The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 3.905, the fourth testing
release for what will soon be GnuCash 4.0.
Changes
Baseline requirements
Operating Systems:
• Linux: Ubuntu 18.04LTS
• MacOS: 10.13
• Windows: 8.1
Software Dependencies:
• C++ standard is now C++17, requires gcc 8.0 or clang 6.0.
• Cmake 3.10
• boost 1.67.0
• gettext 0.19.6 for general use, 0.20 to generate gnucash.pot.
• glib-2.0 2.56.1, gtk 3.22.30
• googletest 1.8.0
• ICU, any version.
• libdbi 0.8.3
• libxml2 2.9.4
• swig 3.0.12 Now required for building from tarballs as well as
from git.
• Webkit 2.4.11 Mac & Win32, 2.14.1 Linux/BSD
New Features
The intent is to have command categories with subcommands to better enable
a richer command line capability as illustrated with the new report
commands list and show.
• A new separate executable, gnucash-cli (gnucash-cli.exe on
Microsoft Windows) for doing command-line things like updating the prices
in your book. gnucash-cli gains the ability to run reports from the command
line. Specify reports to run by name or guid. It also provides an export
format and an output file name without which it will output the report to
stdout.
• gnucash-cli --report run --name=[reportname/guid]
datafile.gnucash
• gnucash-cli --report run --name=[reportname/guid]
--output-file=x.html datafile.gnucash
• gnucash-cli --report run --name=[reportname/guid]
--output-file=x.html --export-type=TYPE datafile.gnucash
The GUI command, gnucash responds to the same command line arguments. In
order to provide more options its syntax (and gnucash-cli's) for quote
retrieval is changed from --add-quotes to --quotes get.
• When deleting accounts the destination accounts of moved splits
will be checked to ensure that they have the same commodity as the source
account. If they don't you'll get a warning and the opportunity to pick
another account or to carry on regardless.
• New type-ahead search added to sequential search when selecting
an account in the register: Instead of typing the first few characters of a
top level account, the separator, the first few characters of the next
level account and so on you may instead type a few characters of any part
of a full account name and the drop-list will be filtered to contain only
matching accounts. Once you have a small enough list you can use the arrow
keys to select the account that you want.
• Python bindings are now localized and their strings available
for translation.
• The new reports introduced in the Experimental Reports menu are
moved to the main menu and the old reports hidden; the old reports can be
unhidden by running GnuCash from the commandline with the --extra argument.
That will cause the old reports to appear in their regular locations on the
menu labeled (legacy). Note that new reports use different options and
layouts and you may need to adjust your saved report configurations.
• A new Transaction Association dialog, available from the new
Update Transaction Association item in the register context menu, provides
the ability to have multiple associations for a single transaction.
Associations may now be easily removed.
• Allow Associations to be added to invoices. The actual
association when present is added as a link button which is shown below the
notes.
• A symbol is now displayed on transactions in the register when
they have an attachment and the selected font supports the symbol.
• The OFX file importer can now import more than one file at a
time.
• A new report menu supbmenu Multicolumn contains the old
custom-multicolumn report and a new Dashboard report containing Account
reports for expenses and income, an income-expense chart, and an account
summary.
• When importing, the matcher will no longer offer to match a
transaction to one that has already matched in a previous import, nor will
it offer to match more than one imported transaction to a single existing
transaction.
• Support for UK VAT and Australian GST added to the Income-GST
report. The reports options are changed from source accounts to source
sales and purchase accounts to permit proper reporting of capital
purchases. N.B. This is incompatible with previous versions of the report
and will require regenerating saved configurations.
• Add option to save Layout for Business items
Add two menu items under windows, one to save an existing layout for
Invoices, Bills and Vouchers to their respective default layouts so the
user set column widths will be used. The second menu item will reset the
column widths to defaults and remove the default layout. Open Business
items will also save their column widths to the page section so these can
temporarily have different widths.
• The matcher window columns are changed from R to C and from U+R
to U+C, reflecting that the matcher marks transactions cleared but doesn't
reconcile them. (Bug 797338)
• OFX imports having balance information will now offer to
immediately reconcile, passing the balance information in the file to the
reconcile info.
• Improve quickfill in the account pickers to filter the choices
based on any part of the name.
• The GnuCash widget hierarchy for CSS has been revised to be more
consistent with Gtk practice. You may need to spend some time with the
GtkInspector to get your custom CSS back the way you like it.
• When creating a new account hierarchy it's now possible to load
account templates from locales other than the one set for the user
interface. (Bug 797472)
• New Account - Online Account match list to the Import Map Editor.
• New invalid maps dialog in the Import Map Editor. (Bug 797612)
• Optionally include the account code option in budget view.
