[GNC-dev] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.6 Released

2024-03-31 Thread John Ralls
The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 5.6, the seventh release in the 
stable 5.x series.
Between 5.5 and 5.6, the following bugfixes were accomplished:

Bug 798946 - start/end of current/last quarter have off-by-one error
Bug 799093 - Cannot reconcile since v5.4
Bug 799179 - SLR won't allow change from "Reminder" to any other state
Bug 799210 - Bad encoding of accented chars in account names in "Import 
CSV" wizard
Bug 799213 - SIGSEGV caused by revising an auto completed transaction
Bug 799222 - Crash when changing the parent of an account that has had two 
or more levels of sub-accounts auto-created using the register in the current 
session.
Bug 799224 - Import of QIF gets Bug detected during duplicates (partial 
fix: If the new-splits object is null, it means the new account tree from the 
current import has no splits. Therefore the (apply min|max dates) will fail. 
Omitting the date query is a simple fix to prevent crashing. This is a partial 
fix because the crash is likely a symptom of another bug which causes the new 
account-tree to be empty.
Bug 799225 - QIF Importer Crashes Silently after "Start Import" Button: 
Don't allow a QIF investment transaction without an action (buy/sell/etc)
Bug 799246 - import matcher will rename incorrect splits

The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:

Numeric parsing and string handling improvements in the Engine and XML 
backend.
[gnc-dense-cal.c] sx popup: show date in preference (cf.locale) format 
because the date format preference is user-facing and customisable. it's 
jarring if the preference is dd/mm/ and the display shows mm/dd/ in 
accordance to the locale.
Correct misleading description about creating Scheduled Transaction.
Date parsing efficiency improvements.
Update minumum Python version to 3.8, made necessary by updating the C API 
in the Python bindings.
Replace deprecated distutils.sysconfig with sysconfig. distutils is not 
present in Python 3.12.2.
Query user via dialog for date when creating a reverse transaction.
More C++ conversions
Avoid deprecation warning for -py3 in swig >= 4.1
[gnc-commodities.cpp] gnc_new_iso_codes is a std::unordered_map
Replace some naked for loops with C++ algorithms
Convert gnc-commodity to C++ and make GncQuoteSources a C++ class.
[test-commodities.cpp] add some tests for gnc_quote_sources
Remove the SLR status sort as it is too confusing
Allow sorting of the transaction column in the Since Last Run dialog by 
schedule name or occurrence date. To sort by schedule name, a schedule name is 
first selected and then the column header is pressed to change order. To sort 
by occurrence date, a date is selected and then the column header is pressed to 
change order based on the date of the first occurrence. A tool tip has been 
added to indicate the sort order being used.
[gtest-gnc-numeric] add operator comparisons with example int64 numbers
[assistant-stock-transaction] store & retrieve associated account as 
metadata
Update Form/Schedule line references for 2023 for the US Income Tax Report
Update another gnucash-help to gnucash-manual
[invoice.scm] centralize layout components into layout-key-list instead of 
maintaining 2 assoc lists.
[invoice.scm] normalize header section generators, changing the functions 
to require 1 options argument only
Update invoice.scm: Add spacing for long Invoice ID's (Displayed as 
"Reference" on the Invoice)

New and Updated Translations: Croatian, Dutch, English (Australia), English 
(New Zealand), English (United Kingdom), French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, 
Indonesian, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish, 
Swedish

Help translate GnuCash on Weblate
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Known Problems

Complete list of all open bugs: 
https://bugs.gnucash.org/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=blocker_severity=critical_severity=major_severity=normal_severity=minor_severity=trivial_status=NEW_status=ASSIGNED_status=NEEDINFO_status=REOPENED=0_id=8149=priority%2Cbug_severity_format=advanced

Documentation

Between 5.5 and 5.6, the following bugfixes were accomplished:

Bug 799237 - Dead Link

The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:

C, de:Manual:Finance-Quote: Note about Expected Time Commitment
C, de:Manual:Finance-Quote: Tip about 'gnc-fq-update: Command not found'
docbook: gnc-gui-de: Improve accelerator of menuitems
Link https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Documentation_Translation#The_Procedure 
in recent gnc-gui-*.dtd files
Replace *dquote entities by  tags
C:Manual:Tools:Unify main section titles and other minor improvements
Unify filename extension
C:Manual:CSV Import: show icons
xmlformat: Apply changes at the element 'screeninfo'
xmlformat.conf: new element 'screeninfo' with 

Re: [GNC-dev] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.6 Released

2024-03-31 Thread David Cousens

Thanks to John and all the team.  Builds and runs with no obvious
problems from the tarball on Linux Mint 21.3.

