GnuCash 2.3.10 (Unstable) released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.3.10, the tenth 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. Note that there are serious bugs when using webkit on win32, so it is advised that win32 builds continue to use gtkhtml
• Updated to AqBanking 3 on Win32.

Changes between 2.3.9 and 2.3.10 include:

• Revert r18654. Current GtkHtml implementation crashes the windows build whenever a report is opened.
• Better fix for segfault at startup caused by bug 608329's patch and a renamed Accounts tab. Patch by Tom Van Braeckel
• Fix crash at startup on renamed Accounts tab, bug#608329. Patch by Tom Van Braeckel.

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 2.3.10 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 2.3.10 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 Services Back Online

As of 2am EST on Thursday, February 18 all GnuCash services should be up and running normally. Over the next few days there may be brief outages as equipment is rearranged or routing preferences are fixed. But the services themselves (Email, Subversion, Wiki, etc) should be accessible.

Thank you for your patience

Scheduled GnuCash Server Downtime

The GnuCash "everything" server will be down on Wednesday, February 17th, 2010, in order to move the hardware to a new location. The shutdown will start around 8am US/EST on Feb 17 and will hopefully last only 12 hours. It may last longer in the event that the network move does not happen on schedule.

This outage will affect all GnuCash services except for www.gnucash.org. Affected services include Email, Email Archives, Subversion, Wiki, Trac, GNCbot, IRC Logs, and all Build Services run on lists, code, and svn.gnucash.org.

Please stay tuned to this location for further updates.

GnuCash 2.3.9 (Unstable) released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.3.9, the tenth 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. Note that there are serious bugs when using webkit on win32, so it is advised that win32 builds continue to use gtkhtml
• Updated to AqBanking 3 on Win32.

Changes between 2.3.8 and 2.3.9 include:

