

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

http://www.gnucash.org

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 and Mac OSX. It is collaboratively developed by 10 people from over 5 countries.

Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.

GnuCash 2.0.4 released

Personal and small business accounting in GNU/Linux will be easier and better after today's release of GnuCash 2.0.4.

This release of the free, open source accounting program improves on the generational advances in the last version. GnuCash 2.0 is based on state-of-the-art gtk2 GUI technology. Developers worked hard to integrate the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) for a consistent behaviour and look-and-feel for the whole Desktop.

Major changes in this release include;

• Correct account compatibility check with top level account.
• Check for potentially failed utf8 conversion of locale strings.
• Fix crash when accessing the File Properties Menu.
• Avoid crash when renaming page in a page-less window.
• Save and restore the visibility of the toolbar, statusbar, and summarybar.

The GnuCash development team said these new features and changes will make GnuCash easier than ever for newcomers.

GnuCash is the leading free, open source accounting program and the leap to gtk2 will enable users to be able to enjoy cutting edge functionality with the freedom of not being locked into proprietory file formats.

Playing With Others

As with other leading GNU/Linux software that is designed to replace proprietory programs, GnuCash is a functional replacement for expensive accounting programs. Like OpenOffice.org and The Gimp, GnuCash is also programmed to communicate and interact with as many existing programs, institutions and people as possible.

The GnuCash development team has continued to improve file import filters, which allow users to import work from old programs like Microsoft Money and Quicken. GnuCash can load QIF and QFX files, which are used by both of those programs.

Developers have also continued to incorporate support for online banking into the program. GnuCash 2.0 supports OFX DirectConnect which can directly retrieve and import account statements over the Internet.

Ths release is available in 29 languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Norwegian, so people from around the world will have no difficulty operating the program

Off on the Right Foot

Users of GnuCash 2.0 will notice a few changes when they start the program. Improvements have been made on startup speed, scheduled transactions, currency support and currency quote retrievals.

After they enter the program, users will find a double-ledger account system, exhaustive report options and account hierarchy tools. Also at their disposal is a full system of tutorials and documentation.

Getting GnuCash

GnuCash 2.0 can be downloaded from sourceforge.net. It is available as source code.

To install GnuCash, users will need Gnome 2, guile, slib and g-wrap.

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

http://www.gnucash.org

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 and Mac OSX. It is collaboratively developed by 10 people from over 5 countries.

Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.

GnuCash 2.0.3 released

Personal and small business accounting in GNU/Linux will be easier and better after today's release of GnuCash 2.0.3.

This release of the free, open source accounting program improves on the generational advances in the last version. GnuCash 2.0 is based on state-of-the-art gtk2 GUI technology. Developers worked hard to integrate the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) for a consistent behaviour and look-and-feel for the whole Desktop.

Major changes in this release include;

• Fix for crashes on Solaris and Windows.
• Fix for crash on quit during save.
• Fix a bug so that blank transactions are marked as pending.
• When progress bar is showing, do not make menus and toolbars insensitive, but rather the underlying action groups.
• Save window size and position of the transfer dialog.
• Fix for UTF-8 bug in month name.
• Fix missing date when reconciling from HBCI.
• Fix some scheme inexact errors.
• Inform the user about 'gnucash-docs' package when Help is selected with no content.
• Translation updates: British English, French, German

The GnuCash development team said these new features and changes will make GnuCash easier than ever for newcomers.

GnuCash is the leading free, open source accounting program and the leap to gtk2 will enable users to be able to enjoy cutting edge functionality with the freedom of not being locked into proprietory file formats.

Playing With Others

As with other leading GNU/Linux software that is designed to replace proprietory programs, GnuCash is a functional replacement for expensive accounting programs. Like OpenOffice.org and The Gimp, GnuCash is also programmed to communicate and interact with as many existing programs, institutions and people as possible.

The GnuCash development team has continued to improve file import filters, which allow users to import work from old programs like Microsoft Money and Quicken. GnuCash can load QIF and QFX files, which are used by both of those programs.

Developers have also continued to incorporate support for online banking into the program. GnuCash 2.0 supports OFX DirectConnect which can directly retrieve and import account statements over the Internet.

Ths release is available in 29 languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Norwegian, so people from around the world will have no difficulty operating the program

Off on the Right Foot

Users of GnuCash 2.0 will notice a few changes when they start the program. Improvements have been made on startup speed, scheduled transactions, currency support and currency quote retrievals.

After they enter the program, users will find a double-ledger account system, exhaustive report options and account hierarchy tools. Also at their disposal is a full system of tutorials and documentation.

Getting GnuCash

GnuCash 2.0 can be downloaded from sourceforge.net. It is available as source code.

To install GnuCash, users will need Gnome 2, guile, slib and g-wrap.

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

http://www.gnucash.org

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 and Mac OSX. It is collaboratively developed by 10 people from over 5 countries.

Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.

GnuCash 2.0.2 released

Personal and small business accounting in GNU/Linux will be easier and better after today's release of GnuCash 2.0.2.

This release of the free, open source accounting program improves on the generational advances in the last version. GnuCash 2.0 is based on state-of-the-art gtk2 GUI technology. Developers worked hard to integrate the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) for a consistent behaviour and look-and-feel for the whole Desktop.

Major changes in this release include;

• Fix Makefiles for .schemas file installation. Find absolute path of gconftool-2 during configure. Make gconftool rules to fail if gconftool-2 could not be found.
• String fixes that have been delayed due to the string freeze. Update so that bug-buddy 2.16 will still allow you to file bugs against gnucash.
• Add a tip for raising the accounts menu in a register page. Maintain the account hierarchy when reparenting the descendants of a deleted account.
• If the file type wasn't recognized, check whether this failed because of no read permission and give appropriate user feedback. Avoid crash from opening transaction in more than one register. Add the ability to override the default sort.
• Improve wording for XML data file import druid. Double-check really every string from aqbanking for valid utf-8 characters.
• Fixed crashers in editing a transaction in two registers, hitting esc twice in the transfer dialog and in generating a transaction report in an empty session.
• Translation updates: de, en_GB, fr, hu, ne

GnuCash Docs 2.0.1 released

Major changes in this release include;

• Updates to help by Dave Herman.
• Fixed author accreditation in files.

The GnuCash development team said these new features and changes will make GnuCash easier than ever for newcomers.

GnuCash is the leading free, open source accounting program and the leap to gtk2 will enable users to be able to enjoy cutting edge functionality with the freedom of not being locked into proprietory file formats.

Playing With Others

As with other leading GNU/Linux software that is designed to replace proprietory programs, GnuCash is a functional replacement for expensive accounting programs. Like OpenOffice.org and The Gimp, GnuCash is also programmed to communicate and interact with as many existing programs, institutions and people as possible.

The GnuCash development team has continued to improve file import filters, which allow users to import work from old programs like Microsoft Money and Quicken. GnuCash can load QIF and QFX files, which are used by both of those programs.

Developers have also continued to incorporate support for online banking into the program. GnuCash 2.0 supports OFX DirectConnect which can directly retrieve and import account statements over the Internet.

Ths release is available in 29 languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Norwegian, so people from around the world will have no difficulty operating the program

Off on the Right Foot

Users of GnuCash 2.0 will notice a few changes when they start the program. Improvements have been made on startup speed, scheduled transactions, currency support and currency quote retrievals.

After they enter the program, users will find a double-ledger account system, exhaustive report options and account hierarchy tools. Also at their disposal is a full system of tutorials and documentation.

Getting GnuCash

GnuCash 2.0 can be downloaded from sourceforge.net. It is available as source code.

To install GnuCash, users will need Gnome 2, guile, slib and g-wrap.

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

http://www.gnucash.org

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 and Mac OSX. It is collaboratively developed by 10 people from over 5 countries.

Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.

GnuCash 2.0.1 released

Personal and small business accounting in GNU/Linux will be easier and better after today's release of GnuCash 2.0.1.

This release of the free, open source accounting program improves on the generational advances in the last version. GnuCash 2.0 is based on state-of-the-art gtk2 GUI technology. Developers worked hard to integrate the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) for a consistent behaviour and look-and-feel for the whole Desktop.

Major changes in this release include;

• Check for (g-wrap) module, apparently some distributions ship g-wrap-config separately from the g-wrap.scm guile module. Check for SLIB.
• Correctly set column sort orders from gconf. Allow proper compile/install from tarball using separate builddir.
• Fixed bug where OFX/HBCI imports loose spaces in descriptions. Ignore any unknown !Option in QIF files that are being imported. Allow comma-radix numbers without a radix. Replace the hbox separating debits from credits in the reconciliation window by a homogeneous table. Remove obsolete buttons for aqbanking/hbci setup that are unneeded.
• Fixed problem when booking an invoice with account name using account separator character. Set the summary bar values when the invoice window is first opened. Properly round invoice entries and totals.
• Changed Since-Last-Run default to automatically run at GnuCash start.
• Change cmdline warning into an actual user's error dialog when user attempts to save a report with the same name as an existing report.

The GnuCash development team said these new features and changes will make GnuCash easier than ever for newcomers.

GnuCash is the leading free, open source accounting program and the leap to gtk2 will enable users to be able to enjoy cutting edge functionality with the freedom of not being locked into proprietory file formats.

Playing With Others

As with other leading GNU/Linux software that is designed to replace proprietory programs, GnuCash is a functional replacement for expensive accounting programs. Like OpenOffice.org and The Gimp, GnuCash is also programmed to communicate and interact with as many existing programs, institutions and people as possible.

The GnuCash development team has continued to improve file import filters, which allow users to import work from old programs like Microsoft Money and Quicken. GnuCash can load QIF and QFX files, which are used by both of those programs.

Developers have also continued to incorporate support for online banking into the program. GnuCash 2.0 supports OFX DirectConnect which can directly retrieve and import account statements over the Internet.

Ths release is available in 29 languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Norwegian, so people from around the world will have no difficulty operating the program

Off on the Right Foot

Users of GnuCash 2.0 will notice a few changes when they start the program. Improvements have been made on startup speed, scheduled transactions, currency support and currency quote retrievals.

After they enter the program, users will find a double-ledger account system, exhaustive report options and account hierarchy tools. Also at their disposal is a full system of tutorials and documentation.

Getting GnuCash

GnuCash 2.0 can be downloaded from sourceforge.net. It is available as source code.

To install GnuCash, users will need Gnome 2, guile, slib and g-wrap.

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

http://www.gnucash.org

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 and Mac OSX. It is collaboratively developed by 10 people from over 5 countries.

Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.

Accounting in GNU/Linux Leaps Forward

GnuCash 2.0.0 milestone released to public

Personal and small business accounting in GNU/Linux will be easier and better after today's release of GnuCash 2.0.0.

This milestone release of the free, open source accounting program includes generational advances over the last version. GnuCash 2.0.0 is based on state-of-the-art gtk2 GUI technology. Developers worked hard to integrate the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) for a consistent behaviour and look-and-feel for the whole Desktop.

Major changes in the milestone release include;

• OFX DirectConnect which can directly retrieve and import account statements over the Internet.
• A "Hide account" feature to keep a better overview of your current accounts tabbed window functionality.
• The ability to create budgets within GnuCash using your account data.
• Support for Accounting Periods.
• The data file format has been improved with respect to international characters. Data files with international characters can be transferred to other countries flawlessly.
• GnuCash Help and Guide are now fully integrated with the GNOME Help system (Yelp).

The GnuCash development team said these new features and changes will make GnuCash easier than ever for newcomers.

GnuCash is the leading free, open source accounting program and the leap to gtk2 will enable users to be able to enjoy cutting edge functionality with the freedom of not being locked into proprietory file formats.

Playing With Others

As with other leading GNU/Linux software that is designed to replace proprietory programs, GnuCash is a functional replacement for expensive accounting programs. Like OpenOffice.org and The Gimp, GnuCash is also programmed to communicate and interact with as many existing programs, institutions and people as possible.

The GnuCash development team has continued to improve file import filters, which allow users to import work from old programs like Microsoft Money and Quicken. GnuCash can load QIF and QFX files, which are used by both of those programs.

Developers have also continued to incorporate support for online banking into the program. GnuCash 2.0.0 supports OFX DirectConnect which can directly retrieve and import account statements over the Internet.

The milestone release is available in 29 languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Norwegian, so people from around the world will have no difficulty operating the program

Off on the Right Foot

Users of the GnuCash 2.0.0 will notice a few changes when they start the program. Improvements have been made on startup speed, scheduled transactions, currency support and currency quote retrievals.

After they enter the program, users will find a double-ledger account system, exhaustive report options and account hierarchy tools. Also at their disposal is a full system of tutorials and documentation.

Getting GnuCash

GnuCash 2.0.0 can be downloaded from gnucash.org. It is available as source code.

To install GnuCash, users will need Gnome 2, guile, slib and g-wrap.

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

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 and Mac OSX. It is collaboratively developed by 10 people from over 5 countries.

Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 1.9.8 aka "Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash", the first release candidate 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.

What's New in GnuCash 1.9.8?

• 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:
  • More Register fixes.
  • Restore the business reports menu.
  • QIF import and HBCI fixes.
  • Fixes for currencies.
  • Fixes to business invoices.
  • General UI fixes.

Caveats

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, most 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 and help us discover all bugs that might show up. 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.

Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

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.

What's New in GnuCash 1.9.7?

o 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

o 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.

o 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.

o Major bugfixes include -

• Hide not finished funtionality for the 2.0 release.
• Fixes to lots functionality.
• Fixes to XML import.
• Patches to work with guile 1.8.
• HBCI fixes.
• Many updated translations.
• New splash screen from Joshua Facemyer / Impressus Art.
• Fix the help file names now the docs are xml instead of html.
• Fixes for MacOS and Windows builds.
• Fixes to progress bar.
• UTF8 fixes.
• Fixes for glib 2.6.

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

Caveats

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, most 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 and help us discover all bugs that might show up. 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.

Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 1.9.6 aka "Time to make a difference", the first 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 sixth unstable release.

What's New in GnuCash 1.9.6?

o 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

o 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.

o 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.

o Major bugfixes include -

• More Register fixes.
• Fixes to Scheduled Transactions.
• Many Report fixes.
• Many updated translations.
• New icons.
• Fixes to lots functionality.
• Fixes to logging.
• Many Qof fixes.
• Fixes to budgeting.
• HBCI fixes.

