http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce/159 <pre>As Christian mentions in his 2.4.10 announcement, below, this release contains updates that "reflect changes to US Income Tax Forms and Schedules for 2011". These are not extremely significant changes but if you are subject to US Income Tax reporting requirements and use gnucash to aid in preparing your US tax returns, you should upgrade so that your Tax Report reflects these latest updates. If you are using Windows or a Mac, the announcement tells you where to get the update. If you are using another operating system (Linux, etc.), the easiest way to get the update is to wait until it becomes available through your normal package distribution mechanism. But sometimes there can be significant delays between the gnucash release and its availability through these normal distribution channels. And since tax time in the US is upon us now, there is a way that you may be able to get just the US Tax updates into your existing gnucash installation before the 2.4.10 release is available to you, if certain prerequisites apply to your installation. See the instructions that follow Christian's announcement: (deleted) (deleted) To upgrade the US Income Tax information on an existing gnucash installation: Prerequisites: You must have at least 2.3.8, or later, installed for the following to work. If not, THIS WON'T WORK, so don't do it. (If you can't upgrade using your distribution's package manager to at least this level, your only choice is to build from source.) You also must have administrative/root privileges on your system. 1. Determine where gnucash files are installed on your system, specifically the file: 'txf.scm'. For example, on my Fedora system, it is located in '/usr/share/gnucash/scm/' and is owned by 'root'. The location may be different for your distribution. 2. Exit gnucash if it is running. As 'root', locate and change the name of the existing 'txf.scm' file to 'txf.scm.orig' noting its ownership and permissions (su -; cd /usr/share/gnucash/scm; ls -al; rename txf.scm txf.scm.orig. txf.scm; ls -al). 3. As your regular user, with your internet browser, go to 'http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/tags/2.4.10/src/tax/us/' and right-click on and save 'txf.scm' somewhere (e.g.: /home/user-name/Downloads). 4. As 'root', move the downloaded 'txf.scm' file to the location where 'txf.scm.orig' is located and make sure its ownership and permissions are the same as the original file (mv /home/user-name/Downloads/txf.scm /usr/share/gnucash/scm/txf.scm; ls -al; chown root:root /usr/share/gnucash/scm/txf.scm; ls -al; chmod g-w /usr/share/gnucash/scm/txf.scm; ls -al). 5. Restart gnucash and confirm that the new file is being used properly by selecting Edit-&gt;Tax Report Options and confirming that the dialog works properly. Specifically, test it by temporarily setting Tax Type as 'Individual, ...' if it is not that already, selecting 'Income' for 'Accounts', selecting some random income account, if it is not already selected as 'Tax Related', do so, scrolling down to 'Sched D Short/Long gain or loss' and selecting it, then scrolling the lower area to see the 'Form Line Data' and if it says '2011 - now 1,2, or 3 via ...' everything is fine. Click 'Cancel' so that no changes are made to your data from the test. Note that if you have any difficulties you can exit gnucash, delete the downloaded 'txf.scm', rename 'txf.scm.orig' back to the way it was before and restart gnucash to be back where you were. Also, if you do any upgrades to your existing installation after these steps to a release that is less than 2.4.10 (say, for example, from 2.4.4 to 2.4.9), you will have to redo these steps. Finally, I'll comment that although I reference Fedora above just because that happens to be the distribution I use, my experience is that the Fedora gnucash package maintainer is very timely in releasing updates so that if you use Fedora, you probably won't have to do this. </pre> Alex Aycinena 2012-02-08T19:58:57 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce/158 <pre>Hey all, I appologize again for the 16 hour outage. Comcast, my network provider, inadvertantly double-booked a net-block and assigned me the same block as another customer. So the outages over the past few days have been the result of that customer and I fighting it out. I finally got to someone last night who determined the actual problem, but as a result I got renumbered. As a result of the renumbering I had to get a number of other pointers updated to the new address and that finally took as of a few minutes ago. SO.... Packets are now flowing again, and HOPEFULLY we wont have this kind of outage again. *fingers crossed* Again, I am very sorry for the inconvenience. Hopefully this will be the last one. (at least until the power outages start ;) -derek, your friendly neighborhood sysadmin. </pre> Derek Atkins 2011-10-27T14:13:13 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce/157 <pre>Hey all, You may have noticed an outage since about 1pm US EDT yesterday. There was a total network failure and my network provider (Comcast Business Class) didn't actually track it down until this morning. It should be all fixed now and services should be up and running normally. I am very sorry for the inconvenience. Long version: At shortly after 1pm I noticed my network was out and I couldn't get to any websites. I quickly determined that I could only get 3 hops out into Comcast's network so I called Comcast support to report the problem. I spent an hour on the phone with them during which time they blamed me for bad settings on my systems!!!! Stupid first-line techs. Anyways, I escalated and was supposed to get a callback from 2nd tier support within 4 hours. That didn't happen so I called back again around 7pm only to be told that no, it was an 8 hour callback window. Of course I never got the callback. This morning I called back yet again and this time the tech worked through the problem. He could ping my gateway address but NOT ping my router.. At which point he FINALLY started troubleshooting. They finally determined that someone had "stolen" my network block so he was pinging their modem and not mine. They