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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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://comments.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 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce/137 <pre>Announcement: GnuCash 2.4.4 Release 2011-03-14 GnuCash 2.4.4 released The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.4.4, the fourth 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. Note: 2.4.1 was partially released but was pulled at the last minute when critical problems were found. 2.4.1 should NOT be used. 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 2.4.4 Win32 setup executable can be downloaded from Sourceforge. It will install everything needed to run GnuCash. Mac OSX binary The Gnucash 2.4.4 MacOSX package can be downloaded from Sourceforge as well. Getting GnuCash as source code If you want to compile GnuCash 2.4.4 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/2.4.4 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 2.4.3 and 2.4.4 include: * User-visible changes * Update rev to 2.4.4 * Implement automatic creation of stock account for newly imported OFX stocks. Only active if "auto-create commodity" is switched on in the preferences from r20376. * When setting the report print name, check whether this exact name has been used before. Append an increasing number if that was the case. * When setting a printer job name, remove slashes because they are not allowes in filenames. * Add the invoice number in the output printer job name, if an invoice report is printed. * Add option in OFX import to have newly encountered commodities automatically created. * Modify Tax Info on Account Page to display or not display sub-account info based on whether row is expanded. Re-apply changes reverted in r20251. The only difference between this commit and r20207 is that, contrary to the recommendation given in gnc-tree-view.h, "Use GNC_TREE_VIEW_COLUMN_DATA_NONE if you plan on using a non-model data source for this column", it cobtinues to use "GNC_TREE_MODEL_ACCOUNT_COL_TAX_INFO". Using "GNC_TREE_VIEW_COLUMN_DATA_NONE" generates problems later in the "gnc_tree_view_add_text_column" routine when it tries to set up sorting for the column ("CRIT &lt;Gtk&gt; gtk_tree_sortable_set_sort_func: assertion `sort_column_id &gt;= 0' failed"). Define a new column, GNC_TREE_MODEL_ACCOUNT_COL_TAX_INFO_SUB_ACCT, in gnc-tree-model-account.c filled with gnc_ui_account_get_tax_info_sub_acct_string. Modify gnc-tree-view-account.c to define a tax_info_data_func that displays only the the data in the GNC_TREE_MODEL_ACCOUNT_COL_TAX_INFO model column if the row is expanded; otherwise it combines it with the data in the GNC_TREE_MODEL_ACCOUNT_COL_TAX_INFO_SUB_ACCT model column. Modily the view creation function to use the new tax_info_data_func for the text after having first set it to GNC_TREE_MODEL_ACCOUNT_COL_TAX_INFO to prevent the problem mentioned above, thereby overriding it. * Update page name if invoice/bill is renamed. * Present already open budget page if the user tries to open a budget more than once * Update page name if budget is renamed. * Updated translations or translation-related changes * Update POTFILES.in * Updated Dutch translation copied from the translation project. * Updated Ukranian translation copied from the translation project. * Updated Traditional Chinese translation, glossary and win32 txt. * Fix typo in German translation * Add Traditional Chinese translation for win32 package system. * Updated Traditional Chinese translation by Kuang-che. * Improved French translation by Sebastien Daniel. * Bugs fixed * Bug #570042: Better default for book-closing entries in Income Statement Report Options Patch by Tristan Faujour: Proposed patch: make reports ignore book-closing entries I chose to: - Change the reports' default behavior to have them ignore the book-closing entries. - Do not change anything in reports that deal explicitly with them. Here is the content of this patch (everything is under gnucash/src/report): - In function gnc:account-get-trans-type-balance-interval, depending on an argument, closing entries can be ignored (they are identified by xaccTransGetIsClosingTxn). - Some report utility functions are duplicated (with a "-with closing" suffix) to provide the legacy feature. - Equity statement and Profit &amp; Loss reports are modified to call the *-with-closing functions. * Bug #644556: Running the test as root happened to remove /dev/null. Check for this and also fix the respective test. Additionally, it turned out the log system never gave notice about a log output file that was unwritable. Added an appropriate CRITICAL error message. * Bug #644557 - gnucash-2.4.3: downstream patches to fix tests linking Patches kindly provided by Gilles Dartiguelongue &lt;eva-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; of the Gentoo project. * Bug #642739 - Translog files being created in Gnucash program installation directory Translog files for databases are now created in a directory "translog" inside the .gnucash dir. The files will be named following this scheme: &lt;dbtype&gt;_&lt;hostname&gt;_&lt;user&gt;_&lt;dbname&gt;.