GnuCash 2.5.7 (Unstable) released
The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.5.7, the eighth
release in the 2.5.x series of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software which will
eventually lead to the stable version 2.6.0. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD,
Solaris and Mac OSX.
WARNING: This is an UNSTABLE version of GnuCash.
This release is intended for developers and testers who want to help find bugs
and other problems to make the eventual stable release better.
Make sure you make backups of any files used in testing versions of GnuCash in
the 2.5.x series. Although the developers go to great lengths to ensure that no
data will be lost we cannot guarantee that your data will not be affected if
for some reason GnuCash crashes in testing these releases.
NOTE: The latest stable version is 2.4.13.
Please TEST, TEST, and TEST some more any and all features important to you.
Then post any bugs you find to Bugzilla
Major changes in the 2.5 series
• Register2 is now a configure option. Default builds, including the
Windows and Mac All-in-one packages, will use only the old register. We've
decided that it isn't ready for general use and the principal author doesn't
have time to make it ready in time for a 2.6 release.
• GnuCash now requires Gtk+-2.24 and GLib-2.26. We've removed most of
the dependencies on libraries obsoleted by project Ridley and will be in
position to move to Gtk+-3.x once the GtkTreeModel register window work is
complete. This means that GnuCash 2.5 requires Debian 6, RHEL 6, or one of the
more aggressive distributions like Ubuntu.
• GnuCash now works with Guile-2.0, but enabling Guile-2.0 support
requires building GnuCash with Swig-2.0.10. The distribution tarballs were
built with this version and should work with Guile-2.0
• The business module has been revamped and we introduce some new
features:
• Credit Notes
• Customer and Vendor Overview Pages
• Customer Overview Reports
• Existing Transactions may be reassigned as invoice payments
• Support for duplicate invoices
• Improved invoice and bill handling: Post, print, or duplicate
multiple items directly from a search results list
• Better invoice printing setup: Choose a default invoice
report as a preference
• Reorder invoice entries in the invoice window
• Geert Janssens has rewritten the preferences system to use GSettings
from GIO (GLib) instead of GConf. This is a simpler and more robust backend
which writes to the OS's native prefs — defaults on OS X and the Registry on
MSWindows — and allows us to remove several troublesome dependencies including
GConf, ORBit, and DBus.
WARNING: Preferences are not completely migrated from GConf
Some preferences are not yet migrated. What's more, the migration occurs every
time you start up, over-writing anything that you've changed, so you may want
to move ~/.gconf aside after the first time you run GnuCash-2.5.7. You can move
it back when you need to use 2.4.13 for real work.
• The "Num" field is now optionally per-split rather than
per-transaction.
• GnuCash can print to a PDF for reports and invoices
• Account "Filter By" settings can be saved and recalled
• Account entries in the Chart of Account can be colored
• When opening a locked "book" one now has the option of opening it
read-only. Note that GnuCash is still a single-user program and that the
database backends are still used only as a data store.
• Tom Loft has contributed an initial version of REST API allowing
minimal information about accounts, invoices and customers to be accessed in
JSON format. Includes modifications to gnucash_core.py to add additional
functions.
• GnuCash is no longer subject to the "2038" bug, so that 30-year
mortgages can now be entered correctly.
• Frédéric Perrin has contributed a change to display currency symbols
whenever they are known and unambiguous.
• By agreement of all authors we have relicensed GnuCash to the Gnu
Public License Version 2 or later from just Version 2.
Changes Since the Last Unstable Release
• Building Gnucash now requires Automake version 1.11 or later.
• Configure will abort if --enable-ofx is set but no libofx
configuration files are found. Contributed by Robert Ratliff.
• Budget periods may no longer set to values greater than the budget's
num_periods, and the budget options descriptions will wrap. Contributed by
Robert Ratliff.
• Bug #668530: In budget flow report options, change the maximum value
for period to 60 (Note the FIXMEs) Author: Robert Ratliff
<[email protected]>
• Bug #687478: Bills due reminder doesn't work well with credit notes
• Bug #687479: Automatic invoice/payment matching on posting an invoice
should be an optional feature
• Bug #693244: View Lots window enhancements
• Bug #708659: Totals column moves to right hand side when periods are
added Remove unneeded gnc_plugin_page_budget_refresh_cb Author: R Ratliff
<[email protected]>
• Bug #710055: advanced portfolio report counts capital gains split as
dividend. Author: Jason McCarty <[email protected]>
• Bug #710311: Missing ChangeLogs
• Bug #710739: Fill in field for remote bank account information also
for SEPA transfers.
• Bug #710871: Fix for Python site-packages not found when not
installed to default location.
• Bug #710979: Crash in
gnc_plugin_page_invoice_summarybar_position_changed
• Translations updated: None
Caveats for Testers
Any 2.5.x version might crash unexpectedly. If you must test with important
data in a 2.5.x release and are using the XML file backend for data storage, be
sure to save the file frequently. If you are using the SQL backend, this is not
required as every change is saved immediately to the database.
Although the screenshots have been updated in the documentation, much of the
wording still describes GnuCash-2.4. Please help update the documentation: See
the development wiki page on how to get involved.
How can you help?
• Testing: Please try out as many features as you can. Report problems
either in bug reportsor on the devel mailing list
• Translating: Translators may begin work on new strings at any time,
though string freeze isn't planned until the 2.5.7 release in early September.
Status of translations is shown on the translation status page. If GnuCash
isn't fully translated into your language and you'd like to pitch in, here's
how to get involved.
Getting GnuCash
Source code for GnuCash 2.5.7 can be downloaded from multiple locations:
• The GnuCash website
• Sourceforge: bzip2, gzip, all files.
• You can also checkout the sources directly from the repository with
subversion:
svn co http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk gnucash
Or with git:
git clone git://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git
To install GnuCash, you will need Gnome 2 and guile 1.8 or 2.0, including devel
packages. In addition you will need swig (swig-2.0.10 for guile 2.0, see the
note at the top) if compiling from subversion or git.
Win32 and MacOSX binary
The following pre-compiled application packages are also available:
• GnuCash 2.5.7 Win32 setup executable
• GnuCash 2.5.7 MacOSX dmg for Intel Macs
• GnuCash 2.5.7 MacOSX dmg for PowerPC Macs
About the Program
GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under the GNU
General Public License (GPL) Version 2 or Version 3 and available for
GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows. Programming on GnuCash
began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.
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