Lots of improvements coming to the next stable release! Thanks o the developers for their hard work!
On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 3:11 PM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 3.904, the third testing > release for what will soon be GnuCash 4.0. > > Changes > > Baseline requirements > > Operating Systems: > > • Linux: Ubuntu 18.04LTS > • MacOS: 10.13 > • Windows: 8.1 > Software Dependencies: > > • C++ standard is now C++17, requires gcc 8.0 or clang 6.0. > • Cmake 3.10 > • boost 1.67.0 > • gettext 0.19.6 for general use, 0.20 to generate gnucash.pot. > • glib-2.0 2.56.1, gtk 3.22.30 > • googletest 1.8.0 > • ICU, any version. > • libdbi 0.8.3 > • libxml2 2.9.4 > • swig 3.0.12 Now required for building from tarballs as well as > from git. > • Webkit 2.4.11 Mac & Win32, 2.14.1 Linux/BSD > New Features > > 3.903 was the feature-freeze release. However, the command-line arguments > for both gnucash and gnucash-cli have been adjusted as follows: > > • --add-price-quotes is changed to --quotes get > • --run-reports is changed to --report run --name <report name> > • Added --report list to produce a list of available reports. > • Added --report show --name to describe the options changed from > the default values in the named report. > The intent is to have command categories with subcommands to better enable > a richer command line capability as illustrated with the new report > commands list and show. > > • A new separate executable, gnucash-cli (gnucash-cli.exe on > Microsoft Windows) for doing command-line things like updating the prices > in your book. gnucash-cli gains the ability to run reports from the command > line. Specify reports to run by name or guid. It also provides an export > format and an output file name without which it will output the report to > stdout. > • gnucash --report run --name=[reportname/guid] > datafile.gnucash > • gnucash --report run --name=[reportname/guid] > --output-file=x.html datafile.gnucash > • gnucash --report run --name=[reportname/guid] > --output-file=x.html --export-type=TYPE datafile.gnucash > • When deleting accounts the destination accounts of moved splits > will be checked to ensure that they have the same commodity as the source > account. If they don't you'll get a warning and the opportunity to pick > another account or to carry on regardless. > • New type-ahead search added to sequential search when selecting > an account in the register: Instead of typing the first few characters of a > top level account, the separator, the first few characters of the next > level account and so on you may instead type a few characters of any part > of a full account name and the drop-list will be filtered to contain only > matching accounts. Once you have a small enough list you can use the arrow > keys to select the account that you want. > • Python bindings are now localized and their strings available > for translation. > • The new reports introduced in the Experimental Reports menu are > moved to the main menu and the old reports hidden; the old reports can be > unhidden by running GnuCash from the commandline with the --extra argument. > That will cause the old reports to appear in their regular locations on the > menu labeled (legacy). Note that new reports use different options and > layouts and you may need to adjust your saved report configurations. > • A new Transaction Association dialog, available from the new > Update Transaction Association item in the register context menu, provides > the ability to have multiple associations for a single transaction. > Associations may now be easily removed. > • Allow Associations to be added to invoices. The actual > association when present is added as a link button which is shown below the > notes. > • A symbol is now displayed on transactions in the register when > they have an attachment and the selected font supports the symbol. > • The OFX file importer can now import more than one file at a > time. > • A new report menu supbmenu Multicolumn contains the old > custom-multicolumn report and a new Dashboard report containing Account > reports for expenses and income, an income-expense chart, and an account > summary. > • When importing, the matcher will no longer offer to match a > transaction to one that has already matched in a previous import, nor will > it offer to match more than one imported transaction to a single existing > transaction. > • Support for UK VAT and Australian GST added to the Income-GST > report. The reports options are changed from source accounts to source > sales and purchase accounts to permit proper reporting of capital > purchases. N.B. This is incompatible with previous versions of the report > and will require regenerating saved configurations. > • Add option to save Layout for Business items > Add two menu items under windows, one to save an existing layout for > Invoices, Bills and Vouchers to their respective default layouts so the > user set column widths will be used. The second menu item will reset the > column