• Bugs fixed
• Bug #608436: Add auto-clear feature Patch by Cristian KLEIN: = Usage scenario = John keeps his personal accounting in GnuCash and writes all credit card expenses therein. On weekends, we checks his Internet Banking and sees that some transactions have been recorded. He would like to clear those transactions in GnuCash, but it is tiresome to go through each Internet Banking transaction and do manual comparison with GnuCash records, especially since Internet Banking transactions might be in a different order than in GnuCash. John would prefer having an "auto-clear" feature. Given the "current amount" from the Internet Banking, he would like GnuCash to clear the transactions for him, if and only if, there is a unique combination of transactions that could achieve this. If there is no solution, or if the solution is not unique, GnuCash should warn him and John must manually clear the transactions.
• Bug #590332: New eguile-based Tax Invoice report Patch by Chris Dennis.
• Bug #606053: Add stylesheet with footer Patch by edodd@billiau.net and Frank H. Ellenberger.
• Bug 586122 - The AqBanking Wizard can't be loaded: plugins\20 folder to be renamed into plugins\16 The patch evaluates and configures the proper paths at build time, retrieving the required info directly from the aqbanking source
• Bug #608329: Add Color to Account tabs Patch by "Bob": I wanted a way to select an account easily when I have several accounts open in the main window. I decided to add a color option to the account so that the tab can be set to a specific color and so easily identifiable. This could also be used to link like minded accounts together. This patch also fixes the account tooltip not being updated when the name changes.
• Bug #534210: Add individual check item types. Patch by Thomas Troesch: The proposed patch does: 1. Changes the chk file key to Blocking_Chars as described in 607522 ( this had been dropped by mistake ). 2. Add several fields to the Custom tab in the print check dialog. Locations for: a. split memos fields. b. split accounts ( e.g. Expenses:Auto ) c. split amounts ( e.g. GBP 21.40 ) The splits do not include the last split in the transaction. The keys in the chk format file are: SPLITS_AMOUNT SPLITS_MEMO SPLITS_ACCOUNTS 3. Memo was added to the custom tab. This is the memo from the split that matches the account from the register.
• Bug #608306: check amount_word should print the fraction correctly. Patch by Thomas Troesch: Checks printed the wrong string for the amount_words. The utility number_to_words had produced e.g. from 100.04 -> One Hundred and 4/100. The word string should be One Hundred and 04/100.
• Bug #608874: Spelling fix for Emoluments Patch by Adrian Bridgett.
• Bug #589320 Price Editor - Currency Namespace does not show up This bug was introduced by r18062 (applying a patch from bug #580281 Entering multiple pices with price editor is tedious) For some unknown reason, r18062 assumed exchange rates are not supposed to be edited via the Price Editor dialog.
• Bug #105669: Improve error handling in gz_thread_func. Honor errors when reading/writing from/to a compressed file or the pipe to the main thread.
• Bug #606728: Catch errors when opening saved-reports-2.4 for write.
• Bug #105669: Add checks to detect errors on write, especially if there no space left on the disk. Check the return value of fprintf and use ferror where libraries as libxml do the write. The change may not be perfect yet and a review would be nice. Still, it detects quite a few errors that, without it, slip through and may destroy valuable data.
• Bug #607522: Add ADDRESS to check printing Patch by Thomas Troesch: The patch does three things: 1. Adds the ability to print an address on checks. The Print Check dialog is changed to have 5 address lines. The first field is filled in with the same data as the PAYEE check item. The other lines are blank. The check format keys have a new check-item type 'ADDRESS'. It behaves like other text check-item types. The address fields on the dialog are set 'not-sensitive' if the current format does not have an ADDRESS check item defined. The Custom Field tab has a new line for the address location. 2. Added new check format key - Blocking_Chars. This is to put the blocking character feature into the check format file. It is currently only in the preferences dialog in the printing tab, and therefore currently applies (or not) to all text fields in th_e check format. By adding the key Blocking_Chars_n to the check format, the blocking characters can be applied to text type check-items individually. Its really useful when printing stubs and so on. (NOTE: blocking characters are printed around a field to protect against alteration e.g. ***$100.00*** vs $100.00) 3. Included a Voucher check template. This is a full page check with the check on top and which has two stubs below. There are other voucher formats ( middle and bottom ) , but the check printing functionality would require separate templates for the different formats. Also changed the Quicken/Quickbooks US-Letter check format to include the ADDRESS check item and blocking around the AMOUNT_NUMBER field. I made a change to the Quicken-wallet check to add blocking characters around the AMOUNT_NUMBER field, and I added a clipping rectangle definition to the NOTES and PAYEE fields the were placed in the check stub area ( if the fields were too long, they would print into the check area ).
• Bug #607517: Migrate print.glade from glade-2 to glade-3 format. Patch by Thomas Troesch.
• Bug #607246: In qof_string_number_compare_func, use base 10 and do not allow octals to sneak in. Otherwise, transaction number 0108 (octal 010=8) will sort before 0107 (octal 0107=71).