&lt;timestamp&gt;.log * Bug #644036: Counter format validation fails on Windows because the number format is I64i there. Note: Users will run into a problem when copying a windows file to linux and vice versa because the counter format will have to be changed on the other operating system each time. * Bug #521817 - Guid_init causes very long startup delay if Novell Network active P_tmpdir is set to "\" by mingw. The way P_tmpdir is used by GnuCash, this seems to trigger unwanted network activity. So on Windows, I'm replacing it with "C:/temp" for now, based on suggestions found on the internet regarding this issue. * Bug #347265 - budget column resizing/options applies to all budget windows * Other code/build changes * Tag 2.4.4 * Add some more sanity checking in common importer module. * Refactor KVP-related functions of OFX into separate file. * Revert r20405, "Correct memory leaks..." - does not compile with guile-1.6 The patch will be re-applied once trunk requires guile-1.8, which will be done right after the oncoming branching. * Code cleanup in ofx importer; refactoring to get away from the single giant long function. * Add some more const-correctness. * Configure simplification: Use pkg-config for libofx. Remove obsolete external qof detection. (Somehow the argument --with-qt3-wizard-package was writting right inside the qof code stuff. This has been moved to the aqbanking section now.) * Win32: Tweak cross compiling script for webkit so that is seems to almost compile. * Correct memory leaks found with valgrind * Remove unused functions for wall clock timing. Facilities such as this should be used from external expert libraries. Also, this is in the way when cleaning up some log system problems in subsequent commits. * Fix r20394: Output string clean-up was missing the date part. * Move business-options.[hc] from business-utils to app-utils. As "business-core" has been dissolved, the "business-utils" code has no more requirements than app-utils and can be moved there because of this. * Add ChangeLog.2010. * Fix missing timestamp in trace files on Windows * Additional svn:ignore settings * Add yet more gitignores. * Add more gitignore entries. * Add comments to warn about lack of Windows support in the guid_init function. * Fix an accelerator. * Correct memory leaks found with valgrind * Add more debug logging. * Minor code cleanup: Move gconf section name into header; clarify argument name. * Minor code cleanup in ofx importer; improve const-correctness. * Use qualified include path for cmake/automake simplification * Add additional debug markers * Correct memory leak found with valgrind * Remove some obsolete files These files were once copied from gtk 2.8 to work around pre-2.8 gtk bugs when that was still our baseline. Our baseline is currently 2.10, so these files are no longer needed/used. * Fix Gtk CRIT warnings introduced in r20351 * Small spelling corrections in comments and some whitespace adjustments 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. _______________________________________________ gnucash-announce mailing list gnucash-announce-44E6sY9rNp1AfugRpC6u6w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-announce </pre> Phil Longstaff 2011-03-14T22:55:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce/136 <pre>Hi, GnuCash uses the ClamAV Anti-Virus program to scan all email to protect itself (and all you, our dear subscribers) from malware and other nasties that get sent through the ether. Unfortunately the clamav people pushed out a bad update that caused the version of clamd on the server to crash. They've since pushed out a fixed version, but by then the damage was done and mail had stopped flowing. I've grabbed the updated clam database and restarted the services. Mail should now be flowing again. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. -derek PS: I actually noticed this first on my own personal server in that it wasn't pushing out emails I was sending. Once I fixed that I noticed that gnucash.org wasn't accepting my emails. </pre> Derek Atkins 2011-02-28T14:59:20 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce/135 <pre>Announcement: GnuCash 2.4.3 Release 2011-02-27 GnuCash 2.4.3 released The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.4.3, the third 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. Note: 2.4.1 was partially released but was pulled at the last minute when critical problems were found. 2.4.1 should NOT be used. 