What's New in GnuCash 1.8.1? - 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 Release of new stable version 1.8.1 o Fixes for qif import crashes o Update translation po/it.po by Lorenzo Cappelletti o Remove the tip that says that this is a development version. o Remove the "development version" string when running "gnucash --version" o Add heuristic for duplicate matching by check number. o Various bug fixes, remove Finance::Quote requirement for rpms built on RH 8.0 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 |/ / | \ / | | --------------------------------------------