The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 4.900, the first unstable
release leading to GnuCash 5.0.
This is an unstable release for testing purposes. Do not use it with production
data! Make a copy of your book to test this release.
New Features
A new Stock Transaction Assistant to guide you through entering most
investment transactions for stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. You can access it
from Actions>Stock Assistant when you have the Accounts page ora Stock or Fund
account register open.
A new Investment Lots report showing a graph of capital gains and losses in
a period by investment lot. Note that if you don't use the View Lots dialog to
manage capital gains and losses this report won't have anything to show you.
Use Reports>Assets & Liabilities>Investment Lots to see the report.
A new tab on the New/Edit Account dialog called More Properties includes
entries to set a high and low limit on an account. That's coupled to a new
column that's available on the Accounts Page, Balance Limit. If you set a high
or low limit and the account balance falls above or below the respective limit
an indicator will be shown in the Balance Limit column.
The description field quickfill in the register now displays a drop-down
list of possible completions instead of just one inline completion.
File import menu items for the MT940, MT942, and DTAUS formats is replaced
with a single Import from AQBanking that supports importing any file format
supported by AQBanking, including the frequently requested CAMT.
Between 4.13 and 4.900, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
The following fixes will also appear in GnuCash 4.14:
Bug 798588 - sx scrubbing was using incorrect free function
Bug 798625 - "Last up through report date" changed in 4.12
Bug 798679 - Unicode normalization should be used for comparison but not
stored.
Bug 798702 - Crash in gnc_plugin_page_focus_idle_destroy() closing a report
before it completes.
Bug 798705 - New: UI string mismatch: OK vs. Next
Bug 798717 - Reports > Business > Fancy Invoice duplicates company details
The following additional bug fixes are in unstable only:
Bug 403979 - Balance column shows only low order digits when too narrow
If the column is too narrow to display the whole number it will display the
leading digits with an ellipsis (…).
Bug 769256 - Change New Account Dialog
Rearrange the New and Edit Account dialog to move the parent selector under
the description field followed by the account type as a combo (i.e. drop down)
list.
The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:
Unicode normalization for string matches is changed from NFKC to NFC. This
means that font and positional variants will no longer match and is unlikely to
affect most users. See Unicode Normalization Forms:Canonical and Compatibility
Equivalence for the technical details.
The Gtk menu structure has been rewritten to use the newer GMenu/GMenuModel
system. This change is mostly invisible to users, except that to keep menu
accelerators (like Q to quit) working on macOS we had to let macOS handle
the events. That will affect using cut, copy, and paste in dialog boxes because
the menu will intercept them. That's temporary, we hope to have it fixed for
GnuCash 4.901.
The Finance::Quote interface is rewritten in C++. This new design will
allow much better capture of diagnostics from Finance::Quote making
troubleshooting problems much easier.
The perl Finance::Quote utilities gnc-fq-check, gnc-fq-dump, and
gnc-fq-helper are removed and new commands added to gnucash-cli: --quotes info
replaces gnc-fq-check and --quotes dump replaces gnc-fq-dump.
New API: The options system has been rewritten in C++ with Scheme wrappers for
report options. While this is invisible to most users, those who have written
custom reports should look for deprecation warnings when the custom reports are
reconciled. The main difference is that option creation and registration is now
done in a single function call. Nearly all standard code defined a local
convenience function that wrapped the two steps, for example
(let* ((options (gnc:new-options))
(add-option
(lambda (new-option)
(gnc:register-option options new-option)
called as
(add-option
(gnc:make-string-optionpagename title key docstring default-value))
The convenience function is no longer needed, call
(let* ((options (gnc-new-optiondb)))
...
(gnc-register-string-option options pagename title key docstring
default-value)
intead. Note that gnc:new-options is now gnc-new-options. There are several
similar changes. All of these are wrapped in bindings/guile/options.scm with
the old names, but are marked to raise deprecation warnings to encourage you to
change. The wrappers will be removed in GnuCash 6.0.