• Account matcher will decline to match accounts with a different
commodity from the imported split if the import information includes the
commodity.
• Ellipsize the Description and Memo fields in the account matcher.
• Enable adding notes to budgets. (Bug 693180)
• Support for AQBanking Version 6. This is required to support new
FinTS protocols and the European Privacy Directive.
• GnuCash 4.x will not migrate old gconf settings from GnuCash
2.4.x.
• Reversing transactions will now pop a dialog box to request a
posting date. (Bug 782455)
• The Accounts page has a new optional column for the hidden
property to make it easier to toggle it. Note that in order to see hidden
accounts you must still enable that in the Filter by... dialog. (Bug 797486)
• The Customer, Vender, and Employee overviews have a
process-payment toolbar. (Bug 797605).
• Account codes may now optionally be displayed in the Budget Tree
View. (Bug 797489).
New/Revised Reports
• Income-GST
• Owner Report
Significant Code Changes
In 3.905
None
In previous 3.9xx releases
• The signature for qof_session_begin(), QofSession::begin(), and
QofBackend::begin() are changed to use an enum SessionOpenMode instead of
three booleans.
• gnucash-bin.c has been split into 4 parts, mostly C++:
• gnucash.cpp, the GUI executable.
• gnucash-cli.cpp, the command-line executable.
• gnucash-commands.cpp, implementation for the commands
that can be run from the command-line.
• gnucash-app-core.cpp, common code required by both the
command line and gui programs.
• There's also an auxiliary file, gnucash-windows-locale.c
because the localization code proved resistant to compiling as C++. We're
planning another auxiliary file for the MacOS localization.
• A new mock facility for several engine classes to permit
better-isolated unit testing of components that depend on those classes.
• Register filter and sort values are saved in the book's state
file (book.gcm) in the user's configdir instead of in the book.
• QofSession no longer creates its book, instead one must create a
book first and pass that to qof_session_new()/QofSession::QofSession().
• Add option to save Layout for Register items
Add two menu items under windows, one to save an existing register layout
based on the register type to there respective default layouts so the user
set column widths will be used when opening registers. The second menu item
will reset the column widths to defaults and remove the associated default
layout. Open registers will also save their column widths to the page
section so these can temporarily have different widths.
• Input Method handling in the register is moved to the GtkEntry
where it belongs.
• gnc_get_current_session() no longer creates an empty session if
there isn't one already open.
• The source directories have been rearranged and most of the
loadable modules (e.g. libgncmod-engine.so) are now normal dynamic
libraries (libgnc-engine.so), shorn of their gnc-module adapters. Make sure
that you clean and rebuild your build directory.
• All functions marked as deprecated in 3.x are now removed. If
you have custom reports be sure to examine gnucash.trace for deprecation
warnings and update your reports before trying them in GnuCash 3.905.
• libgncmod-generic-import is now libgnc-generic-import.
• Scheme no longer uses libgncmodule, always do (use-modules
(gnucash foo))
• Autocompletion improvements for the transfer-account field.
• New test for invalid mappings for online accounts and a dialog
to fix them.
• jqplot is replaced by chartjs.
• Separate most Guile binding code from the code that it wraps.
It's now located in bindings/guile.
• Improve Google test integration in cmake. CMake now requires
only GTEST_ROOT and only when cmake isn't able to find Google test without
help.
• Unit tests for Scheme code with SRFI64.
Deprecations (will be removed in GnuCash 5.0
• gnc:substring-replace-from-to
Between 3.904 and 3.905, the following bugfixes were accomplished. Some of
these will also be fixed in GnuCash 3.11, some are for 4.0 only.
• Bug 796993 - Gnucash should warn the user in case of missing
Alphavantage API key instead of silently failing
• Bug 797531 - Improve behaviour when following a hyperlink to a
split that's filtered in the register
Currently if a jump to a filtered register is made, this could be from a
report, other register, reconcile window and transaction associations and
the destination split is not shown the jump will end up at the last active
cell. This could be confusing so add a test for the destination split being
visible and warn the user with an option to temporarily clear the filter.
• Bug 797746 - [reports] German umlauts not escaped
• Bug 797790 - [Transaction Association] Change dialogue: use
existing information to determine the default folder
When there is no association set, if the file option is chosen set the
default folder for the file chooser to that of the path head preference.
• Bug 797791 - [Windows] list of command line options after
'gnucash.exe --help'?
Make gnucash-cli a console application on Windows so that its output will
be redirected to the connected console.
• Bug 797799 - Add Tip of the Day for "Notes" field
• Bug 797804 - Date entry field is glitchy (v3.904 regression)
The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports
or new features:
• Ensure balance-sheet balances do not ignore closing entries,
including them in closing balances from profit&loss.
• [balsheet-pnl] value-collector doesn't need to ignore closing
The value-collector is only used to tally account balances for
asset&liability accounts. These accounts never have closing entries. No
need to test closing property.
• [trep-engine] don't create intermediate cells object
from cell-calculators (a list of column-info), the cells object (list of
column-data) was created unnecessarily. use cell-calculators directly.
• [gnucash-cli] --report show/list outputs to stdout
and their error messages output to stderr
• I18N: Improve tooltip about double-line-mode
Suggestion by Adrien Monteleone
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2020-June/091425.html
• Drop unused boost::locale::generator instantiations
We now have one single case in gnc-locale-utils and all code uses
gnc_get_boost_locale to get the proper locale.
• Fix translations using boost::locale::translate
• Fix report dependencies that caused Xcode build failure.
• Update Schedule Transaction Template dialog status bar
Copy the functions from gnc_main_window that updates the status bar with
the action tooltips to gnc_window so that both GncMainWindow and
GncEmbeddedWindow can use without duplicating code.
• Add the Register width menu options to the Scheduled Transaction
Template dialog.
• [balance-sheet] hide trading-accounts if use-trading-accts? is
unset
• Fix a null parent error in the New Account Hierarchy Assistant.
Updated Translations: German
Known Problems
• Bug 797786 - New Balance Sheet does not balance when multiple
currencies and commodities (stock holdings) are included
• Bug 797800 - [help screen items] clarification welcome
Complete list of all open bugs.
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Documentation
Between 3.904 and 3.905, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
• Bug 770132 - Price editor does not find ASX:XRO
• Bug 797783 - [PATCH] The "over" and "under" estimate in the
unrealized capital gain chapter should be reversed.
The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:
• L12N:it, pt update: Vanguard is part of AlphaVantage
This changed already, when yahoo shut csv interface
• Update fq-sources.html: asx source is working again
Also explain why you need F::Q 1.41
• Tell travis to use ubuntu-18.04-docker file
• Appendix: add "Ticker" to distinguish from security numbers
• Note on dots in yahoo symbols
Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS
GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows 8.1® and later and MacOS
10.13 (High Sierra)® and later in pre-built, all-in-one packages. An
installer is provided for Microsoft Windows® while the MacOS® package is a
disk image containing a drag-and-drop application bundle.
The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are:
•
20409d89f7e2af6756dcec85b7321b0cbe68e8c6eaaf300c6741136a58d9e2a0
gnucash-3.905.tar.bz2
•
7a95263708bc0960d870f50d29fd20cfb3d7fcedbb16ee6d1aaac8f91b9a93d0
gnucash-3.905.tar.gz
•
9a92191796416cce934aebd0458dbf84e326a633fae9d457a1fd0d4fd55050fa
gnucash-3.905.setup.exe
•
b0a9a4f69bdc33defe5f29a5d7956fcf42001ba04f62ec72b07ff401e853bd7a
Gnucash-Intel-3.905-1.dmg
•
565bd71b89dbce29f6ae9530cf44d9290df89000500f0a68602a056f95caa6c6
gnucash-docs-3.905.tar.gz
Windows:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.905/gnucash-3.905.setup.exe
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/gnucash-3.905.setup.exe
MacOS:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.905/Gnucash-Intel-3.905-1.dmg
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/Gnucash-Intel-3.905-1.dmg
GnuCash is now available as a flatpak from Flathub.org. Instructions for
installing and running.
Getting GnuCash as source code
If you want to compile GnuCash 3.905 for yourself, the source code can be
downloaded from:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.905/gnucash-3.905.tar.bz2
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.905/gnucash-3.905.tar.gz
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/gnucash-3.905.tar.bz2
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/gnucash-3.905.tar.gz
You can also checkout the sources directly from the git repository, see
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git for instructions.
To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need at
least Gtk+ 3.22.29, Guile 2.0, Boost 1.67, WebKitGtk 2.4, GoogleTest 1.8.0,
cmake 3.10 and SWIG 2.0.12 if compiling from git. Please consult the
README.dependencies file in the sources for the exact list of dependencies
and versions.
Getting the documentation
If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 3.905 for yourself, the
source code can be downloaded from:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/3.905/gnucash-docs-3.905.tar.gz
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/gnucash-docs-3.905-1.tar.gz
Note that the documentation for unstable releases is not on the GnuCash
website. It is built daily and may be found on the development server under
the locale directory; "C" is English, "de" is German, and so on.
The documentation is included in the MacOS and Windows application bundles.
About the Program
GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under the GNU
General Public License (GPL) and available for GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris,
MacOS, and Microsoft Windows. Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its
first stable release was in 1998.
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