• Bug #607255: Repair Hungarian report main menu, by Attila Nagy.
• Bug #607185: Add f-q workaround for missing date. Patch by "meo": If for whatever reason finance-quote is unable to get a date for a quote or to convert it to the standardized form, gnucash is unable to use the otherwise correct quote. With web pages being updated definitively more frequently than finance-quote, this is quite a nuisance. Up to now, gnc-fq-helper emits an error message + the quote, a combination gnucash is unable to process. This patch presents a workaround. I would prefer using the current date + 12 hours rather than current date + time, but this is open for discussion.
• Bug #606077: Fix uncommon configure option --program-suffix. Patch by Peter Selinger: OK, the attached patch fixes part of this problem. Specifically, it applies the specified transform (from ./configure option --program-suffix, --program-prefix, or --program-transform-name) to the files src/bin/gnucash-valgrind src/bin/gnucash-gdb src/bin/gnucash This is done in the Makefile at compile time. In the end, I am not sure why the GnuCash configure.in provides the --program-suffix mechanism at all, since apparently it hasn't been used in 10 years. According to info autoconf, these are supposed to be enabled by the macro AC_ARG_PROGRAM, but I don't see this in configure.in. So perhaps it has been enabled by accident and shouldn't really be there.
• Bug #511606: Fix ipmt() and ppmt() functions in scheduled transactions. Patch by Jean-Baptiste: " The instance counter is now incremented into increment_sx_state function."
• Bug #538902: Moves the "New Accounts Page" menu option to the "View" menu Patch by Steven N. Severinghaus.
• Bug #348701 Wrong currency symbol when currency is set to DKK This fix reverts changeset r7200, which caused some currency symbols to be replaced with the EURO sign. This replacement was a workaround for gtkhtml1 and no longer needed.
• Bug #606626: Change wording from Druid to Assistant
• Bug #589032: Replace some strcmp() by safe_strcmp() to fix crashes on NULL strings.
• Bug #602051: Replace the word "string" in GUI messages by non-developer wordings. Same for dialog -> window.
• Bug #602091: Fix broken Due Bill Reminder in all non-C locales The Due Bill Reminder used the translated form of "Invoice" as query string predicate, which can't work because the untranslated string must be searched for.
• Bug #582325: Refactor some deprecated guile functions: SCM_BOOLP -> scm_is_bool SCM_NULLP -> scm_is_null SCM_FALSEP -> scm_is_false SCM_NFALSEP -> scm_is_true SCM_VECTORP -> scm_is_vector SCM_NUMBERP -> scm_is_number SCM_CONSP -> scm_is_pair SCM_STRING_CHARS -> scm_to_locale_string Specifically the replacement of SCM_STRING_CHARS with scm_to_locale_string fixes Bug #582325 Additionally, I have renamed these internal functions for global consistency: SCM_PROCEDUREP -> scm_is_procedure SCM_LISTP -> scm_is_list SCM_EXACTP -> scm_is_exact SCM_EQUALP -> scm_is_equal
• Bug #605414: Clarify Quick-fill tip of the day Patch by James Raehl: Patch adds Tab key step to the Quick Fill tip. New users do not know about this step.
• Bug #605415: Relax limit on scheduled days in the future Patch by James Raehl: Expand scheduled transaction date limit by 366 days Usually, scheduled transactions are limited to 365 days in the future. This patch doubles that limit plus adds a day for leap years. The patch supports a method for separating transactions that are not yet posted at the bank, by assigning an initial date one year in the future. Under this method, scheduled transactions and their reminders are one year in the future, since they have not happened yet.
• Fix bug #603215 - Custom report from Budget Report does not save selected Budget Problem was how budget option tried to create the lambda function to restore the value.
• Bug #479581 gnucash --nofile hasn't application name in window title When no file is selected, the title now becomes "Unsaved Book - GnuCash". The first part is following Gnome HIG guidelines, the latter part is a preference of several GnuCash developers. Furthermore, the "- GnuCash" suffix will always be appended, not only when no file is open.
• Fix #586122 (follow-up to r18488) by using aqbanking/version.h from its installation path. Also look up the gwenhywfar so-name accordingly.
• Bug #609402 Add Japanese resource to Windows (inno) setup
• Updated translations or translation-related changes
• Updated Dutch translation, by Mark Haanen and Jos, copied from the Translation Project.
• Updated Japanese translation, by Yasuaki Taniguchi, copied from the Translation Project.
• I18n fix of concatenated expression. We must not concatenate a word expression from different strings. Instead, we must translate each expression separately. Pointed out by Mark Haanen.
• I18n improvement: Translate plural-dependent string correctly by ngettext().
• Minor updates to British English translation by Mike Evans. Copied from bug#602051.
• Fix translation issues caused by r18474.
• Update Chinese (simplified) translation, copied from the Translation Project.
• Update British English translation by Mike E.
• Remove de_CH translation because it ceased to be maintained. The normal German translation will appear for de_CH locales, just as in 2.2.x.
• Fix typo: accouting -> accounting
• Update German translation
• Add initial Persian translation (Farsi) by Mehdi Alidoost.
• Fix translation error in r18550, bug#602051.
• Update Japanese translation, copied from the Translation Project.
