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Version history:
------- -------
3.1 - 29 April 2018
The second release of the 3.0 stable series.
The following bugs have been fixed:
Bug 118391 - Long currency names untranslated
Bug 769686 - Notes not imported when using update and reconcile in
import transactions from CSV
Bug 772776 - VERY large queries (over 11000 fields in IN clause) slow
down GnuCash
Bug 782144 - git-master - Save Corrupts Data File / Not Open Data File
Bug 792105 - Startup takes several minutes
Bug 793461 - Transaction matcher window blank when importing QFX
Bug 794767 - Dates default to 01/01/1970
Bug 794916 - Fails to find environment file at startup when installation
prefix is '/opt'
Bug 794936 - 3.0 does not open previously saved sqlite3 files properly
- corrupted business data
Bug 794941 - Both print icons export to pdf
Bug 794953 - Ellipsize on short tab labels
Correct error on when to ellipsize tab labels. Also as this
is used in two places separate out this to new function so
it is not duplicated.
Bug 794990 - Double click does not work on saved reports
When you double click on the saved report description nothing
happens. This was down to a conflict on a couple of call
backs and one of them was incorrectly setup.
Bug 794994 - Display Alphavantage key in full
Set the entry to expand so all the space is used to display.
Bug 795031 - 3.0 Crashes on loading when opening 2.6.19 file
Bug 795039 - Crash on startup using Technicolor Style sheet in report
Bug 795040 - GnuCash crashes when searching for a newly created bill
Bug 795049 - GnuCash 2.6.20-1 (Fedora Linux package) is unable to open
MariaDB.
Bug 795064 - Enable subtotal-only if either sortkeys are dates
This will allow 'show subtotals only' if sortkeys are
date-types. This allows, for example, prime-sortkey=date,
yearly. sec-sortkey=date, monthly.
Bug 795068 - src/optional/python-bindings missing several files
Bug 795080 - Some dates reset to 01/01/1970
An odd corner case: BST apparently came off of DST at 23:00
26 Oct 2014, so midnight that day was ambiguous about being
DST or not; that causes the local_date_time constructor to
throw in spite of the tm.is_dst element being 0 (meaning pick
standard time). Instead of just failing in that case, try
constructing a local_date_time three hours later then adjust
it back three hours. If *that* doesn't work then throw a
std::invalid argument.
Bug 795082 - CSV import crashes if a transaction's 'Account' field is
empty and no default Account set
Bug 795101 - Scrollbar floats and covers toggle buttons
When the scrollbar appears for the reconcile windows it can
float above the reconcile toggle button which make it
difficult to toggle. Move this column to the start which has
the advantage of aligning the amount column above the Total
value.
Bug 795142 - Unable to enter account codes in business sheets
In Bills, Invoices and Expense vouchers you can not enter an
account code in an account field like you can on a normal
register, enable this.
Bug 795155 - CSV import does not distinguish between deposit and withdrawal
Bug 795347 - Australian (GMT+10) OFX transactions imported have previous
days date
Bug 795377 - Reads and saves Gnucash 2.6.19 XML file, then can't reread
it, due to bad date in old file
Bug 795389 - Hard to see figures in the budget window
The budget view had hard coded black for normal values and
dark grey for other values. Changed this so normal values
are reset to default color and adjusted the grey based on
default color for theme.
Bug 795405 - All Dates in Price Database Off-By-One After 3.0 Upgrade
Bug 795446 - On Windows there is a blank tip of the day
When the tip_of_the_day.list is created a new line is
appended to the list file and on Windows this causes a blank
tip so remove the adding of the extra line.
Bug 795471 - Budget window scrolls edited cell out of site
When editing cells that have been revealed on the right by
scrolling the window snaps back to the left hiding the cell
being edited. This may be due to an underlying gtk issue
but these changes fix the issue visually.
Other repairs or enhancements not marked as bugs:
On Windows the tooltip for saved reports was incorrect
When the mouse was placed over a saved report description on Windows an
empty tooltip was displayed. Setup the query tooltip callback so it does
not display a tooltip for description column.
Fix crash when loading sql book with posted transactions
Add ability to recognize and use a pre-compiled libgmock.so.
html-font: add default font family
Windows ships with GTK2 in which the default font styles are named
"Sans" "Sans Bold" "Sans Normal" etc. There is no "Sans" font in
Windows; I vote to add a default "Sans-Serif" font-family which is
valid CSS. This ensures exported reports are shown as intended.
Several improvements to the Transaction and GST reports.
csv-impport - Allow empty amount fields
Treat empty amount fields as 0. This is necessary for example in
the case the csv import file has both a deposit and a withdrawal
column.
Remove the set transient parent setting for Reconcile window
The Reconcile option is already a window so it is not necessary to set
this value which allows the jump to transaction to work properly.
Date Format dialog flashes up when file/properties used
When you select the File/Properties dialog, in the construction of that
a 'Date Format' dialog flashes up while the date component is moved to
the properties dialog. Can mainly be seen on Windows so remove the
visible setting in glade file.
Prevent throw in gnc-pricedb.
If a price lookup is given an invalid time64/timespec (i.e. INT64_MAX)
then just return NULL instead of trying to find the nearest price.
Set GNC_VCS at build time instead of when making the tarball.
Because the tarball is always made from a VCS repo.
If there are no prices in the db, critical errors are flagged
When dialog transfer is used between two commodities and there are no
prices in the db a critical error is logged. Test for price object
being NULL before retrieving the price for the error message.
The following translations are updated: Slovak, Spanish
Known Problems:
It is not possible to overwrite SQL Databases from within GnuCash, even
though GnuCash will ask if you want to. Bug 789594
Several dates, including Accounting Period, are subject to change with
time zone and daylight-time changes. Bug 791825
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
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.
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.
(This is a Gtk+ bug). 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
Windows Defender falsly identifies the GnuCash installer as a Trojan.
Bug 794967
Some Windows users have trouble using Chinese input methods on the
Register; other controls work. Bug 795253
On Microsoft Windows the Tab key does not work in the register if the
caps-lock key is on. Bug 795294
GnuCash will crash if one attempts to import a CSV file with more than
1400 transactions. Bug 795383
Invalid input into a formula (Debit/Credit) field is inconsistent
depending on the input. Bug 795614.
3.0 - 1 April 2018
The first release of the 3.0 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
- OS X: $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.
Distribution tarballs can now be built with CMake as well as
Autotools. (Rob Gowin)
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:
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.
2.6.20 - 1 April 2018
This is the final release in the 2.6 stable series.
The following bugs are fixed:
Bug 765846 - Expense Over Time for subaccounts: An error occurred while
running the report: Fix crash if acc-depth too low.
Bug 791848 - GC 2.6.x does not handle ISO dates introduced with GC 2.7
Enable reading ISO-formatted dates, recognize
GNC_FEATURE_SQLITE3_ISO_DATES.
Bug 792008 - gnucash 2.6.19 fails to build
Replace g_assert_true with g_assert for now
Bug 793278 - wrong data in charts with accumulated values (like
"net-linechart", "net-barchart" and "liabilities barchart")
Bug 794030 - relative date functions compute wrong day of month
Bug 790526 - Mathematical bug
This change will fix 'num-of-weeks-since-1/jan/1970' which
formerly used quotient to remove the fractional part of the
division. For negative values of num-of-weeks, the number is
truncated in the wrong direction (i.e. towards 0). This
change uses floor instead to ensure the num-of-weeks found
is the nearest integer LESS than the fractional number.
Other repairs or enhancements not marked as bugs:
Online HBCI actions: Remove outdated non-SEPA menu items.
Add XML namespaces for all Account Hierarchy Templates.
General cleanup of Account Hierarchy Templates.
Fix auto-selection of splits in reconcile
Really use all splits of any given day. Up to now usually the splits
of the given date were not or not all included, as the time comparison
didn't correctly ignore any given time-of-day of the splits. Instead,
all possible time-of-days should be included.
Properly detect git in case of linked worktree
Account Hierarchy for India: Set LANGUAGE=hi and LANG=en_IN to access it.
Improve Import menu entries Customer & vendors...
use same menu label as others, replace template by tooltip, add ellipsis
to entry, add comments to distinguish "Import" as verb and substantive.
Provide preference panel to set the Alpha Vantage API key needed for
Finance::Quote.
Correct the appstream definition to match the current spec.
Fix collectors and min-date handling in reports.
Updated Translations: Dutch, German, Spanish, Russian
2.7.8 - 25 March 2018
The Gnucash Development Team is pleased to release Gnucash 2.7.8,
the ninth release of an unstable series leading to Gnucash 3.0. This
release is a Release Candidate: If no bugs requiring major work are
reported the next release will be 3.0.
This release changes file locations, binding APIs, report options,
and can make your data file no longer compatible with previous
versions. See https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/UpdateNotes for
details.
The following bugs are fixed only in unstable/master:
Bug 787439 - Segmentation Fault in Transfer dialog after clearing
Date field and pressing escape.
Bug 794242 - Remove keep above setting for assistant hierarchy
Other repairs not marked as bugs in git:
When doing a file save from the a new start we have no key file
Test for Key_file not being NULL before trying to free it.
Stop critical error due to testing null filename
g_filename_from_uri returns NULL if it is not a file uri so test
for the file:// prefix before doing g_file_test
More transient-parent fixes.
Add missing response section to the account picker dialog.
Glade 3.20 adds surplus padding option to action area
When glade files are saved which have GtkAssistants defined a packing
section is added to the assistant action area which then causes a
warning so remove them.
Add XML namespaces for all Account Hierarchy Templates.
Increase default options dialog size: The old 400x400 was woefully
inadequate for most options especially options involving account trees.
Updated Translations: None.
2.7.7 - 18 March 2018
The Gnucash Development Team is pleased to release Gnucash 2.7.7,
the eighth release of an unstable series leading to Gnucash 3.0.
Notice that we've decided that beginning with the upcoming major
release we will use two-digit release numbers and that the next
stable release will be 3.0. Mainenance releases will be 3.1, 3.2,
etc. The next unstable release will be 3.900 and will lead to 4.0.
This release is UNSTABLE and SHOULD NOT BE USED in production.
See the KNOWN PROBLEMS list at the bottom of the announcement.
This release changes file locations, binding APIs, report options,
and can make your data file no longer compatible with previous
versions. See https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/UpdateNotes for
details.
New Features For Users:
For Developers and Distro packagers:
The Python Bindings and Console are now for Python 3.
It's now possible to create a GncPrice from the Python bindings
with "gnc_price_create(book)", removing the need to clone an existing
GncPrice object and modify it.
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.
The following bugs are fixed only in unstable/master:
Bug 787439 - Segmentation Fault in Transfer dialog after clearing
Date field and pressing escape.
Bug 791831 - Add python3 support.
Bug 794242 - Remove keep above setting for assistant hierarchy
Other repairs not marked as bugs in git:
Fix date corruption in SQL load. Four date elements were affected:
GncEntry::date, GncEntry::date_entered, GncInvoice::opened, and
GncInvoice::posted. This does not affect the stored values of the dates.
Fix lost Bayesian matches in SQL backend. The import-map-bayes uses a
three-part key that uses the same delimiter as a path and the SQL
backend was throwing away everything except the account guid.
More transient-window fixes and other Gtk3 cleanups.
Add xmlns namespace declarations to all of the accounts templates that
lacked it and remove the emacs mode-setting comments at the end of them.
Updated Translations: Spanish
2.7.6 - 12 March 2018
The Gnucash Development Team is pleased to release Gnucash 2.7.6,
the seventh release of an unstable series leading to Gnucash 3.0.
Notice that we've decided that beginning with the upcoming major
release we will use two-digit release numbers and that the next
stable release will be 3.0. Mainenance releases will be 3.1, 3.2,
etc. The next unstable release will be 3.900 and will lead to 4.0.
This release is UNSTABLE and SHOULD NOT BE USED in production.
See the KNOWN PROBLEMS list at the bottom of the announcement.
This release changes file locations, binding APIs, report options,
and can make your data file no longer compatible with previous
versions. See https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/UpdateNotes for
details.
New Features For Users:
Modernise chart colours from the dated CSS defaults to
modern colours as suggested by http://clrs.cc/.
Add "Subtotal Summary Grid" to the Transaction Report.
The subtotal summary-grid will tabulate subtotals - prime-sortkey
vertically, sec-sortkey horizontally. This will be useful, for
example, with prime-sortkey = accounts, sec-sortkey = date,
sec-subtotal = monthly... will produce a monthly time series
spreadsheet.
For Developers and Distro packagers:
Rework source directory structure for gschema, gtkbuilder and ui files.
There is now a directory for each respective file type directly in
<srcdir>/gnucash as was already the case for gschema files.
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.
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 following bugs are fixed only in unstable/master:
Bug 764245 - multi-column reports include incorrect sub-reports
Bug 793460 - gnucash/import-export/csv-imp/assistant-csv-trans-import.cpp:1941
is impossible to translate.
Bug 793467 - GnuCash crashes when trying to open a binary file
instead of a CSV.
Bug 793699 - start_spath could be used uninitialised.
Bug 793900 - 2.7.5: test failure: 105 - python-bindings.
Bug 793941 - 2.7.4: test failure on i686: 59 - test-gnc-timezone
Don't test before 1916, that's not a common GnuCash use-case.
Bug 793947 - Impossible to render printable invoice
Bug 794031 - The checkbox "Placeholder" cann't be changed in dialog
"Setup selected accounts". Enable placeholder toggle and
provide callback. The text for this account tree view
specifies "If you would like an account to be a placeholder
account, click the checkbox for that account." but they were
not enabled and no call back was defined so enabled the
toggle button and provide callback.
Bug 794083 - gnucash-2.7.5: cmake+make build installs Makefile.
Bug 794137 - 2.7.5: test failure: 60 - test-gnc-numeric.
Fixed by overloading operator<<(std::ostream&, GncNumeric) to
call operator<<(std::wostream&, GncNumeric) and convert the
result to utf8.
Other repairs not marked as bugs in git:
Csv imp settings - internalize prefix handling
This information is not relevant outside of the settings code.
The way it's implemented now each settings module defines its
own unique prefix and the generic code can just use it when
needed.
Csv import - improve memory handling in the assistant class.
Make it more RAII, in that whatever the class allocates, it should
also deallocate. This simplifies a couple of memory handling cases.
The only exception is the generic import matcher that for some reason
has chosen to deallocate itself. To be fixed when more importers are
converted to c++
Add some background info on memory management in CSV importers.
As the assistant code combines multiple memory management models care
should be taken not to mix them up. The notes should give some
insights in how to do this.
Also fix a few minor issues
- delete default copy and move constructor/assignment for the
assistant gui class
- nullify a freed pointer
Lots of transient parent warnings fixed.
Fix Segmentation fault when going to File->New.
When selecting the File->New with existing register pages open a crash
can happen as the register pages get closed forcing a page-changed
signal to queue the page focus function when there is no page. Add a
call to remove the page focus function in the ..destroy_widget function.
Also with the addition of g_idle_remove before the add when page-changed
is emitted the page focus function only gets run once.
Speed up GUID equality comparison.
Fix CPack package version number.
Currently running "ninja-build package" produces a file with an
incorrect version number. This patch passes the CMake version
variables into CPack to get the correct filename. Note, however, that
there's more work to do to get CPack to actually be useful and the
current CPack settings may be removed unless that other work is done.
Add spacing between border and text in dialog "New Accounts Hierarchy
Setup".
With register obscured the sheet kept being redrawn
When the register is obscured by another window, the sheet would get
lot of draw events. This was tracked down to getting the foreground
colour for the item-edit widget for the state GTK_STATE_FLAG_NORMAL.
Changed this to use the value obtained from gtk_widget_get_state_flags.
Use the gnc_prefs_get_bool values to update cache values.
This way is a safer way to update the cache values in case the settings
changed signal fails to trigger or there is a double trigger and the
cached value gets out of sync with the preference value.
Updated Translations: German, Norwegian, Spanish
KNOWN PROBLEMS:
Bug 789594 - Unable to overwrite splite3 database file
Bug 791823 - There is no Gtk3 theme-setting tool for Windows.
Bug 791825 - Accounting period dates off-by-1
2.7.5 - 25 February 2018
The Gnucash Development Team is pleased to release Gnucash 2.7.5,
the sixth release of an unstable series leading to Gnucash 3.0.
Notice that we've decided that beginning with the upcoming major
release we will use two-digit release numbers and that the next
stable release will be 3.0. Mainenance releases will be 3.1, 3.2,
etc. The next unstable release will be 3.900 and will lead to 4.0.
This release is UNSTABLE and SHOULD NOT BE USED in production.
See the KNOWN PROBLEMS list at the bottom of the announcement.
This release changes file locations, binding APIs, report options,
and can make your data file no longer compatible with previous
versions. See https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/UpdateNotes for
details.
New Features For Users:
Locate all user data and configuration files to platform-dependent
standard locations:
- Windows: CSIDL_APPDATA/Gnucash
- OS X: $HOME/Application Support/Gnucash
- Linux: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gnucash (or the default $HOME/.config/gnucash)
Further improvements to the Transaction and Income-GST-statement reports.
Transaction Report: omit display of $0 in subtotals in other currencies.
Previously in dual-subtotal columns, the dual-subtotal would
attempt to print all commodities in the row. This meant if user
chose common-currency thereby triggering additional commodities,
the dual-subtotal would attempt to add amounts in other
commodities which would be 0, and display the 0 amount.
For Developers and Distro packagers:
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.
Added dependency information to all CMake targets, replacing a
dependency on build order that was carried over from
autotools. Highly parallel builds in ninja now complete without
interuption.
Ensure that all GtkBuilder and GtkUIManager files are correctly
installed and that no configuration of build products in those
directories are..
Appstream configuration is updated to the latest spec.
Fix installation of a gnucash-only gschemas.compiled overwriting
the system one. 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.
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.
The following bugs are fixed only in unstable/master:
Bug 787095 - Gnucash Crashes when opening old XML file.
Bug 792157 - Cannot create account with different currency
Bug 792833 - User specifies source of 'num' field'; either transaction
number or split action (requires at least GnuCash
2.5.0) Strip leading delimiters from KVP keys when
reading them from the database. Leading delimiters
are incorrectly included in databases created with
GnuCash 2.6.x.
Bug 792883 - cmake: no way to turn off -Werror
Prepend settings to CMAKE_C_FLAGS and CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS
so that values supplied on the command line can
override the fixed settings.
Bug 792884 - cmake: gschemas.compiled missing
Bug 793122 - 2.7.3: ninja build fails.
Bug 793155 - Gnucash 2.7.4 crashes on launch MacOS 10.13.4 PB1
Bug 793278 - wrong data in charts with accumulated values (like
"net-linechart", "net-barchart" and "liabilities barchart")
Bug 793568 - "Cash Flow" report crashes
Other repairs not marked as bugs in git:
An optimization in the GncDateTime string constructor provides
substantial speed up of loading SQL databases, and one in
Scheduled Transaction creation will speed up creation of large
numbers of scheduled transactions.
More dialogs have transient-for set so that they pop up over the
window instead of in the upper left-hand corner of the monitor.
Updated Translations: German, Greek, Slovak, Spanish
A new set of business account templates for India's new GST; use
locale en_IN to enable them.
KNOWN PROBLEMS:
Bug 789594 - Unable to overwrite splite3 database file
Bug 791823 - There is no Gtk3 theme-setting tool for Windows.
Bug 791825 - Accounting period dates off-by-1
2.7.3 - 31 December 2017
The Gnucash Development Team is pleased to release Gnucash 2.7.3,
the fourth release of an unstable series leading to Gnucash 3.0.
Notice that we've decided that beginning with the upcoming major
release we will use two-digit release numbers and that the next
stable release will be 3.0. Mainenance releases will be 3.1, 3.2,
etc. The next unstable release will be 3.900 and will lead to 4.0.
This release is UNSTABLE and SHOULD NOT BE USED in production.
See the KNOWN PROBLEMS list at the bottom of the announcement.
This release changes file locations, binding APIs, report options,
and can make your data file no longer compatible with previous
versions. See https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/UpdateNotes for
details.
New Features For Users:
A greatly enhanced Transaction report with many new options and features
including a reconciliation report thanks to Chris Lam.
Removed 6-figure rounding from price calculations, allowing prices to
have up to 18 digit precision.
A flatter storage scheme for Bayes account-matching scores, thanks
to Aaron Laws. This is a compatibility change guarded by a feature.
GnuCash no longer supports Guile-1.8 and now does support Guile-2.2
A CSV Price importer, thanks to Bob Fewell.
Enhanced python bindings exposing more GnuCash API thanks to Guy Taylor
The following bugs are fixed only in unstable/master:
Bug 616709 - Pressing delete key while editing account name offers to
delete account.
Bug 771667 - Change reconciled splits warning
This patch displays two distinct warnings when changing
protected fields of a transaction that contains reconciled
splits. If the fields date, num and description are changed,
then the warning list the accounts that have reconciled
splits and also advises that they will be unreconciled after
editing the transaction. If the fields account, transfer,
debit or credit are changed then the warning advises that the
split will be unreconciled after editing the transaction.
There is still just one warning preference as it is all to do
with fields protected by reconciliation.
Bug 787497 - Disabling options cripples dist package PARTIAL FIX:
WITH_OFX, WITH_SQL and WITH_AQBANKING handling is fixed. The
dist files for these features are always included in the
dist tarball.
Bug 790526 - Mathematical bug
Bug 791848 - GC 2.6.x does not handle ISO dates introduced with GC 2.7.
Set a feature to prevent versions older that 2.6.20 from
loading a database from which they cannot read the
dates. Ideally we would do this only if the database is
written to, but the current persistence design includes
committing back to the database during the load so the net
effect is that the flag would be set anyway.
This is a compatibility change guarded by a feature.
Other repairs not marked as bugs in git:
Tests now pass in all timezones.
More dialogs are made "transient for" so that they pop up centered on
the main Gnucash window instead of somewhere on the left edge of the
screen.
A lot of Gtk3 issues and errors are fixed, thanks to Bob Fewell.
Test struct tm* returns from gnc_gmtime and gnc_localtime to ensure that
we don't crash for dereffing a nullptr.
Removed the gnc:numeric type from Scheme code in favor of Scheme's own
rational numbers. This allows direct conversion between
Scheme numbers and gnc_numeric without the performance or
accuracy penalties arising from using doubles as an
intermediary.
Pass KVP paths as a collection of elements instead of a delimited string.
This allows keys to contain '/'. Thanks to Aaron Laws.
Added a frameowrk for migrating preferences.
Made separate functions for finding a widget's parent window:
gnc_ui_get_gtk_window tries to find the immediate parent and
gnc_ui_get_main_window tries to find the widget's parent
toplevel, returning the first-mapped window.
Make the splash/lock screen the transient parent for dialog boxes if the
main window is not yet mapped.
Rework directory determination in CMake builds.
Sets paths for finding componenents depending on the state
of ENABLE_BINRELOC, GNC_UNINSTALLED, GNC_BUILDDIR and
whether any install paths have been set outside of
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX. GNUInstallDirs changes the name of
CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR depending on the operating system and
distro. When CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX is /usr, /usr/local, or
any subdirectory of /opt it also changes
CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_SYSCONFDIR to /etc. An earlier commit by
Aaron Laws mirrors the name of CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR to the
build library directory. It's possible for builders to set
any of the install directories anywhere they please.
Setting any directory outside of CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX breaks
Binreloc so the toplevel CMakeLists.txt now detects that and
disables Binreloc. If Binreloc is enabled then all path
queries use it to find paths. This works in the build
directory because the gnucash executable and all of the test
programs are in build_directory/bin and LIBDIR, DATADIR, and
SYSCONFDIR can be found in the same root path. If Binreloc
is disabled then in order to build or run programs from the
build directory one must set GNC_UNINSTALLED and set
GNC_BUILDDIR to the absolute path of the build
directory. When those are set GNC_BUILDDIR replaces
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX in all paths that are subdirectories of
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX; paths that are not in
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX are appended whole to
GNC_BUILDDIR. This process is constent between CMake and
gnc_path_get_foo. GnuCash is unlikely to run from a DESTDIR
without Binreloc.
KNOWN PROBLEMS:
On Microsoft Windows starting the AQBanking Setup Wizard crashes GnuCash.
Bug 789594 - Unable to overwrite splite3 database file
Bug 791823 - There is no Gtk3 theme-setting tool for Windows.
Bug 791825 - Accounting period dates off-by-1
2.7.4 - 3 February 2018
The Gnucash Development Team is pleased to release Gnucash 2.7.4,
the fifth release of an unstable series leading to Gnucash 3.0.
Notice that we've decided that beginning with the upcoming major
release we will use two-digit release numbers and that the next
stable release will be 3.0. Mainenance releases will be 3.1, 3.2,
etc. The next unstable release will be 3.900 and will lead to 4.0.
This release is UNSTABLE and SHOULD NOT BE USED in production.
See the KNOWN PROBLEMS list at the bottom of the announcement.
This release changes file locations, binding APIs, report options,
and can make your data file no longer compatible with previous
versions. See https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/UpdateNotes for
details.
New Features For Users:
A new preference panel for the Alphavantage API key so that Finance::Quote
users need not edit /etc/gnucash/environment.
On Macs the Reconcile Window's menu moved to the menubar.
The detected Finance::Quote version is displayed in the About box.
Removed all references to the various Yahoo! quote sources and made
Alphavantage the default.
For Developers and Distro packagers:
The autotools build system has been removed.
Add a "pot" target to the build system so that translators can easily
generate a new gnucash.pot from a git repository.
Improve handling of generated distributable files
Fix make dist on a clean checkout
cmake with unix makefiles fails to resolve dist dependencies
added from COPY_FROM_BUILD if these dependencies aren't built
yet. This commit replaces the COPY_FROM_BUILD based logic with
two new functions 'dist_add_configured' and
'dist_add_generated' to indicate which files should be
included in the dist tarball. The latter also adds a target
level dependency to the dist tarball custom command. Hence the
former should be used for files that get generated during a
cmake run while the latter should be used for files generated
as the result of a 'make/ninja-build' run (like files for
which an add_custom_command rule exists). Note: this commit
also temporarily disables the dist target when building from a
tarball (and hence it won't be tested in distcheck
either). This will be handled in a future commit.
Add DL_LIBS to gncmod-gnome-utils target. Fixes a build problem in FreeBSD.
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.
The following bugs are fixed only in unstable/master:
Bug 787497 - Disabling OFX, AqBanking or python-bindings support cripples
the dist build target
Bug 790526 - Mathematical bug
Actually about the number of weeks from/to 1 Jan 1970.
Bug 790845 - 2.7.3: massive test failures on some architectures
Bug 792106 - Wrong dates displayed
Bug 792809 - Register text difficult to read with GTK 3.0 dark themes
Add a foreground css class to override the theme value.
Bug 792947 - Missing translatable strings
Other repairs not marked as bugs in git:
The long-standing known problem, AQBanking setup crashing on Windows.
Webkit crashing the MacOS Gnucash.app.
Some Guile 2.2 issues are resolved.
Some bugs in the new Transaction Report.
Correct setting of WebKit version during configuration when the version
is cached.
The change to the Average Cost calulation introduced in 2.6.12 is reverted.
See the extensive discussion in Bug 775368 for mor information.
