Release Schedule/Archive

Release Schedule for 1.9.x

This is a draft release schedule for unstable 1.9.x releases of gnucash, which will eventually lead to the stable 2.0.0 release of gnome2-based gnucash.

Goal

Goal for 2.0.0: For the first 2.0.0 release the plan is to finish porting those parts of gnucash that have already been started (i.e. new windowing system, account tree, commodities tree, etc.), but not to port any additional features unless absolutely required.

Purpose of all 1.9.x releases: Any 1.9.x is not yet stable, but is meant to provide easier access to the current source code for wider testing. Also, at some point in time the 1.9.x series should go into a string freeze so that translators can fully concentrate on their translation work.

Requirements of 1.9.x releases

• Any 1.9.x has to offer full backward-compatibility of the data file. It should always be possible to use a 1.9.x-saved XML datafile again with any 1.8.x version. (Note: Actually we restrict this backward compatibility to >= 1.8.5 because we are using the correct XML namespace definitions in the file; capabilities for reading those were added in 1.8.5, 17 Aug 2003)
• Bugzilla queries for the list of bugs assigned to those milestones:
  • All Bugzilla items with 1.9.0 milestone including resolved
  • All Bugzilla items with 1.9.1 milestone including resolved
  • All Bugzilla items with 1.9.2 milestone including resolved
  • All Bugzilla items with 1.9.3 milestone including resolved
  • All Bugzilla items with 1.9.4 milestone including resolved
  • All Bugzilla items with 1.9.5 milestone including resolved
  • All Bugzilla items with 1.9.6 milestone including resolved
  • All Bugzilla items with 1.9.7 milestone including resolved
  • All Bugzilla items with 1.9.8 milestone including resolved
  • Open Bugzilla items with 2.0.0 milestone (including resolved)

Caveats

Caveats for testers:

• Any 1.9.x version might crash unexpectedly at any point during runtime. If you test some serious work in a 1.9.x release, make sure you hit "Save" after ever non-trivial workstep.
• The documentation has had screenshots updated, however, most help texts usually only refers to the 1.8.x series. Everyone is invited to help improve the documentation; see Development on how to get involved.

Schedule

Actual release dates:

• 1.9.0 February 8th; Announcement 1.9.0, Initial announcement and call for adventurous testers
• 1.9.1 February 19th; Announcement 1.9.1; bugfixes
• 1.9.2 March 5th; Announcement 1.9.2; bugfixes
• 1.9.3 March 19th; Announcement 1.9.3; bugfixes
• 1.9.4 April 5th; Announcement 1.9.4; "soft" string freeze; bugfixes; call for translations; call for more testers
• 1.9.5 April 16th; Announcement 1.9.5; bugfixes; start of String Freeze.
• 1.9.6 May 14th; Announcement 1.9.6; bugfixes; still String Freeze; first "beta" release
• 1.9.7 June 5th; Announcement 1.9.7; bugfixes; second "beta" release
• 1.9.8 June 18th; Announcement 1.9.8; release candidate! Yeah!
• 2.0.0 July 09th; Announcement 2.0.0

Proposed future schedule. All dates are the Sunday of a weekend. It is proposed to have a release every other week or in three week intervals.

The tarball is prepared ("make dist") and copied on the ftp server by Chris Lyttle.