What's New in GnuCash 1.7.8? - Scheduled Transactions: GnuCash now has the ability to automatically create and enter transactions, remind when a transaction is due, give a choice of entering a transaction or postponing it and remove an automated transaction after a certain period. - Mortgage & Loan Repayment Druid: Used to setup a variable payment loan scheduled transaction. - Small Business Accounting Features: GnuCash now can be used for Customer and Vendor tracking, Invoicing and Bill Payment, and using different Tax and Billing Terms in a small business. - OFX Import: GnuCash is the first free software application to support the Open Financial Exchange protocol that many banks and financial services are moving to use. The development of OFX and HBCI support has also resulted in an improved transaction matching system that more accurately picks duplicate transactions. - HBCI Support: GnuCash is the first free software application to support the German Home Banking Computer Interface protocol which includes statement download, initiate bank transfers and direct debits. - New User Manual and Help: A brand new user help has been written which focuses on how to do tasks in conjunction with a Tutorial and Concepts guide that gives the user background information on using GnuCash. - New Multi-Currency Transaction Handling: GnuCash no longer requires separate currency exchange accounts to handle multiple currency transfers. - Redesigned Menu's The GnuCash menu's have been redesigned to conform more with the new GNOME Human Interface Guidelines. Specifically updated in this version; o Welcome to Release Canidate 3 o Fixed build issues introduced in last release o Fix compile errors on SuSE 8.0 + 8.1 o Update translations, po/ru.po by Vitaly Lipatov, po/el.po by ta_panta_rei@flashmail.com o Ignore certain splits with an "amount" of zero. o Convert from the old to new symbols for Russian Roubles. o Invoices change a couple of columns. Enable viewing the "taxable" entry. Enable viewing all the tax accounts individually. o Scrub hbci include paths to prevent gcc 3.x compile errors. o Default the OFX import directory to the directory of the last OFX file imported, or the user's home dir for the first export. Remembered across invocations of gnucash. o Default the save directory to the directory of the last file used. Default the exports directory to the directory of the last file exported, or the user's home dir for the first export. Remembered across invocations of gnucash. o Correctly handle the case where no stocks have been defined and the user asks gnucash to get price quotes. o Work around bug in ghttp library so that intl users whose whole units/fractions separator is a comma can request web pages. o Add "Default Report Currency" preference. o Set invoice currency based on owner's currency. o Use invoice's currency for printing the invoice. o Make the progress bar argument a double instead of an int. This gets around an issue with guile 1.6. o Add a checkbox to search-for-all o Changes to make the build system work on multiple architectures and with multiple versions of the autotools suite. Make generated g-wrap sources depend on config.status. o Remove restriction on guile versions > 1.4 Provide a version dependant load path variable for the SRFI location. (Empty in 1.6 since they're bundled with guile.) o Limit QIF matches against only the accounts in the old group, so we don't match against ourselves. This should limit the matches to only "reasonable" matches. o Remove "user name" and "user address" preferences, as they are no longer used by anything. o Create a taxtable option type using the new generic optionmenu code o Create a default customer and default vendor taxtable option for the "File Properties" option menu. o Reset the search-type to "New Search" if we end up displaying no results. o Use the "New Search Limit" pref to decide when to start a new search vs. when refine the search. o Create two new global preferences: "Notify Bills Due?" and "Bills Due Days" o Added sources needed for OS X to dist. o Lots more bugfixes, see changelog. Available at the usual places! http://www.gnucash.org http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash Chris -- RedHat Certified Engineer #807302549405490. -------------------------------------------- |^| | | |^| | |^| | | Life out here is raw | | |^| | But we will never stop | |_|_| | We will never quit | / __> | cause we are Metallica |/ / | \ / | | --------------------------------------------