Caveats

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, most 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 and help us discover all bugs that might show up. 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.

Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 1.9.5 aka "The final countdown begins", the sixth 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 fifth release but is still only intended for developers and adventurous testers who want to help tracking down bugs.

What's New in GnuCash 1.9.5?

o 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.

o 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

o 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.

o Major bugfixes include -

• More Register fixes.
• Fixes to Scheduled Transactions
• Report fixes
• Make the entire UI insensitive when the progress bar is showing.
• Fixes for currencies and currency quote retrievals.
• Lots of Qof fixes.
• Profiling fixes to improve speed and response.
• Memory leak fixes.
• Fixes for 64-bit compiles.
• Add a per-account "hidden" flag.
• Fixes to compile with gcc4.
• Fixes to xml file format.

Caveats

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.

Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 1.9.4 aka "Better late than never", the fifth 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 fourth release but is still only intended for developers and adventurous testers who want to help tracking down bugs.

What's New in GnuCash 1.9.4?

o 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.

o 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

o 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.

o Major bugfixes include -

• More Register fixes.
• Fixes to Scheduled Transactions
• Report fixes
• Add support for renumbering the account codes for all the children of a given account.
• Fixes to the hierarchy druid.
• Regularize capitalization of the word 'GnuCash' where its user visible.
• Fixes for Scheduled Transactions.
• Added new toolbar icons and buttons.
• Fix the lack of action strings in the popup menu.
• Add a context menu to the reconcile window.
• Fix the dialog so that the 'Cancel' button cancels all changes made since the dialog was opened.
• Fixes for currencies and currency quote retrievals.

Caveats

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.

Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 1.9.3 aka "Mo money, Mo problemss", 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.

What's New in GnuCash 1.9.3?

o 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.

o 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

o 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.

o Major bugfixes include -

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

Caveats

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.

Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 1.9.2 aka "With extra flavor enhancements", the third 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 second release but is still only intended for developers and adventurous testers who want to help tracking down bugs.

What's New in GnuCash 1.9.2?

o 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.

o 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

o 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.

o Major bugfixes include -

• More Register fixes.
• HIGify the scheduled transaction dialogs.
• Fix the qof configure test for OSX.
• Compile cleanly with when _FORTIFY_SOURCE is defined. This definition is forced when building RPMs on FC4.
• Catch and defer the quit command if a file save is in progress.
• Disable quote related functionality when F::Q isn't installed.
• Lots of Qof fixes.
• Add ebuild for gnucash 1.9/2.0 series.
• Fix x-axis labeling and other barchart improvements.
• Get MT940 importer to compile again (experimental; requires aqbanking-1.9.7). It is not yet tested with actual files.
• Menu and toolbar fixes.
• Remember the order in which the notebook tabs are referenced.
• Updates to business invoicing functionality.
• Fix Chart of Accounts export so it works again.
• Add support for using multi-byte unicode thousands separator and decimal point characters when printing numbers.
• Lots of fixes to splits and transaction editing.
• Added new icons.

Caveats

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.

Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 1.9.1 aka "So we meet again", the second 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 first release but is still only intended for developers and adventurous testers who want to help tracking down bugs.

What's New in GnuCash 1.9.1?

o 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.

o 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

o 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.

o Major bugfixes include -

• Register fixes
• Finance::Quote issues
• Correctly open an account and its sub-accounts.
• Change the reports from using a hard-coded fiscal year to using the global accounting period set in the preferences. Both the start date and the end date are used, so the user is free to choose any arbitrary period.
• Use the price nearest to midday to get the value in the default currency.
• Make the desktop more HIG-compliant.
• Patch to prevent crash when voiding a transaction.
• Aqbanking updates
• Report fixes
• Autodetect OFX and use it if we find it.
• Qof fixes

Caveats

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.

Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 1.9.0 aka "We're gonna make it!", the first 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 is the very first of the gtk2-based GnuCash series, and is intended for developers and adventurous testers who want to help tracking down all those bugs that are still in there.

What's New in GnuCash 1.9.0?

o Welcome to GnuCash 1.9.0 aka "We're gonna make it!" the first of several unstable releases of the GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.0.0. This release is the very first of the gtk2-based GnuCash series and is intended for developers and adventurous testers who want to help tracking down bugs.

o 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 guarentee that your data will not be affected if for some reason GnuCash crashes in testing these releases.

o 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

o 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.

o PS I'm not going to list the many features changed or updated in this release because obviously there is so much that has changed.

Caveats

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.

Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org
http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash development team proudly announces a new stable release of the GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software version 1.8.12, which is expected to be the very last release of the gtk1-based gnucash-1.8.x series. The next release series of gnucash will be based on gtk2/gnome2, and the first pre-release packages are expected to be released this December.



FAQ: "Is this a gnome2 application?" A: "No." This release still belongs to GnuCash's 1.8.x series which is not yet ported to gtk2/gnome2. Read more below.
What's New in GnuCash 1.8.12?
o Online Banking/HBCI improvements: Debit notes are fixed again; Bank-internal money transfers are now supported, if the HBCI bank offers them; Setup wizard can now works with HBCI, OFX-Connect, and other AqBanking backends; Fix character encoding issues in utf-8 locales; Fix date interval in the import transaction matcher for OFX and HBCI import; Fix PIN entry bug.
o New currencies added: Romanian Leu, Bulgarian Lev, Malagasy Ariary
o Fix problem with long date formats in some locales
o Add configure macros for mips, mipsel, arm, and m68k; Fix compilation on OpenBSD 64bit architectures
o Updated translations: German, Italian, Kinyarwanda
FAQ: "Is this a gnome2 application?"
A: "No." This release still belongs to GnuCash's 1.8.x series which is not yet ported to gtk2/gnome2. In other words, this release is still based on gtk1.2/gnome1. The developers are working on a gtk2/gnome2 version of GnuCash, but it still takes a lot of time.
See http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnuCashPortingStatus for the status of the Gtk2 port. GnuCash makes use of several custom widgets as well as the Guppi graphing library. To port to gtk2 involves rewriting those widgets (e.g. the ledger, or the account hierarchy which uses GtkCTree) into the appropriate GTK2 widgets and would require the changing of the graphing code to probably use Jody's new gnome-office-graph code in Gnumeric (Guppi was never ported to gtk2 and is a dead project). But given that the GnuCash team is extremely short on programmers, the process has to exist in parallel to existing product improvements, resulting in a very gradual porting process.
If you can code C, by all means, volunteer your time, see http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnuCashDevelopment

Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash development team proudly announces a new stable release of the GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software version 1.8.11.


FAQ: "Is this a gnome2 application?" A: "No." This release still belongs to GnuCash's 1.8.x series which is not yet ported to gtk2/gnome2. Read more below.
What's New in GnuCash 1.8.11?
o Business invoices: Properly accumulate splits (bug #165053)
o Fix backup file naming; now existing files will no longer be accidentally overwritten (bug #164875)
o HBCI: enable debit notes again
o HBCI initialization problems fixed
o Fix the last-day-of-month computation for leap years.
FAQ: "Is this a gnome2 application?"
A: "No." This release still belongs to GnuCash's 1.8.x series which is not yet ported to gtk2/gnome2. In other words, this release is still based on gtk1.2/gnome1. The developers are working on a gtk2/gnome2 version of GnuCash, but it still takes a lot of time.
See http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnuCashPortingStatus for the status of the Gtk2 port. GnuCash makes use of several custom widgets as well as the Guppi graphing library. To port to gtk2 involves rewriting those widgets (e.g. the ledger, or the account hierarchy which uses GtkCTree) into the appropriate GTK2 widgets and would require the changing of the graphing code to probably use Jody's new gnome-office-graph code in Gnumeric (Guppi was never ported to gtk2 and is a dead project). But given that the GnuCash team is extremely short on programmers, the process has to exist in parallel to existing product improvements, resulting in a very gradual porting process.
If you can code C, by all means, volunteer your time, see http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnuCashDevelopment

Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash team is pleased to announce the release of stable version 1.8.10.

What's New in GnuCash 1.8.10?


o Don't use C++/C99 declarations. Declare variables at the top of the function.
o Updated British English, Czech, Italian, Russian, German, Brazilian Portugese, Dutch, French, Spanish, translations.
o Fabien COELHO's zero-balance patch to remove accounts of zero balance from the report.
o Fix a broken recursion problem. Don't call show-acct? from use-acct? so we don't recurse ad flictum. This recursive call isn't necessary, just have use-acct? recurse unto itself.
o look in ${srcdir} for build-config.scm.in
o Work around problems with libltdl3.
o don't automatically try to (require 'format), so gnucash will build on an slib-3 system.
o Added quote sources for Indian Mutual Funds.
o Skip the case when a token is the empty string. This caused many warnings about a NULL kvp_frame lookup.
o Luigi Ballabio's automake patch to gnucash.m4
o guile-1.6 complains about string->symbol when passed a symbol.
o applied Vasil's patch to improve the transaction report for HTML export purposes.
o Backport of CVS-head changes to improve register open performance when working with large account trees (>500 accounts). The new code caches the quickfill tree so that it is shared by all register windows.
o create gnc:current-saved-reports, as the file to store saved reports from cstim. Autoload the saved-reports file at startup (after config.user/config.auto is loaded).
o Added gnc:report-generate-saved-forms that will generate the scheme code necessary to create a new report from the saved options of an old report.
o Added example Menu item "File -> Save all reports" that will call the new report saving function for all reports. This would need more work so that not all reports are saved but only the currently selected one -- any volunteer may feel free to add that.
o Fix saving of report: It now appends to ~/.gnucash/saved-reports-1.8 Statusbar tip is now more verbose.
o Add toolbar element for saving the current report.
o Add function for saving one particular report to the ~/.gnucash/saved-reports-1.8 file. Add extra menu only for customized reports.
o Remove the previous function for saving all reports since it is no longer necessary.
o Apply David Reiser's patch for Quicken(tm) cheques with stub.
o Apply David Grant's patch to add TD Efunds.
o make the desktop file HIG compliant.
o change the gtkhtml order to search for >= 1.1 before < 1.1, in order to try to fix #84707 on systems with multiple versions of gtkhtml.
o Perry Smith's Null Account Patch. Make sure the security is a real string before appending an account separator, so we don't try to create a "null" account.
o Add option to include zero-amount splits in computations.
o fix xaccAccountGetBalanceAsOfDate() to properly compute the balance at the end of the split list.
o Major change for HBCI, back-ported from HEAD. The HBCI online banking is no longer based on the openhbci library but instead on the aqbanking library http://sf.net/projects/aqbanking which is Martin Preuss' successor of openhbci. This means that now aqbanking-0.9.5 is required instead of any openhbci package.
o Fixes for x86_64
o Update for new LibOfx, this among other things, gives gnucash Microsoft OFC support.
o Duplicate match tweaks in import code
o Andreas Rottmann's patch to support g-wrap 1.9.
o provide a default account name so we don't crash when someone imports a broken QIF that has a !Account without an account name.
o Daniel Lindenaar's patch to implement a check-box in the Invoice Post Dialog (with a default in the File Preferences) to choose to accumulate splits when posting an invoice, or post a 1:1 mapping.
o Phil Longstaff's patch to prevent duplicate pricedb entries.
o Heath Martin's x86_64 patch
o Mark search criteria for translation -- somehow this had been missed all the time.
o Change currency mnemonic for "New Israeli Shekel" from "ILS" to "NIS".
o Identified and fixed several places with untranslated strings.
o Add configure check for libofx version 0.7.0 and respective error message. Update docs.
o Improve importer performance by matching imported transactions only against transactions in the proper time interval.
o send an event when a payment is processed so the invoice gets updated as "paid" in the search window.
o Make sure we set the proper search-type when we create the query, otherwise the search will fail later.


Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

DWI, at http://dwi.sourceforge.net, is a framework for simplifying the developement of data-driven SQL applications for the Gnome/Gtk GUI system. DWI should be interesting to GnuCash developers for the following reason: DWI includes a simple Object-to-Relational Mapping (ORM) that is being integrated into QOF, so as to form a full-featured QOF backend. QOF is in turn the object system underlying GnuCash, so what this really means is that work is continuing on one of the core pieces of GnuCash.

DWI-0.6.0 includes a restructuring of teh makefile system to use automake, which makes DWI easy to install for the first time. This version also includes a new QOF integration layer, and several new QOF example programs.

A very nice site & set of instructions for Mac OSX can be found at http://homepage.mac.com/elliottmce/gnucash_guide/

I've added two new links to the GnuCash website menus: The User Wiki and the Devel Wiki. If you have questions about how to use GnuCash, including problems with installation, using, or general accounting questions, please review the User Wiki before posting to the mailing lists. If you figure out the answer to your questions, then please edit the User Wiki to add the answer. Yes, that's right, edit: that's what a Wiki does; it allows anyone to add, update and correct the content. If you like GnuCash, and want to help, but don't know how, then please consider helping others by updating the Wiki.

The Devel Wiki contains various development notes and status. Some developers use it, and some don't. Tought development questions? This is one place to look.

If you have to convert all your GnuCash data to QIF, then try the GnuCash to QIF Java Applet. It handles all GnuCash file formats from 1.6.0 onwards (excluding business features). http://gnucashtoqif.sourceforge.net/

Christian Stimming writes: I am happy to announce a presentation about GnuCash that will be held this weekend by myself at the German Linuxtag in Karlsruhe, http://www.linuxtag.org/2004/index.html

The presentation is scheduled for this saturday (2004-06-26) 4pm MEST, http://www.linuxtag.org/2004/talk.do?id=e047 The language of this presentation will be German. I will put the slides online shortly after the event, but they will be in German, too. :-)

A decent set of source code documentation can be generated by using Doxygen. We've cleaned up the core engine documentation and put it online. We hope you are sutably impressed.

(Note there are additional developer docs in plain text and in texinfo formats. What's online are just the Doxygen docs generated from what's embedded in the source.)

--linas

The Gnome Time Tracker is a to-do list/diary/journal tool that can track the amount of time spent on projects, and, among other things, generate reports and invoices based on that time. I've used it to keep shopping lists, organize ideas, track bug reports, keep a diary of activities, provide weekly status reports to management, and even as a consultant billing system.

