On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 22:28:53 -0700 Chris Lyttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
top-posting alert. Congrat's guys and good job! A > The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 1.9.0 aka "We're > gonna make it!", the first of several unstable 1.9.x releases of the > GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software which will eventually lead to > the stable version 2.0.0. This release is the very first of the > gtk2-based GnuCash series, and is intended for developers and > adventurous testers who want to help tracking down all those bugs that > are still in there. > > What's New in GnuCash 1.9.0? > > o Welcome to GnuCash 1.9.0 aka "We're gonna make it!" the first of > several unstable releases of the GnuCash Open Source Accounting > Software which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.0.0. This > release is the very first of the gtk2-based GnuCash series and is > intended for developers and adventurous testers who want to help > tracking down bugs. > o WARNING WARNING WARNING - Make sure you make backups of any files > used in testing versions of GnuCash in the 1.9.x series. Although the > developers go to great lengths to ensure that no data will be lost we > cannot guarentee that your data will not be affected if for some > reason GnuCash crashes in testing these releases. > o PLEASE TEST TEST AND TEST SOME MORE any and all features important > to you. Then post any bugs you find to bugzilla > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash > o 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 as all texts refer currently to the 1.8.x > series. Please see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development on how to > get involved. > o PS I'm not going to list the many features changed or updated in > this release because obviously there is so much that has changed. > > Caveats > > 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. > Keep in mind that features which are not used in everyday work might > crash unexpectedly at all times. This includes but is not limited to: > graphical reports, scheduled transaction editor, price editor, financial > calculator, OFX/QIF/HBCI import. > Especially all the new features might crash instantly on > testing. This applies in particular to any of the budget-related > features. We may always decide to disable such new features for the > initial 2.0.0 release, and re-enable them in a later release. > The documentation is completely outdated. All help texts > usually only refer to the 1.8.x series; please expect all descriptions > in the help texts to be totally wrong when applied to the upcoming 1.9.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, but please keep in mind that we are not yet > in our string freeze phase. Please check > http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status for updates > on this, as we recommend to wait for the string freeze phase for the > serious translation work. > > Available at the usual places! > > http://www.gnucash.org > http://download.sourceforge.net/gnucash > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
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