Thanks for the hard work. I will report the upgrade to PCLinuxOS (my distro of choice for many years).
regards, Doug (Australia) On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 15:49:10 -0500 C M Reinehr <c...@reinehr.net> wrote: > John, > > Thanks for all your hard work. GnuCash is an invaluable piece of software. > > Cheers! > > CMR > > > On 04/02/2018 03:17 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > GnuCash 3.0 released > > > > The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 3.0, the first > > release in our new 3.x stable series. > > New Features for Users: > > > > The headline item for this release is that GnuCash now uses the > > Gtk+-3.0 Toolkit and the WebKit2Gtk API. This change was forced on us by > > some major Linux distributions dropping support for the WebKit1 API. > > Unfortunately the Webkit project doesn't support Microsoft Windows so that > > platform will continue to use the WebKit1 API, though with Gtk3. We've > > selected Gtk+-3.14.0 as the minimum version because it fully supports CSS > > theming. > > New editors to remove outdated or incorrect match data from the import > > maps, a new user interfacs for managing files associated with transactions, > > an improved facility for removing old prices from the price database, and a > > way to remove deleted files from the history list in the file menu. > > New Reports: A Reconciliation Report based on the Transaction Report,a > > Income GST Report, and a Cashflow Barchart report. > > A new CSV importer largely rewritten in C++, adding new features > > including the ability to re-import CSV files exported from GnuCash, along > > with a separate CSV price importer. > > A new preference panel for the Alphavantage API key so that > > Finance::Quote users need not edit /etc/gnucash/environment. We've removed > > all references to the various Yahoo! quote sources and made Alphavantage > > the default. > > Data file directories are now located appropriately to the operating > > system's conventions by default: > > Windows: CSIDL_APPDATA/Gnucash > > MacOS: $HOME/Application Support/Gnucash > > Linux: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gnucash (or the default > > $HOME/.config/gnucash) > > It's still possible to overried with the environment variable > > GNC_DOC_PATH, which replaces GNC_DOT_DIR in earlier versions of GnuCash. > > Accounts in the Bayes import map are now linked by GUID instead of > > names so that the matcher won't have to be retrained if you rename an > > account. The Bayesian import maps are also stored in a flatter structure to > > allow faster access, especially in SQL. These changes mean that if you have > > Bayesian mapping data, once converted your database will be loadable only > > by GnuCash 2.6.20 and later. > > MySQL and SQLite3 date storage has changed a bit. Once converted, > > MySQL and SQLite3 database will be loadable only by GnuCash 2.6.19 and > > later. > > Numerics are rewritten to allow for more significant digits. The old > > 6-digit-maximum fraction is now 9-digits, and prices may have up to 18 > > digit precision. > > Chart Reports appearance is improved, including more modern chart > > colours as suggested by http://clrs.cc/. > > Transaction Report improvements, including regular expression > > filtering and many more options and features including a "Subtotal Summary > > Grid" The subtotal summary-grid will tabulate subtotals - prime-sortkey > > vertically, sec-sortkey horizontally. For example, with prime-sortkey = > > accounts, sec-sortkey = date, sec-subtotal = monthly will produce a monthly > > time series table. > > The About dialog box layout is improved and now includes the detected > > Finance::Quote version. > > GnuCash will always build the locale-specific tax modules. This was > > optional when building with autotools and never enabled when building with > > cmake. Note that the only supported tax locales are en_US and de_DE. > > On Macs the Reconcile Window's menu moved to the menubar. > > GnuCash no longer supports Guile-1.8 and now does support Guile-2.2 > > > > New Features for Developers: > > > > Several parts of the engine and the SQL backend are rewritten in C++, > > an effort that will continue in the next development cycle. KVP is now > > private to libgncmod-engine and accessible outside via qof_instance_set and > > qof_instance_get. KVP and GUID are reimplemnted in C++ using boost::variant > > and boost::UUID respectively. > > C++ unit tests require GoogleTest. While it's possible to use prebuilt > > libgtest and libgmock on some distros, building static libraries for > > GnuCash is preferred. It may be necessary to provide the paths to the > > googletest and googlemock source with CMake parameters GTEST_ROOT and > > GMOCK_ROOT respectively. > > The date implementation is migrated to boost::date-time, replacing a > > Glib GDateTime implementation. This makes the earliest date recordable 1 > > January 1400CE instead of 1 January 1CE. We doubt any users will be > > affected. > > We've reorganized the code into a core library directory, libgnucash, > > and application-specific directory, gnucash. The python bindings are now in > > a top-level directory, bindings; code pinched from other projects is in > > borrowed, the account templates, check templates, and pixmaps are > > consolidated in data, and common holds the cmake modules and test framework > > code. The bin directory's contents have moved to the top level gnucash > > directory and bin is removed. There are now directories for gschema, > > gtkbuilder and ui files directly in gnucash. In principle all files of each > > type should go into these global directories. The only exception is if such > > a file belongs to an optional module. In that case the file remains located > > inside that module's directory. Currently we have ui, glade and gschema > > file exceptions in aqb and ofx importers. > > The build system is changed from Autotools to CMake. All options > > except python bindings and the python console demo are enabled by default. > > Highly parallel builds with Ninja are possible and recommended, except on > > Microsoft Windows. > > The Windows build system is rewritten to use MSYS2, Mingw-w64, > > Powershell, and jhbuild. > > Add a "pot" target to the build system so that translators can easily > > generate a new gnucash.pot from a git repository. > > Detect presence or absence of libxml2 and makeinfo during > > configuration; abort if the first is missing and don't build the (mostly > > obsolete) texinfo documentation if the latter is. Document both in > > README.dependencies. > > Replaced Timespec with time64 in the Scheme and Python bindings, > > introducing many new C time64 functions to accomodate the replacement. > > Timespec will eventually be removed from the C API as well. > > Some cruft removal in libgnucash/scm plus moving some code to its only > > use location. "main.scm" is renamed to "utilities.scm". > > The "printf" family of Scheme custom functions is replaced with the > > built-in "format" facility. > > Change a generally unnecessary warning about being unable to open a > > module (usually because the file is still being created) to a debug > > message. It appears mostly during highly parallel builds and was > > distracting. > > Appstream configuration is updated to the latest spec. > > Added two functions to the Scheme option API: > > gnc:option-make-internal! will hide an existing option. e.g. a > > derived report can set the value for a Display/* option and hide it from > > the user. > > gnc:unregister-option will unregister option. This is primarily > > useful for derived options e.g. another report copies from transaction.scm > > and removes some options and recreates them with different parameters. > > For example, unregister existing option from section "Accounts" name > > "Accounts", and recreate with different parameters e.g. limited account > > types. > > Drop intltool in favour or using modern gettext. By default we require > > gettext 0.19.6 as this is needed to generate a translated version of > > gnucash.desktop and gnucash.appdata.xml. For platforms where this isn't > > available, setting ALLOW_OLD_GETTEXT=ON will allow building but some > > strings will not be extracted to gnucash.pot > > Pass GTEST_ROOT and GMOCK_ROOT through to distcheck. So that they > > don't have to be exported in the environment if they're needed. > > The Python Bindings and Console are now for Python 3, and enahanced to > > expose more GnuCash API. Compilation of GLib Schemas during build and > > installation can be disabled by setting -DCOMPILE_GSCHEMAS=OFF. This is > > intended *only* for distribution packaging scripts that run > > glib-compile-schemas themselves. Otherwise note that if you install to a > > DESTDIR you'll need to re-run glib-compile-scemas after moving the contents > > of $DESTDIR$PREFIX/share/glib-2.0/schemas to $PREFIX. > > The CuteCash front end has been removed. The code we need from GOffice > > has been brought into the GnuCash code base so GOffice is no longer a > > dependency. The register drawing code has been upgraded to draw directly on > > a cairo surface, removing the dependency on libgnomecanvas. > > GnuCash 3.0 adds the following dependencies: Boost, ICU, Googletest. > > > > Known Problems > > > > There's no such thing as bug-free software and if we held the release until > > all the bugs were fixed we'd never release anything. Here are the open bugs > > particular to GnuCash 3.0 at the time of this release: > > > > It is not possible to overwrite SQL Databases from within GnuCash, > > even though GnuCash will ask if you want to. Bug 789594. > > There is no theming tool for Windows or Macs so users of those > > platforms must apply theming by hand. Bug 791823. > > Accounting Period dates are subject to change with time zone and > > daylight-time changes. Bug 791825. > > Opening a large SQL database on Windows is very slow on some machines, > > merely slow on others. Bugs 792105, 794482. > > Some HBCI information is not loaded correctly so the first transaction > > download will re-retrieve transactions unless the beginning date is set > > explicitly. Bug 792397. > > The new CSV importer's Price of Shares column doesn't work. Bug 793306. > > Importing an OFX file on Windows fails with an empty matcher window. > > Bug 793461. > > The Bayes account matcher can take a long time to convert the accounts > > from name string to guids. This is a one-off, happening only the first time > > one imports into an account on GnuCash 3.0. Bug 794334. > > The new CSV importer's numeric parser can't parse numbers of the form > > x + y/z. Bug 