Version 2.1.9 is now available; it fixes a number of bugs from 2.1.8 and earlier versions:

• Keyboard events were not resetting the timeout
• Fix Help system so that help actually starts up.
• Fix old, multiple scheme bugs affecting billing reports.
• Provides 'infinite undo' for cut projects.
• Keyboard cut (ctrl-x) fixed so that it cuts only if project window has focus.
• Can now specify day-of-week for the start of a new week. Also, end-of-day need not be midnight - its now configurable.
• Remove obsolete menu entries (clear daily counters)
• Fix flyover help on HTML reports
• Fix order of yesterday/today columns.
• Improve checks for Guile during builds
• New whiz-bang SQL for reports.

The GnoTime website is here and is mirrored here. Sources and CVS access is at the sourceforge project site. Most major distributions now carry GnoTime, so look to your distro first for a binary.

Version 0.4.1 of QOF is now available. QOF allows C programmers to perform SQL searches on a collection of objects without having to use an SQL database to get the results. This is nice in several ways: first, there's a lot of work needed to take a plain-old app and make it into a database app; QOF helps avoid that work. Secondly, even if one did have an SQL app, the query is happening at 'the wrong place': most programmers want to get back pointers to thier own objects, rather than lists of raw data from the database. QOF solves this second problem very well, making it a lot easier for aps to include search and report abilities in thier applications. QOF consists of a number of other features as well: basically, QOF consists of all of those parts of the GnuCash engine that aren't about accounting.

QOF-0.4.1 features several improvements over earlier versions:

• A real SQL parser.
• An example demo of using QOF with GLib GObjects (the example finds a particular Gtk Widget out of a collection).
• Support for pkg-config makes using QOF in your app just a little bit easier.

qof.sourceforge.net

--linas

The GnuCash team is pleased to announce the release of stable version 1.8.9.

What's New in GnuCash 1.8.9?


o Updated Polish translation by GNOME PL Team, updated French, Czech, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, German and Italian translations.
o dump-finance-quote - Be more explicit when a lookup fails.
o log-replay - Increase read buffer size.
o Make sure to verify that the items in the reconcile hash are still around after a refresh.
o When the commodity is changed, then set the currency to the currency of the last price entered for this commodity.
o Add Hungarian account templates by Sulyok Peter
o Patch by Geoff Kassel to work on OpenBSD (allow user to set diffcmd).
o Don't test double KVPs, on the theory that they will soon be deprecated.
o When computing the aging report, ignore splits that belong to closed lots. This way we wont get the wrong values when the invoice falls outside the 360-day window but its payment falls inside the window.
o Add gnc_getline() function to read an unlimited line-length from a file (so you're not limited to a buffer size with fgets() and the like). It is similar to the getline(3) on Linux except the API is different and it will always set the return string.
o Add workaround code for openhbci/chipcard problem.
o Add gnc_lookup_date_option() function.
o Add gnc_ui_account_get_balance_in_currency() function.
o Add preferences for summarybar.
o Add xaccAccountConvertBalanceToCurrencyAsOfDate() function
o Summarybar can now display a grand total of all commodities, profits of a period of time and net assets at the end of the period; summarybar can be configured with some options under edit->preferences.
o Create two new functions to centralize date-selection option creation.
o Export the new scheme functions.
o Modify Herbert's patch to centralize the date-selection option code.
o Use the new centralized date-selection option-creation code.
o Fix a typo in the help (was --diable-gui).
o Add db-4.2 to the list of databases we search.
o Fix a problem with opt style installs.
o Rename from_xxx and to_xxx account tree widgets to left_xxx and right_xxx.
o If in "accountant mode" call "transfer from" "credit account" and "transfer to" "debit account" and interchange account trees.
o Remove the RECN cell from payable/receivable to stop confusing people.
o Change Ukrainian "UAG" into "UAH"
o Commented out setting the memo always to "Auto-created split" due to popular request.
o Fix for part of bug only allow auto-create SXes which have splits to be created.
o HBCI transfer template management GUI added by Bernd Wagner.
o Added instructions about running under valgrind.
o Added a large set of valgrind suppressions for both guile and gnucash.
o Change the reg_type to SEARCH_LEDGER so all the 'action' types appear.
o Remove unused 'ledger_status' widget.
o At least be consistent about the background coloring of the month labels, even if we're still not using GTK themeage correctly.
o Destroy the transient window when the widget is destroyed.
o Make the advance and remind spin-buttons editable.
o Change the upper bound on the advance and remind spins to 365 [days], with a page-size of 30 [days].
o Disallow the Scheduling of being-editing transactions in the Register, preventing a class of unbalanced SX template transactions from being entered and propogated through the system.
o Fix nasty memory-corruption issue; insufficent bounds checking on array index.
o Better handling of various error cases in transaction-creation.
o When we have a problem parsing a credit/debit cell, indicate to the user what occurred.
o Use the account-list filtering capability of the GncAccountSel to only show/allow-creation-of valid account-types in the loan-druid.
o Add ':' to the token list of allowable characters in the formula cell.
o Fix precedence bug screwing up loan review page.
o Don't need to require format; main.scm handles it, and the default "format" (simple-format) is sufficient to handle everything we need. This allows gnucash to work with slib3.
o Add code to remove "intl/Makefile po/Makefile" from AC_OUTPUT in configure.in prior to calling gettextize to make sure that you can build from CVS with recent versions of gettextize. Tested with both RH9 and RH7.3 to make sure it works with both old and new.
o Move variable declaration to the top of the block.
o Make sure we always have intl and po Makefiles in the configure script. Sometimes it was ripped out without being replaced.


Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

GnoTime, the Gnome Time Tracker, is a desktop utility for tracking the amount of time spent on projects, and generating configurable reports and invoices based on that time. It also makes for a good to-to list tracker and idea organizer, allowing to-do list items to be sorted even while providing ample notes-taking area associated with each item.

Version 2.1.8 is now available. This version includes a simple search interface, for generating reports for projects that occured in a given time period. This new feature is built using QOF, a gnucash spin-off technology. Version 2.1.7 introduced an easier way of allowing users to create and manage custom reports. Version 2.1.6 introduced a 'daily report' for summarizing hours worked on a day-by-day basis. Version 2.1.5 introduced a vastly improved diary/note-taking/blogging interface. Version 2.1.4 was the first version to introduce user-customizable reports, using a simple scheme-embedded-in-html system.

The GnoTime website is here and is mirrored here. Sources and CVS access is at the sourceforge project site. Most major distributions now carry GnoTime, so look to your distro first for a binary. Runs on Apple Macintosh OSX under Fink, too.

Der angekündigte Vortrag über GnuCash und HBCI bei dem GNU/Linux Informationstagen Wilhelmshaven lief ganz klasse. Der Vortrag lief gut, eskamen ein Haufen interessierte Fragen (hauptsächlich über HBCI-Fragen), und das ganze hat großen Spaß gemacht.

Die Folien gibts auf
http://www.tu-harburg.de/~et2cs/gnc-whv/gnucash-whv.html
und PDF hab ich auch
http://www.tu-harburg.de/~et2cs/gnc-whv/gnucash-whv.pdf

Gruß, Christian

(As noted earlier I had the opportunity to give a presentation at a local Linux day about GnuCash and HBCI online banking. This presentation went really nice, there were a number interesting questions (mostly about the German online banking HBCI) and overall it was a good experience.)

An alternative to the mailing list archive hosted on the GnuCash website is now available. We are currently having some technical difficulties with the archive on the GnuCash website so this alternate can be used to access the archives. Please try the following url's to access the archive;
gnucash-user
gnucash-devel
gnucash-de

The GnuCash team is pleased to announce the release of stable version 1.8.8.

What's New in GnuCash 1.8.8?

o HBCI - Improve error message when receiving zero balance from bank.
o Add account template for Swiss German businesses "KMU" by Tom Winterhalder
o Add *big* account template for German businesses "SKR04" by Betina Schmidt
o Add Catalan and Turkish translation, Updated German, Italian, Czech, Greek and Dutch translations.
o Add Turkish account template. Updated Greek account templates.
o Remove debian scripts
o Add a comment about minimum string length
o Fix the ISO_DATELEN to be "long enough"
o Fix handling of HBCI direct debits (fix wrong textkey). Fix and initially implement handling of multiple banks/users/customers.
o Fixed extremly stupid, old bug that causes weird HBCI errors. Improved user messages.
o Refactor some GUI code. Improve user messages.
o BillTermDecRef should have been BillTermIncRef when setting new bill term.
o Applied Frank Pavageau's patch regarding capital gains to handle split transactions.
o Don't make a timespec with tv_sec == 0. Fixes some tests on the alpha platform.


Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

Como respuesta a la creciente comunidad hispanoparlante de gnucash se ha creado la lista gnucash-es, cuyo objetivo es permitir el contacto entre usuarios, traductores y desarrolladores de GnuCash de habla hispana.

Para inscribirse a la lista visite la página https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-es

A European mirror of the GnuCash website is now operational. If you are located in Europe, Eastern Europe or Africa, and are having poor web or download response times accessing the US website, please try the European Mirror. This mirror includes a copy of the download area and the mailing list archives as well. (Thanks to Antonin Sprinzl of the Technical University of Vienna for this service).

Older News: Australian and Asian users are encouraged to use the Australian Mirror. Note that at this time the Australian Mirror does not include the mailing list archives. (Thanks to PlanetMirror for this service).

James A. Treacy writes:

I have just updated the gnucash package on people.debian.org. All dependencies should work now and after upgrading it should work 'out of the box'.

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add
deb http://people.debian.org/~treacy/gnucash.woody ./
then
apt-get update ; apt-get install gnucash

Your vote in the O'Reilly "Open Source Goes to COMDEX" Contest could send one of the GnuCash developers to Comdex to show off our wares! Take a moment to vote, as the increased exposure of GnuCash will help attract more developers, more translators, and more accountants to help answer your questions on the mailing lists!

Yes, the www.gnucash.org server was down most of today. Problem was a failed IDE controller. Please remember that the gnucash website & ftp site are mirrored in Australia, at http://www.au.gnucash.org. (A European mirror coming soon). If you know of a technology to mirror mailman mailing lists, let us know.

Linas Vepstas writes:

I'm currently tearing up the guts of "DWI" http://dwi.sourceforge.net DWI was originally (and still is) a way of 'quickly' developing glade apps that are hooked to an SQL db. I wrote a kind of tracking tool using the thing for a client (tracking maintenance of pipes & pumps), so DWI has been vetted with a 'real life' project. I've been planning on creating a whiz-bang open source bug tracker & etc with it, but never got around to it.

My tear-up of the guts of DWI is turning it into a generic 'data pump'. It can suck data out of one place and stick it in somewhere else. Originally, the two places it worked with are sql tables and gnome widgets, but its in fact far more general than that. In particular, I'm planning on prototyping a hookup to the GnuCash objects (aka qof objects) real soon now. (which is why the qof objects get setters as well as getters in the CVS tree).

Part of the beauty of the thing is it does not force a 1-to-1 mapping between SQL tables and objects. The mappings can go any which way: data from different sql tables can be joined and pushed out to various assortments of widgets (including columned widgets such as ctree/clist). So its kind of a realization of my long standing complaint that I should be able to press a button, and bingo, some object turns into an SQL record(s), and back.

I'm not done with the DWI internal tearup yet, but soon ... After that, I'll start prototyping integration with the qof objects (probably within the DWI cvs tree). When I'm done with that, I'm going to try to unleash the thing to create teh backend for the GnuCash business Objects. My goal is to have very very little code for this: mostly, a specification of the SQL tables, and a mapping: 'this business object field goes into that sql field', and that's that. The goal/side effect is that this should make adding new objects to GnuCash backend 'real easy'. Depending on how the above goes, I may or may not convert the existing sql backend to use this new system. Although not in my current set of plans, note that DWI also offers a way of maybe simplifying the GUI design as well, providing a way of hooking glade dialogs straight to engine objects (and/or god forbid straight to sql). But that's really not something I'm planning for right now.

Vous avez essayé GnuCash. Cela vous plaît vraiment mais vous aimeriez obtenir de l'aide dans votre langue pour encore plus de simplicité pour pouvoir poser des questions et comprendre les réponses. Cette mailing liste est faite pour vous. Elle va permettre de rester en contact avec des personnes francophones utilisant GnuCash qui pourront vous guider dans son utilisation quotidienne aussi bien que pour une utilisation professionnelle. Elle permettra aussi aux personnes réfractaire à la langue de shakespeare de rester au courant des derniers développements du logiciels. Grâce a cela nous allons pouvoir améliorer l'internationalisation du logiciel, établir un réseau fiable d'utilisateurs francophone et ainsi faire progresser toute la communauté.

Pour vous inscrire à la liste visitez la page suivante : https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-fr

GnuCash sta guadagnando sempre più interesse anche da parte della realtà italiana. Per questo motivo si è deciso di creare una nuova lista di distribuzione, gnucash-it, tutta in italiano, al fine di permettere, in una prima fase, il coordinamento della localizzazione (l10n) ed internazionalizzazione (i18n) italiana del programma e, successivamente, la traduzione del sito. In questo modo si spera di ampliare ulteriormente la base degli utenti così da poter dar vita alla seconda fase di questo progetto: creare una nutrita comunità di utenti che siano in grado di aiutarsi reciprocamente.

Per iscriversi alla lista, visitare la pagina https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-it

Code to automatically compute and handle capital gains on stock accounts is more-or-less done, in the CVS HEAD branch. There's a simple GUI called "View Lots" . If you bring that up, and then "Scrub Account", it will automatically compute cap gains for all stock purchases/sales. If you edit prices, dates, amounts, values, etc. in the register window, the cap gains will be automatically kept in sync, i.e. should always be 'correct'.

Sometime after the gnome2 port, the 'Lot Viewer' GUI will get a minor extension to allow one to manually construct lots (so that one can have 'designated' trading lots). The current default uses a FIFO policy to figure out the cap gains.

To try out this feature, you will have to get the CVS code and compile it yourself. Remember, this code is still beta: it may be buggy (although I think I fixed them all), and is subject to change before the final version.

The GnuCash team is pleased to announce the release of stable version 1.8.7.

