ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 1.8.8

[Chris Lyttle <chris wilddev net>]

Application
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GnuCash 1.8.8

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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What's New in GnuCash 1.8.8?

 o HBCI - Improve error message when receiving zero balance from bank.
 o Add account template for Swiss German businesses "KMU" by Tom
   Winterhalder
 o Add *big* account template for German businesses "SKR04" by Betina
   Schmidt
 o Add Catalan and Turkish translation, Updated German, Italian,
   Czech, Greek and Dutch translations.
 o Add Turkish account template. Updated Greek account templates.
 o Remove debian scripts
 o Add a comment about minimum string length
 o Fix the ISO_DATELEN to be "long enough"
 o Fix handling of HBCI direct debits (fix wrong textkey). Fix and
   initially implement handling of multiple banks/users/customers.
 o Fixed extremly stupid, old bug that causes weird HBCI errors.
   Improved user messages.
 o Refactor some GUI code. Improve user messages.
 o BillTermDecRef should have been BillTermIncRef when setting new
   bill term.
 o Applied Frank Pavageau's patch regarding capital gains to handle
   split transactions.
 o Don't make a timespec with tv_sec == 0.  Fixes some tests on the
   alpha platform.

Download
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http://www.gnucash.org
http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash

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