David Cousens


 On Sun, 2024-03-31 at 16:34 -0700, John Ralls wrote:
> The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 5.6, the seventh
> release in the stable 5.x series.
> Between 5.5 and 5.6, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
> 
>     Bug 798946 - start/end of current/last quarter have off-by-one
> error
>     Bug 799093 - Cannot reconcile since v5.4
>     Bug 799179 - SLR won't allow change from "Reminder" to any other
> state
>     Bug 799210 - Bad encoding of accented chars in account names in
> "Import CSV" wizard
>     Bug 799213 - SIGSEGV caused by revising an auto completed
> transaction
>     Bug 799222 - Crash when changing the parent of an account that
> has had two or more levels of sub-accounts auto-created using the
> register in the current session.
>     Bug 799224 - Import of QIF gets Bug detected during duplicates
> (partial fix: If the new-splits object is null, it means the new
> account tree from the current import has no splits. Therefore the
> (apply min|max dates) will fail. Omitting the date query is a simple
> fix to prevent crashing. This is a partial fix because the crash is
> likely a symptom of another bug which causes the new account-tree to
> be empty.
>     Bug 799225 - QIF Importer Crashes Silently after "Start Import"
> Button: Don't allow a QIF investment transaction without an action
> (buy/sell/etc)
>     Bug 799246 - import matcher will rename incorrect splits
> 
> The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug
> reports:
> 
>     Numeric parsing and string handling improvements in the Engine
> and XML backend.
>     [gnc-dense-cal.c] sx popup: show date in preference (cf.locale)
> format because the date format preference is user-facing and
> customisable. it's jarring if the preference is dd/mm/ and the
> display shows mm/dd/ in accordance to the locale.
>     Correct misleading description about creating Scheduled
> Transaction.
>     Date parsing efficiency improvements.
>     Update minumum Python version to 3.8, made necessary by updating
> the C API in the Python bindings.
>     Replace deprecated distutils.sysconfig with sysconfig. distutils
> is not present in Python 3.12.2.
>     Query user via dialog for date when creating a reverse
> transaction.
>     More C++ conversions
>     Avoid deprecation warning for -py3 in swig >= 4.1
>     [gnc-commodities.cpp] gnc_new_iso_codes is a std::unordered_map
>     Replace some naked for loops with C++ algorithms
>     Convert gnc-commodity to C++ and make GncQuoteSources a C++
> class.
>     [test-commodities.cpp] add some tests for gnc_quote_sources
>     Remove the SLR status sort as it is too confusing
>     Allow sorting of the transaction column in the Since Last Run
> dialog by schedule name or occurrence date. To sort by schedule name,
> a schedule name is first selected and then the column header is
> pressed to change order. To sort by occurrence date, a date is
> selected and then the column header is pressed to change order based
> on the date of the first occurrence. A tool tip has been added to
> indicate the sort order being used.
>     [gtest-gnc-numeric] add operator comparisons with example int64
> numbers
>     [assistant-stock-transaction] store & retrieve associated account
> as metadata
>     Update Form/Schedule line references for 2023 for the US Income
> Tax Report
>     Update another gnucash-help to gnucash-manual
>     [invoice.scm] centralize layout components into layout-key-list
> instead of maintaining 2 assoc lists.
>     [invoice.scm] normalize header section generators, changing the
> functions to require 1 options argument only
>     Update invoice.scm: Add spacing for long Invoice ID's (Displayed
> as "Reference" on the Invoice)
> 
> New and Updated Translations: Croatian, Dutch, English (Australia),
> English (New Zealand), English (United Kingdom), French, German,
> Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish,
> Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish
> 
> Help translate GnuCash on Weblate
> Help translate GnuCash on Weblate:
> https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/gnucash/
> 
> Known Problems
> 
> Complete list of all open bugs:
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=blocker_severity=critical_severity=major_severity=normal_severity=minor_severity=trivial_status=NEW_status=ASSIGNED_status=NEEDINFO_status=REOPENED=0_id=8149=priority%2Cbug_severity_format=advanced
> 
> Documentation
> 
> Between 5.5 and 5.6, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
> 
>     Bug 799237 - Dead Link
> 
> The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug
> reports:
> 
>     C, de:Manual:Finance-Quote: Note about Expected Time Commitment
>     C, de:Manual:Finance-Quote: Tip about 'gnc-fq-update: Command not
> found'
>     docbook: gnc-gui-de: Improve accelerator of menuitems
>     Link
>