reset my modem and voila, it's all working again. At least until that other guy calls in and resets his modem, too... *sigh* Anyways, we're back up (for now). HOPEFULLY this wont happen again. Again, sorry for the inconvenience. -derek </pre> Derek Atkins 2011-10-26T12:25:04 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce/156 <pre>GnuCash 2.4.8 released The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.4.8, the eigth bug fix release in a series of stable of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software. With this 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. Getting GnuCash for Windows (Win32 binary) The Gnucash 2.4.8 Win32 setup executable can be downloaded from Sourceforge. It will install everything needed to run GnuCash. Mac OSX binary The Gnucash 2.4.8 MacOSX package can be downloaded from Sourceforge as well. Getting GnuCash as source code If you want to compile GnuCash 2.4.8 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from: Sourceforge: bzip2, gzip, all files. You can also checkout the sources directly from the subversion repository as described here. To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need Gnome 2, guile, slib. In addition you will need swig if compiling from subversion. Changes Between 2.4.7 and 2.4.8, the following bugfixes were included: * Bug #655901 - Fix build with guile 2.0 * Fix handling a directory as a dataset file. * Bug #626970 - Crash when saving a transaction whose destination account was deleted in the meantime * Bug #661721 - Exposed Password * Bug #651522 - crash in query_free_compiled, gnc_query_list_reset_query * Use "Nimbus" gtk theme on Windows. A previous attempt failed to set this in the installer. * Bug #644977 - Add new Quicken Check 21 format. Thanks to Steve Holland &lt;sholland-gJWJOslq16xYIuxIpFqa3A&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; * Update Mac customizations for gtk-mac-integration-1.0.0. Mac integration has had a name and api change from ige-mac-integration as part of migration from Sourceforge to Gnome. * Bug #553432 - Status line of edit invoice page mixes invoice currency amount with default currency symbol * Bug #365928 - Jobs do not stick in Expense Vouchers * Find the python libraries and includes even if the path to them includes a symlink. When python is installed using MacPorts there is a symlink in the path. * Bug #612562 - Transfer Funds dialog - 'Show Income/Expense' checkboxes are not working. Subaccounts of income and expense are not always shown. * Make sure that exiting conn_test_dbi_library on a failure doesn't leave the locale at "C". * Bug #645216 - Fix wrong permissions on server result in bogus error message. * Change default post date: * customer invoices: post at the current date * bills/vouchers: post at the last date on the bill/voucher * Bug #658244 - Custom css stylesheet and logo in Tax Invoice report require protocol in exported HTML * Bug #655901 - Fix build with guile 2.0 Patch by Petr Gajdos * Fix critical error regarding the color tabs when trying to display the search results and also on the scheduled transactions template. * Patch by Robert Fewell In 2.4.8, the following languages had their translations updated: Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Russian, Hungarian. 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. </pre> Geert Janssens 2011-10-22T13:40:39 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce/155 <pre>Hi, The planned maintenence was completed around 9:30pm US/EDT. The system did come up for a while around 6pm, but I had to perform an emergency reboot to get some other systems online. As of 9:30 all systems should be functioning smoothly. -derek Derek Atkins &lt;warlord-3s7WtUTddSA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; writes: </pre> Derek Atkins 2011-10-21T02:20:26 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce/154 <pre>Hi All, Summary: What: Planned outage of most of the GnuCash server facilities (SVN, Email, Wiki, Logs, gncbot) When: Thursday, October 20, 2011 1500-2100 US/EDT (1900-0100 UCT) Why: Moving the hardware about 15 miles Details: I'm going to be moving the physical hardware on which GnuCash's servers run. I plan to move the hardware on Thursday, October 20th sometime in the afternoon US/EDT. I'm leaving a 6-hour window in which I will shut down the servers, unplug everything, haul them to the car, drive them to the new location, haul them from the car, plug them in and turn them on. During this outage there will be no access to Email, Wiki, Subversion, Email Logs, IRC Logs, or gncbot. Access to www.gnucash.org will remain, as it's hosted elsewhere. I will send an email prior to shutting down the services, and I'll keep people updated on IRC while I'm still online. Note that there will be a followup outage sometime in a few weeks while the hardware gets properly installed once the server facilities get put together. More on that as the time approaches. Please let me know if you have any issues with this time frame. -derek </pre> Derek Atkins 2011-10-17T16:44:20 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce/153 <pre>Hi all, You may have noticed that the mailing lists have been quiet, and if you're a developer you may have noticed that SVN has been inaccessible. This is due to a network outage at my location that took over 48 hours for my ISP to correct. I plan to change class of service in a few months which should speed up recovery of any future outages. The outage started around 1pm on Thursday and the ISP was notified within 15 minutes. Of course due to the plebian level of service I currently purchase from them they couldn't schedule a technician until today. The technician replaced some equipment and the packets began to flow again. I am extremely sorry for any inconveniences this may have caused you. As of 6:11pm US/EDT all services should be running normally again. -derek </pre> Derek Atkins 2011-08-06T22:41:28 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce/152 <pre>Hey all, You may have noticed that SVN, Wiki, Email, and Trac have been down for the past 13 hours. Comcast decided that they didn't want to provide service for about 12 hours starting around 1:30am. Once