What's New in GnuCash 1.8.7?

o Use instead of "libofx/libofx.h" as it's not part of our system. Fixes a dependency problem in 1.8.6 release.
o Small fix from hawkfan to get tests to work when building outside srcdir.
o Fix a bug introduced by Matthew -- ANSI C does not allow you to declare a variable in the middle of an expression. Move the declaration to the top of the function.
o We don't need the trailing semi-colon because the #include adds one. The double semi-colon causes build failures in some cases.


Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash team is pleased to announce the release of stable version 1.8.6.

What's New in GnuCash 1.8.6?

o Updated Spanish, Greek, French, Czech, Slovak translations
o Fixed extremely stupid bug in the import value setting workaround.
o Fixed problem with SX formula_cell calls
o Merge missing part of 2003-05-28 commit. The log format changes didn't get commited for some reason, making the log replayer completely unusable.
o Fixed crash during dialog startup on Solaris.
o Turn off scheme garbage collection during query->scm and scm->query conversion. It shaves about 50% off the test-scm-query-string tests.
o Make test-scm-query-string test deterministic by seeding the RNG with a known value.
o Add a "slots" parameter to allow for future expansion. Right now this is completely ignored.


Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash Docs team is pleased to announce the release of the docs version 1.8.3.

What's New in GnuCash Docs 1.8.3?

o Fix xmllint errors
o Add new credit card chapter images
o Remove unused images
o Updates to guide
o Michael Rensing's FAQ updates
o Fix reconcile column in cc payment image


Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash team is pleased to announce the release of the docs version 1.8.2.

What's New in GnuCash Docs 1.8.2?

o Jon Lapham now primary author of Guide
o Moved convert-html to make all so html gets built during 'make'
o Many, many, many changes to the Guide by Jon (see changelog)
o If you can't find it in the Help, look in the Guide (hint)


Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash team is pleased to announce the release of stable version 1.8.5.

What's New in GnuCash 1.8.5?

o Add IS_PAID column and the ability to search for paid/not-paid invoices.
o Add HBCI online transfer templates and make usable
o Fix a bug where if you unpost an invoice and don't bring the TaxTables up to date, the total value shown in the register is different depending on whether the cursor is on the current line or not.
o Don't constantly resize the invoice window every time we update ourselves.
o Updated Italian, Brazilian Portugese, German, Czech, Dutch and British English translation.
o Add Subtotal and Tax labels in the summary bar to print the Invoice's total amounts.
o Change the log format to use GUID instead of C pointers, use ISO8601 instead of proprietary form and log the Notes field.
o Port new log replay module from HEAD.
o Re-enable reversed legend in stacked barcharts. Needs Guppi 0.40.4 a.k.a. Guppi CVS, though, to actually work.
o Update the Polish Zloty for its new ISO currency code.
o Add ability to sort by Action and Notes.
o Fix the vendor window title to use the company name, not the contact name. Change the message when the company name is left blank.
o Create a new "date format" widget to let the user choose a date format (and see the results of what the date would look like).
o Add "Deluxe Personal Check" type. Add support for printing to "deluxe" personal checks. This prints the check "sideways" on a US-Letter configuration.
o Backport the QueryList widget and associated usage (this allows more places to have sortable column displays for query results)
o Improve HBCI error handling. Add more user feedback functions.
o Add support for KtoBlzCheck, a small checking package for destination account numbers for German banks. Very small, very useful http://sourceforge.net/projects/ktoblzcheck
o TRANSLATION_HOWTO: Added, by Jon Lapham
o Add API to the plugin modules to allow post-processing (scrubbing) of the book after it is loaded from XML. This allows a plug-in to post-process the complete book.
o Create a scrub function to clear up bogus tax tables due to a bug which could cause tax tables to get created ad-nausium if you post and then unpost an invoice.
o Create a scrub function to clear up bogus bill terms due to a bug which could cause bill terms to get created due to post/unpost of invoices.
o Enable the exchange-rate dialog on "search ledger" registers.
o Raise the import window after choosing a file.
o Change dialog statements to allow for embedded percent signs in the messages. In other words, don't allow user input into the format string of a printf.
o Change how the billterms option menu is used so it will change properly if you change the invoice's owner.
o Don't use gnc:reverse-account-balance? to determine whether to reverse the balance -- base it purely on the report type.
o Fix gncBillTermCopy() so it PROPERLY copies the bill term.
o Tolerate some HBCI banks failure of the GetSystemId-job.
o Don't allow selection of directory for save file.
o Add fancy-invoice report, to show what else is possible. It's not really useful per se, but it is another example for users. To be useful it requires some custom editing.
o Limit the commodity choices based upon the current account type.
o Add a new argument to the dialog creation functions to specify what types of commodities should be presented.Also tweak the title of the dialog based upon this argument. Remove the "new" button when the dialog is limited strictly to currencies.
o Show the running balance column by default in the register report.
o Annotate the window title to indicate whether a register is for a single account or it includes all subaccounts.
o Change the register close dialog to include a cancel option.
o Don't close the register if the user cancelled.
o If the user has manually entered an amount, then stop automatically updated the amount when the date is changed.
o Refactor many HBCI functions to eventually enable queued processing of several HBCI jobs.
o Add a "retained earnings" item under equity, and change the title to include the start date (Balance Sheet report).
o Don't print the "handling-request" messages when getting stock quotes.
o Display selected pixmap when opening an options window.
o Fix 'Save As' so it can write to non-existing files.
o New data file should have same uid/gids original file.
o Added Italian account templates by Lorenzo Cappelletti
o Change HBCI online transfer action so that first the gnucash Transaction is created and only after that the HBCI connection is started. Necessary for later implementation of offline queueing and multi-job execution.
o Clarify the part of the HBCI setup about potentially adding HBCI accounts manually.
o Add a couple of extra checks to prevent crashing if the commodity attached to a price quote has disappeared.
o Provide a new warning message before deletion if a commodity has any price quotes. If the user deletes the commodity anyway, removed any quotes are based on the commodity
o Enhance the get prices routine to handle a request with a NULL currency.
o Fix a crash where removing items in the wrong order could cause "Bad Things" to happen
o Sort the bills before displaying them, so they appear in a consistent order (by date due).
o Fix a bunch more rounding errors, and add more precision to the price.
o Change the description and action of Invoice and Payement Transactions/Splits, to make it easier to print a check off the posted transactions.
o Add Debit and Credit totals to Register report.
o Differentiate between "file is already locked" and "we can't create the lockfile" so we can let the user know.
o Fix the message to be more appropriate when we hit a READONLY error.
o Various Postgres backend fixes
o Add button for manual adding of HBCI accounts. Requires latest OpenHBCI 0.9.13
o Add saving of the HBCI_API so that bank's status changes will now be remembered immediately.
o Add "(Report)" strings to the various columns displayed in the report currency.
o Set the date-entered on invoice transactions to "now" instead of the post date. Thi lets us know when an invoice was actually posted, or a payment was actually made.
o Support "gain/loss" balancing splits on stocks
o Apply patch to fix a number of off-by-one bugs in the loan druid.
o Adapted to latest gnucash-docs changes, by Jon Lapham
o Add code to read XML files with real namespace declarations.
o Make sure we define PWD, as not all shells define it properly.
o Workaround for multi-currency importing bug.

Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The internet connection on which www.gnucash.org and the gnucash.org mail servers sit is being upgraded right now. The new line will have more bandwidth, which should speed transfers. Note that the IP address of the website will be changing. This change should be transparent to everyone; however, if you have trouble accessing this site after that date, you may want to try to flush your domain name cache. If problems persist, please contact the mailing lists.

Benoit Grégoire has written an important document outlining some of the major issues for the GnuCash project

Please spend some time to read this document and contribute to the discussion



State of the GnuCash project

The internet connection on which www.gnucash.org and the gnucash.org mail servers sit will be upgraded sometime after the week of July 23. The new line will have more bandwidth, which should speed transfers. Note that the IP address of the website will be changing. This change should be transparent to everyone; however, if you have trouble accessing this site after that date, you may want to try to flush your domain name cache.

RJ marquette writes:

I've written a web page that may be helpful to Slackware users who want to install GnuCash, and I thought you might want to link to it on the GnuCash website. The URL is http://rjmarq.org/gnucash.html.

I've just started the QOF "Query Object Framework" project on sourceforge. QOF consists of that part of the GnuCash engine that isn't about accounting. I started the project because I want to use the GnuCash query framework in another project of mine (GnoTime), and after thinking about it a bit, it seemed good to split it out into its own component.

QOF consists of Derek Atkin's Query objects, Rob Browning's KVP trees, Bill Gribble's Numeric classes, Dave Peticolas' GUID's & events, and my own fractured Backend, books, & sessions. For now, I plan to keep the code in sync with GnuCash by hand. I'm not sure how things will play out in the future; I have no immediate plans.

The really big deal in QOF is the query framework. I think its unique: there is no code out there that I can google that provides generic structured query functions for generic objects, without forcing you to use SQL. I think QOF can fill an important need for programmers who write apps that need to have reports, and are sophisticated enough to realize they need queries, and yet are not ready to convert thier app to an SQL app.

The other big part of QOF is that it can act as a cache for an SQL backend. Note, however, that this part is 'under construcion'. Done right, it should make it easy to add SQL support for the Business Objects in GnuCash. However, this work hasn't been started, and needs volunteers. In particular, I'm hoping that anyone who has contemplated the SQL re-write for GnuCash can help in this area.

QOF compiles on my box, but I haven't yet checked in all the Makefile.am & configure.in into CVS. Hopefully, I'll have a version 0.1 out shortly. If any of the regular GnuCash developers want developer access on sourceforge, let me know.

qof.sourceforge.net

--linas

The GnuCash team is pleased to announce the release of stable version 1.8.4.

What's New in GnuCash 1.8.4?

o Fix transfer dialog to not hang if OK button is clicked w/o filling in dialog properly.
o Add HTML::Parser to the list of items checked/installed.
o Updated translations: Brazilian Portugese, Czech, Italian, German
o Fix the "View xxxbar" menu items to track properly when a new data file is opened. Consolidate the code for manipulating the View/Statusbar and View/Summarybar menu items. Work around a Gnome MDI bug as best as possible.
o The numeric test regex was broken and would fail on ALL numerics, causing all imports to be of value zero.
o Fix for creating new template transactions [from Scheduling existing transactions], such that they have valid Posted dates.
o Fix for existing/old data without posted dates. If we encounter the condition, fixup the transaction's Posted date to that of the Entered date.
o Add LOT_IS_CLOSED and LOT_BALANCE query parameter methods
o Fixes for 64-bit architectures.
o Add gncQueryGetBooks() API to return list of books in a query.
o Add INVOICE_POST_LOT query parameter methods
o Add an api to force an event even when events are suspended. Without such an API, events can be lost if the event system is suspended when the event comes in.
o Added gnucash wrappers around gnome-print's rotate, translate, gsave, and grestore APIs. All to allow sideways printing (by rotating the image).
o Wrap the new print-session apis.
o Modify the AC_GWRAP_CHECK_GUILE() macro to take an argument, the g-wrap module directory. Then actually test that the g-wrap module loads. This should detect systems without slib installed.
o New gwrap check macro
o Deal properly when there are no prices for a commodity.
o Supply a start date (as well as an end date) and don't print invoices that occur prior to the start date or after the end date. The aging information ignores the start date, but not the end date. This means the aging information will always be acurate through the end date (even if all the invoices and payments are not displayed).
o Limit the itemized invoices/payments to the start/end date range, but print out a "Balance" line if there is a non-zero balance as of the start date.
o Nikos Charonitakis's account chart updates: added new carloan account chart, updated account chart.
o Use the correct columns when printing the Gain column, don't reuse the same column as profit; we want to report different values.
o Don't let the user do anything with the options dialog until Apply() finishes.
o Had the wrong number of arguments in gnc:account-get-balance-at-date
o Add some (commented out) code to support a start date for computing the Net Income (aka Net Profit) in the Balance Sheet.
o Move the instantiation of File -> Properties into main-window.scm (out of business-gnome.scm) for future cases where we might decide to ship the business modules separately.
o Fix the ofx test program to make sure it links on many weird platforms.
o When we are asked to reload the report, queue the request, queue a draw event, and then return immediately. When the draw event happens, load the report then. This lets you hit Apply and then OK before the report finishes loading.
o Make sure we can find libofx/libofx.h
o Include split transactions in the filtering of the transaction report.
o Use a 'from' date to better compute the Net Income on the report.
o Change the default Search Operation for numerics from "less than" to "equals" -- so by default you would search for an exact value.
o "eval" changed API on guile-1.6. Use the existing API to convert a delta symbol to a delta time.
o Call eval with the right number of arguments based on early or late versions.
o Change the date format string to be consistent with other places (e.g. the check print dialog) and use '%' instead of '~'.
o Make the Bill Due Days option selectable based on the setting of Notify Bills Due?
o Don't crash if you remove the last entry and then add another one.
o Deal with the case where the first transaction found for a particular company is a payment
o Also print out any overpayment in the total column.
o Catch errors when running the child reports so we display the failed report backtrace but also display an error and continue with the multicolumn report.


Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash team is pleased to announce the release of stable version 1.8.3.

