A hearty thank-you to John and the other developers for giving so generously of their time and expertise!
The new features are very attractive, and I think it's time for me to stop stalling and start upgrading. (Yes, I know to do it in stages by major release.) Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com On 2023-03-26 14:09, John Ralls wrote: > The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 5.0. > > New Features > > A new Stock Transaction Assistant to guide you through entering most > investment transactions for stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. You can access > it from Actions>Stock Assistant when the focus tab is the Accounts page or a > Stock or Fund account register. > A new Investment Lots report showing a graph of capital gains and losses > in a period by investment lot. Note that if you don't use the View Lots > dialog to manage capital gains and losses this report won't have anything to > show you. Use Reports>Assets & Liabilities>Investment Lots to see the report. > The Online Quotes facility has been completely rewritten and the old > gnc-fq-check, gnc-fq-dump, and gnc-fq-helper programs have been replaced with > finance-quote-wrapper. The functions performed by those programs may now be > accomplished by passing commands to gnucash-cli -Q, see gnucash-cli --help > for specifics. The perl module requirements have changed with the rewrite: > The new version doesn't need Date::Manip but needs JSON::Parse instead. > gnc-fq-update has been, er, updated to reflect that. > A new tab on the New/Edit Account dialog called More Properties includes > entries to set a high and low limit on an account. That's coupled to a new > column that's available on the Accounts Page, Balance Limit. If you set a > high or low limit and the account balance falls above or below the respective > limit an indicator will be shown in the Balance Limit column. > The description field quickfill in the register now displays a drop-down > list of possible completions instead of just one inline completion. > File import menu items for the MT940, MT942, and DTAUS formats is > replaced with a single Import from AQBanking that supports importing any file > format supported by AQBanking, including the frequently requested CAMT. (Note > that some CAMT profiles are under the XML format.) > The import matcher now permits editing descriptions, notes, and memo > fields in the matcher window before creating the transactions. Right-click > and select from the context menu. > The report generated by the Print Invoice button on the Edit Invoice tab > can now be configured as a book option at the bottom of the Business tab; > this permits selecting a saved configuration of one of the standard invoice > reports. Another option enables a delay, during which a dialog box will > appear enabling the user to select a different report. Note: When saving a > configuration make sure that the invoice number is not set or you'll get that > particular invoice instead of the one that you pressed the button for. > > Significant Code Changes > Deprecations (will be removed in GnuCash 6.0) > > _ (the alias for gettext. Use G_ instead) > gnc:make-account-list-limited-option > gnc:make-account-list-option > gnc:make-account-sel-limited-option > gnc:make-account-sel-option > gnc:make-budget-option > gnc:make-color-option > gnc:make-commodity-option > gnc:make-complex-boolean-option > gnc:make-counter-format-option > gnc:make-counter-option > gnc:make-currency-option > gnc:make-date-format-option > gnc:make-font-option > gnc:make-internal-option > gnc:make-invoice-option > gnc:make-list-option > gnc:make-multichoice-callback-option > gnc:make-multichoice-option > gnc:make-number-plot-size-option > gnc:make-number-range-option > gnc:make-owner-option > gnc:make-pixmap-option > gnc:make-query-option > gnc:make-radiobutton-option > gnc:make-simple-boolean-option > gnc:make-string-option > gnc:make-taxtable-option > gnc:make-text-option > gnc:option-set-default-value > gnc:option-set-value > gnc:option-setter > gnc:option-value > gnc:register-option > The invoice option to gnc:register-report-create-internal > > Report and Book Options > > This major change will affect everyone who has written custom reports in > Guile Scheme. > The report and book options code has been completely rewritten in C++ > with SWIG providing Guile Scheme access for reports. The new design requires > directly registering options with for example > gnc-optiondb-register-string-option instead of calling gnc:make-string-option > to create an option followed by gnc:register-option to insert it in the > report's options. > Value access is also changed: Instead of retrieving an option and then > querying or setting its value with gnc:option-value one will query the > optiondb with gnc-option-value, the arguments to which are the optiondb, the > section, and the option name. > Supporting the new options backend the options dialog code in > gnc-dialog-options, gnc-business-options, and the new gnc-option-gtk-ui have > also been rewritten in C++. > > Online Price Retrieval > > As noted under New Features the interface to Finance::Quote has been > completely rewritten in C++ with much of the behavior previously coded in > external perl scripts moved into GnuCash proper. This permits much better > access to Finance::Quotes's facilities and in particular should provide much > richer error reporting. > > Stability Improvements > > There are hundreds of small changes to prevent memory leaks, reduce > unnecessary memory allocations, and fix compiler and static analyzer warnings. > Use of deprecated API in C/C++ is now an error (with 3 exceptions), > including for the minimum required version of GLib and Gtk. > Extensive changes to the CSV importer, resolving most known bugs. > Remove all unused variables and made an unused variable a compile error. > Move all extern "C" declarations into the respective header files and > remove extern "C" wrappers around #include statements. > Separate the scheme financial functions into a separate module so that > all other scheme code can be banished from libgnucash to bindings. > > Modernization > > The menus and toolbars now use the GAction and GActionGroup actuation > functions, replacing the deprecated GtkAction and GtkActionGroup APIs. > The experimental Register2 implementation is removed, as is the > never-used Jalali calendar code and partly-written option code for creating a > book currency. > > New and Updated Translations: Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Czech, English > (Australia), English (New Zealand), English (United Kingdom), Hungarian, > Japanese, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, > Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian > > Help translate GnuCash on Weblate: https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/gnucash/ > > Known Problems: A complete list of all open bugs: > https://bugs.gnucash.org/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=blocker&bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=major&bug_severity=normal&bug_severity=minor&bug_severity=trivial&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=REOPENED&limit=0&list_id=8149&order=priority%2Cbug_severity&query_format=advanced > > Documentation > > Concurrent with the release of GnuCash 5.0 we're pleased to also release a > new version of the companion Manual and Tutorial and Concepts Guide > > Note that the document formerly titled Help is now the Manual > > The installation of the documentation has changed to match the > XDG-Documentation recommendations so that recent releases of Gnome Desktop's > Yelp can find it. > 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: > > cfc13bab31aed8e4962805ef56530f9772889604910b5678cb5c79c283138824 > gnucash-5.0.tar.bz2 > 66dd5e32829cb6d8dd9a7e017a894583c7579932d13c4fe024329d9c6cfe956d > gnucash-5.0.tar.gz > e9d30e36163a7f047daf2523ac35bf2218d2e661bcfc7f279d57d4d396caa33d > gnucash-5.0.setup.exe > c8ea60b2ccbeab5f6997a927939a0fad715fbbe494644e586c6c386bfec6857a > Gnucash-Intel-5.0-2.dmg > 02a1d6d0d8c61aae47b1200af482967ed16322a41f31dd8cf3a6679e7159edb1 > gnucash-docs-5.0.tar.gz > > Microsoft Windows: > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.0/gnucash-5.0.setup.exe > https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/5.0/gnucash-5.0.setup.exe > > Apple macOS: > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.0/Gnucash-Intel-5.0-1.dmg > https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/5.0/Gnucash-Intel-5.0-1.dmg > > Getting GnuCash as source code > If you want to compile GnuCash 5.0 for yourself, the source code can be > downloaded from: > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.0/gnucash-5.0.tar.bz2 > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.0/gnucash-5.0.tar.gz > https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/5.0/gnucash-5.0.tar.bz2 > https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/5.0/gnucash-5.0.tar.gz > > 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. Please consult the README.dependencies file in the > sources for the exact list of dependencies and versions. > Getting the documentation > > 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. > > If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 5.0 for yourself, the source > code can be downloaded from: > > Sourceforge: > https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/5.0/gnucash-docs-5.0.tar.gz > > GitHub: > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.0/gnucash-docs-5.0.tar.gz > > You can also checkout the sources directly from the git repository as > described at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git. > > 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, > MacOS, and Microsoft Windows. Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its > first stable release was in 1998. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > 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. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