they decided to restore it they decided I needed a new IP address so I needed to get the network reconfigured, which took another hour. Packets seem to be flowing as of 3:05pm EDT. I'm sorry for any inconvenience. -derek </pre> Derek Atkins 2011-07-27T19:15:17 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce/151 <pre> GnuCash 2.4.7 released The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.4.7, the seventh bug fix release in a series of stable of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software. With this 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. Getting GnuCash for Windows (Win32 binary) The Gnucash 2.4.7 Win32 setup executable &lt;http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.4.7-setup.exe&gt; can be downloaded from Sourceforge. It will install everything needed to run GnuCash. Mac OSX binary The Gnucash 2.4.7 MacOSX package &lt;http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/Gnucash-Intel-2.4.7.dmg&gt; can be downloaded from Sourceforge as well. Getting GnuCash as source code If you want to compile GnuCash 2.4.7 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from: * Sourceforge: bzip2 &lt;http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.4.7.tar.bz2&gt;, gzip &lt;http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.4.7.tar.gz&gt;, all files &lt;http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash%20(stable)/2.4.7/&gt;. * You can also checkout the sources directly from the subversion repository as described here. &lt;http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Subversion&gt; To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need Gnome 2, guile, slib. In addition you will need swig if compiling from subversion. Changes Between 2.4.6 and 2.4.7, the following bugfixes were included: * [20804]Bug #653056: Fix menu accelerators not working, crash on save-while-quitting. * [20800] Bug #646541: new invoice line items default to invoice open date instead of current date This commit partially reverts the changes in r19134 so that customer invoices and employee vouchers default to the current date. Vendor bills still default to the invoice open date. * [20798] Fix report reload and options change that got broken by the previous commit. * [20796] Force custom url handlers to lowercase to deal with Webkit 1.4's case sensitivity. For more details, consult this Fedora bugreport: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712268 * [20792] Bug #652257 - Memory leak in gnc-file.c Patch by Tim M * [20786] Bug #652435 - Fancy invoice export has &lt;generic&gt; tags in it preventing html validation Patch by Bert Claesen * [20785] Bug #652377 - XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliance for reports Patch by Tim M * [20784] Bug #632931 - Advanced Portfolio: new income column shows negative amount Patch by Sebastien Alborini * [20783] Bug #651889 - Using trading accounts, new non-expanded trading transaction shows inverted rates in exchange dialog When using trading accounts, the exchange rate dialog has a slightly different behavior. This patch fixes the behavior for transactions that are created in-line and are not expanded (single-line). It does not affect the expanded transactions or transactions created in the new transaction dialog. Patch by Mathieu De Zutter * [20782] Bug #651992 - Exported invoices do not render correctly in Firefox Patch by Bert Claesen * [20760]Bug #612562 - Transfer Funds dialog - 'Show Income/Expense' checkboxes are not working * [20750] Windows build: change default gtk theme to work around a number of problems in the Ms-Windows theme we used before. Particularly, this prevents the crash caused by bug #614636 and fixes the black notebook tabs that appeared after Phil upgraded webkit and many related gnome dependencies. The new default theme is "Nimbus" following a suggestion by Kim Wood on the mailing list. * [20746] Bug #652193 - Upcoming Scheduled Transactions Calendar Starting Month Error. Patch by Rich * [20745] Replace deprecated xml tag in chart of accounts templates In 2.4.7, translations for Tamil language were updated, by AshokR from Transifex. See also https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/gnucash24/ 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. </pre> John Ralls 2011-07-03T00:50:48 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce/150 <pre>GnuCash Documentation 2.4.1 released The GnuCash documentation team proudly announces release 2.4.1 of the GnuCash help manual and concepts guide. This documentation is intended for the 2.4 series of GnuCash. Note: version 2.4.0 of the GnuCash Documentation was only partially released and had several issues. Hence it was never officially announced and should be skipped. Reading the documentation online An online version of the documentation is available on the Documentation page of the GnuCash website. The 2.4.1 documentation can be found under "GnuCash v2.4 (current stable release)" in multiple languages. Getting GnuCash Documentation as pdf An pdf version of the documentation available on the Documentation page of the GnuCash website. The 2.4.1 documentation will be found under "GnuCash v2.4 (current stable release)" in multiple languages. Getting GnuCash Documentation as source code If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 2.4.1 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from: * Sourceforge * You can also checkout the sources directly from the subversion repository as described here. Changes Changes between the 2.2 series and 2.4.1 include * Bugs fixed o Bug #130920: Explain workaround for user-defined currencies. o Bug #535424: Update documentation for the Since Last Run assistant. o Bug #582547: Add account tree columns description. o Bug #588035: Correct keyboard shortcut for Actions &gt; Split menu item. o Bug #621573: Simplify explanation of entering a split transaction and remove comment about register bug (no longer applicable). o Bug #627266: "Steps to enable On-line price updating" doesn't say to install Finance::Quote o Bug #627983: Quit or Cancel o Bug #627984: Documentation consistency: either don't use the term druid or at least explain it. o Bug #628745 - guide: Add What's New section for current stable series o Bug #630652: Expand and add GnuCash Other Assets Patch author: Tom Bullock (tbullock at nd dot edu) o Bug #632244: Removed the Preferences section from guide and updated on help. o Bug #633385: Restructure section 2.2 Data Entry Concepts to only include basic info on files, accounts, and transactions. Minor cosmetic edits to section 2.1.3 and a concept clarification to section 4.2.2. Author: David (sunfish62 at yahoo dot com) Input: Yawar Amin (yawar dot amin at gmail dot com) and Tom Bullock (tbullock at nd dot edu) o Bug #633586: Move the explanation of debits and credits from section 3.2.2 `Income and Expense Accounts' into section 2.1.3 `Double Entry', a more logical place. Get rid of historical info (easy to look up online), error checking features info (this isn't a sales pitch), and banks' reversed usage of debit and credit terms (a digression, not really relevant at this point). o Bug #634075: Replace all usage of the term `druid' with `assistant' in the GnuCash Guide. Author: Mike E (mikee at saxicola dot idps dot co dot uk) o Bug #635357: Document Save As and Open dialogs. o Bug #635360: Explain backup files from a 2.4 point of view. o Bug #635361: Update the new account screen description and minor changes to account basics chapter in help. o Bug #635363: Add description of auto completion for business features. o Bug #635365: Mention invoice post date default. o Bug #635365: New images for AR Payment and AP Payment o Bug #635365: documents the new dialog related to style sheets o Bug #635386: Document trading accounts GnuCash capabilities. o Bug #635982: Fix typos and grammatical errors. Author: Yasuaki Taniguchi (yasuakit at gmail dot com) Review: Yawar Amin (yawar dot amin at gmail dot com) and Cristian Marchi (cri79 at ngi dot it) o Bug #638500: Add a note about the source of the report being modified so that users can follow along. o Bug #639264: Add Information about Starting Balance in reconcile window and revise the entire section. o Bug #639999: 16.3 Current Assets miscalculation in 16.3.5 Wash/Suspense Account Patch by Chris Curtis. o Bug #644984: Update to 2.4 UI and workflow the guide section on scheduled transactions entering from the Scheduled transaction editor. o Bug #647735: Add instructions on how to change the GnuCash interface language. o Related to bug #635366: Add cross-links for the Tax Options menu. o Related to bug #635357: Remove QIF assistant description and move New Account Hierarchy setup description. * Translation updates o New and updated German version of guide document, by Juergen Hoewener. o Updated German help, by Holger Stöhr. o Much improved Italian version of the documentation, by Christan Marchi. o New Japanese version of the guide, by Yasuaki Taniguchi. * New or improved content o GnuCash Docs: Update GNOME documentation links, patch by Yawar Amin o Update help manual to reflect partial support of capital gains for US Income Tax reporting and TXF exporting for code 673. o New figure for Printing tab under Preferences. o Updated Preferences section to GnuCash 2.4 and minor changes for 2.4 release. o guide: Reword paragraphs about new file extension Mention new file extension chosen during 2.3 development. Also, two paragraphs in the `Basics' chapter talk about the new default .gnucash file format. Make the second refer to the first. o guide: Change/remove references to old versions o guide: Mention important changes in What's New section o guide: Explain concept behind What's New section. o Update Reports section of help manual to reflect enhanced tax report. o help &amp; guide: Update date, series and version entity definitions to current release. o Update menu paths to 2.4 UI. o Updated help content to GnuCash 2.4, improved markup and tagging. o Update help to reflect changes introduced with bug #634357. o Add shortcut for Transfer command. o Reintroduce the show splash screen option. o Add description for File-&gt;Add Report item. o Fix mixed up account names, spotted by aikhan o Provide separate Finance::Quote instructions for each OS and clarify the ones for Linux. o Changed "Portfoloio View" to "Commodity View". A "portfolio" is a collection of investments, not a single investment. The register view in question applies to a single investment, and is used for all non-monetary commodities. o Update all references in the C guide &amp; help files to also show the correct preferences menu path for Mac OS X in addition to the Gnome one. o guide:Remove sections on international preferences and currency support, and absorb them into earlier introduction and account setup sections. o Remove a note about bug #340041 that is fixed now. o Add information on python invoice import script Documenation created by Mike Evans o Lots of small fixes and tweaks to improve the quality of the content. * Markup releated changes o Delete guilabel tags below section titles with same wording (redundant). Delete note about debit and credit effects on asset accounts because it's effectively the same as note `More on Debits and Credits' at the end of Section 3.2.2 (Income and Expense Accounts). Replace GnuCash name with defined app entity. Use tip tags for tips. Use an xref tag for a reference. o Replace all uses of GnuCash with the app entity o Replace all usage of the words 'GnuCash' or 'Gnucash' with the 'app' entity Patch by Yawar Amin o Add &lt;application&gt; markup to &amp;app; entity. o guide: Add single-quote entity definitions o Use &amp;rsquo; entity instead of "'" o Define entities for current stable and unstable versions, patch by Yawar Amin o guide: Add entities for stable and unstable series Sometimes referring to the exact version in the documentation is a bit superfluous, and instead we just want to refer to general GnuCash release series (2.2, 2.3, 2.4, etc.) in which something happened. o Add mdash entity to enable the use of xml2po and add description for entities. o Add guibutton tag. o Generate html doc in UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1 o Add figure tags and pgwide attribute to some screenshots The figure tags should go around all screenshots to have them show up in the list of figures. The pgwide attribute repositions the image in pdf documents. Large pictures still fit on the page thanks to this flag. o Use different accounting equation image for html or pdf rendering This is meant as an example of how the pdf images can be improved. This may not work well for screenshots though. o Improve figures and images for pdf printing and remove unused ones. Change ppi to 144 for all figures o Add hyperlink to GnuCash user list. o Add function attribute to Enter key tagging. * Other, non-visible changes o Remove old files that collide with existing ones in case-insensitive filesystems. o Add chapter getting-help to Makefile. o Merge branch 'bug633066' into HEAD o Remove redundant index. o Add gitignores. o Separate getting-help chapter to validate getting-started xml file. o Update the build system to a more recent xsl stylesheet, including ones required for pdf and htmlhelp (Windows) o Restore pdf creation for gnucash-guide and gnucash-help in all languages. o Update docbook specification from 4.1.2 to 4.4. o Migrate the Italian GnuCash guide to a po file based workflow. o Set svn:eol-style property for all XML files to LF to avoid CRLF/LF mixups. o More information on translation process o Several other small fixes and tweaks in the documentation build system 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. </pre> Geert Janssens 2011-07-02T16:27:51 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce/149 <pre>GnuCash Documentation 2.2.2 released The GnuCash documentation team proudly announces release 2.2.2 of the GnuCash help manual and concepts guide. This documentation is intended for the 2.2 series of GnuCash. Note that this will be the last documentation release for the 2.2 series. All future documentation efforts will go into the 2.4 and unstable series. Reading the documentation online An online version of the documentation is available on the Documentation page of the GnuCash website. The 2.2.2 documentation will be found under "Older GnuCash Documentation", "GnuCash v2.2". Getting GnuCash Documentation as source code If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 2.2.2 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from: * Sourceforge * You can also checkout the sources directly from the subversion repository as described here. Changes Changes between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 include * Bugs fixed o Bug #588035: Correct keyboard shortcut for Actions &gt; Split menu item. o Bug #621573: Simplify explanation of entering a split transaction and remove comment about register bug (no longer applicable). o Bug #627266: "Steps to enable On-line price updating" doesn't say to install Finance::Quote o Bug #630652: Expand and add GnuCash Other Assets Patch author: Tom Bullock (tbullock at nd dot edu) o Bug #632244: Removed the Preferences section from guide and updated on help. Keep old screenshots and source credits. Delete all references to new preferences such as Printing tab. Delete all references to new SQL backend and default .gnucash extension. o Bug #633066 o Bug #633385: Restructure section 2.2 Data Entry Concepts to only include basic info on files, accounts, and transactions. Minor cosmetic edits to section 2.1.3 and a concept clarification to section 4.2.2. Author: David (sunfish62 at yahoo dot com) Input: Yawar Amin (yawar dot amin at gmail dot com) and Tom Bullock (tbullock at nd dot edu) o Bug #634075: Replace all usage of the term `druid' with `assistant' in the GnuCash Guide. Author: Mike E (mikee at saxicola dot idps dot co dot uk) * Translation updates o New and updated German version of guide document, by Juergen Hoewener. * New or improved content o guide: Explain concept behind What's New section o guide: Mention important changes in What's New section o guide: Mention platform support only for current stable version o guide: Change/remove references to old versions o New figure for Printing tab under Preferences. o Add Budgets and Other Assets chapters to the overview. Author: Tom Bullock (tbullock at nd dot edu) o Fix sequence of tenses grammar error Author: Tom Bullock (tbullock at nd dot edu) o Minor spelling and grammar fixes. * Internal, non-user visible changes o Add chapter getting-help to Makefile. o Separate getting-help chapter to validate getting-started xml file. o guide: Add entities for stable and unstable series o guide: Add single-quote entity definitions o Replace all usage of the words `GnuCash' or 'Gnucash' with the 'app' entity. Patch by Yawar Amin o Added &lt;application&gt; markup to GnuCash program name o Remove old file that collides with existing one in case- insensitive filesystems. o Delete guilabel tags below section titles with same wording (redundant). Delete note about debit and credit effects on asset accounts because it's effectively the same as note `More on Debits and Credits' at the end of Section 3.2.2 (Income and Expense Accounts). Replace GnuCash name with defined app entity. Use tip tags for tips. Use an xref tag for a reference. o GnuCash docs: merge revisions 19151,19307,19312-19313,19386, 19455,19460,19472-19473,19479-19480,19482-19483 to 2.2 branch o guide: Remove 2.3+-specific info 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. </pre> Geert Janssens 2011-07-02T16:20:41 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce/148 <pre>Hi, The planned server maintenance has been completed. All services should be up and running normally[0]. If you find a service that is not acting normally please let me know. -derek [0] There is still a problem with Namazu not updating its search indices. I'm working on tracking down the problem, although we might need to find a new search platform </pre> Derek Atkins 2011-06-08T01:45:18 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce/147 <pre>Hi, Just a reminder that this work will be happening tomorrow, starting in about 13 hours from now. All access to subversion, trac, wiki, email, and the email archives will be affected. Access to www.gnucash.org will not be affected during the outage. Check on #gnucash on irc.gimp.org for real-time updates. I'll also post a status note on www. Thanks, -derek Derek Atkins &lt;warlord-3s7WtUTddSA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; writes: </pre> Derek Atkins 2011-06-06T22:59:54 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce/146 <pre>Hi, I'd like to upgrade the operating system software on code.gnucash.org. It's currently running a 2.5-year-old system (Fedora 10). I'd like to upgrade it to Fedora 15. The upgrade will probably take the better part of a day, considering I need to go through each step from 10-15, and each upgrade will probably take an hour or two. So I expect total time offline to be around 5-10 hours, give or take. During the maintenance period there will be no access to: * Subversion * Trac * Wiki * Email * Email Archives Access to www.gnucash.org will NOT be affected. My plan would be to shut down the system and bring it up on a private address during the upgrade process. Then I'll revert over to the regular address once it's upgraded and tested. I plan to start the process around 0800 US/EDT (1200 UTC) on Tuesday, June 6. I hope to finish before 2200 US/EDT (0200 UTC). Status updates will be sent to the #gnucash IRC channel on irc.gimp.org Developers: please let me know if this window does not work for you. Assuming no objections I'll send out a follow-up email on Monday evening as a reminder, and then another email once services have been restored. Thanks, -derek </pre> Derek Atkins 2011-06-03T20:22:13 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce/145 <pre>GnuCash 2.4.6 released ------------------------------- The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.4.6, the sixth bug fix release in a series of stable of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software. With this 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. Getting GnuCash for Windows (Win32 binary) ----------------------------------------------------------- The Gnucash 2.4.6 Win32 setup executable http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.4.6-setup.exe can be downloaded from Sourceforge. It will install everything needed to run GnuCash. Mac OSX binary --------------------- The Gnucash 2.4.6 MacOSX package http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/Gnucash-Intel-2.4.6.dmg can be downloaded from Sourceforge as well. Getting GnuCash as source code ------------------------------------------- If you want to compile GnuCash 2.4.6 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from: * Sourceforge: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.4.6.tar.bz2 * You can also checkout the sources directly from the subversion repository as described here http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Subversion To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need Gnome 2, guile, slib. In addition you will need swig if compiling from subversion. Changes ------------ Between 2.4.5 and 2.4.6, the following bugfixes were included: * Preserve selection around the call to gtk_editable_set_position. This lets us drop the racy gnucash_sheet_select_data_cb, which fixes problems with lost input. * Add a gnc_quartz_set_menu call to main_window_new() so that newly created windows get their menus on the mac menu. * Fix up the Mac shutdown process to give Gnucash a chance to clean up without spewing critical errors about the main loop already running (because of calling gnc_shutdown in an event handler). * Bug #650241: Fix style for aging table in owner reports that has changed (after defining doctype) Prevent inheriting the parent tablestyle for aging table in owner-report. * Bug #650757: Fix Easy &amp; footer styles output wrong tags &lt;/btd&gt; iso &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; preventing HTML 4.01 Transitional validation This patch removes the wrong &lt;/btd&gt; tags and closes the center tag in the footer and easy stylesheets. * Bug #645221: Patch to show the headline as an h3 across all stylesheets The attached patch makes sure that the title fonts set through the options menu behaves consistently across all style sheets. * Bug #620123: Patch to make account name a header cell, iso td in trial- balance * Bug #648554: SQL backend doesn't correctly save taxable flag on bills. * Bug #650163: Fix Technicolor style that outputs wrong tags &lt;btd&gt; instead of &lt;b&gt;&lt;td&gt; * Bug #650139: Fix missing doctype preventing HTML 4.01 transitional validation Exported reports lack a document type, preventing HTML validation. When exporting this may lead browsers to incorrectly read the reports generated by GnuCash. * Bug #650138: Style plain: Fix incorrect &lt;p&gt; tag around &lt;h3&gt; preventing HTML 4.01 transitional validation * Bug #649992: Let owner-report aging table include due date / post date options in aging. The attached patch patches the owner report to: *Allow a choice between the use of Due Date and Date Posted *Report with the current bucket * Bug #649608: Skip non-enabled Scheduled Transactions for Future Txn report * Update Slovak translation, copied from the Translation Project. * Bug #646729: Create the lockfile with at least read write user permissions * Bug #647945: Add sanity check to hopefully fix crash when running custom reports * Bug #644897: Correctly link in libgncmod-report-gnome.la to avoid linking against an installed version. * Bug #646268: Fix missing GWEN_SYNCIO initialization. * Bug #644762: Deprecated __new__() call in function_class.py * Bug #647360: Invoice entries in expense voucher are created in old voucher, not in new one. It worked fine for customer invoices, and vendor bills, but not expense vouchers, where the feature was broken all along. * Bug #647242: Fix broken averaging for quarter or half-year step size * Bug #647316: Fix crash when deleting custom report if no backup file existed. Before deleting the backup file by (delete-file), it must be checked whether the to-be-deleted file exists, otherwise the guile procedure will crash. * Fix warning about NULL guid_list in xaccQueryAddAccountGUIDMatch, which caused some total amounts in reports to disappear. Apparently gnc:account-get- trans-type-splits-interval didn't watch out for empty lists of accounts, and the resulting split list somehow was bogus. Now that we check for empty account list, all is fine again. This was broken for some months by now, maybe since r20404? * Bug #628342 - Quick open on File menu deleted if failed * Bug #629156 Recently Used Filenames incorrectly displayed In 2.4.6, translations for Japanese language were updated. 