• Fix missing header information about Farsi plural forms in fa.po, according to what has been explained to me.
• Add disambiguation prefix to the word Split where it is the action of a Stock Split.
• Add new source files to POTFILES.in
• Updated Dutch translation, copied from the Translation Project.
• Update German translation.
• Update the translations with the latest string template.
• I18n improvement: The account name of the other account in multi-split transaction is extended to conform to the name in the register. Otherwise, the string Split from here has the ambiguity with the button labeles Split, which is the verb, whereas here we need the noun.
• I18n improvement: Add disambiguation prefix to the account code of the other account in a multi-split txn. Without the disambiguation, the string here is identical to the button labeled Split, but that one is for sure something different from here, namely the old verb vs. noun issue.
• Other user-visible changes
• Small UI string corrections related to the recent tax enhancements. Patch by J. Alex Aycinena.
• Payment dialog layout improvements - Rearrange the frames so that the Transfer Account frame gets more space - Add tooltips to (owner), (invoice) and amount related widgets. - Properly align the invoice_label widget
• Watch out for a missing pricing transaction when looking for price data.
• Add a comment about GNC_COMMODITY_NS_ISO and GNC_COMMODITY_NS_CURRENCY.
• Add new columns for the name of the lot each split is part of and for the value of the split. Both are optional and default to off.
• Call gnc_{suspend|resume}_gui_refresh while closing accounts and scrubbing lots to make them go much faster and avoid flicker.
• Watch out for a null account in render-corresponding-account-subheading, it happened to me once.
• Pass the correct report name to income-statement-renderer-internal when rendering a profit and loss report.
• Don't leak a file port when saving reports.
• Reset found_trans_split when the transaction being considered in gnc_split_register_find_split turns out to be the wrong one.
• Fix an off by one error in gnc_ui_sx_loan_druid_create.
• Increase the size of the Guile stack to avoid stack overflow errors.
• Some usability improvements to the Save As.../Open dialog (part 2) Forgot to add the changes in c code...
• Some usability improvements to the Save As.../Open dialog * The dialog gets a proper title * Only show the File frame or the Database frame, as relevant to the chosen data format * Set a minimum width. Without it the dialog comes up too narrow. * Some minor layout changes (spacing, justification,...) to harmonize with other GnuCash dialogs.
• Don't show hidden accounts in the transfer dialog. This should be connected to the UI, but my ubuntu has glade 3 which mucks up the .glade files.
• Add a Select Children button to the widget used for account selection in report options dialogs.
• Load gnc-build-url from the correct file so the accounts list option works again.
• Speed up the balance sheet report by a factor of 5 or so by using C functions instead of Scheme functions to get account commodity balances. This idea is borrowed from the EGuile version of the balance sheet report.
• Avoid a bunch of assertion failures when the general ledger is open. The general ledger has no account so attempts to get the balance of the register's account pass a null account pointer to functions that won't accept that. Also stop leaking a GList in the functions that get account balances.
• Remove the "Compute unrealized gains and losses" option from the balance sheet report. Instead compute unrealized gains and losses only if the current book does not use trading accounts.
• Change 'Int' to 'Interest' and 'Div' to 'Dividend' in action strings
• Use string saved-reports-2.4 in the description of the save report action.
• Use gtkhtml as html render in the Windows build
• [Patch] Corrections to taxtxf.scm Patch by J. Alex Aycinena: I attach a patchfile that corrects two problems with taxtxf.scm: the report would not gracefully handle the cases where, 1, a datafile from an earlier version of gnucash might have tax codes assigned to accounts and no tax-entity-type code assigned to the file, and, 2, some cases where accounts had no tax code assigned and the tax-related flag not set.
• Have the Post date widget grab the focus by default when opening the post invoice dialog.
• Updated txf.scm for 2009 US tax form changes by J. Alex Aycinena.
• Fix crash when copying a currently edited transaction in the register.
• Other code/build changes
• Remove gnucash.lsm from EXTRA_DIST
• Fix doxygen markup
• Small documentation improvements for better doxygen docs
• Move splint-defs.h to src/debug. It's only used for debugging. Note that the current splint-defs.h causes compilation errors due to redefinition of function declarations. These should be fixed when splint is to be run again.
• Win32: Fix building of libgoffice. Required libgsf to not remove the build directory, hence part of r18559 need to be reverted.
• Fix null-pointer dereference from r18612
• Remove Linux Software Map description. It's unmaintained for years now.
• Move count.* to util Also I made a first attempt at improving the line count. The old script missed a number of files in the directories it counted. The script is still not in line with the current code base though. A number of directories are still not counted (like gnome, engine, ledger, ...)
• Moved svnlog2ul from contrib to util It makes more sense in util as it is by and for the devs, not contributed by an external user for external use.
