Gnucash 2.3.14 is being released so soon after 2.3.13 because of a bug
which affects English users by having all account names for new
databases or gnucash files in Latvian.
Announcement: GnuCash 2.3.14 (Unstable) Release 2010-06-08
GnuCash 2.3.14 (Unstable) released
The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.3.14, the
fifteenth of several unstable 2.3.x releases of the GnuCash Free
Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable version
2.4.0. 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.
WARNING: This is an *UNSTABLE* version of Gnucash.
This release is intended for developers and testers who want to help
tracking down all those bugs that are still in there.
Make sure you make backups of any files used in testing versions of
GnuCash in the 2.3.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 2.2.9.
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 2.3.x 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 --enable-webkit to the
configure command. You will need an appropriate webkit-dev
package. On win32, you will need to download the
webkit-1.1.5-win32.zip file from the source repository and put
it into the downloads directory of your gnucash build area.
* Updated to AqBanking 3 on Win32.
Strings are frozen. This means no new changes will be introduced which
change any text displayed by Gnucash. Therefore, final translations for
2.4.0 release may begin.
Changes between 2.3.13 and 2.3.14 include:
* Bugs fixed
* Bug #618954: Add a column "Due" to the invoice search
results list. Patch by "scar".
* Bug #618951: Add ability to search for invoices by due
date Patch by "scar".
* Bug #118391: Resize currency dropdown list Patch by
Frank H. Ellenberger. Now in the tested (european)
languages one can understand the meaning without
horizontal scrolling - search for MXV or UYI to see long
examples. I used glade 3, which created the file in a
somewhat different way - let me know, if that is a
problem.
* Bug #619984: Remove "Gnumatic, Inc." from po/Makevars
Gnumatic Inc. does since a few years no longer exist. So
it makes no sense, to have it as copyright holder of new
GnuCash translations. I got Linas OK for this change on
IRC:
http://lists.gnucash.org/logs/2010/05/2010-05-28.html#T13:37:53
- #T16:12:23
* Bug #617797: Set eol-style to CRLF for win32 files.
* Bug #618434 - Decimal separator is always '.' when using
the keypad, patch by Yasuaki Taniguchi
* Updated translations or translation-related changes
* fix Latvian account trees, patch by Bill Nottingham.
* Update German translation Patch by Frank H. Ellenberger:
update de.po 1. add missing translations 2. review fuzzy
translations 3. correct liabilities: Passiva ->
Fremdkapital/Verbindlichkeiten 4. correct discount:
Skonto -> Skonto, Rabatt & Nachlass 5. typos
* Updated Dutch translation by Mark Haanen, copied from
the Translation Project.
* Updated Japanese translation by Yasuaki Taniguchi,
copied from the Translation Project.
* Other user-visible changes
* Fix r19227, r19228: Don't make the "Due Date" the
primary search; fix erroneous parameters when inserting
into list.
* Other code/build changes
* File convert commodity.glade in glade3-3.6.7 to ensure
our gtk-2.10 requirement is sufficient.
* Set eol-style for win32-bin.txt to CRLF because this
file should view correctly on win32 systems
* Set all shell scripts to svn:eol-style LF because they
should have the same line endings.
* Fix script that builds the release tags. Awk works
differently on windows than on linux apparently.
Caveats for Testers
Any 2.3.x version might crash unexpectedly at any point during
runtime. If you test some serious work in a 2.3.x release and
are using the XML file backend for data storage, make sure you
hit "Save" after every non-trivial workstep. If you are using
the SQL backend, this is not required as every change is saved
immediately to the database.
The documentation has had screenshots updated, however, many
help texts usually only refers to the 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?
Testing: Test it and help us discover all bugs that might show
up in there. Please enter each and every bug into bugzilla.
Translating: The new release comes with some new translation
strings. If you consider contributing a translation, we invite
you to test this release already. A string freeze will be
announced in one of the later 2.3.x releases. Please check
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status for updates on
this.
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
2.4.0 release in a few weeks. Then post any bugs you find to
bugzilla
Getting GnuCash
Source code for GnuCash 2.3.14 can be downloaded from multiple
locations:
* The GnuCash website
* 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/trunk gnucash
To install GnuCash, you will need Gnome 2, guile, slib. In
addition you will need swig if compiling from subversion.
Win32 binary
The Gnucash 2.3.14 Win32 setup executable can be downloaded from
Sourceforge as well.
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.