Anyone prepared to post a link to a Windows build of 2.3.0? Any plan for the nightly builds to return?
Regards, Kim Wood plongstaff wrote: > > GnuCash 2.3.0 released > > The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.3.0, the first 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 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 WARNING WARNING - 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 guarentee that > your data will not be affected if for some reason GnuCash crashes in > testing > these releases. > > PLEASE TEST TEST AND TEST SOME MORE any and all features important to you. > Then post any bugs you find to bugzilla > > Getting GnuCash > > GnuCash 2.3.0 can be downloaded from gnucash.org. It is available as > source code. > > 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 > anymore > when compiling from tarball or when installing a binary. > > * http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/unstable/2.3.x > > cd401475075b3b7f490444ff45569b5a gnucash-2.3.0.tar.bz2 > afa22b610ef38cf0a367eeb17b74a292 gnucash-2.3.0.tar.gz > 60bc6ab7637562274edd6850ff0d82a1 webkit-1.1.5-win32.zip > > Major changes in this release include; > > * In addition to the XML backend, Gnucash can now use a SQLite3, MySQL or > PostgreSQL database tostore 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. > * In addition to the current GtkHTML HTML engine used to display reports > and > graphs, Gnucash canuse 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. > > 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 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash > bugzilla > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Gnucash-2.3.0-released-tp23579160p23594944.html Sent from the GnuCash - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
