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Release of GnuCash 1.9.7 (beta)

Submitted by cstim on Wed, 2006-06-14 05:55. GnuCash

From https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2006-June/017954.html :

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 1.9.7 aka "Seize the day", the second beta release of the GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.0.0. This release contains many bugfixes since the first beta release.

Download:

Somebody was asking for screenshots every time: http://users.forthnet.gr/her/charosn/shots/g2.png and http://users.forthnet.gr/her/charosn/shots/g2a.png ; Greek version though.

The GnuCash docs team also proudly announces GnuCash-docs 1.9.0 which
is the first documentation update in preparation for GnuCash 2.0.0.

What's New in GnuCash 1.9.7?

PLEASE TEST any and all features important to you. Then post any bugs you find to bugzilla http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash
We would like to encourage people to test this and any further releases as much as possible and submit bug reports in order that we can polish GnuCash to be as stable as possible for the 2.0.0 release in a few weeks.
If you have the urge to help beyond testing please get involved in the discussions on the GnuCash mailing lists which you will find at http://www.gnucash.org. We especially need people to help with updating the documentation. Please see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development on how to get involved.
Major bugfixes include
o Hide unfinished funtionality for the 2.0 release
o Fixes to lots functionality
o Fixes to XML import
o Patches to work with guile 1.8
o HBCI fixes
o Many updated translations.
o New splash screen from Joshua Facemyer / Impressus Art
o Fix the help file names now the docs are xml instead of html.
o Fixes for MacOS and Windows builds
o Fixes to progress bar.
o UTF8 fixes
o Fixes for glib 2.6

Caveats for testers:

Any 1.9.x version might crash unexpectedly at any point during runtime. If you test some serious work in a 1.9.x release, make sure you hit "Save" after ever non-trivial workstep.
The documentation has had screenshots updated, however, many help texts usually only refers to the 1.8.x series. Everyone is invited to help improve the documentation; see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development on how to get involved.

How can you help?

Testing: Test it and help us discover all bugs that might show up in there. Please enter each and every bug into bugzilla at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash
Translating: The new release comes with plenty of new translation strings. If you consider contributing a translation, we invite you to test this release already. We are now in string freeze phase. Please check http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status for updates on this.

Beta? Rock solid!

Submitted by Johannes on Mon, 2006-06-19 13:51.

Any 1.9.x version might crash unexpectedly at any point during runtime.

I've spent the last weekend compiling the annual financial report of my organisation (http://www.infoe.de) with the help of Gnucash 1.9.7. I have to say that it is rock solid and hasn't crashed even once. Migration from the Gtk1.2 based stable series has been absolutely smooth, and it is great to finally have a version of this most useful tool with full unicode support.

I've been using GNUcash since around 2001, and from the very first day I found it to be extremely reliable and stable, ever since.

Kudos to the developers!

Johannes

not the same by Anonymous George (not verified)

Screenshots

Submitted by knipknap on Wed, 2006-06-14 12:49.

The user interface seems to have improved over the Gnucash 1 series.

Only one thing: Shouldn't the € sign be placed before the amount, instead of after the amount?

usually not

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Wed, 2006-06-14 16:37.

No, it's usually written after the amount. Unlike the dollar sign.
It's either 10 €, 10 EUR or EUR 10 I think.

Official Euro Page

Submitted by knipknap on Wed, 2006-06-14 17:20.

The official page of the euro uses the €1 notation, i.e.:

http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/faqs/faqs_11_en.htm

Depends on the locale

Submitted by cstim on Thu, 2006-06-15 06:13.

What you quoted is not the official page of the euro, but rather a page of the European Commission. The official page of the currency are instead hosted by the European Central Bank (ECB), http://www.ecb.int . Whatever.

The main point is that the placement of the currency sign depends purely on your locale. Check http://www.ecb.int/bc/html/hires.en.html and check the different languages -- you will notice that in some languages (like en) the currency sign indeed is in front of the number, in other languages (like da, de, es) the currency sign comes after the number, not to mention the versions with or without space between the number and the sign. In the locale of the screenshot (Greek = el) the currency name comes after the number, although on the website they rather use the long name ευρώ instead of €... obviously the el locale in which the screenshot was taken is configured differently than the ECB's locale :-)

That's because the page is by Anonymous George (not verified)