793556. > > Python bindings may not work in some installations because the > > bindings are unable to find the backend modules (libgncmod-backend-dbi and > > libgncmod-backend-xml). Bug 794526. > > Get Quotes can be slow if one has a large number of saved prices. Bug > > 794644. > > Some users see 1 January 1970 instead of the default date in the New > > Invoice or New Bill dialog and on the unposted bill and invoice. Bug 794767. > > The Mac localization code can set the wrong encoding for strftime > > causing the register's date picker to label months "Null" in some locales. > > Bug 794807. > > On Mac, the File Open dialog will crash if one types anything. Bug > > 794809. > > An open register is not immediately updated when the Since Last Run > > dialog creates transaction splits in the register's account. Bug 794854. > > GnuCash asks if one wants to save changes when quitting or opening a > > file even if there's no book open. Bug 794870. > > The Online Actions menu includes some obsolete and non-functional > > selections. Bug 794880. > > > > The list doesn't include the many bugs carried over from previous versions. > > For a complete list of bugs search for the product Gnucash at Gnome Bugzilla > > Documentation > > > > Concurrent with the release of Gnucash 3.0 we're pleased to also release a > > new version 3.0 of the companion Help and Tutorial and Concepts Guide. > > Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS X > > > > GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows XP® and later and MacOS X > > 10.9 (Mavericks)® and later in pre-built, all-in-one packages. An installer > > is provided for Microsoft Windows® while the MacOS X® package is a disk > > image containing a drag-and-drop application bundle. > > > > The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are: > > > > 4c754476a5b80a97abacaeadac64fefc5a68fcfec15967908dbe3c9f7370dbb9 > > gnucash-3.0.tar.bz2 > > a2dd7be61d4795717295b7629f35df72161a882fd1668dc744a299f63735ba23 > > gnucash-3.0.tar.gz > > 220fdf329f2bdb6b792b049b1d9ca8f07e4ba906e6e882ac689921cd56a14e23 > > gnucash-3.0.setup.exe > > c81f821008ce8d30a611c4b54474527c65c9cac3a0a4024a67189f813844e585 > > Gnucash-Intel-3.0-1.dmg > > bcd41a3235eb162c7b0e640be36336c219b95d8a82da6059b1cd6d048ffc54c3 > > gnucash-docs-3.0.tar.gz > > > > > > Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS > > > > GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows XP® and later and MacOS X > > 10.9 (Mavericks)® and later in pre-built, all-in-one packages. An installer > > is provided for Microsoft Windows® while the MacOS X® package is a disk > > image containing a drag-and-drop application bundle. > > SourceForge: > > > > Download GnuCash for Win32: > > https://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-3.0.setup.exe > > Download GnuCash for Mac-Intel: > > https://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/Gnucash-Intel-3.0-1.dmg > > > > Github > > > > Download GnuCash for Win32: > > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.0/gnucash-3.0.setup.exe > > Download GnuCash for Mac-Intel: > > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.0/Gnucash-Intel-3.0-1.dmg > > > > Getting GnuCash as source code > > > > If you want to compile GnuCash 3.0 for yourself, the source code can be > > downloaded from: > > > > Sourceforge: > > > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-3.0.tar.bz2 > > > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-3.0.tar.gz > > Github: > > > > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.0/gnucash-3.0.tar.bz2 > > > > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.0/gnucash-3.0.tar.gz > > WARNING Do not try to use the github-generated files labelled "Source > > Code". They have not been processed with > > swig and will not build. > > You can also checkout the sources: git clone > > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash. > > > > > > Please consult the README.dependencies file in the sources for the required > > dependencies and versions needed to build GnuCash from source. Additional > > information on building GnuCash may be found at > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building. > > > > Getting the documentation > > > > The documentation is available at Documentation page of the GnuCash > > website. The 3.0 documentation can be found under "GnuCash v3 (current > > stable release)" in multiple languages both for reading online and for > > download in pdf, epub, and mobi formats. > > > > If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 3.0 for yourself, the > > source code can be downloaded from: > > > > Sourceforge: > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-docs-3.0.tar.gz > > GitHub: > > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.0/gnucash-docs-3.0.tar.gz > > You can also checkout the sources directly from the git repository as > > described at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git. > > > > Detailed instructions for building GnuCash may be found at > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building and for the Documentation at > > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Initializing_Documentation_Build_Environment. > > > > 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. 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