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. </pre> Christian Stimming 2011-05-29T19:07:29 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce/144 <pre>Announcement: GnuCash 2.4.5 Release 2011-04-10 GnuCash 2.4.5 released The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.4.5, the fifth bug fix release in a series of stable of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software. 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. Major changes in the 2.4.0 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. * As a replacement for 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 --with-html-engine=webkit to the configure command. You will need an appropriate webkit-dev package. On win32, you will need to download the webkit-1.1.90-win32.zip file from the source repository and put it into the downloads directory of your gnucash build area. * Updated AqBanking on Win32. Getting GnuCash for Windows (Win32 binary) The Gnucash 2.4.5 Win32 setup executable can be downloaded from Sourceforge. It will install everything needed to run GnuCash. Mac OSX binary The Gnucash 2.4.5 MacOSX package can be downloaded from Sourceforge as well. Getting GnuCash as source code If you want to compile GnuCash 2.4.5 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from: * 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/tags/2.4.5 gnucash To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need Gnome 2, guile, slib. In addition you will need swig if compiling from subversion. Changes between 2.4.4 and 2.4.5 include: * User-visible changes * [20457] Improve message printed on screen * Note last stable version number * Updated translations or translation-related changes * [20507] Various spelling fixes in comments and translatable strings. * Updated Dutch translation, copied from the translation project. * Updated Italian translation. * Bugs fixed * [20496] Bug #645518: Partly revert r20378, "Correct memory leaks found with valgrind" The original author (Alex) asked to have this part reverted as it seems to cause the crash explained in the bugreport, but he doesn't have time to investigate this in detail right now. * [20481] Bug #645640: Online transfer must not allow to change amount in second window * Bug #642176: Add four decimals to CLF (Chilean Unidades de fomento) Oops, I forgot 1 digit * Bug #642176: Add four decimals to CLF (Chilean Unidades de fomento) While we could not find a document, which defines the decimals, they are indispensable for the conversion of payments in "real" CLP. * Bug #645173 - [PATCH] Configure check uses hardcoded webkit library name Patch by Andy Clayton. * Bug #641645 - Support ActivePerl 5.12 for Finance:Quote on Windows * Bug #644688: Account edit fails to detect that no changes have been made and marks the account 'dirty'. * Other code/build changes * [20501] During win32 build, if a component is already installed, print the installation path Original patch by plongstaff. * [20491] Fix glade message with unintended whitespaces. * [20487]Windows nightly build: fix webserver directory creation hack * [20475] Windows build: fix weekly 2.4 build and move log files into separate directory * [20461] Windows build: allow reset.sh to remove mingw * [20460] Windows build: fix upload code * [20456] Some additional Windows nightly build fixes: - restore the original mingw/msys link, even when the build script abort (due to a die command) - only restore the mingw/msys link if it was saved before - weekly builds should be on Monday, not Tuesday - upload tag rebuilds to a directory named 'releases' instead of 'tags' * [20455] Build server: automatically create directories on webserver for new branches * [20454] Rework the Windows weekly 2.4 build to avoid parallel builds (which would fail) * [20452] Adapt the windows build system to deal with swapping mingw installations on one build machine * Start the 2.4 stable branch so that trunk is now experimental again * Add some convenience getter functions to gncOwner. * Whitespace and spelling corrections * Make error message on missing &lt;dbi/dbi.h&gt; more verbose. Also mention the infamous dbi database drivers here, https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2011-February/031171.html How can you help? Translating: The new release comes with some new translation strings. If you consider contributing a translation, we invite you to test this release already. 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. </pre> Phil Longstaff 2011-04-10T21:17:01 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce/143 <pre>Hi, Here is the promised low-down on the server happenings this week. If you don't care, feel free to just delete this message. I'm partly writing this up for your bemusement, but also as a note for myself because I'm sure in 3 years' time when I need to add more disks this knowledge might come in handy. The VM server was originally running Fedora 10 and vmware-server-2. Back in December I had installed and wired a new SATA controller card in preparation for adding more disk space to the server. At the same time I updated the system to Fedora 13 to try to freshen it up. Unfortunately I noticed quickly that the 2.6.34 kernels of F13 caused instability of the system. In particular any significant disk I/O would cause a catestrophic I/O slowdown, spikes in system load, and often it would hang the whole system (including all the VMs). This in turn would sometimes cause the VMs to see a Disk I/O error and, depending on the kernel version in the VM, it would make the VM's disk read-only, effectively killing the VM! Luckily at the time I still had the Fedora 10 (2.6.27) kernel lying around and I was able to reboot into that. With all else being equal this stabilized the system and it was happily running that way until this week. Last month I finally acquired the new disks, added them to the system, performed various I/O tests to burn them in, and then eventually created a new RAID1 array to mirror the drives and then added them to the logical volume group on which the main system