GnuCash 2.1.1 released
The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.1.1 aka
"Bug-begone", the second of several unstable 2.1.x releases of the
GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software which will eventually lead to
the stable version 2.2.0. 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.
WARNING: Make sure you make backups of any files used in testing
versions of GnuCash in the 2.1.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.
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
Download:
* http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/unstable/2.1.x/
* http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash
What's New in GnuCash 2.1.1?
Compared to the 2.0.x series, there are only very few user-visible new
features, except for the completed port to the Microsoft Windows
operating system. Minor new features compared to the 2.0.x series are
* The Scheduled Transaction Editor and Management dialogs have been
integrated into the overall GnuCash User Interface to give the
user a more consistent experience in creating scheduled transactions.
* Internally, the programming language wrappers are no longer being
generated by the not-so-well-maintained package "g-wrap" but
instead by the well-established wrapper generator "SWIG". In
effect, gnucash does no longer depend on g-wrap anymore but uses
SWIG now.
* New printing formats for check printing
Bugfixes and improvements since the last version 2.1.0 include:
* Start-up behaviour has been improved: Windows size is better,
splash screen can be clicked away
* OFX DirectConnect import uses correct ID fields for transaction
matching
* More Scheduled Transactions bugs have been fixed
* Windows: Reading/writing to compressed data files has been tested
more thoroughly and fixed in various places
* Windows: Crash on changing default currencies fixed
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 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 test this release already. A string freeze will be announced in
one of the later 2.1.x releases. Please check
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status for updates on this.
Getting GnuCash
GnuCash 2.1.1 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 is available 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 when compiling from tarball or when installing a binary.
* http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash
* http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/unstable/2.1.x/
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.