What's New in GnuCash 1.8.3?

o Updated translations: Italian, Swedish, Danish, British, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Tamil, Brazilian Portugese.
o Turn off the report-total by default
o The Euroland currency rates were inverted in the transfer dialog.
o Chris Morgan's Baysian Matching code, to match transactions based on Bayesian filtering of previously matched transactions.
o Fix a bug in the account name list when you you filtered down to no accounts it would ignore the filter.
o The Account Separator option was moved to the Accounts page, reference correctly.
o Fix the keypress handlers so they work properly for both the text entry widget and the calendar popup widget.
o Force the cursor to the first line of a transaction split before disabling "double line" mode in the register. This prevents the register refresh code from trying to update a cell that is no longer visible.
o Fix HBCI close-on-finished checkbutton.
o Add descriptions of new HBCI actions.
o OpenBSD fixes by Todd T. Fries
o New report "income vs. day of week" by Andy Wingo
o Fix a couple strings to improve comments when owners and accounts are missing. Direct the user to select them in the report options.
o When building the "name + address" string, check if the company name and contact name are the same and, if so, only print one of them.
o Fix the glade settings so resizing the window will properly resize the widgets.
o Save the entry cells before adding an it to the invoice, otherwise it wont get sorted properly.
o Add support in business code for the to-charge amount.
o Don't ask the user in the general case when making changes to entries. Generally the user should be allowed to make whatever changes they want without being pestered.
o Guile-1.6 requires empty lists to be quoted.
o Symbols are not strings in guile-1.6.
o Fix "WeekDelta" and add TwoWeekDelta.
o Pop up a dialog if the user tries to transfer from a non-currency account, and don't let them do it.
o Evaluate the date during get_predicate() in case the user just "hit return" (and the auto-evaluate didn't happen).
o Fix crash during import of investment accounts.
o Fixes for GCC 3.3 warnings
o Fix HBCI user messages where chip cards were confused with key files.
o Adapt to latest changes in OpenHBCI CVS.
o Applied Tomas Pospisek's patch to the transaction report.
o Fix the description of gnc:mdi-show-progress.
o Enable changing the "ID" for different business objects.
o Fix the percentage calculations so we don't get GtkCritical warnings.
o Disable the test-scm-query-import test, since it breaks on guile-1.6
o Move currency conversion to gnc-pricedb.c
o Improve report for stocks and funds not denominated in report currency.
o QIF imports don't assume that a date of the form XXXXXXXX is always YYYYMMDD. Make sure a 4-digit year "makes sense"
o Fix hbci and ofx test for handling --disable correctly.
o Fix openhbci macro again so that it uses a C check program.
o New gnucash-docs release (1.8.1)


Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash.org Server is back online, and should now be fully operational. However, there has been some data loss: if you subscribed (or unsubscribed) to any mailing list, between 12 December 2002 and 28 April 2003, your membership info has been lost. Furthermore, all configuration info for the German gnucash-de mailing list has been lost. (My sincerest apologies, Christian). However, most of the mailing list archives should be intact (possibly excepting Jan-April 2003, which might be damaged). All web pages should work at least as well as before, and all FTP site contents have been restored and should be fine. If you experience problems, please report them to me. Mail is still not being delivered; investigating

So what happened? It was the classic server-failure triple-whammy. This server has RAID disk mirrors to minimize down-time due to a failed disk, and is backed up nightly in order to safeguard against catastrophic data loss. Hard-drive status was monitored with smartmontools and reported regularly with logcheck. So how could this belt-and-suspenders system be down so long, and result in lost data before its all over?

Over the last few months, smartmontools was reporting occasional disk status changes, but none of these seemed to be in the form of warnings, or had any hint of being dire. At the same time, there were increasing numbers of status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } messages showing up in the system log. In mid-April, these messages started showing up at least hourly, and were coupled with the cryptic S.M.A.R.T. messages (it didn't help that I was running the older, more cryptic smartsuite, not the new, improved smartmontools). Finally, the server locked up, waiting for a DMA to complete, that never would. Reboot. Locks up. Reboot again, locks up (warlord calls by phone to point this out). I disabled DMA, went to PIO-mode for the disk in question, and things cleared up. I then made my first thinko: I concluded that one of my hard drives was on the verge of failing completely (the DMA should have clue-trained me in). I procured a replacement disk, and then made my second 'operator error': I replaced the failing disk. My logic was this: there are two disks in the raid array; both are exact duplicates of each other. Therefore, if I replace the failed disk, the contents of the good disk will be restored onto the blank disk automatically. Easy as pie. I've done it many times before. It didn't work this time. Upon reboot, I got a gazillion fsck'ing errors, the file system was corrupted. In addition, I was getting a lot of status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } from what used to be the 'good' disk. I plowed on. At this time, I assumed that maybe both disks were bad, a reasonable assumption; these were the infamous IBM-lawsuit drives. I guessed that the raid array was hiding the badness from me: whenever one disk had trouble, the RAID would go to the other disk, and all was well in the kingdom, even though anarchy seethed just below the surface. Oh well. I procured a second hard drive, and replaced that. With more fsck'ing error in the process. Then I notice that I'm still getting SeekComplete's in the syslog, even with the new disks. Now, the replacement disks are the same lawsuit-brand and model number as the old disks, so woe is me, this is my third mistake, I assume, incorrectly, that its the brand and model number, and get a new third disk. When the errors don't abate, it suddenly becomes clear that its not the drives, its the controller or cable).

Now the fun and hacking begin. Stay up til three AM playing the swap-the-cables-and-reboot game. The failing controller was on the system planar ('motherboard'), so there is no way to remove it; one can only play with BIOS settings. But BIOS (and the Linux kernel shares the blame) has this magic way of renumbering IDE drives when one plugs in or removes controllers, enables or disables controller ports, etc. This can be overcome, but is a provides a steady stream of hurdles to jump: one must boot a rescue diskette first, then mount, then re-write the boot sector, then reboot, then edit /etc/fstab, and then try again. Over and over and over. It didn't help that my rescue diskette didn't have RAID on it: so that was one more thing to hack around. Finally build a stable system, and now it comes time to restore the data files that were fsck'ed out of existence. To restore /usr, I decide that reinstall of the OS is appropriate. I then restore the FTP site, which was badly corrupted. Restore the mailing lists; no problems, only October 1998 was lost and restored. Restore the website; only minor damage there. Then restore the mailing list subscriber info in /var/lib/mailman/lists ... Uhh ... whoops. That directory was not backed up nightly. I had falsely assumed that everything in /var/lib/mailman/lists was stuff that could be recovered by re-installing mailman. I had no idea that it kept subscriber info there. Mistake number four (number zero?): this critical directory was not one that was backed up nightly. I was lucky to find a December 2002 backup of it; it could have easily been December 2001 and then I really would have felt sorry. Mistake five: turns out the backup machine had overflowed, and stopped making backups on 5 April. Fortunately for me, not much has happened since 5 April. I hope this little story makes it clear that running a public web site in a professional manner can sometimes be a walk in the park, and sometimes guerilla warfare. BTW, yes, every now and then, this server is backed up to an off-site location, so that if the machine is stolen, or the house burns down, all is not lost.

Also, BTW, my 'failed' disks are fine: once they were off the bad controller, the errors stopped. I am still eyeing them with suspicion, but ...

Some lessons drawn from this, or rather some complaints, are documented at http://www.linas.org/linux/peeves.html

The GnuCash Server is continuing to experience an assortment of problems, whose root cause is a set of failing hard drives and is masked by a faulty ide controller and/or ribbon cables. The drives have been replaced, and the ide controller has been replaced. However, in the process, data has been corrupted, and has not yet been restored.

The mailing lists appear to be broken, and I am attempting to fix this. If you subscribed since April 4th, it is possible that your subscription is lost, and you may have to resubscribe. Some of the mail archives got corrputed, and are permanantly lost (they were'nt being backed up due to backup configuration error). Some of the ftp site may possibly be corrupted, I haven't yet had the time to restore the ftp site. its possible that parts of the web site may be corrupted; I haven't yet restored the web site. Please bear with, things should get fixed in a few days. If you are curious about the agony of dealing with this, see http://www.linas.org/linux/peeves.html

The GnuCash Server is continuing to experience an assortment of problems, whose root cause is a set of failing hard drives. The drives have been replaced, but problems remain. The mailing lists appear to be broken, and I am attempting to fix this. If you subscribed since April 4th, it is possible that your subscription is lost, and you may have to resubscribe. Some of the mail archives got corrputed, and are permanantly lost (they were'nt being backed up due to backup configuration error). Some of the ftp site may possibly be corrupted, I haven't yet had the time to restore the ftp site. its possible that parts of the web site may be corrupted; I haven't yet restored the web site. Please bear with, things should get fixed in a few days. If you are curious about the agony of dealing with this, see http://www.linas.org/linux/peeves.html

The GnuCash team is pleased to announce the release of stable version 1.8.2.

What's New in GnuCash 1.8.2?

- Scheduled Transactions:
    GnuCash now has the ability to automatically create and enter transactions, remind
    when a transaction is due, give a choice of entering a transaction or postponing it
    and remove an automated transaction after a certain period.
- Mortgage & Loan Repayment Druid:
    Used to setup a variable payment loan scheduled transaction.
- Small Business Accounting Features:
    GnuCash now can be used for Customer and Vendor tracking, Invoicing and Bill Payment,
    and using different Tax and Billing Terms in a small business.
- OFX Import:
    GnuCash is the first free software application to support the Open Financial Exchange
    protocol that many banks and financial services are moving to use. The development of
    OFX and HBCI support has also resulted in an improved transaction matching system that
    more accurately picks duplicate transactions.
- HBCI Support:
    GnuCash is the first free software application to support the German Home Banking
    Computer Information protocol which includes statement download, initiate bank
    transfers and direct debits.
- New User Manual and Help:
    A brand new user help has been written which focuses on how to do tasks in
    conjunction with a Tutorial and Concepts guide that gives the user background
    information on using GnuCash.
- New Multi-Currency Transaction Handling:
    GnuCash no longer requires separate currency exchange accounts to handle multiple
    currency transfers.
- Redesigned Menu's
    The GnuCash menu's have been redesigned to conform more with the new GNOME
    Human Interface Guidelines.

Specifically updated in this version;

o Release of new stable version 1.8.2
o Updated translations: German, Slovak, Spanish
o Updated HBCI requirement to 0.9.6
o Postgres fix for PG-7.3.x
o More fixes for guile-1.6 support
o Fix QIF Import for split transactions (#105139)
o Remove "display balance in Euro" columns from the main window
o Add "display balance in Report Currency" columns to the main window
o Fix the transfer dialog / exchange-rate dialog so it doesn't round
the values input by the user. (#106332)
o Fix configure so tests wont fail on GCC 3.2.2
o HBCI: avoid sending online transfers twice
o Dont override the user's toolbar style (#102041)
o Import: don't punish transactions with an online ID
o Add engine support for employee expense vouchers


Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash team is pleased to announce the release of stable version 1.8.1.

What's New in GnuCash 1.8.1?

- Scheduled Transactions:
    GnuCash now has the ability to automatically create and enter transactions, remind
    when a transaction is due, give a choice of entering a transaction or postponing it
    and remove an automated transaction after a certain period.
- Mortgage & Loan Repayment Druid:
    Used to setup a variable payment loan scheduled transaction.
- Small Business Accounting Features:
    GnuCash now can be used for Customer and Vendor tracking, Invoicing and Bill Payment,
    and using different Tax and Billing Terms in a small business.
- OFX Import:
    GnuCash is the first free software application to support the Open Financial Exchange
    protocol that many banks and financial services are moving to use. The development of
    OFX and HBCI support has also resulted in an improved transaction matching system that
    more accurately picks duplicate transactions.
- HBCI Support:
    GnuCash is the first free software application to support the German Home Banking
    Computer Information protocol which includes statement download, initiate bank
    transfers and direct debits.
- New User Manual and Help:
    A brand new user help has been written which focuses on how to do tasks in
    conjunction with a Tutorial and Concepts guide that gives the user background
    information on using GnuCash.
- New Multi-Currency Transaction Handling:
    GnuCash no longer requires separate currency exchange accounts to handle multiple
    currency transfers.
- Redesigned Menu's
    The GnuCash menu's have been redesigned to conform more with the new GNOME
    Human Interface Guidelines.

Specifically updated in this version;

o Release of new stable version 1.8.1
o Fixes for qif import crashes o Update translation po/it.po by Lorenzo Cappelletti
o Remove the tip that says that this is a development version.
o Remove the "development version" string when running "gnucash --version"
o Add heuristic for duplicate matching by check number.
o Various bug fixes, remove Finance::Quote requirement for rpms built on RH 8.0


Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash team is pleased to announce the release of stable version 1.8.0.

What's New in GnuCash 1.8.0?

- Scheduled Transactions:
    GnuCash now has the ability to automatically create and enter transactions, remind
    when a transaction is due, give a choice of entering a transaction or postponing it
    and remove an automated transaction after a certain period.
- Mortgage & Loan Repayment Druid:
    Used to setup a variable payment loan scheduled transaction.
- Small Business Accounting Features:
    GnuCash now can be used for Customer and Vendor tracking, Invoicing and Bill Payment,
    and using different Tax and Billing Terms in a small business.
- OFX Import:
    GnuCash is the first free software application to support the Open Financial Exchange
    protocol that many banks and financial services are moving to use. The development of
    OFX and HBCI support has also resulted in an improved transaction matching system that
    more accurately picks duplicate transactions.
- HBCI Support:
    GnuCash is the first free software application to support the German Home Banking
    Computer Information protocol which includes statement download, initiate bank
    transfers and direct debits.
- New User Manual and Help:
    A brand new user help has been written which focuses on how to do tasks in
    conjunction with a Tutorial and Concepts guide that gives the user background
    information on using GnuCash.
- New Multi-Currency Transaction Handling:
    GnuCash no longer requires separate currency exchange accounts to handle multiple
    currency transfers.
- Redesigned Menu's
    The GnuCash menu's have been redesigned to conform more with the new GNOME
    Human Interface Guidelines.

Specifically updated in this version;

o Release of new stable version 1.8.0
o Fix problem getting quotes from trustnet.
o Add new script that dumps all the data returned by F::Q for a stock.
o Apply Bill Nottingham's patch to use db4/db_185.h
o Updated translations, po/en_GB.po by Nigel Titley, po/it.po by Lorenzo Cappelletti
o Fix HBCI problem with negative account balances.
o Add preference (on advanced tab) to enable HBCI debug messages.
o Fix the Recurrence-Frequency example-calendar date calculation to show upcoming instances correctly.
o Add HBCI user messages about what is supported by the bank.
o Fixes for gcc 3.x build problems with postgresql backend
o Many more fixes for the postgresql backend
o Fix the "bill reminder" so it doesn't create a query if there are no payables accounts.
o Fix some of the accounts in the tree to be more accurate to the real world.
o Only set ReadOnly status for Invoices, not Payments.
o Fix several bugs in QIF importer
o Recognize even more error codes from OpenHBCI.
o No longer assume that transaction with type OFX_OTHER are investment transactions.
o Don't add income accounts to bills, or expense accounts to invoices. This should help further reduce user confusion with what to do when entering invoices.
o Lots more bugfixes


Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash team is pleased to announce GnuCash Docs version 1.7.8.

