GnuCash 2.1.2 released
The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.1.2 aka
"Financially secure yet?", the third 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. With this release, the 2.1.x series will go
into string freeze for translators to update their translations until
2.2.0 comes out.
*DATA FILE NOTICE* If you are using Scheduled Transactions, the data
file saved by GnuCash 2.1.2 and higher is *NOT* backward-compatible with
GnuCash 2.0 anymore. Please make a safe backup of your 2.0 data before
upgrading to 2.1.2.
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 2.1.2?
This release has only a few user-visible new features, except for the
completed port to the Microsoft Windows operating system. In summary,
the following features are new, compared to the older 2.0.x series:
* Port to Microsoft Windows completed.
* The Scheduled Transaction code has been refactored. The Scheduled
Transaction list view is now integrated into the main window, and
the Since-Last-Run dialog has been simplified.
* SWIG is now used instead of g-wrap for providing language bindings.
* Check printing has been improved, with new formats and simpler
format descriptions.
* *DATA FILE NOTICE* If you are using Scheduled Transactions, the
data file saved by GnuCash 2.1.2 and higher is *NOT*
backward-compatible with GnuCash 2.0 anymore because of extensions
in the file format. Please make a safe backup of your 2.0 data
before upgrading to 2.1.2.
Bugfixes and improvements since the last version 2.1.1 include:
* Internal GObject integration is much more advanced by now
* Crash on OFX import crashing has been fixed
* Windows timezone problems fixed
* Some memory leaks have been 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 2.0.x or even 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 2.1.2 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 will be made available in a few days
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.