widths to defaults and remove the default layout. Open Business > items will also save there column widths to the page section so these can > temporarily have different widths. > > • The matcher window columns are changed from R to C and from U+R > to U+C, reflecting that the matcher marks transactions cleared but doesn't > reconcile them. (Bug 797338) > • OFX imports having balance information will now offer to > immediately reconcile, passing the balance information in the file to the > reconcile info. > • Improve quickfill in the account pickers to filter the choices > based on any part of the name. > • The GnuCash widget hierarchy for CSS has been revised to be more > consistent with Gtk practice. You may need to spend some time with the > GtkInspector to get your custom CSS back the way you like it. > • When creating a new account hierarchy it's now possible to load > account templates from locales other than the one set for the user > interface. (Bug 797472) > • New Account - Online Account match list to the Import Map Editor. > • New invalid maps dialog in the Import Map Editor. (Bug 797612) > • Optionally include the account code option in budget view. > • Account matcher will decline to match accounts with a different > commodity from the imported split if the import information includes the > commodity. > • Ellipsize the Description and Memo fields in the account matcher. > • Enable adding notes to budgets. (Bug 693180) > • Support for AQBanking Version 6. This is required to support new > FinTS protocols and the European Privacy Directive. > • GnuCash 4.x will not migrate old gconf settings from GnuCash > 2.4.x. > • Reversing transactions will now pop a dialog box to request a > posting date. (Bug 782455) > • The Accounts page has a new optional column for the hidden > property to make it easier to toggle it. Note that in order to see hidden > accounts you must still enable that in the Filter by... dialog. (Bug 797486) > • The Customer, Vender, and Employee overviews have a > process-payment toolbar. (Bug 797605). > • Account codes may now optionally be displayed in the Budget Tree > View. (Bug 797489). > New/Revised Reports > > • Income-GST > • Owner Report > Significant Code Changes > > In 3.904 > > • The signature for qof_session_begin(), QofSession::begin(), and > QofBackend::begin() are changed to use an enum SessionOpenMode instead of > three booleans. > In previous 3.9xx releases > > • gnucash-bin.c has been split into 4 parts, mostly C++: > • gnucash.cpp, the GUI executable. > • gnucash-cli.cpp, the command-line executable. > • gnucash-commands.cpp, implementation for the commands > that can be run from the command-line. > • gnucash-app-core.cpp, common code required by both the > command line and gui programs. > • There's also an auxiliary file, gnucash-windows-locale.c > because the localization code proved resistant to compiling as C++. We're > planning another auxiliary file for the MacOS localization. > • A new mock facility for several engine classes to permit > better-isolated unit testing of components that depend on those classes. > • Register filter and sort values are saved in the book's state > file (book.gcm) in the user's configdir instead of in the book. > • QofSession no longer creates its book, instead one must create a > book first and pass that to qof_session_new()/QofSession::QofSession(). > • Add option to save Layout for Register items > Add two menu items under windows, one to save an existing register layout > based on the register type to there respective default layouts so the user > set column widths will be used when opening registers. The second menu item > will reset the column widths to defaults and remove the associated default > layout. Open registers will also save their column widths to the page > section so these can temporarily have different widths. > > • Input Method handling in the register is moved to the GtkEntry > where it belongs. > • gnc_get_current_session() no longer creates an empty session if > there isn't one already open. > • The source directories have been rearranged and most of the > loadable modules (e.g. libgncmod-engine.so) are now normal dynamic > libraries (libgnc-engine.so), shorn of their gnc-module adapters. Make sure > that you clean and rebuild your build directory. > • All functions marked as deprecated in 3.x are now removed. If > you have custom reports be sure to examine gnucash.trace for deprecation > warnings and update your reports before trying them in GnuCash 3.904. > • libgncmod-generic-import is now libgnc-generic-import. > • Scheme no longer uses libgncmodule, always do (use-modules > (gnucash foo)) > • Autocompletion improvements for the transfer-account field. > • New test for invalid mappings for online accounts and a dialog > to fix them. > • jqplot is replaced by chartjs. > • Separate most Guile binding code from the code that it wraps. > It's now located in bindings/guile. > • Improve Google test integration in cmake. CMake now requires > only GTEST_ROOT and only when cmake