Updated in this version;

o Add patch from RedHat for db4 support
o Copy of required portions of docbook-xsl 1.45
o Change to point at internal version of docbook-xsl 1.45 stylesheets.
o This fixes the problem of the stylesheets needing to go online to do the conversion from XML to HTML.


Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

A new mailing list for German speaking GnuCash users has been created: gnucash-de@gnucash.org. To subscribe, visit http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-de and enter your email address there. You can choose whether you would like to receive the administrative emails in German or in English language.

This list is meant for discussions in German language about the general usage of GnuCash, as well as specific topics only relevant to German users (e.g. HBCI or German tax system).

Ab sofort existiert eine neue Mailingliste für die deutschsprachigen Benutzer von GnuCash. Um sie zu abonnieren, trage man auf http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-de seine E-Mail-Adresse ein. Man kann dort außerdem wählen, ob man administrativen E-Mails lieber auf Deutsch oder auf Englisch erhalten möchte.

Diese Liste ist zur deutschsprachigen Diskussion der GnuCash-Benutzung gedacht. Gleichzeitig können dort die Deutschland-spezifischen Features von GnuCash diskutiert werden (z.B. HBCI oder deutsches Steuerrecht).

The GnuCash team is pleased to announce Release Candidate 2 version 1.7.8: "Lil Devil".

What's New in GnuCash 1.7.8?

- Scheduled Transactions:
    GnuCash now has the ability to automatically create and enter transactions, remind
    when a transaction is due, give a choice of entering a transaction or postponing it
    and remove an automated transaction after a certain period.
- Mortgage & Loan Repayment Druid:
    Used to setup a variable payment loan scheduled transaction.
- Small Business Accounting Features:
    GnuCash now can be used for Customer and Vendor tracking, Invoicing and Bill Payment,
    and using different Tax and Billing Terms in a small business.
- OFX Import:
    GnuCash is the first free software application to support the Open Financial Exchange
    protocol that many banks and financial services are moving to use. The development of
    OFX and HBCI support has also resulted in an improved transaction matching system that
    more accurately picks duplicate transactions.
- HBCI Support:
    GnuCash is the first free software application to support the German Home Banking
    Computer Information protocol which includes statement download, initiate bank
    transfers and direct debits.
- New User Manual and Help:
    A brand new user help has been written which focuses on how to do tasks in
    conjunction with a Tutorial and Concepts guide that gives the user background
    information on using GnuCash.
- New Multi-Currency Transaction Handling:
    GnuCash no longer requires separate currency exchange accounts to handle multiple
    currency transfers.
- Redesigned Menu's
    The GnuCash menu's have been redesigned to conform more with the new GNOME
    Human Interface Guidelines.

Specifically updated in this version;

o Welcome to Release Candidate 3
o Fixed build issues introduced in last release
o Fix compile errors on SuSE 8.0 + 8.1
o Update translations, po/ru.po by Vitaly Lipatov, po/el.po by ta_panta_rei@flashmail.com
o Ignore certain splits with an "amount" of zero.
o Convert from the old to new symbols for Russian Roubles.
o Invoices change a couple of columns. Enable viewing the "taxable" entry. Enable viewing all the tax accounts individually.
o Scrub hbci include paths to prevent gcc 3.x compile errors.
o Default the OFX import directory to the directory of the last OFX file imported, or the user's home dir for the first export. Remembered across invocations of gnucash.
o Default the save directory to the directory of the last file used. Default the exports directory to the directory of the last file exported, or the user's home dir for the first export. Remembered across invocations of gnucash.
o Correctly handle the case where no stocks have been defined and the user asks gnucash to get price quotes.
o Work around bug in ghttp library so that intl users whose whole units/fractions separator is a comma can request web pages.
o Add "Default Report Currency" preference.
o Set invoice currency based on owner's currency.
o Use invoice's currency for printing the invoice.
o Make the progress bar argument a double instead of an int. This gets around an issue with guile 1.6.
o Add a checkbox to search-for-all
o Changes to make the build system work on multiple architectures and with multiple versions of the autotools suite. Make generated g-wrap sources depend on config.status.
o Remove restriction on guile versions > 1.4 Provide a version dependant load path variable for the SRFI location. (Empty in 1.6 since they're bundled with guile.)
o Limit QIF matches against only the accounts in the old group, so we don't match against ourselves. This should limit the matches to only "reasonable" matches.
o Remove "user name" and "user address" preferences, as they are no longer used by anything.
o Create a taxtable option type using the new generic optionmenu code o Create a default customer and default vendor taxtable option for the "File Properties" option menu.
o Reset the search-type to "New Search" if we end up displaying no results.
o Use the "New Search Limit" pref to decide when to start a new search vs. when refine the search.
o Create two new global preferences: "Notify Bills Due?" and "Bills Due Days"
o Added sources needed for OS X to dist.
o Lots more bugfixes


Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash team is pleased to announce Release Candidate 2 version 1.7.7: "It ain't easy, livin free".

What's New in GnuCash 1.7.7?

- Scheduled Transactions:
    GnuCash now has the ability to automatically create and enter transactions, remind
    when a transaction is due, give a choice of entering a transaction or postponing it
    and remove an automated transaction after a certain period.
- Mortgage & Loan Repayment Druid:
    Used to setup a variable payment loan scheduled transaction.
- Small Business Accounting Features:
    GnuCash now can be used for Customer and Vendor tracking, Invoicing and Bill Payment,
    and using different Tax and Billing Terms in a small business.
- OFX Import:
    GnuCash is the first free software application to support the Open Financial Exchange
    protocol that many banks and financial services are moving to use. The development of
    OFX and HBCI support has also resulted in an improved transaction matching system that
    more accurately picks duplicate transactions.
- HBCI Support:
    GnuCash is the first free software application to support the German Home Banking
    Computer Information protocol which includes statement download, initiate bank
    transfers and direct debits.
- New User Manual and Help:
    A brand new user help has been written which focuses on how to do tasks in
    conjunction with a Tutorial and Concepts guide that gives the user background
    information on using GnuCash.
- New Multi-Currency Transaction Handling:
    GnuCash no longer requires separate currency exchange accounts to handle multiple
    currency transfers.
- Redesigned Menu's
    The GnuCash menu's have been redesigned to conform more with the new GNOME
    Human Interface Guidelines.

Specifically updated in this version;

o Welcome to Release Candidate 2
o Give the user better feedback on exactly what the exchange rate means.
o Better handling of corrupt XML data files. Print better error messages for unknown tags, or mismatched start/end tags.
o When checking for gtkhtml-1.1, make the lack of pkg-config a fatal error. Also check for pkgconfig
o Updated translations, po/de.po
o Fix HBCI reparent warnings. Make the PIN dialog a bit nicer.
o Fixes to Postgresql backend.
o Changed the "ALTER TABLE table ADD COLUMN..." statements to conform to the current Postgres implementation (and SQL 92) standard by putting the DEFAULT modifier in a separate ALTER statement. This was reported by Christopher B. Browne.
o Implement unpost function in invoices.
o Correctly open a help window when the initial URL contains a label component to it.
o Make the reconciliation window respect the 'include subaccount' flag any time it opens a register. Consolidate logic for opening a new register. Enhance the reconciliation start window to update the ending value when this flag is changed.
o If the amount is monetary, map the keypad decimal key to the correct decimal character for the locale.
o Fix malformed URLs for bringing up a report options window.
o Add new option for specifying sort critera for piecharts and barcharts.
o The report title should change when the report name field is changed in the options.
o Add a smart function for going "back" from the "load a file" page. If there are any files loaded it returns to the "loaded files" page instead of the initial druid page.
o Add support for i18n of price source strings.
o Add icons to gtk only windows.
o Search on NOTES add code to prevent searching on template-txn accounts so SXes don't show up in find results.
o Create a 'file compression' option and pass the data into the backend. This is an option in the preferences.
o Provide a simple checkbook set of accounts
o When editing an exchange rate, always change the _VALUE_ of the split, not the amount. This has the affect of keeping the visible number the same and changing the "other" account.
o Add a set of business accounts to the account setup
o Give a much higher importance to the date heuristics in the OFX import.
o Disable skipping transactions which already have an online id during matching, untill a fix for the "transfer between two accounts" bug is properly fixed.
o Large set of fixes to the build system by John H. Pierce
o Lots more bugfixes


Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

GnoTime, the Gnome Time Tracker, is a to-do list manager. It has a built in project timer to keep track of the time spent on a project, and an invoicing system for billing time & services. GnoTime is the Gnome2 port of GTT from the gnome-utils package. It now has its own dedicated web page and sourceforge project site.

We are proud to announce the first 'stable' release of Gnotime: version 2.1.1. It is available for download at the above sites. This version does everything that the gnome-utils-1.4 version did, except that it has a few more features and a few less bugs. In particular, the crash problems that plagued the earlier version are now fixed.

The GnuCash team is pleased to announce Release Candidate 1 version 1.7.6: "Santa's got a brand new bag".

What's New in GnuCash 1.7.6?

- Scheduled Transactions:
    GnuCash now has the ability to automatically create and enter transactions, remind
    when a transaction is due, give a choice of entering a transaction or postponing it
    and remove an automated transaction after a certain period.
- Mortgage & Loan Repayment Druid:
    Used to setup a variable payment loan scheduled transaction.
- Small Business Accounting Features:
    GnuCash now can be used for Customer and Vendor tracking, Invoicing and Bill Payment,
    and using different Tax and Billing Terms in a small business.
- OFX Import:
    GnuCash is the first free software application to support the Open Financial Exchange
    protocol that many banks and financial services are moving to use. The development of
    OFX and HBCI support has also resulted in an improved transaction matching system that
    more accurately picks duplicate transactions.
- HBCI Support:
    GnuCash is the first free software application to support the German Home Banking
    Computer Information protocol which includes statement download, initiate bank
    transfers and direct debits.
- New User Manual and Help:
    A brand new user help has been written which focuses on how to do tasks in
    conjunction with a Tutorial and Concepts guide that gives the user background
    information on using GnuCash.
- New Multi-Currency Transaction Handling:
    GnuCash no longer requires separate currency exchange accounts to handle multiple
    currency transfers.
- Redesigned Menu's
    The GnuCash menu's have been redesigned to conform more with the new GNOME
    Human Interface Guidelines.

Specifically updated in this version;

o Welcome to Release Candidate 1
o Put the build date into the about box for development versions
o Deal with broken QIF files that give broken bang-fields. In particular, handle the case where it supplies "!Type Bank" instead of "!Type:Bank"
o Fix g-wrap test to fail properly if it cannot find g-wrap-config
o Add "Edit Exchange Rate" menu items to the Actions menu and the context menu
o Fix the amount display so that the exchange dialog always shows the "amount" in the the local (register) currency.
o Add an additional module to check for (LWP aka libwww-perl) before attempting to call Finance::Quote.
o Updated translations, po/nl.po by Hendrik-Jan Heins , po/uk.po by Volodymyr M. Lisivka , po/el.po, accounts/el_GR by Nikos Charonitakis
o Major update to generic import architecture/transaction matcher.
o Change HBCI to using new Transaction Matcher GUI
o Require openhbci 0.9.4 for HBCI version choosing.
o When not retrieving stock quotes for an account, dim the price source labels as well as the option menus.
o Consolidate all knowledge about Finance::Quote sources into one place. Functions to record whether or not F::Q is installed properly, and if so, whether a particular source is available.
o Change default new SX frequency to monthly
o Filled in a long-thought of idea for a formula cell: can contain text unlike a pricecell, but doesn't really want to do auto-complete like a quickfill cell [what we had been using]. This allows us to provide the gnome formula cell which can remap the keypad '.' character based on locale
o Disallow the deletion of accounts with ReadOnly Transacation in them. You must first "delete" the RO Txns before you delete the account.
o NOTE: As of now you ABSOLUTELY REQUIRE G-WRAP >= 1.3.3
o Loan Druid re-written
o Add menu items and code so a user can limit transactions in a register to any combination of the Reconciled/Cleared/Voided/Unreconciled states.
o Give user feedback during the rendering of a report.
o Remove old user docs and tools that are now in gnucash-docs
o Fix for large accounts overflowing the data types used in the register code which are causing crashes.
o Add support for new GnuCash icon made by Jakub Steiner
o Connect up help buttons in dialog's to help files
o Lots more bugfixes


Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The search feature has been fixed (again), and should now work. Unfortunately, the ranking/relevence of search results is not very good; we will be looking at other search engines to see if we can improve this. If you know of any spiders/ search engines with good ranking algorithms, so that e.g. they will return main site pages before mailing list archives, and will rank mailing list archives by date as well as relevence, please let me know. <linas@linas.org>.

The next stable release, 1.8.0, is rapidly approaching, and we need all language translators to update the message catalogs. Version 1.8.0 will be based on the development versions 1.7.x, which contain many new features not in 1.6.x, and thus many new strings that need translation. If these translations are not brought up to date, version 1.8.0 will come out with broken or missing translations for many languages. Now is really the best time to bring translations up to date.

The search feature has been fixed, and should now work. Unfortunately, the ranking/relevence of search results is not very good; we will be looking at other search engines to see if we can improve this. If you know of any spiders/ search engines with good ranking algorithms, so that e.g. they will return main site pages before mailing list archives, and will rank mailing list archives by date as well as relevence, please let me know. <linas@linas.org>.

The GnuCash team is pleased to announce the release of the beta version 1.7.5: "Nowhere".

What's New in GnuCash 1.7.5?