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 2.4.3 Win32 setup executable can be downloaded from Sourceforge. It will install everything needed to run GnuCash. Mac OSX binary The Gnucash 2.4.3 MacOSX package can be downloaded from Sourceforge as well. Getting GnuCash as source code If you want to compile GnuCash 2.4.3 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/2.4.3 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 2.4.2 and 2.4.3 include: * User-visible changes * Only show the Save As dialog at the end of the Hierarchy druid if it was called at the beginning of a new book, not when a hierarchy is added to from the actions menu. * Set a printer job name when printing reports and cheques * Update revision to 2.4.3 * Fix invoice line ordering mismatch between register window and reports. The new code was missing the call to gncInvoiceSortEntries. * Add extra toolbar buttons as shortcuts for some business functions, "New Invoice" for now. The extra toolbar buttons are disabled until the user enables them manually in Preferences -&gt; Business -&gt; Extra buttons. * Implement command for changing the ordering of invoice entries by moving them up or down one row. Turned out this is rather easy: Just swap the "date-entered" of both items. * Fix r20272: The text selection after auto-completion should work correctly now. * Extend the addr2/addr3 auto-completion also to the shipping addr2/addr3 lines. * Implement auto-completion on the addr2/addr3 lines of the "New Customer" dialog box. * Fix missing copying of invoice currency on "Copy Invoice". Unfortunately this feature has been creating invoices with no currency set. This leads to weird amounts that have more digits than expected and don't sum up correctly, and it also triggers the warning dialog "One or more of the entries are for accounts different from the invoice/bill currency. (...)" * Minor tweaking of icon for duplicate invoice so that it doesn't look grayed out * Updated translations or translation-related changes * Update Russian translation by Sergey Belyashov. * Update translation po files: Merge latest pot template. * Update Dutch translation by Mark Haanen, copied from the Translation Project. * Updated Spanish translation, by Francisco Javier F. Serrador. * Updated Lithuanian translation by Mantas Kriaučiūnas. * Update German translation. * I18n improvement: Unify two very similar strings. * Updated Italian translation. * Updated Slovak translation, copied from the translation project. * Updated Traditional Chinese translation, by Kuang-che Wu. * Remove translation markers from already-translated strings in German tax report. * Update German tax report, by Franz Stoll. The contributor also sent some explanatory documents, which I for now copied into tax/us/de_DE/, but I just didn't know whether they better belong anywhere else. * Updated Italian translation. * Unify two very similar strings. * Bugs fixed * Bug #635552: Rename "Financial Calculator" into "Loan Repayment Calculator" I've been told (by users who know the subject well enough) the "Financial Calculator" should rather be called a "Loan Repayment Calculator" or a "Mortgage Payment Calculator", as this is what is being offered there. So I finally made this renaming. * Bug #640357: Adding very limited Perl-Support for doxygen Adding Doxygen commands to the Perl-scripts in the sources I searched for every *.pl file in the GnuCash source and added Doxygen commands like &lt; at &gt;file, &lt; at &gt;brief, &lt; at &gt;author to better include them in doxygen. Patch by Christoph Holtermann. * Bug #640357: Adding very limited Perl-Support for doxygen There are a few Perl-scripts scattered through the GnuCash sources. This patch enables doxygen to interpret them so that they can be provided with information about author, date and so on. This is done by telling doxygen that their python-files. So python-comments can be used. The actual Perl-source is commented out by using &lt; at &gt;cond Perl ...PERL-CODE... &lt; at &gt;endcond Perl Patch by Christoph Holtermann * Bug #640347: Adding Example Skripts for historic Stock Quotes This patch adds the example skripts from http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Stocks/get_prices to the directory python-bindings/example_scripts. Patch by Christoph Holtermann. * Bug #640328: This patch makes Transaction.GetSplitList and Account.GetSplitList return Split instances I changed gnucash_core.py so that GetSplitList methods of Transaction and Account return Split-instances so that the user doesn't need to call Split(instance=GetSplitList()[n]). I checked the examples and changed one either. Patch by Christoph Holtermann * Bug #639906: Changing the way __format__ works for Split and Transaction Patch by Christoph Holtermann * Bug #641832: Workaround to avoid the current crashes on windows. On win32 the queryf() calls below seem to crash. On the other hand, we know the used libdbi on windows is fine, so as a first workaround, we assume libdbi is safe. * Bug #642445 [PATCH] Segfault when tip_of_the_day.list is empty * Bug #642284: Fails to build on Ubuntu Natty Patch by Ahmed El-Mahmoudy. * Bug #641832: Use g_strdup_printf() instead of dbi_conn_queryf() to format the query; the latter crashed msvcrt. Also reverts r20287 because the root bug is fixed. * Bug #641909: Fix broken price scatter plot The report was unknowingly broken by the move of one function in r20209 namely gnc-locale-default-iso-currency-code from app-utils to core-utils, and somehow this needs a re-export in the core-utils.scm declaration. (I don't know why. For me, this confirms again this whole scheme plugin stuff sucks, royally.) * Other code/build changes * Tag 2.4.3 * Re-indentation of source code. This re-indentation was done using astyle-1.24 using the following options: astyle --indent=spaces=4 --brackets=break --pad-oper --pad-header --suffix=none * Update gtk include headers to follow gtk recommendations (only include gtk/gtk.h) * qofinstance.h: Delete duplicate declarations and consolidate editlevel declarations in one place. * Extend gtkmm/C++ plugin to include an actual gnc-plugin implementation. * Really fix conditional configure test for gtkmm. * Add optional module that compiles with gtkmm, i.e. in C ++. This was just a crazy idea, but it turns out to be extremely easy. This can be used as a place for new GUI elements which people prefer to write in gtkmm/C++ instead of C. It's disabled by default. Use configure --enable-gtkmm to enable it. * Fix const-correctness of gnc-module interface. * Add missing run-time typechecks in new code. * Fix CRIT gtk warning if the old_page_long_name was NULL but still passed to g_strrstr. * Win32 build: Updated aqbanking5 version numbers * Add accessor of GtkUIManager in GncMainWindow. * Win32 build: Fix outdated (and broken) URL of ActivePerl. * QofSession: Don't push a new generic error if there's already one available that might be more descriptive. * Remove no-longer-correct warning about the aqbanking5 setup wizard not being implemented: It is. * Add a Timespec constructor for the current clock time. * Win32 build: Fix some cross-compiling issues. * Win32 build: Update some version numbers: libofx, gwenhywfar, aqbanking * Fix potential parsing of NULL strings by correctly use an empty non-NULL string instead. * Another error message somewhat more verbose. * Make log warning about bad gnc_numeric print the actual error code. * Add address auto-completion of r20272 also for address line 4. * Add a common shared quickfill object for the addr2/addr3 lines of a GncAddress. * Minor code cleanup - remove includes from header if not necessary. * Fix CRIT error message on program quit in the aqbanking module. 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. _______________________________________________ gnucash-announce mailing list gnucash-announce&lt; at &gt;gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-announce </pre> Phil Longstaff 2011-02-28T02:19:11 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce/134 <pre>Hi All, You may (or may not) have noticed that the GnuCash Email, SVN, etc. server was down since Tuesday. The server should be back up now (as of 13h14 US/EST) and all services should be running normally again. Please let me know if you see any issues. Failure breakdown: In short, the system lost a CPU fan (again!) and it shut down due to overheating. I replaced the fan and the system came up again. Long version: (Note that all times are in US EST (GMT-5)). I know the server was still alive as of 11am on Tuesday when I was in the Johannesburg airport and checking my email waiting for my flight. I know that it had shutdown sometime before 5pm EST on Wednesday when I tried to access it from Newark airport, the next time I had Network access. (The timing of this failure was spectacularly convenient considering I've been halfway around the world for the past three weeks!) When I finally got home at 11:30pm on Wednesday I noticed the system completely turned off; I powered it on and it started to come up, but 10 minutes later the overheating alarm came on. Considering my jetlagged, exhausted self (and the annoying noise it was making) I decided to shut the system down again overnight and deal with it this morning. This morning I opened up the box and discovered that one of the CPU cooling fans failed. Strangely this was the same CPU that had a failed fan in September. This time, however, instead of burning out it had thrown a baring. Since this was the same model as the original I decided I needed something better for this CPU so I started researching better cooling fans and found one available from Fry's Electronics. I went out this morning, purchased the cooler, and then installed it into the system. The main system was powered up at 12:24 today and then all the VMs slowly came back up. Many of the VMs decided to FSCK due to the unclean shutdowns and finally the last VM returned to service at 13:23. I'm sorry if the downtime caused any inconveniences. As I said, the timing was as perfect as it could have been considering my travel schedule this month! -derek </pre> Derek Atkins 2011-02-24T19:44:30 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.announce