• Add svnlog2ul.sh, and accompanying xslt sheets. svnlog2ul.sh is a script to extract the commit messages from svn between two releases and converts them into a simple html unordered list. This is a useful aid to create the news pages on the website.
• Move valgrind suppression rules to debug subdirectory This will require a new run of configure as some makefiles have changed
• Set svn:ignore on pl accounts like the other account directories (Meaning: ignore Makefile and Makefile.in)
• Remove the old, obsolete postgres backend and its tools I also changed some of the documentation that referred to it, but there are still some references left in the (unmaintained ?) design documents.
• Win32: Hopefully fix goffice installation.
• Free sort_keys as allocated by g_utf8_collate_key in ExtensionInfos.
• Fix script to check for > 2.8 entries to remove The minimal Gtk+ requirement has been set to 2.8 recently. This script still removed glade parameters that are valid in 2.8. This patch fixes that.
• Corrections to r18610 to permit compiling against older versions of glib
• Remove more executable bits from data files
• Remove executable flag from data files
• Fix URL of ActivePerl.
• Minor changes to global project files 1. Fix spelling errors in HACKING - appearenet -> apparent (patch by Tom Van Braeckel) - supressions -> suppressions 2. Keep the contributer list sorted alphabetically in AUTHORS
• Fix "make distcheck". Patch by Jan Arne Petersen
• Reverse r18597
• Create routines qof_book_get_string_option() and qof_book_set_string_option() to get/set a kvp string, respectively. qof_book_set_string_option() also handles saving the book so that the kvp is updated in the db. In the future, qof_book_set_<type>_option() and qof_book_get_<type>_option() should be created, where type is boolean, int, double, ... In addition, other places which handle options in the book should use these routines.
• Create qof_book_begin_edit()/qof_book_commit_edit() routines. These need to be added around lines which set kvp values for the book, and the dirty flag does *not* need to be set.
• Revert 18490/18491/18527 - I'm not sure it's actually deleting the objects without affecting the database.
• Add ChangeLog.2009 for the last year.
• Use correct routine to add a newly loaded entry to the correct bill. r18302 fixed the entry loading problem for invoices, this extends it to bills.
• Remove build directories of dependencies after their successful installation.
• Remove a couple of unused local variables left over from a previous iteration of the trading account changes.
• Fix guile-1.6 compatibility of r18541 (bug#582325). We still suppport guile-1.6, hence we can use the functions introduced in guile-1.8 only by providing our own backward compatibility macro definitions in guile-mappings.h.
• Update gwenhywfar/aqbanking version numbers for win32 build.
• Fix gwenhywfar version lookup by tightening the RE used
• Need to export the variables for glib to see them
• temporarily disable the gwenhywfar version lookup - there are multiple lines matching GWENHYWFAR_SO_EFFECTIVE
• Really fix r18495 (#586122) to look up the so-name of gwenhywfar correctly.
• Require gtk+ >= 2.8
• Remove unneeded information lines about "qof" - we're using our internal code always anyway.
• Re-indentation of source code, next batch. This also strips trailing whitespaces from lines where they existed. This re-indentation was done using astyle-1.23 using the following options: astyle --indent=spaces=4 --brackets=break --pad-oper Discussed at http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2009-August/026121.html
• Allow digits in Gtk action names created in gnc_create_extension_info. This should fix bug 447339 as long as all report names are unique considering only alphanumeric characters.
• Free accounts/lots/splits/transactions when closing a book
• Fix a couple of echo commands and set warnings=no-portability when running automake.
• Make xaccSplitDump and xaccTransDump work for debugging.
• Teach xaccSplitConvertAmount that 0*x = 0. Avoids looking up non-existant exchange rate.
• Add some missing Leave() calls.
• Symlink the reports to the build directory to make it easier to use them when running in place after a build without installing GnuCash.
• Use resolve-interface instead of resolve-module when loading reports fo only the exported interface gets imported instead of everything defined in the file.
• Make the dbi backend tests work correctly if dbd is installed in a nonstandard location. Supply a GNC_DBD_DIR environment variable to the tests so it knows where to find the database modules. This is needed if libdbi is installed via MacPorts on OS X.
• Add flags to help with valgrind on glib
• Free prices so that they can be deleted when the book is closed
• Free budgets when closing a book
• When closing the book, destroy all lots (found by valgrind)
• Free memory leaks
• Add qof_backend_module_finalize() routine to call dbi_shutdown() to free allocated resources.
• Add qof_finalize_backend_libraries() which is called during shutdown. This routine checks each backend library for an exported qof_backend_module_finalize() routine, and if it exists, calls it so that the backend can free any resources which have been allocated.
• Fix some memory leaks found by valgrinding tests
• Remove erroneous use lib from gnc-fq-*, along with PERLINC setup in configure.in
• Decrease verbosity during win32 packaging: Inno, gconftool-2, htmlhelp compiler (hhc) with less output.
• Fix some incorrect ENTER() and LEAVE() calls.
• Fix up some gnc:debug calls (and one comment).
• Fix a couple of initialized variable warnings.
• Add missing PORTFOLIO_LEDGER register type to switch statement in gnc_split_register_get_debcred_entry.