Fix our appstream id as per the appstream recommendation
Fix incorrect minimum dates in the net-linechart and net-barchart reports.
Fix a report crash if the Account Depth is too low.
Updated Translations: Dutch, German, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.
The translations from goffice for the small piece of it that we use have
been copied into the corresponding gnucash translations.
KNOWN PROBLEMS:
Bug 789594 - Unable to overwrite splite3 database file
Bug 791823 - There is no Gtk3 theme-setting tool for Windows.
Bug 791825 - Accounting period dates off-by-1I was
2.7.3 - 31 December 2017
The Gnucash Development Team is pleased to release Gnucash 2.7.3,
the fourth release of an unstable series leading to Gnucash 3.0.
Notice that we've decided that beginning with the upcoming major
release we will use two-digit release numbers and that the next
stable release will be 3.0. Mainenance releases will be 3.1, 3.2,
etc. The next unstable release will be 3.900 and will lead to 4.0.
This release is UNSTABLE and SHOULD NOT BE USED in production.
See the KNOWN PROBLEMS list at the bottom of the announcement.
This release changes file locations, binding APIs, report options,
and can make your data file no longer compatible with previous
versions. See https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/UpdateNotes for
details.
New Features For Users:
A greatly enhanced Transaction report with many new options and features
including a reconciliation report thanks to Chris Lam.
Removed 6-figure rounding from price calculations, allowing prices to
have up to 18 digit precision.
A flatter storage scheme for Bayes account-matching scores, thanks
to Aaron Laws. This is a compatibility change guarded by a feature.
GnuCash no longer supports Guile-1.8 and now does support Guile-2.2
A CSV Price importer, thanks to Bob Fewell.
Enhanced python bindings exposing more GnuCash API thanks to Guy Taylor
The following bugs are fixed only in unstable/master:
Bug 616709 - Pressing delete key while editing account name offers to
delete account.
Bug 771667 - Change reconciled splits warning
This patch displays two distinct warnings when changing
protected fields of a transaction that contains reconciled
splits. If the fields date, num and description are changed,
then the warning list the accounts that have reconciled
splits and also advises that they will be unreconciled after
editing the transaction. If the fields account, transfer,
debit or credit are changed then the warning advises that the
split will be unreconciled after editing the transaction.
There is still just one warning preference as it is all to do
with fields protected by reconciliation.
Bug 787497 - Disabling options cripples dist package PARTIAL FIX:
WITH_OFX, WITH_SQL and WITH_AQBANKING handling is fixed. The
dist files for these features are always included in the
dist tarball.
Bug 790526 - Mathematical bug
Bug 791848 - GC 2.6.x does not handle ISO dates introduced with GC 2.7.
Set a feature to prevent versions older that 2.6.20 from
loading a database from which they cannot read the
dates. Ideally we would do this only if the database is
written to, but the current persistence design includes
committing back to the database during the load so the net
effect is that the flag would be set anyway.
This is a compatibility change guarded by a feature.
Other repairs not marked as bugs in git:
Tests now pass in all timezones.
More dialogs are made "transient for" so that they pop up centered on
the main Gnucash window instead of somewhere on the left edge of the
screen.
A lot of Gtk3 issues and errors are fixed, thanks to Bob Fewell.
Test struct tm* returns from gnc_gmtime and gnc_localtime to ensure that
we don't crash for dereffing a nullptr.
Removed the gnc:numeric type from Scheme code in favor of Scheme's own
rational numbers. This allows direct conversion between
Scheme numbers and gnc_numeric without the performance or
accuracy penalties arising from using doubles as an
intermediary.
Pass KVP paths as a collection of elements instead of a delimited string.
This allows keys to contain '/'. Thanks to Aaron Laws.
Added a frameowrk for migrating preferences.
Made separate functions for finding a widget's parent window:
gnc_ui_get_gtk_window tries to find the immediate parent and
gnc_ui_get_main_window tries to find the widget's parent
toplevel, returning the first-mapped window.
Make the splash/lock screen the transient parent for dialog boxes if the
main window is not yet mapped.