- Scheduled Transactions:
    GnuCash now has the ability to automatically create and enter transactions, remind
    when a transaction is due, give a choice of entering a transaction or postponing it
    and remove an automated transaction after a certain period.
- Mortgage & Loan Repayment Druid:
    Used to setup a variable payment loan scheduled transaction.
- Small Business Accounting Features:
    GnuCash now can be used for Customer and Vendor tracking, Invoicing and Bill Payment,
    and using different Tax and Billing Terms in a small business.
- OFX Import:
    GnuCash is the first free software application to support the Open Financial Exchange
    protocol that many banks and financial services are moving to use. The development of
    OFX and HBCI support has also resulted in an improved transaction matching system that
    more accurately picks duplicate transactions.
- HBCI Support:
    GnuCash is the first free software application to support the German Home Banking
    Computer Information protocol which includes statement download, initiate bank
    transfers and direct debits.
- New User Manual and Help:
    A brand new user help has been written which focuses on how to do tasks in
    conjunction with a Tutorial and Concepts guide that gives the user background
    information on using GnuCash.
- New Multi-Currency Transaction Handling:
    GnuCash no longer requires separate currency exchange accounts to handle multiple
    currency transfers.
- Redesigned Menu's
    The GnuCash menu's have been redesigned to conform more with the new GNOME
    Human Interface Guidelines.

Specifically updated in this version;

     o Third beta release
     o Fix for a possible corruption bug in 1.7.4 currency support


Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash team is pleased to announce the release of the second beta version 1.7.4: "The water of life".

What's New in GnuCash 1.7.4?

- Scheduled Transactions:
    GnuCash now has the ability to automatically create and enter transactions, remind
    when a transaction is due, give a choice of entering a transaction or postponing it
    and remove an automated transaction after a certain period.
- Mortgage & Loan Repayment Druid:
    Used to setup a variable payment loan scheduled transaction.
- Small Business Accounting Features:
    GnuCash now can be used for Customer and Vendor tracking, Invoicing and Bill Payment,
    and using different Tax and Billing Terms in a small business.
- OFX Import:
    GnuCash is the first free software application to support the Open Financial Exchange
    protocol that many banks and financial services are moving to use. The development of
    OFX and HBCI support has also resulted in an improved transaction matching system that
    more accurately picks duplicate transactions.
- HBCI Support:
    GnuCash is the first free software application to support the German Home Banking
    Computer Information protocol which includes statement download, initiate bank
    transfers and direct debits.
- New User Manual and Help:
    A brand new user help has been written which focuses on how to do tasks in
    conjunction with a Tutorial and Concepts guide that gives the user background
    information on using GnuCash.
- New Multi-Currency Transaction Handling:
    GnuCash no longer requires separate currency exchange accounts to handle multiple
    currency transfers.
- Redesigned Menu's
    The GnuCash menu's have been redesigned to conform more with the new GNOME
    Human Interface Guidelines.

Specifically updated in this version;

     o Second beta release
     o Problems with importing 1.6 data files fixed
     o Updates to generic transaction matching
     o More postgres backend fixes
     o New progress bar when making reports
     o Payment schedule review page added to loan druid
     o Fixes to multi-currency support
     o Added Brazilian Portugese account templates by Lucimar Moresco
     o Added doxygen documentation support, and integrated it into the
       build system. There is a new target, make doc, that can be used to
       build the documentation if you have doxygen installed.
     o Catch the condition gracefully when OpenHBCI config file does not
       exist.
     o Compute the implicit exchange rates for ALL transactions when
       necessary. No longer requires the pricedb for printing split values.
       This will display all transactions in the currency of the current
       account, regardless of the number of splits in the transaction.
     o First pass at getting multi-currency transactions to work from the
       register.
     o Lots more bugfixes

Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The CVS tree was pruned to remove some old and dead directories. This should improve cvs update times a little bit. A historical archive is still available by checking out the source from a different repository: the "gnucash-archive" repository.

The cvs server and the web site will be down for a few hours during the evening of 27 November or morning ov 28 November, as the servers are relocated to a new location.

The GnuCash team is pleased to announce the release of the first beta version 1.7.3: "This rose is priceless".

New Features in this version!

Improved libofx configure support. Add --with-ofx-prefix so users can define where to look for libofx.

Fixed missing OFX files in tarball.

MAJOR improvement to OFX investment support. All transactions created from an investment account are now already balanced. Explicitely support Dividend Reinvestment transactions which will now directly create a income account -> stock account transaction, and Income transactions which will directly create a income account -> cash account transaction. Support memorising the income account association. Several stock account can use the same income account if desired.

Updated gnucash.spec file to work with rh8.

Added new cashflow report contributed by Herbert Thoma.

New functions to get/set read-only status on a transaction, and to print a warning message if a transaction is read-only.

Added a bunch of currencies.

Updated translations (merged from 1.6 branch plus updates from the Translation Project).

Matthew Vanecek added some bug fixes for the SQL back end.

Add support for gtkhtml 1.1

Added calculate the number of remaining payments based on the start date, loan length and current date to Mortgage druid.

Loads of bugfixes, keep those bugs coming!

NOTE: Report bugs to bugzilla.gnome.org

Available at the usual places!

www.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash team is pleased to announce the release of the second alpha version 1.7.2: "Antipodean Nightmare". This release is the result of the development team working so hard the GnuCash developers topped the GNOME Summary commits list last week.

New Features in this version!

You can now search by reconcile flag for transactions

Ability to set posted invoices and payments read-only in the small business module.

New commodity matcher for OFX generic import.

Latest libofx is needed for OFX support

Investment transactions now create two accounts, one is for the stock, the other is the account defined by the FI, where the cash is swapped.

Updated glossary

HBCI improvements to transaction retrieval

Add Direct Debit HBCI action and add caching of the PIN to user preferences.

HBCI suport requires OpenHBCI 0.9.3 or current OpenHBCI CVS

Loads of bugfixes, keep those bugs coming!

NOTE: Report bugs to bugzilla.gnome.org

This release features HBCI online banking support. This makes it the world's first *free* HBCI-enabled personal finance manager. HBCI (Home Banking Computer Interface) is a standard used by German banks for offering online banking service. Through this standard, business actions like statement retrieval, bank transfer, or direct debits can be invoked by any HBCI-compliant client application, i.e. now also from GnuCash. Authentification and encryption is done through a bank-issued chip card or a self-generated file-based RSA key pair. (In the latter case, the user prints out his public key finger print on paper, signs it, and sends it to his bank.)

Available at the usual places!

www.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash team is pleased to announce the release of alpha version 1.7.1. This is the first release as we begin the journey to stable version 1.8.0. We have lots of bugfixes and new features in this release and would like as much testing and bug reporting as possible. Please report problems to bugzilla.gnome.org. If you feel the need to speak to us or even just to encourage us to move forward on the next major version please either join the mailing list or come on irc.gnome.org and chat with us in the #gnucash channel.

New Features in this version!

Scheduled Transactions

Small Business Customer and Vendor tracking and Invoicing

OFX and HBCI (Germany) Support

Improved Menu layout

Available at the usual places!

www.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash team is pleased to announce the release of stable version 1.6.8. This is to fix some minor bugs that prevented the last release being easy to compile from source. Please continue to report problems to our new module in bugzilla.gnome.org. As usual, if you feel the need to speak to us or even just to encourage us to move forward on the next major version please either join the mailing list or come on irc.gnome.org and chat with us in the #gnucash channel.

Fix for acinclude.m4 problem with guile-config

Removed rpm spec file depenedncy on Postgresql

Available at the usual places!

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash team is pleased to announce the release of stable version 1.6.7. This is mainly to fix some important bugs that have cropped up and add some additional translations to the stable series. Please continue to report problems to our new module in bugzilla.gnome.org. As usual, if you feel the need to speak to us or even just to encourage us to move forward on the next major version please either join the mailing list or come on irc.gnome.org and chat with us in the #gnucash channel

Updated or new translations for Japanese, Italian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Russian, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, Brasilian Portugese.

Add French account hierarchy template.

Back-ported fix for locale of new accounts.

File permission fix.

Changed "Opening Balances" to "Opening Balance" to unify the account name.

Tweak for newer versions of db2html.

Fix a common crash (Gnome Bug #78132 et. al.) caused by a dangling pointer reference.

Add upper bounds checking on the versions of guile and g-wrap.

Fix for guile-1.4.1 srfi problem.

Added support for VWD as a quote source (Joachim Breitner).

Available at the usual places!

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

GnuCash has now moved its bug reporting system into the central GNOME bugzilla. This will give the GnuCash project the ability to receive bug reports generated by Bug Buddy as well as take advantage of the GNOME bug team in their overall administration of GNOME bugs.
If you wish to use the GNOME bug system to report a GnuCash bug please go to bugzilla.gnome.org and use the forms there to enter your report.
You can also see a complete list of GnuCash bugs by following this link, "Complete" and this link "Open" if you wish to just see any open bugs.

The GnuCash team has been hard at work developing new requested features for the next version of GnuCash which is slated for beta testing and release in the late summer and fall of 2002.
New features;

Small Business functions

Scheduled Transactions

OFX support

Improved User Interface

Updated Users Guide
The development team would appreciate greatly any feedback from persons testing these features by compiling the CVS version of GnuCash. You can either join us on irc.gnome.org #gnucash or email the developers list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org

Updated or new translations for Dutch, Norwegian, Russian, Greek, French, German, Portuguese, Azerbaijani Turkic, and Slovak.

Tweaked the exchange rate calculation so that it will work in even more complicated cases, involving different Euroland and other currencies.

Added Edit Report Options hyperlink to warnings in reports.

Added workaround for Guppi barchart legend sorting (broken in Guppi 0.40.0 - 0.40.3)

Bug fixes

Available at the usual places!

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

Euro conversion druid

Updated or new translations for Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, German, Nicaraguan Spanish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish, and Swedish

minor bug fixes

Available at the usual places!

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

GnomeChart 0.1 is now available.

GnomeChart is a small application for viewing stock charts. It uses libguppi for the graphics, so you'll need to have Guppi 0.40.1 or better installed.

You can download GnomeChart from:

http://download.gnome.org/GNOME/unstable/sources/gnome-chart

-JT

fix bug loading GnuCash 1.4 files

Available at the usual places!

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

new Polish translation

Danish and Spanish translation of new account files

updated Swedish, German, and Portuguese translations

child accounts can be reconciled with the parent

support for TrustNet online quotes

support for precious metal currencies

bug fixes

Available at the usual places!

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

Screenshorts showing the latest version of the Gnome Time Tracker have been put up at a temporary web site. Voluneteers are needed to provide a module to export gtt billing data into gnucash, as well as to update the gtt documentation.

The First Gnucash User/Features Survey is now closed. There were 828 survey respondents. The responses and the averages changed almost not at all from the early snapshot posted here earlier. The majority of respondants are home users interested in more home-user features. You can view an executive summary and the detailed responses here. We hope to do a bit of data mining later, and present a more detailed breakdown according to the types of users. Let us know if you have interest in this dataset.

Updated Danish and German translations

SQL backend performance improvements

bug fixes

Available at the usual places!

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

There have been 415 survey takers to-date. The majority of respondants are home users interested in more home-user features. You can view an executive summary and the detailed responses here. The survey itself continues, and we hope to have a more detailed breakdown according to the types of users later.

Joseph Mack has created an online tutorial as part of a GnuCash talk given to the North Carolina Systems Administrators on July 11. The tutorial is about how to do small-business accounting using GnuCash.

RedHat 7.1 packages of GnuCash-1.6.1 for guile-1.3.4 are now available here, courtesy of Ben Stanley.

Thanks Ben!

Updated documentation

Updated French, German, Japanese, and Portuguese translations

Improved startup time

Many bug fixes

Available at the usual places!

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

Let us know what your opinions about the future of GnuCash. There is a rather long, detailed survey that asks for your opinion about the future of GnuCash. You can rate the importance of a big list of features and possible future directions for gnucash. You can take the survey, or study up on our thoughts for the possible future directions for GnuCash by reading the roadmap.

SuSE 7.1 packages for GnuCash-1.6.0, Guppi ad g-wrap are now available here, courtesy of Stephan Kahnt.

Thanks Stephan!

Yellowdog PowerPC packages of GnuCash-1.6.0, Guppi ad g-wrap are now available here, courtesy of Martin Hill.

Thanks Martin!

A Mandrake 8 package of GnuCash 1.6.0 is now available here, courtesy of Arnold Troeger. A mandrake version of guppi, required by gnucash, is in the same directory.

Thanks Arnold!

We have a limited number of t-shirts left over from a trade show. They're $15 a pop. Show your colors!

A Solaris 8 package of GnuCash 1.6.0 is now available here, courtesy of Alan Orndorff.

A debian package of GnuCash 1.6.0 is now available here, courtesy of John Goerzen.

Thanks guys!

The GnuCash Development Team proudly announces the release of GnuCash 1.6.0, the GNU personal finance manager.

GnuCash features an account hierarchy creation tool, a checkbook-like register GUI to enter transactions, and a full set of reports to visualize the state of your finances. The new release comes with a configurable main window, a much improved checking and general ledger entry window, and over ten completely new graphical reports including pie charts and bar charts using the GNU plot program Guppi.

Thanks go to all the translators, testers, bug reporters, artists, and programmers who made this release possible. And thanks to all our users for choosing GnuCash!

The new release of GnuCash contains many new features including:

Printable, persistent reports (reports are saved between sessions)

XML file format (old binary files are converted automatically)

Account hierarchy creation druid, account hierarchy export

Much improved QIF importing

Financial calculator

Better support for multiple currencies, special support for the Euro

Online stock quotes integrated with the GUI

Expression evaluation (you can type in 40.45 + 31.23)

PostgreSQL back-end supports multiple simultaneous users (beta, disabled by default)

Menus translated to 12 languages, users guide to 3 (French, Spanish, Portuguese)

Available at the usual places!

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

Announcement: GnuCash 1.5.98 release!

Note: this is an unstable development release and may be buggy! Most users should probably stick to version 1.4.12 for day-to-day use. (All 1.5.x releases will be unstable/buggy. The next stable version will be 1.6.0).

This is a beta release. GnuCash is now in feature freeze for 1.6.0.

updated documentation (English & Portuguese)

updated German and Portuguese translations

more work on sql backend

fixes for FreeBSD

bug fixes

Available at the usual places!

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The next stable release, 1.6.0, is rapidly approaching, and we need all language translators to update the message catalogs. The translatable text strings in 1.5.x have been frozen, we don't expect any new strings in 1.6.0. However, the text strings in the current 1.5.x are completely different from those in 1.4.12, and many new strings have been added since he earlier days of 1.5.x. If these translations are not brought up to date, version 1.6.0 will come out with broken or missing translations for many languages. Now is really the best time to bring translations up to date.

Note: this is an unstable development release and may be buggy! Most users should probably stick to version 1.4.10 for day-to-day use. (All 1.5.x releases will be unstable/buggy. The next stable version will be 1.6.0).

This is a beta release. GnuCash is now in feature freeze for 1.6.0.

updated documentation

updated Norwegian and Portuguese translations

prices now stored in sql backend

bug fixes

Available at the usual places!

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

Note: this is an unstable development release and may be buggy! Most users should probably stick to version 1.4.10 for day-to-day use. (All 1.5.x releases will be unstable/buggy. The next stable version will be 1.6.0).

This is an alpha release.

updated user documentation

updated api documentation

bug fixes

Available at the usual places!

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

Note: this is an unstable development release and may be buggy! Most users should probably stick to version 1.4.10 for day-to-day use. (All 1.5.x releases will be unstable/buggy. The next stable version will be 1.6.0).

This is an alpha release and a string freeze release.

new user account hierarchy wizard

account hierarchy export

reporting improvements

transfer dialog auto-completion

many bug fixes

Available at the usual places!

(fast mirror)

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

There will be sporadic outages next week as the gnucash.org server is moved to a new location sometime next week.

Turkish translation

minor bug fix

Available at the usual places!

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The new Portuguese website is up! Many thanks to Duarte Loreto for the fantastic job setting up the site, as well as for the translations of the GnuCash menus and the documentation! Outstanding job Duarte!

Note: this is an unstable development release and may be buggy! Most users should probably stick to version 1.4.10 for day-to-day use. (All 1.5.x releases will be unstable/buggy. The next stable version will be 1.6.0).

This is a feature freeze release.

reporting improvements

many misc GUI improvements

updated German and Portuguese translations

fixes for Solaris

bug fixes

Available at the usual places!

(fast mirror)

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

Note: this is an unstable development release and may be buggy! Most users should probably stick to version 1.4.10 for day-to-day use. (All 1.5.x releases will be unstable/buggy. The next stable version will be 1.6.0).

more new & improved reports

use of gnome MDI for main window

GUI improvements

bug fixes

Available at the usual places!

(fast mirror)

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

Note: this is an unstable development release and may be buggy! Most users should probably stick to version 1.4.10 for day-to-day use. (All 1.5.x releases will be unstable/buggy. The next stable version will be 1.6.0).

several new & improved reports/graphs

online price quotes now work

new main window display

Spanish & Portuguese translations of the manual

many bug fixes

Available at the usual places!

(fast mirror)

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

Jeremy Collins has updated & modernized the GnuCash website layout for a cleaner, fresher feel. Please test it out, and let us know about any bugs, layout problems, dead links, etc.

Note also: we now have a full backup copy of the French translation of the GnuCash site hosted on this server. We are looking for volunteers to help Yannick Le-Ny bring it in sync with the new site layout.

Five stars and the editors' choice award is what GnuCash-1.4.8 received in the December 2000 edition of Maximum Linux France. Hurrah! We've scanned in the article: read it here, page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4.

Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Norwegian, and Ukranian translations

bug fixes

Available at the usual places!

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

Note: this is an unstable development release and may be buggy! Most users should probably stick to version 1.4.10 for day-to-day use. (All 1.5.x releases will be unstable/buggy. The next stable version will be 1.6.0).

new XML file format

better support for importing qifs from online banks

improved checking register

support for charts & graphs

financial calculator

new user account hierarchy wizard

many UI improvements

beta support for postgresql -- see src/engine/sql/README

Available at the usual places!

(fast mirror)

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

CVS snapshots with tarballs and RPMs for Redhat 6.x and 7.x are now available on ftp.gnucash.org. Thanks to Chris Lyttle for making these available!

DSL line to the CVS server has a shorting clip on it somewhere. We are waiting for Southwestern Bell (SBC) technicians to remove the clip. This is the second time in 4 months that SBC has sabotaged the line. Estimated up time: 2 or 3 days. In the meanwhile, please study up on CVSUP.

updated translations

support for Greek Drachma as Euro currency

updated tax report

bug fixes

Available at the usual places!

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

Screenshots from the unstable development version of gnucash are now online!

RPMS for g-wrap-1.1.4 for Redhat-6.2 are now available on the ftp site. NOTE:This version of g-wrap can only be used to build the gnucash-1.5.x series. You MUST use the older, g-wrap-0.9.x for building gnucash-1.4.x

a wealth of new links to stock-tracking tools, business accounting packages (including our favorite, GnuE), and XML format standards. We didn't get around to listing any of the competitors to gnucash, mostly because we got lazy.

tax report

txf export

bug fixes

Available at the usual places!

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

Email got you down? Tired of leaving a bit-trail on your hard drive that your boss, the IRS, the CIA or the NSA use against you? Or do you merely want to flame the gnucash developers in the most ephemeral possible way? Then IRC is for you: check out #gnucash at irc.gnome.org, where the conversations are monitored only by the gnucash developers.

Of interest to current & future GnuCash developers might be two overview diagrams: the system block diagram which shows the arrangement of the major components, and the accounting structures diagram, which shows the relationships between accounts, transactions, splits and currencies. Both of these diagrams are linked from the architecture overview page.

CVS is back up. The problem was due to SBC/SWBT 'backhoe fade' (actually, a technician with wireclippers and something against Covad). DSL is great when it works, but when its down, its a nightmare to restore service: there are an incredible number of layers that get involved with line testing.

bug fixes

Available at the usual places!

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

updated translations

updated documentation

a few bug fixes

Available at the usual places!

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

Note: this is an unstable development release and may be buggy! Most users should probably stick to version 1.4.6 for day-to-day use. (All 1.5.x releases will be unstable/buggy. The next stable version will be 2.0.0).

fixes for Solaris

fixes for gnome-print 0.23

misc bug fixes

Available at the usual places!

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

Note: this is an unstable development release and may be buggy! Most users should probably stick to version 1.4.6 for day-to-day use. (All 1.5.x releases will be unstable/buggy. The next stable version will be 2.0.0).

New translations

Updated documentation

Lots of bug fixes

Available at the usual places!

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

New Spanish translation.

Several bug fixes.

Available at the usual places!

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

A few bug fixes.

Available at the usual places!

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

Gnumatic Incorporated is pleased to announce its formal support for GnuCash! Gnumatic is a company that was created expressly to further develop and enhance GnuCash, to broaden its availability, and to provide formal, for-fee support to customers that need a strong corporate backer.

Who's Gnumatic, you may ask? Well, some of the voices you already know from the mailing list are a part of Gnumatic: rlb, grib, dave@krondo, rgmerk, linas, and, hopefully, soon, others.

What does corporate support mean? Well, we hope that it means only positive things: more features, more functions, faster and with less bugs. We hope that it means that GnuCash will have a rosy long-term future to become the premier accounting package on Linux. We hope that it establishes the GPL as the only viable long-term licensing model for desktop software. And finally, we hope that GnuCash can spin off and excite a number of projects that will further enhance the state of financial software on Linux.

We're pretty excited, and we hope that you will be too!

new Russian translation

a few bug fixes

Available at the usual places!

HTTP download

FTP download

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

fix for stock quotes from the London exchange

updated French translation

a few bug fixes

Available at the usual places!

HTTP download

FTP download

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

Please be aware that the 1.5 series of GnuCash is a development release. This means you can expect instabilities and dependency problems as we add features and use newer libraries. If you just want to use GnuCash and not worry about having the latest features and bugs, you should use the 1.4 series.

The GnuCash project has a booth at COMDEX Toronto, graciously donated by LinuxMall, and Linas, Bill, and Rob (rlb), are there. If you're in the area, come by and visit.

You can obtain a Solaris package for GnuCash 1.4.2 from   ftp.gnucash.org and ftp.krondo.com.
This package was created by Alan Orndorff and contains all the needed libraries (that's why it's so big).

Charles Gagnon has also created Solaris packages for GnuCash, for both   the stable and development series. They are available at www.unixrealm.com/downloads.

Enjoy!

You can download the latest gnucash releases from   ftp.krondo.com.

Mandrake users can download a Mandrake rpm from Mandrake Cooker sites.

switch to using the gtkhtml widget

all the fixes in 1.4.2

This release requires the gnome-print and gtkhtml libraries.
Available at the usual places!

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

updated French translations

improved qif importing

fix for g-wrap 0.9.4

misc bug fixes

Available at the usual places!

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash web, ftp, and mail services are migrating to a new home. This may cause some temporary inconveniences. Please bear with us.

In the interim, ftp service should be available at ftp://ftp.gnucash.net/, and web services should be available from ftp://www.gnucash.net/.

Things should be back to normal in a week or so, once DNS finishes propagating.

Thanks

translations are loaded correctly

improved qif importing

bug fixes

Available at the usual places!

ftp.gnucash.org

download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

The GnuCash developers are proud to announce GnuCash 1.4. This new stable release marks the transition from Motif to GNOME.

Some of the many new and improved features include:

• Totally revamped interface, customizable from within the GUI.
• This includes transaction auto-completion.
• New reporting system, including several new reports and much improved existing ones.
• Internationalisation.

You can download this release from

ftp://ftp.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/

or, alternatively, you can try the Sourceforge mirror:

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash/

Please read the README before compiling GnuCash, as there are several other packages that must be installed first.

We hope you enjoy the new release.

bug fixes

updated documentation

updated translations

Please note that the RPM does not contain the checking printing feature. You will have to compile it yourself.

This release is the last in the 1.3 development series.

Available at the usual place! ftp.gnucash.org

transaction auto-completion

improved qif importing

fixes for 64-bit architectures

updated translations

automaked build system

bug fixes and ui improvements

Please note that the RPM does not contain the checking printing feature. You will have to compile it yourself.

This release is one of (and maybe) the last in the 1.3 development series.

Available at the usual place! ftp.gnucash.org

Due to recent switch of the servers that house the mailing lists many people seem to have been unsubscribed, or resubscribed to the lists. Please just take the appropriate action by unsubscribing, or resubscribing. Sorry for the inconvience.

transaction cut/copy/paste

new Japanese translations

user interface improvements

bug fixes

Please note that the RPM does not contain the checking printing feature. You will have to compile it yourself.

Available at the usual place! ftp.gnucash.org

better printing of multiple currencies

user interface improvements

bug fixes

Please note that the RPM does not contain the checking printing feature. You will have to compile it yourself.

Available at the usual place! ftp.gnucash.org

transaction finder dialog

even better qif importing

some support for the euro

bug fixes

Please note that the RPM does not contain the checking printing feature. You will have to compile it yourself.

Available at the usual place! ftp.gnucash.org

more work on reports and check-printing

fixes to qif importing

misc bug fixes

Please note that the RPM does not contain the checking printing feature. You will have to compile it yourself.

Available at the usual place! ftp.gnucash.org

LWN gave GNUcash another whirl after visiting our booth at Comdex. Read what that had to say!

Another look at Gnucash

alpha code for check printing (requires gnome-print)

more i18n of reports

auto check numbering

bug fixes and GUI improvements

Please note that the RPM does not contain the checking printing feature. You will have to compile it yourself.

Available at the usual place! ftp.gnucash.org

new French and German translations

new French documentation

speed and other improvements in the register

more work on reports

Available at the usual place! ftp.gnucash.org

Includes documentation in French.

QIF importing fixes.

Various GUI improvements.

This release also requires gnome-libs >= 1.0.40.

Available at the usual place! ftp.gnucash.org

After months of intensive development by some really awesome people we are proud to announce the release of GNUcash 1.3.0. This is a beta quality development release. RPMS, and source tarballs are available at ftp.gnucash.org. Please test them and report all bugs back to our bug tracking system, or our developers mailing list.

Now for the details. This release signifies the switch from Motif to Gnome as our GUI toolkit. The build process should also be a lot easier.

Key Features:

• Gnome/Gtk based
• Canvas based register
• New reporting engine based on scheme
• Lots of options are now configurable
• Ability to reparent accounts
• A really slick/polished interface

I will post screenshots of the new development release in a bit. In the meantime just downloaded, install, and go wild with it! =)

MIRROR AT SOURCEFORGE.NET

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash-1.3.0-1.i386.rpm

All those who downloaded 1.2.4 can go right back and get the new version! =)

It fixes a rounding bug which caused 0.999 to be printed as 0.0 instead of 1.0. (The math was done right, it just the printing was broken).

And checks & returns error when you try to save to a disk that is over-full.

You can get it at: http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/

UPDATE: Binaries are now available at:

http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/

-- Is supposed to be 'stable' i.e. usable, crash-proof, not subject to frequent or radical change.
-- Motif-only source code. No gnome. This should simplify builds.
-- Fixes some core dumps that 1.2.3 had.
-- Is maintained in a separate cvs branch; if you send patches to fix problems with this code, indicate that its for this release.


You can get it at: http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/

UPDATE: Binaries are now available at:

http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/

This release includes misc bug fixes, update README files, updated german & french message translations. I hope that I've touched the timestamps on some certain files so that the LIBTOOL irritation goes away.

The 1.2.2 release is meant to be a stable release for general use.

The latest experimental version is available via cvs and includes a new large patch to gnome from Heath Martin.

For the "I won't compile it until I have seen it" crowd I have updated the screenshots for the Gnome/Gtk+ version of Gnucash. I hope waves of people will checkout the latest source from CVS and go absolutely nutz debugging it! =)

Has anyone heard of this company? V-One. Apparently their shares tripled because they made a Linux port of their software available.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1474480.html?pt.athome..ticker.ne

They are automatically updated again every night.

We also added a new list, gnucash-patches@gnucash.org. This list is strictly for posting patches to Gnucash.

After over a month of server problems I think we have things worked out. I still need to setup mailing list archives. Also ftp.gnucash.org points to the wrong IP, this is already fixed and just needs to get refreshed in your DNS! =)

In addition anyone who was having difficulty subscribing to the mailing list should try again. Keep in mind that we have change mailing list managers and the process for subscribing is different. Read the section "Mailing List - Help" for more information!

Here is an interesting tidbit about a certain company that should listen to a certain community.

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-1463213.html?pt.athome..ticker.ne

A lot has changed in the last month... so what do you do when things change? You take screenshots!!!! Enjoy!

these are of the lastest CVS version!
gnome screenshots