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 2.3.9 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 2.3.9 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 2.3.8 (Unstable) released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.3.8, the ninth 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 2.3.7 and 2.3.8 include:

• Disable it_IT help in the win32 binary
• Recreate index after updating table
• Temporarily disable currency trading accounts so that 'make check' will pass
• Fix test-resolve-file-path - results have changed
• Fix compilation problem in test
• Add src/gnome-utils/gnc-tree-model-account-drag.c to po/POTFILES.in
• Set debug level for gnc.backend.dbi automatically to DEBUG.
• Fix memory leak: Let the pixbuf renderer for goffice plots be unreferenced
• Add libguile CFLAGS and LIBADD to libqof build
• Fix too-new gtk_dialog_get_content_area function of r18413: Patch by J. ...
• Transaction post date also needs to allow NULL values.
• Temporary workaround for crash at startup after r18429.
• Decrease verbosity of aqbanking plugin: Debug output only if preference ...
• In the "Save As" dialog, set XML as default, not sqlite3.
• Fix compile error on current ubuntu by clashing symbol declarations in ...
• When creating an account selector and a commodity list if provider, just ...
• Remove forgotten printf in r18402 which shouldn't have been committed to ...
• Fix amount sign of imported bank transfers (e.g. from DTAUS ...
• Fix GCC pointer strictness compiler errors/warnings and remove duplicate ...
• Fix compile error related to uninitialized value. Patch by Matt Lavin ...
• Introduce disambiguation prefix for "Deposit" action to distinguish it ...
• Make one register function more const correct to avoid compiler warnings ...
• Fix typo: scm_catch_body_t -> scm_t_catch_body
• gnc-module doesn't need to compile/link with guile
• Add new option in register "Tab order includes Transfer field". Patch by Colin Law
• Partly fix broken data file backward compatibility with SX recurrence
• Win32: Allow m4 1.4.11 and 1.4.13 as well as 1.4.7.
• Win32: Assert there is only one aqbanking plugin directory
• Win32: Minor version update of aqbanking.
• Bug #603186: Fix crash with txf.scm on win32 Patch by J. Alex ...
• Bug #537476: Fix currency trading account preference lookup Patch by Mike ...
• Fix the bug described in comment 19 of bug 537476, balance sheet wrong ...
• Bug #310567: Disable newly introduced "shift txn forward" feature again ...
• Fix bug 600486 - Unable to open sqllite file on Win7 64 bit Unposted ...
• Fix Bug 591573 - "File|Save As" with xml option and no file name ...
• Fix bug 602603 - State file cannot be saved with MySQL because of colon ...
• Bug #570895: Allow reporting for single budget periods in budget income ...
• Bug #602744: Fix broken tip_of_the_day list creation. Patch in r18417 ...
• Fix bug 591098 - when starting Gnucash, "Present" and all other collumns ...
• Bug #537476: Implement currency trading accounts optionally, to be enabled ...
• Bug #554394: Income Tax Enhancements Patch by J. Alex Aycinena. Patch ...
• Bug #600374: Add editable transaction field in the register for bank ...
• Bug #310567: Add menu item to shift transaction forward in sorting ...
• Bug #121695: Support account reparenting through drag and drop in the ...
• Fix bug 492865 - Add Last Reconcile Date as an Option in the Chart of ...
• Fix bug 593581 - 2.3.5: Save to MySQL still fails with date error After ...
• Bug #601861: Fix mis-captioning in button labels The keyboard shortcut ...
• Bug #602070: Fix return value in void function Patch by Halton Huo.
• Bug #602062: Fix hard-coded gcc program name Patch by Halton Huo.
• Bug #540452: Remove inline from function declaration/definition because it ...
• Bug #602069: Fix build on Solaris for different gmp header ...
• Revert r18396, "Bug #593906: Fix crash at account report" This change ...
• Fix bug 598213 - Selecting "Account Report" causes gnucash to ...
• Bug 600947 - Gnucash-2.3.7 crashes when doing reports with ...
• Bug 599324 - Patch: Add double click behaviour to account list in payment ...
• Bug 599322 - Patch: Minor gui tweak for invoice window Fix widget ...
• Bug #599953: Let gnc:make-[complex|simple]-boolean-option store its value ...
• Bug #593906: Fix crash at account report Patch by Mike Alexander. This ...
• Bug #582985, #585022: Add missing currencies Armenian Dram (AMD) and ...
• Bug #593070: Budget Report: Omit accounts with no budget and zero ...
• Fix 598491: Remove use of guile's deprecated GH interface
• Bug #567090: Fix erroneous password length comparison.
• Updated Dutch translation by Mark Haanen, copied from Translation Project.
• Add Latvian translation by Valdis Vitolins <valdis.Vitolins@odo.lv>
• Update of Japanese translation by KUSANO Takayuki
• Add polish account templates, contributed by Jacek Baszkiewicz ...
• Update German translation.

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 2.3.8 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 2.3.8 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 2.3.7 (Unstable) released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.3.7, the eighth 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 2.3.6 and 2.3.7 include:

• Revert changes which caused gnucash to crash on startup on windows
• More recent version of gmp on win32
• Postgresql binary package on win32 now includes msvcr71.dll
• Fix compiler warnings. Patch by Colin Law
• Fix for balance column displayed in template register
• Update of Polish translation by Jacek Baszkiewicz

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 2.3.7 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 2.3.7 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 2.3.6 (Unstable) released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.3.6, the seventh 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 2.3.5 and 2.3.6 include:

• Fix #107929: Improved running balance implementation. Patch by Tim M
• Fix #593906: Fix crash at creating account report Patch by Mike Alexander
• When configuring to build, if webkit chosen as html engine, don't bother looking for gtkhtml.
• Fix enhancement bug 101456 - 'Find' dialog cumbersome for Business functions. Patch by Geert Janssens
• Fix enhancement bug 589787 - Multi-line up/down scroll for register transaction Notes field text. Patch by James Raehl
• Win32 build: Add forgotten dist_ktoblzcheck step to dist creation.
• Use GtkFunction instead of obsolete GtkDestroyNotify for argument type
• Win32: Newer Aqbanking version
• Win32 build: Remove gwenhywfar configure option which has been removed before gwenhywfar-3.8.2.
• I18n fix: Markup preference tab name "Online Banking" for translation.
• Win32 installer: Really fix path of qt3-wizard.exe.
• Fix bug #595920: Fix missing ca-bundle.crt in windows installer.
• Add "file://" URL type to images in invoices.
• Latest pot template merged into all .po translation files
• Bug #589804: Additions to register transactions Action pulldown list. Patch by James Raehl.
• Bug #572938: Fix OFX Mutual fund buys that are imported as sells. Patch by Matt Lavin, signed-off by Benoit Grégoire.
• Bug #585784: Fix wrong fractional precision in stock/mutual fund registers. Patch by Daniel Harding.
• Source of src/libqof/qof run through astyle to be re-indented
• Add GNC_DBD_DIR definition for libdbi on mac
• Fix bug 590386 - Add option to always use today for reconciliation statement date Patch by Simon Arlott
• Fix bug 591117 - Cash Flow Report's "Depth: All" Option is Broken. Patch by David Eisner
• Fix bug 595014 - MacOSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard) fails configure.in check. Patch by David Reiser
• Fix bug 595015 - compiler warnings for missing printf format specs, gcc 4.2.1. Patch by David Reiser
• Fix bug 595017 - compiler complaints about incompatible pointer types in gnc-gwen-gui.c. Patch by David Reiser
• Fix bug 589673 - need to patch libdbi source for win32 problem.
• Fix bug 594048 - gnucash will not compile with most recent goffice versions. Patch by Jean Brefort
• Remove trailing whitespace from lines. Patch by Geert Janssens.
• Move gnc_account_get_full_name() from app-utils to engine and remove xaccAccountGetFullName in engine.
• If an object is loaded with a reference to an invoice, order, tax table or bill term which has not been loaded yet, print a warning message into the trace file.
• If an object is being loaded that has a reference to a transaction, and the transaction hasn't been loaded yet, load it. If an object has a reference to an account, commodity, budget or lot that hasn't been loaded yet, print a warning message in the trace file. The difference in handling is that these object types are always loaded at init time, whereas transactions are not.
• Replace some calls to (deprecated) xaccAccountGetGUID() with calls to qof_entity_get_guid()
• Fix svn:ignore property to ignore Makefile/Makefile.in in accounts/ko
• Minor updates to HACKING, by Geert Janssens.
• Use SWIG properly to wrap functions to free strings which need to be freed by the caller.
• Fix Bug 590458 - Invoices are incomplete or miss specifications Replace call to gncEntrySetInvoice() with gncInvoiceAddEntry() which is the real function.
• Fix Bug 590900 - "Unable to save to DB" dialog from Business -> Customer -> New Job Allow owner id to be NULL
• Fix bug 593865 - Unable to save to database error when scheduling transactions Allow scheduled transaction to have NULL start date. Will require db to be deleted and recreated.
• Fix index-out-of-range compilation error
• Fix typo in message as pointed out by Joe Dalton.
• Fix some memory leaks
• Add some dbi backend tests to test db save/load. In order to test the mysql backend, the --with-test-mysql-url=URL option must be supplied to configure where URL is the full url (mysql://host[:port]:db:user:password) to access a mysql db. The same is true for postgres, with the --with-test-pgsql-url=URL option.
• Python bindings patches by Mark Jenkins. python_GetNthChild_remove.patch remove the redundant GetNthChild code, gnc_account_nth_child supported python_more_GUID.patch Improve support for GUID python_better_commodity.patch * Removed custom __init__ from GncCommodity, not only is it wrong but the one from GnuCashCoreClass is just fine. * Supported the get_table method For Book * Removed support for direct instantiation of GncCommodityTable. (via gnc_commodity_table_new() ). Only methods and not the constructor function are added to the class now. Python binding users can access a GncCommodityTable instance via Book.get_table() and have no need to use gnc_commodity_table_new(), which the apis advise is for internal use only. python_GncLot.patch * included gnc-lot.h in gnucash_core.i again * Made GncLot class use superclass __init__, it doesn't need its own. python_more_documentation.patch Documentation strings for many classes, which can be viewed in source and with python's help() mechanism. python_business_module_load.patch load the business module, not the business module specific backend python_example_scripts.py example scripts improved, new one added. This new script originally came from this post: http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2008-July/023618.html python_authors_update.patch added Legal Aid Manitoba to credit line for Mark Jenkins
• Use "float8" instead of "real" for double field in slots table so that we get an 8 byte float rather than only 4 byte.
• Doubles weren't being loaded properly from sqlite3. Fix that problem by examine more closely the type information returned by libdbi.
• Fix bug where NULL dates on sqlite cause sigsegv
• Updated Slovak translation, copied from the Translation Project.
• Updated Danish translation by Joe Hansen, copied from the Translation Project.
• Updated German translation, inspired by Raffael Luthiger's contribution on 2008-12-31.
• Update of Polish translation by Jacek Baszkiewicz
• Update of Lithuanian translation by Tadas Masiulionis
• Updated Danish glossary by Joe Hansen.
• Updated Danish translation by Joe Hansen, copied from the TP.
• Updated Dutch translation by Erwin Poeze, copied from the Translation Project.