obtains its filesystem. That's all well and good, until the power outage. When the system tried to reboot it failed to see the new raid array, so it couldn't build the logical volume, and as a result it couldn't mount the root drive! UGGH. Fedora 13 to the rescue.. It was able to boot up just fine, so that's what I did. I upgraded to the most recent F13 kernel and let it fly. Unfortunately the DiskIO issues from December didn't go away, and indeed seems to come back with a vengeance. One of my VMs (my personal web server) was "offline" for 24 hours because it had gone read-only. I realized quickly that I had to revert to the 2.6.27 kernel (which I painstakingly kept around *just in case*). After a failure of getting "mkinitrd" to work on Fedora 13 (Fedora changed from initrd to initramfs in F12, changing from mkinitrd to dracut) I decided to go about it the painful way: manually. I unpackaged the initrd and looked inside. Voila, the init script only started md1 and md2, not md3. So all I needed to do was add my md3 configuration. Voila. I re-package the initrd, put it in place, and wait for my reboot window. Unfortunately, that didn't work. Back to the drawing board. To make a long story short: 1) I had to make the init script echo its state so I could see what was happening. This was relatively easy to comment out the noecho command. 2) I had to add the sata_mv driver to the initrd. This was easy to pull from the existing F10 kernel. 3) I had to add 'insmod' to the initrd, because I couldn't get "modprobe" to work (probably because I couldn't run 'depmod' within the proper context to get proper module dependencies). 4) Then I had to debug why md3 *still* wasn't coming up! This is what took the longest time, and after finally using: mdadm --examine --scan -v I was able to determine that I had the WRONG UUID for my RAID!! I have no idea where I got the number I was using, but it was wrong. I was able to verify that in both the initrd configuration and from the Fedora 13 state. After I fixed the UUID in the mdadm.conf, voila, md3 started and all was happy! 5) I cleaned up the init script, turned echo back off, and packed up. After 14 test iterations I got a clean, working system. So, in conclusion: 1) Always make sure you load all the necessary drivers in your initrd 2) Doublecheck your UUIDs 3) mdadm --examine --scan -v is your friend Total downtime was just over two hours, and I missed my midnight "promised to come to bed" cutoff by only 10 minutes. :) Again, I'm sorry for the extended downtime, but I would like to extend a big thank you to roe_ on IRC who helped talk me through my pain and suffering as I was iterating through trials to get it working. -derek </pre> Derek Atkins 2011-04-08T13:33:40 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce/142 <pre>Hi, I'm afraid that it took a bit more work to get the server back online. But all services should be running normally now. I'll write up the full details tomorrow after I get some sleep. Please let me know if you have any issues and I'll look in the morning. -derek </pre> Derek Atkins 2011-04-08T04:08:06 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce/141 <pre>Due to personal issues this evening I'm going to restart the server an hour earlier, so I plan to reboot it at 10pm EDT (0200 UTC). Real-time updates will still be on IRC, and I'll send one more email once I'm done. -derek </pre> Derek Atkins 2011-04-08T01:08:01 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce/140 <pre>Hi, After the power outage I performed some emergency surgery to get the servers back up and running. Unfortunately some of that surgery failed, requiring a quick reboot of the machine. I expect downtime of less than 15 minutes. I plan to perform the reboot tonight at 11pm US/EDT (0300 UTC). During this time email, wiki, subsversion, and trac will be inaccessible. I'll send updates out to IRC before and after the outage, and I'll send a follow-up mail once services are restored. I'm sorry for the short notice, but the server is unstable at the moment and I want to back out one change in order to increase the long-term stability. Please email me or contact me on IRC if you have any questions. -derek </pre> Derek Atkins 2011-04-07T17:43:14 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce/139 <pre>Good morning everyone, Atlanta got hit by some major storms last night, which caused a signifanct power loss starting around 11pm US/EDT. Power stayed down long enough that my UPSes expired. Power came back and got lost a few times over the course of the early morning and came back completely around 1:30. Unfortunately the VM Server hosting code did not. At around 4:30 I woke up, came down to the server, and determined the issue and was able to recover the system relatively quickly. I took the opportunity to update some software and reboot the system cleanly again to test it all. The final reboot happened around 5:45am and the VMs came back up shortly thereafter. All services should now be running normally. I'm sorry for any inconvenience this outage may have caused. For those that care about the gritty details, the failure was due to the way I added additional disk space to the VM server. When I added the disks I used Linux software raid, however when I created the array I used the md-raid metadata version 1.2. Unfortunately the running kernel was unable to build the full logical volume due to this "mistake". I was able to correct the immediate issue by upgrading the kernel. This allows the new raid to load later, however it now loads as md127 instead of md3, but that doesn't affect the significant operation of the server. Upgrading the kernel included an upgraded vmware-server patch that will hopefully work better than the previous vmware-server patch I had tried. If the system remains stable with the new kernel then all will be good. However if the server reverts back to its disk IO issues that I observed before then I might have to determine new ways to work around the raid metadata issue, which may involve upgrading to grub2. Hopefully it wont come to that. Please keep your fingers crossed. -derek </pre> Derek Atkins 2011-04-05T14:27:15 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce