ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 1.8.5

[Chris Lyttle <chris wilddev net>]

Application
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GnuCash 1.8.5

Description
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Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash allows you
to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. It is based on
professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate
reports.

Fixes
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 o Add IS_PAID column and the ability to search for paid/not-paid
   invoices.
 o Add HBCI online transfer templates and make usable
 o Fix a bug where if you unpost an invoice and don't bring the
   TaxTables up to date, the total value shown in the register is
   different depending on whether the cursor is on the current line
   or not.
 o Don't constantly resize the invoice window every time we update
   ourselves.
 o Updated Italian, Brazilian Portugese, German, Czech, Dutch and
   British English translation.
 o Add Subtotal and Tax labels in the summary bar to print the
   Invoice's total amounts.
 o Change the log format to use GUID instead of C pointers, use
   ISO8601 instead of proprietary form and log the Notes field.
 o Port new log replay module from HEAD.
 o Re-enable reversed legend in stacked barcharts. Needs Guppi 0.40.4
   a.k.a. Guppi CVS, though, to actually work.
 o Update the Polish Zloty for its new ISO currency code.
 o Add ability to sort by Action and Notes.
 o Fix the vendor window title to use the company name, not the
   contact name. Change the message when the company name is left blank.
 o Create a new "date format" widget to let the user choose a date
   format (and see the results of what the date would look like).
 o Add "Deluxe Personal Check" type. Add support for printing to
   "deluxe" personal checks.  This prints the check "sideways" on a
   US-Letter configuration.
 o Backport the QueryList widget and associated usage (this allows
   more places to have sortable column displays for query results)
 o Improve HBCI error handling. Add more user feedback functions.
 o Add support for KtoBlzCheck, a small checking package for
   destination account numbers for German banks. Very small, very useful
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/ktoblzcheck
 o TRANSLATION_HOWTO: Added, by Jon Lapham
 o Add API to the plugin modules to allow post-processing (scrubbing)
   of the book after it is loaded from XML.  This allows a plug-in to
   post-process the complete book.
 o Create a scrub function to clear up bogus tax tables due to a bug
   which could cause tax tables to get created ad-nausium if you post
   and then unpost an invoice.
 o Create a scrub function to clear up bogus bill terms due to a bug
   which could cause bill terms to get created due to post/unpost of
   invoices.
 o Enable the exchange-rate dialog on "search ledger" registers.
 o Raise the import window after choosing a file.
 o Change dialog statements to allow for embedded percent signs in the
   messages.  In other words, don't allow user input into the format
   string of a printf.
 o Change how the billterms option menu is used so it will change
   properly if you change the invoice's owner.
 o Don't use gnc:reverse-account-balance? to determine whether to
   reverse the balance -- base it purely on the report type.
 o Fix gncBillTermCopy() so it PROPERLY copies the bill term.
 o Tolerate some HBCI banks failure of the GetSystemId-job.
 o Don't allow selection of directory for save file.
 o Add fancy-invoice report, to show what else is possible.  It's not
   really useful per se, but it is another example for users.  To be
   useful it requires some custom editing.
 o Limit the commodity choices based upon the current account type.
 o Add a new argument to the dialog creation functions to specify what
   types of commodities should be presented.Also tweak the title of the
   dialog based upon this argument.  Remove the "new" button when the
   dialog is limited strictly to currencies.
 o Show the running balance column by default in the register report.
 o Annotate the window title to indicate whether a register is for a
   single account or it includes all subaccounts.
 o Change the register close dialog to include a cancel option.
 o Don't close the register if the user cancelled.
 o If the user has manually entered an amount, then stop automatically
   updated the amount when the date is changed.
 o Refactor many HBCI functions to eventually enable queued processing
   of several HBCI jobs.
 o Add a "retained earnings" item under equity, and change the title
   to include the start date (Balance Sheet report).
 o Don't print the "handling-request" messages when getting stock
   quotes.
 o Display selected pixmap when opening an options window.
 o Fix 'Save As' so it can write to non-existing files.
 o New data file should have same uid/gids original file.
 o Added Italian account templates by Lorenzo Cappelletti
 o Change HBCI online transfer action so that first the gnucash
   Transaction is created and only after that the HBCI connection is
   started. Necessary for later implementation of offline queueing and
   multi-job execution.
 o Clarify the part of the HBCI setup about potentially adding HBCI
   accounts manually.
 o Add a couple of extra checks to prevent crashing if the commodity
   attached to a price quote has disappeared.
 o Provide a new warning message before deletion if a commodity has
   any price quotes.  If the user deletes the commodity anyway, removed
   any quotes are based on the commodity
 o Enhance the get prices routine to handle a request with a NULL
   currency.
 o Fix a crash where removing items in the wrong order could cause
   "Bad Things" to happen
 o Sort the bills before displaying them, so they appear in a
   consistent order (by date due).
 o Fix a bunch more rounding errors, and add more precision to the
   price.
 o Change the description and action of Invoice and Payement
   Transactions/Splits, to make it easier to print a check off the
   posted transactions.
 o Add Debit and Credit totals to Register report.
 o Differentiate between "file is already locked" and "we can't create
   the lockfile" so we can let the user know.
 o Fix the message to be more appropriate when we hit a READONLY
   error.
 o Various Postgres backend fixes
 o Add button for manual adding of HBCI accounts. Requires latest
   OpenHBCI 0.9.13
 o Add saving of the HBCI_API so that bank's status changes will now
   be remembered immediately.
 o Add "(Report)" strings to the various columns displayed in the
   report currency.
 o Set the date-entered on invoice transactions to "now" instead of
   the post date.  Thi lets us know when an invoice was actually posted,
   or a payment was actually made.
 o Support "gain/loss" balancing splits on stocks
 o Apply patch to fix a number of off-by-one bugs in the loan druid.
 o Adapted to latest gnucash-docs changes, by Jon Lapham
 o Add code to read XML files with real namespace declarations.
 o Make sure we define PWD, as not all shells define it properly.
 o Workaround for multi-currency importing bug.


Download
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http://www.gnucash.org

GNOME Software Map entry
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http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gnucash