Re: [GNC-dev] [GNC] GnuCash 4.900 Released

2023-01-10 Thread Jeff
On 1/10/23 12:14 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Lots of great improvements already and I'm sure more to look forward to. (some new reports too!) But of the list so far, my money is on this one getting the most sighs of relief and smiles: "The description field quickfill in the register now dis

Re: [GNC-dev] [GNC] GnuCash 4.900 Released

2023-01-10 Thread david whiting
Here's the original email: https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-January/104905.html First two lines for context: The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 4.900, the first unstable release leading to GnuCash 5.0. This is an unstable release for testing purposes. Do not use i

Re: [GNC-dev] [GNC] GnuCash 4.900 Released

2023-01-10 Thread Christopher Lam
Note also this release will perform a one-time change to the internal representation of budget amounts to fix a class of bugs. The budget amounts will hopefully be more stable and reliable, and reflect the reverse balanced accounts global preference closely. Beta testers are needed to verify the b

[GNC-dev] Configurable Year Start Day/Month

2023-01-10 Thread flywire
I'm seeking comments on a proposal to support a configurable year start day/month. This goes back to https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2021-September/045946.html but I see the issue a bit clearer now. Firstly, GnuCash already supports Accounting Period Start/End Date eg https://git

Re: [GNC-dev] [GNC] GnuCash 4.900 Released

2023-01-10 Thread john
> On Jan 10, 2023, at 12:28 AM, Jeff wrote: > > And how do I find it under Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS? Flathub is your best option, see the beta instructions at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak#Regular_releases_at_flathub.org. ***But note that this is an unstable release! Don't use it on your

Re: [GNC-dev] [GNC] GnuCash 4.900 Released

2023-01-10 Thread john
In the case of the Fedora 26 system it won't even let him connect, probably because it doesn't have TLS 1.3 and Flathub (rightly) refuses to connect. Fred, there's not enough info on the other failure. AFAIK Flatpak does indeed work only on Linux, but doesn't care about the desktop environment.

[GNC-dev] Browse Documentation Online by Chapter

2023-01-10 Thread flywire
The web has changed a lot since GnuCash documentation was first accessible online. What are the thoughts about changing online documentation to browse by Chapter rather than Chapter Section? The ability to scroll forward and back gives much more context to the documentation. The effect s shown in h