Announcement 2.1.4

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This is a draft!


GnuCash 2.1.4 released

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

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

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

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What's New in GnuCash 2.1.4?

This is a draft!

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

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

Bugfixes and improvements since the last version 2.1.3 include:

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

Caveats for testers:

  • Any 2.1.x version might crash unexpectedly at any point during runtime. If you test some serious work in a 2.1.x release, make sure you hit "Save" after ever non-trivial workstep.
  • The documentation has had screenshots updated, however, many help texts usually only refers to the 2.0.x or even 1.8.x series. Everyone is invited to help improve the documentation; see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development on how to get involved.

How can you help?

  • We would like to encourage people to test this and any further releases as much as possible and submit bug reports in order that we can polish GnuCash to be as stable as possible for the 2.2.0 release in a few weeks. Then post any bugs you find to bugzilla http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash
  • If you have the urge to help beyond testing please get involved in the discussions on the GnuCash mailing lists which you will find at http://www.gnucash.org. We especially need people to help with updating the documentation. Please see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development on how to get involved.
  • Translating: The new release comes with some new translation strings. If you consider contributing a translation, we invite you to work with the translation template in this package. Our development is in String Freeze now, so you can safely work on our translation. Please check http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status for updates on this.

Getting GnuCash

GnuCash 2.1.4 can be downloaded from gnucash.org or sourceforge.net. It is available as source code. For the Microsoft Windows operating system, a self-installing setup program will be made available on the sourceforge.net site within a few days which includes all necessary additional libraries.

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

About the Program

GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and available for GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Mac OSX, and Microsoft Windows. It is collaboratively developed by 12 people from over 5 countries.

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

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