Peeking at previous announces, I sent this message to gnucash-announce as well. But I don't have post permissions on that list.
Can someone with moderator permission free this message on the announce list ? Thanks, Geert On Thursday 18 February 2010, Geert Janssens wrote: > GnuCash 2.3.10 (Unstable) released > > The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.3.10, the tenth 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. > * In addition to 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. Note that there are > serious bugs when using webkit on win32, so it is advised that win32 > builds continue to use gtkhtml > * Updated to AqBanking 3 on Win32. > > Changes between 2.3.9 and 2.3.10 include: > > * Revert r18654. Current GtkHtml implementation crashes the windows > build whenever a report is opened. > * Better fix for segfault at startup caused by bug 608329's patch and a > renamed Accounts tab. Patch by Tom Van Braeckel > * Fix crash at startup on renamed Accounts tab, bug#608329. Patch by > Tom Van Braeckel. > > 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 2.3.10 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 2.3.10 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. > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-u...@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- Kobalt W.I.T. 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