commit: ed16527710bcde367ba3a4c7604c5aa6b2650034 Author: Aaron W. Swenson <aaron <AT> grandmasfridge <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Mon Jan 15 02:58:38 2018 +0000 Commit: Aaron Swenson <titanofold <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Mon Jan 15 03:03:46 2018 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=ed165277
Add 2018-01-14-gnucash Regards GnuCash’s breaking changes in data schemas. 2018-01-14-gnucash/2018-01-14-gnucash.en.txt | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) diff --git a/2018-01-14-gnucash/2018-01-14-gnucash.en.txt b/2018-01-14-gnucash/2018-01-14-gnucash.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..334c1c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/2018-01-14-gnucash/2018-01-14-gnucash.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Title: GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change +Author: Aaron W. Swenson <titanof...@gentoo.org> +Posted: 2018-01-14 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Installed: <app-office/gnucash-4 + +Along with changes to use modern libraries, GnuCash 2.7+ has changed the +schema [1] it uses for both databases and files. GnuCash will +automatically modify the file or database in place upon open. + +Therefore, it is imperative that you back up any files or databases +before using GnuCash 2.7 in case you run into an issue and want or need +to revert back to 2.6. + +Close any open session of GnuCash including remote sessions, then +follow the relevant backup instructions as follows: + +For XML (plain files): +$ cp /path/to/file.gnucash /path/to/file.gnucash.bak + +For MySQL: +$ mysqldump gnucash_db | xz > gnucash-2.6.sql.xz + +For PostgreSQL: +$ pg_dump -U gnucash_user -Z 5 gnucash_db > gnucash-2.6.sql.gz + +For SQLite: +$ cp /path/to/sqlite.file.gnucash /path/to/sqlite.file.gnucash.bak + +[1] https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/tag/2.7.0a