isn't able to find Google test without > help. > • Unit tests for Scheme code with SRFI64. > Deprecations (will be removed in GnuCash 5.0 > > • gnc:substring-replace-from-to > Between 3.903 and 3.904, the following bugfixes were accomplished. Some of > these will also be fixed in GnuCash 3.11, some are for 4.0 only. > > • Bug 797739 - Tweak Transaction Report Column Defaults > • Bug 797774 - Add tooltips to abreviated header columns for all > table like GUI elements > The Bill/Invoice due reminder has a column header of 'CN?' which was > unclear of meaning which is 'Is this xxx a Credit Note'. A tooltip was > suggested but a better fix is to change the column to display the 'Type' so > you would see Bill, Invoice or 'Credit Note' just like you see in the find > dialog. > > • Bug 797775 - Rate/Price displayed as fractional in CSV Export > Change the CSV transaction exporter to follow the Preference setting of > 'General->Force Prices to display as decimals'. > > • Bug 797781 - Num Field Regression - characters in wrong order > when typed. > The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports > or new features: > > • Add a tooltip for the 'C' column in the Chart of Accounts > Add a tooltip to the header for column 'C' of 'Account Color' to match > existing one character headings for 'Place Holder' and 'Hidden' columns. > > • Add first version of gnucash-cli manpage > • Rework command line option parsing to store values directly in > class member variables > • [cli-reports] modify to open session readonly > Updated Translations: Romanian, Ukrainian > > Known Problems > > • Bug 797708 - Reconcile Dialog on Import > • Bug 797746 - [reports] German umlauts not escaped > Complete list of all open bugs. > > . > Documentation > > There have been no changes to the documentation since the release fo 3.903. > > Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS > > GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows 8.1® and later and MacOS > 10.13 (High Sierra)® and later in pre-built, all-in-one packages. An > installer is provided for Microsoft Windows® while the MacOS® package is a > disk image containing a drag-and-drop application bundle. > > The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are: > > • > eea37c24d696088b2b70f4464580b00cd47544ff077d5c954ac20398db6242e7 > gnucash-3.904.tar.bz2 > • > 90d26f5b07a90fd596ba0116827f7771b066073fee1ff78117e4c6208192456d > gnucash-3.904.tar.gz > • > 290de7607a4fd3ff4aecb40024f37b225de5bbbfe1a37a6e3926430ae996964d > gnucash-3.904.setup.exe > • > b7abec0bc611fb759d9d89af890fb720d3d3a6c233599d42b1d3e253bf7555a8 > Gnucash-Intel-3.904-1.dmg > • > 9067a2521527840d49b1f234b2534fedfad8f74a0cf6f02c4b15421b82bcefb0 > gnucash-docs-3.904.tar.gz > > Windows: > > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.904/gnucash-3.904.setup.exe > > https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/gnucash-3.904.setup.exe > > MacOS: > > https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/Gnucash-Intel-3.904-1.dmg > > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.904/Gnucash-Intel-3.904-1.dmg > > GnuCash is now available as a flatpak from Flathub.org. Instructions for > installing and running. > > Getting GnuCash as source code > If you want to compile GnuCash 3.904 for yourself, the source code can be > downloaded from: > > https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/gnucash-3.904.tar.bz2 > > https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/3.904/gnucash-3.904.tar.gz > > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.904/gnucash-3.904.tar.bz2 > > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.904/gnucash-3.904.tar.gz > > You can also checkout the sources directly from the git repository, see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git for instructions. > > To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need at > least Gtk+ 3.22.29, Guile 2.0, Boost 1.67, WebKitGtk 2.4, GoogleTest 1.8.0, > cmake 3.10 and SWIG 2.0.12 if compiling from git. Please consult the > README.dependencies file in the sources for the exact list of dependencies > and versions. > > Getting the documentation > If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 3.904 for yourself, the > source code can be downloaded from: > > https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/gnucash-docs-3.904-1.tar.gz > > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.904/gnucash-docs-3.904.tar.gz > > Note that the documentation for unstable releases is not on the GnuCash > website. It is built daily and may be found on the development server under > the locale directory; "C" is English, "de" is German, and so on. > > The documentation is included in the MacOS and Windows application bundles. > > GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under the GNU > General Public License (GPL) and available for GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, > MacOS, 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 > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