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 2.3.6 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 2.3.6 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 2.3.5 (Unstable) released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.3.5, the sixth 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 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 include:

• Partly revert r18246: disable writing of "hidden" and "placeholder" so that XML files written by 2.3.5 can be read by 2.2.9
• Avoid CRIT messages when loading root account which has NULL commodity
• Fix compilation problem - add GPOINTER_TO_UINT() cast
• Fix bug 592357: Cannot specify port for database connection. You can now add a port number using ":<port>" (e.g. ":100") to the end of the host specification in the Open and Save As dialog for databases.
• Fix bug 592021: Budget Report: Options to show actual, budgeted and diff don't work
• Fix minor i18n issues. 1) Don't translate gtk stock button labels. 2) Don't split sentences when translating. 3) Exclude formatting from translatable messages when possible
• Updated German translation
• Fix bug 592719 - postgres backend aborts with date problems
• Merge latest pot tempate into all .po translation files
• Add win32 version of gmtime_r
• Fix bug 575778: QIF import: fix crash when a security list omits the "T" (type) line

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 2.3.5 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 2.3.5 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 2.3.4 (Unstable) released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.3.4, the fifth 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 2.3.3 and 2.3.4 include:

• Changes in database schema. The "helper" tables (slots, recurrences, taxtable_entries) which can have multiple entries per object now have a unique, auto-increment integer primary key. Dates and date/times stored in the database are now stored in DATE and TIMESTAMP columns (mysql and pgsql). The "hidden" and "placeholder" account flags are now stored in individual fields in the accounts table. A new budget_amounts table contains 1 record per budget per account per period and contains the budget amount for that account/period. The scheduled transaction end date is now being stored. The versions table now has the table name as the primary key, and NULL values are disallowed for all fields.
  
  Because of these changes, you will need to delete and recreate your database. If you want to save your data, save it to XML before upgrading to 2.3.4, upgrade, then load the XML file and save to a new database or over your existing database.
• The standard report .scm files are now in <install-location>/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/report/standard-reports. When gnucash is started, it will scan this directory and load each .scm file into the report menu system. This means that if you want to add a new report to gnucash, you only need to copy it into this directory.
• Updated Japanese translation
• Updated Dutch translation
• Updated Danish translation
• Fixed bug 591614: Saving to postgresql causes zombie scheduled transactions.
• Ensure template root account (used for scheduled transactions) is stored even if there are no scheduled transactions
• Accounts can be stored even if commodity=NULL
• Fix bug 589418: commodities were not being stored properly. This should solve the problem of the disappearing commodities.
• Improvements in the budget report:
  1. For income accounts, the sign of the "difference" column is reversed so that positive values are good (more than budget).
  2. Fix wrapping problems in budget cells (account labels, negative values, values in certain currencies)
  3. Budget report can now display negative values in red. This requires use of the Default-CSS stylesheet
  4. Period dates are now centered properly over the columns for that period
  5. Add an option to the budget report. If enabled, and an account does not have a budget value for the period, the budget values for all child accounts are added. If the chart of accounts is set up so that only leaf accounts have transactions, this allows budget values to be assigned either to all children and not the parent (they will be summed) or the parent.
• Changed --enable-webkit configure option to --with-html-engine=XXX where XXX is "gtkhtml" (default) or "webkit".
• Merged latest pot template into all .po translation files.
• Fixed signed vs unsigned char pointer type conflicts.

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 2.3.4 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 2.3.4 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 2.3.3 (Unstable) released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.3.3, the fourth 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 2.3.2 and 2.3.3 include:

• Fix crash for "save as" if sqlite3 backend not available.
• Updated Korean translation by yongdoria.
• If a report defines style-text, that text will be added to the report header
• Add new stylesheet to provide css information. Allows users to specify report fonts
• Update CSS style sheet to use font buttons rather than strings.
• Patch by Jim Raehl Fix bug 587853/585939. When parsing file: or xml: handle file: or file://, xml: or xml://
• Patch by John Ralls. Adjust configure.in for Mac compilation with Quartz.
• Patch by John Ralls. Provides (and installs when appropriate) a special gnucash-setup-env for OSX.
• Patch by John Ralls. Permits binreloc to work from inside a MacOSX application bundle
• Patch by John Ralls. Integrates the gnucash menus into the MacOSX menubar.
• Fix bug 588212 - PgSql: Pop-up dialog for overwriting db contents even for new database
• Fix bug 587436 - Make Bayesian Matching ON by default
• Fix bug 363339 - Exclude hidden accounts from reports. New check box added
• Fix up some more reports to use cell tags which allow CSS style font usage
• Add Korean translation of account charts by Jin-Hwan Jeong.
• Fix bug 585899 - environment variable GNC_DEFAULT_DATABASE can be used to set the default database name in the Save As dialog

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 2.3.3 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 2.3.3 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.

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