ANNOUNCE: GnuCash Release of GnuCash 1.7.4: "The water of life"

[Chris Lyttle <chris wilddev net>]

Application
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GnuCash Release of GnuCash 1.7.4: "The water of life"

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.

What's New in GnuCash 1.7.4?

- Scheduled Transactions: 
	GnuCash now has the ability to automatically create and enter
transactions, remind
	when a transaction is due, give a choice of entering a transaction or
postponing it
	and remove an automated transaction after a certain period.
- Mortgage & Loan Repayment Druid:
	Used to setup a variable payment loan scheduled transaction.
- Small Business Accounting Features: 
	GnuCash now can be used for Customer and Vendor tracking, Invoicing and
Bill Payment,
	and using different Tax and Billing Terms in a small business.
- OFX Import:
	GnuCash is the first free software application to support the Open
Financial Exchange
	protocol that many banks and financial services are moving to use. The
development of
	OFX and HBCI support has also resulted in an improved transaction matching
system that
	more accurately picks duplicate transactions.
- HBCI Support: 
	GnuCash is the first free software application to support the German Home
Banking 
	Computer Information protocol which includes statement download, initiate
bank 
	transfers and direct debits.
- New User Manual and Help:
	A brand new user help has been written which focuses on how to do tasks in

	conjunction with a Tutorial and Concepts guide that gives the user
background
	information on using GnuCash.
- New Multi-Currency Transaction Handling:
	GnuCash no longer requires separate currency exchange accounts to handle
multiple
	currency transfers.
- Redesigned Menu's
	The GnuCash menu's have been redesigned to conform more with the new GNOME

	Human Interface Guidelines.

Specifically updated in this version;

	 o Second beta release
	 o Problems with importing 1.6 data files fixed
	 o Updates to generic transaction matching
	 o More postgres backend fixes
	 o New progress bar when making reports
	 o Payment schedule review page added to loan druid
	 o Fixes to multi-currency support
	 o Added Brazilian Portugese account templates by Lucimar Moresco
	 o Added doxygen documentation support, and integrated it into the
	   build system. There is a new target, make doc, that can be used to
	   build the documentation if you have doxygen installed.
	 o Catch the condition gracefully when OpenHBCI config file does not
	   exist.
	 o Compute the implicit exchange rates for ALL transactions when
	   necessary. No longer requires the pricedb for printing split values.
	   This will display all transactions in the currency of the current
	   account, regardless of the number of splits in the transaction.
	 o First pass at getting multi-currency transactions to work from the
	   register.
	 o Lots more bugfixes

Available at the usual places!

http://www.gnucash.org

http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash