1.9.2 - 05 Mar 2006
o Welcome to GnuCash 1.9.2 aka "With extra flavor enhancements" the
third of several unstable releases of the GnuCash Open Source
Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable version
2.0.0. This release contains many bugfixes since the second release
but is still only 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 Major bugfixes include -
o More Register fixes.
o HIGify the scheduled transaction dialogs.
o Fix the qof configure test for OSX.
o Compile cleanly with when _FORTIFY_SOURCE is defined. This
definition is forced when building RPMs on FC4.
o Catch and defer the quit command if a file save is in progress.
o Disable quote related functionality when F::Q isn't installed.
o Lots of Qof fixes.
o Add ebuild for gnucash 1.9/2.0 series.
o Fix x-axis labeling and other barchart improvements.
o Get MT940 importer to compile again (experimental; requires
aqbanking-1.9.7). It is not yet tested with actual files.
o Menu and toolbar fixes.
o Remember the order in which the notebook tabs are referenced.
o Updates to business invoicing functionality.
o Fix Chart of Accounts export so it works again.
o Add support for using multi-byte unicode thousands separator and
decimal point characters when printing numbers.
o Lots of fixes to splits and transaction editing.
o Added new icons.
makeinfo if no native makeinfo executable exists. Honor TEXINFO_REQD
when determining whether the native makeinfo can be used.
* Remove USE_MAKEINFO and replace it with USE_TOOLS+=makeinfo.
* Get rid of all the "split" argument deduction for makeinfo since
the PLIST module already handles varying numbers of split info files
correctly.
NOTE: Platforms that have "makeinfo" in the base system should check
that the makeinfo entries of pkgsrc/mk/tools.${OPSYS}.mk are
correct.
developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
1.9.1 - 19 Feb 2006
o Welcome to GnuCash 1.9.1 aka "So we meet again" the second of
several unstable releases of the GnuCash Open Source Accounting
Software which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.0.0. This
release contains many bugfixes since the first release but is still
only 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 Major bugfixes include -
o Register fixes
o Finance::Quote issues
o Correctly open an account and its sub-accounts.
o Change the reports from using a hard-coded fiscal year to using the
global accounting period set in the preferences. Both the start date
and the end date are used, so the user is free to choose any arbitrary
period.
o Use the price nearest to midday to get the value in the default
currency.
o Make the desktop more HIG-compliant.
o Patch to prevent crash when voiding a transaction.
o Aqbanking updates
o Report fixes
o Autodetect OFX and use it if we find it.
o Qof fixes
the GTK2/GNOME2 version of GnuCash.
NOTE: THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT RELEASE!!! THIS VERSION HAS NOT
BEEN TESTED PROPERLY AND MAY DO ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING!
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK (AND KEEP *LOTS* OF BACKUPS)
See the pkgsrc/finance/gnucash package for the stable version.
GnuCash is a personal finance manager. A check-book like register GUI
allows you to enter and track bank accounts, stocks, income and even
currency trades. A full set of reports allow you to see the state of
your finances. The interface is designed to be simple and easy to use,
but is backed with double-entry accounting principles to ensure
balanced books.
Features include:
- An easy-to-use interface. If you can use the
register in the back of your checkbook, you
can use GnuCash. Type directly into the register,
tab between fields, and use quick-fill to
automatically complete the transaction.
The interface is customizable from within the
application itself (no editing config files :) )
- Scheduled Transactions
- Mortgage & Loan Repayment Druid
- Small Business Accounting Features
- OFX Import
- HBCI Support
- Quicken File Import
- Reconcile window with running reconciled
and cleared balances makes reconciliation easy.
- Stock/Mutual Fund Portfolios
- Get Stock & Mutual Fund quotes from various web sites,
update portfolio automatically (more funds being added
regularly).
- Reports
- Multiple Currencies & Currency Trading
- New Multi-Currency Transaction Handling
- Chart of Accounts
- Split Transactions
- Double Entry
- Income/Expense Account Types (Categories)
- General Ledger
- Written in C with embedded scheme support via Guile.
- File access is locked in a network-safe fashion, preventing
accidental damage if several users attempt to access the
same file, even if the file is NFS-mounted.
- Provides a byte-stream format, which allows accounts and
account groups to be transmitted to other processes
via pipes or sockets.
- International date handling, many different translations.
- New User Manual and Help
- Redesigned Menus
Gary Duzan in PR 32439:
This is the LibOFX library. It is a parser and an API designed to
allow applications to very easily support OFX command responses,
usually provided by financial institutions for statement downloads.
To my knowledge, it is the first working OpenSource implementation
of the OFX (Open Financial eXchange) specification on the client
side.
2006-01-10 David Hampton
* test/dws.t:
* test/maninvestments.t:
* test/yahoo_brasil.t: Accept dates in both the previous and
current year as valid responses.
* test/aex.t: Change test currency to one still on the exchange.
* lib/Finance/Quote/VWD.pm: Jörg Sommer's patch to work better
with invalid WKNs and to extract the exchange information from its
new location.
2005-11-18 David Hampton
* lib/Finance/Quote/AEX.pm: Use the store_date function.
* lib/Finance/Quote/ASX.pm:
* lib/Finance/Quote/Cdnfundlibrary.pm:
* lib/Finance/Quote/Platinum.pm:
* lib/Finance/Quote/Trustnet.pm:
* lib/Finance/Quote/Yahoo/Base.pm: Add code to protect against
empty tables, data fields, etc.
* test/aex.t: Correct the number of test cases. Changed test
stock to one that is still on the exchange. Site no longer
provides time (date only) so remove tests for time of quote.
Futures quotes don't always have bid/ask values so comment out
those tests.
* test/indiamutual.t:
* test/trustnet.t:
* test/union.t:
* test/yahoo.t: Changed test stock to one that is still on the
exchange.
* test/yahoo_brasil.t: All returned prices (for all stocks I
tried) return a price of zero, so comment out the test for
non-zero.
2005-10-23 David Hampton
* lib/Finance/Quote/VWD.pm: Put back the call to the
HTML::TableExtract first_table_state_found() function for now. At
some point this should be removed and the 2.0 version of
HTML::TableExtract required.
* lib/Finance/Quote.pm: Make note of an alternate yahoo URL that
can be used to obtain currency quotes. From Gerry Barksdale
2005-10-22 David Hampton
* lib/Finance/Quote/Tiaacref.pm:
* test/tiaacref.t: Add Support for TIAA-CREF mutual funds from
Brandon
* lib/Finance/Quote/VWD.pm: Remove the thousands separator
character from quote values.
* lib/Finance/Quote/TSP.pm:
* test/tsp.t: Frank Mori Hess's change
to add support for the TSP lifecycle L funds.
* ChangeLog: Archive pre-2005 data into a separate file.
* lib/Finance/Quote/Deka.pm: Add a new module to retrieve German
investment fund prices from Deka. Module from Knut Franke
* lib/Finance/Quote/USFedBonds.pm:
* test/usfedbonds.t: Add a new US Federal Bonds stock quote module
from Stephen Langenhoven
2005-10-21 David Hampton
* lib/Finance/Quote.pm: Updated to work with new Yahoo currency
conversion pages.
* lib/Finance/Quote/Tiaacref.pm: New URL from Kevin Foss. Uses
https, so the Crypt::SSLeay module is now required for TIAA-CREF
quotes.
* lib/Finance/Quote/ZI.pm: Zürich Invest has been purchased by
Deutsche Bank and integrated into DWS. The DWS.pm module should
now be used in place of the ZI.pm module.
* lib/Finance/Quote/VWD.pm: Patch from Rainer Dorsch to return the
current price as 'last'. The HTML::TableExtract
first_table_state_found() function has been deprecated. Accept
both the old and new values as correct answers.
* lib/Finance/Quote/ZA.pm:
* test/za.t: Add a new South African stock quote module from
Stephen Langenhoven
2005-08-10 David Hampton
* lib/Finance/Quote/VWD.pm: Handle invalid ISINs better. VWD
delivers a 404 error instead of a blank page. Fix suggested by
Uwe Simon
1.8.12 - 19 Oct 2005
o Online Banking/HBCI improvements: Debit notes are fixed
again; Bank-internal money transfers are now supported, if
the HBCI bank offers them; Setup wizard can now works with
HBCI, OFX-Connect, and other AqBanking backends; Fix
character encoding issues in utf-8 locales; Fix date interval
in the import transaction matcher for OFX and HBCI import;
Fix PIN entry bug.
o New currencies added: Romanian Leu, Bulgarian Lev, Malagasy Ariary
o Fix problem with long date formats in some locales (bug#170444)
o Add configure macros for mips, mipsel, arm, and m68k; Fix
compilation on OpenBSD 64bit architectures
o Updated translations: German, Italian, Kinyarwanda
2003-07-06 Pawel Konieczny
* Update of F::Q::AEX module: added a remap functionality
which translates the official stock ticker to AEX CGI
symbol
* Update of F::Q::AEX module: Distiguishing indices and stocks:
indices will have "currency" label undefined, stocks will have
value "EUR". This fixes the currency conversion problem for
indices.
* Update of F::Q::AEX module: Cleanup of labels: "offer" renamed to
"ask" ("ask" is more common, besides, it can be
currency-converted). Label "offer" stays for backward
compatibility.
* Update of F::Q::AEX module: Cleanup of garbage in some fields.
(Ocassionally, the http fetch & parse will return garbage for
some values).
2003-07-07 Pawel Konieczny
* AEX module: added label 'symbol'
2003-08-27 Pawel Konieczny
* AEX module: following a suffestion of Paul Fenwick, value
'undef' is returned if no valid data could be dowloaded
(previously it was returning empty strings in such cases).
2003-08-31 Pawel Konieczny
* AEX module: major update: fetching of stock and index options
implemented. POD and test script updated as well.
2003-08-31 David Hampton
* Yahoo/Base.pm: Added entry for the Lisbon Portugal stock
exchange.
2003-09-12 David Hampton
* Yahoo/Base.pm: Added suffixes for 1) the US Options, 2) US
exchanges when using a non-US Yahoo site, and 3) the Zurich
exchange.
2003-09-15 Pawel Konieczny
* AEX module: major update: additional labels for options available:
volume, oi, and other. Subframes cache implemented, resulting in
substantial speedup for repeating (intraday) requests of individual
options.
2003-09-20 Pawel Konieczny
* AEX module: major update: fetching of futures quotes
implemented. POD and test script updated as well.
2004-02-08 David Hampton
* Yahoo/Base.pm: Added suffixes for the Brussels and Dublin
exchanges.
2004-07-02 Paul Fenwick
* Added Finance/Quote/Tdefunds.pm thanks to David Grant.
* Added t/tdefunds.t basic regression test (3 tests).
* Fixed bug #916966, TASE prices were 100 times their true
price. Thanks to Eldad Zack for the patch.
2005-01-14 David Hampton
* lib/Finance/Quote/Cdnfundlibrary.pm: Got the module working again.
2005-02-06 David Hampton
* lib/Finance/Quote/BMONesbittBurns.pm: Got the modules working again.
2005-02-09 David Hampton
* lib/Finance/Quote/Fidelity.pm:
* lib/Finance/Quote/Union.pm: Got the modules working again.
* lib/Finance/Quote/Yahoo/Base.pm: Extract the currency directly
from Yahoo, instead of looking it up in an exchange/currency
mapping table.
* t/*: Various new test and updated modules.
2005-03-01 David Hampton
* lib/Finance/Quote.pm: New modules. New function to parse files
separated by semicolons instead of commas.
* lib/Finance/Quote/AEX.pm: Worked over modules from Johan van
Oostrum. Most of the old AEX data has migrated elsewhere.
* lib/Finance/Quote/ASX.pm:
* lib/Finance/Quote/Trustnet.pm: Got the modules working again.
* lib/Finance/Quote/ManInvestments.pm:
* lib/Finance/Quote/Platinum.pm: New modules for Australian
investment price sources from Ian Dall
users.sourceforge.net>.
* lib/Finance/Quote/NZX.pm: New modules for fetching quotes the
from the New Zealand stock exchange. Provided by Michael Curtis.
* lib/Finance/Quote/SEB.pm: New modules for fetching quotes from
the Swedish Bank. Submitted by Tomas Carlsson.
* lib/Finance/Quote/TSP.pm: New modules for fetching quotes from
the US Govt. Thrift Service Plan. Submitted by Frank Mori Hess.
* lib/Finance/Quote/Yahoo/Base.pm: Corrected currency tags for Vienna and Valence.
* lib/Finance/Quote/Yahoo/Brasil.pm: Add new Yahoo Brasil module
from Ismael Orenstein
* t/*: Various new test modules.
2005-03-19 David Hampton
* lib/Finance/Quote/AEX.pm: Spelling correcting from Frank Mori
Hess.
* lib/Finance/Quote.pm: Documentation correction from Trent
Piepho.
* lib/Finance/Quote/Yahoo/Base.pm (yahoo_request): Fix an
undefined reference when Yahoo ocassionally returns an empty
field.
2005-03-19 David Hampton
* almost all files: Collapsed all date parsing code into a single
function. This function handles the date formats provided by all
current quote sources and converts them all into the F::Q standard
of a US date format. It also adds an ISO format date to all
quotes in the new isodate field. Added lots of test functions to
check date formats.
2005-03-19 David Hampton
* lib/Finance/Quote/Trustnet.pm: Encode the '&' character before
calling the user agent GET function. Fixes bug 747080.
2005-05-04 David Hampton
* lib/Finance/Quote/FTPortfolios.pm: Update for changes in the
website.
* t/ftportfolios.t: New test module.
* TSP.pm: Replace core parsing with tighter code. Support the
symbols used by both Frank Mori Hess' and Trent Piepho's TSP
modules. Make the symbols case insensitive.
* lib/Finance/Quote/Cdnfundlibrary.pm: Find table by headers
instead of by index.
* test/asegr.t: New module
* lib/Finance/Quote/ASEGR.pm: New module
* lib/Finance/Quote/ASX.pm: Skip any blank lines in the table.
Pass an extra parameter to TableExtract to keep it from doing
unnecessary work that produces warnings.
2005-06-29 David Hampton
* lib/Finance/Quote/VWD.pm: Updated module from Jörg Sommer
* lib/Finance/Quote/cdnfundlibrary.pm: Changes inspired by
kalaleq@users.sourceforge.net allow retrieval of more data.
* lib/Finance/Quote.pm:
* lib/Finance/Quote/Yahoo/NZ.pm: New module from Stephen Judd
* lib/Finance/Quote/NZX.pm: Tweak to allow both NZX and Yahoo:NZ
to get quotes for New Zealand Stocks (use method nz).
* CVSTAG: finance_quote_1_09
2005-05-30 Paul Fenwick
* MANIFEST: Updated with files intended for distribution.
* lib/Finance/Quote.pm: Updated $VERSION to 1.09
* CVSTAG: Updated finance_quote_1_09 tag on MANIFEST and
lib/Finace/Quote.pm
* Released updated version 1.09 with new MANIFEST and Quote.pm
to Sourceforge.
* lib/Finance/Quote/VWD.pm: Re-enabled $VERSION and bumped
to 1.01 to allow correct indexing on CPAN, however the
older version currently remains in the 1.09 release.
2005-06-04 Paul Fenwick
* lib/Finance/Quote.pm: Bumped $VERSION to 1.10, primarily
to work around a problem with CPAN distributions.
* CVSTAG: finance_quote_1_10
New features:
Investments
Reports
Multiple currencis
GnuCash File Converter
OFX Import
An improved look andfeel
Encryption of your Data File through GPG
Calculator Widget when entering values
Completion of data within edit fields
Online Quotes for Stocks & Currencies
Support for VAT
"Anonymous" File Format to assist debugging
Online manual
Plugin Structure
and of course, lots and lots of bug fixes
also fixes to deal with qt-3.3.5.
file's sole purpose was to provide a dependency on pkg-config and set
some environment variables. Instead, turn pkg-config into a "tool"
in the tools framework, where the pkg-config wrapper automatically
adds PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to the environment before invoking the real
pkg-config.
For all package Makefiles that included pkg-config/buildlink3.mk, remove
that inclusion and replace it with USE_TOOLS+=pkg-config.
around at either build-time or at run-time is:
USE_TOOLS+= perl # build-time
USE_TOOLS+= perl:run # run-time
Also remove some places where perl5/buildlink3.mk was being included
by a package Makefile, but all that the package wanted was the Perl
executable.
Several changes are involved since they are all interrelated. These
changes affect about 1000 files.
The first major change is rewriting bsd.builtin.mk as well as all of
the builtin.mk files to follow the new example in bsd.builtin.mk.
The loop to include all of the builtin.mk files needed by the package
is moved from bsd.builtin.mk and into bsd.buildlink3.mk. bsd.builtin.mk
is now included by each of the individual builtin.mk files and provides
some common logic for all of the builtin.mk files. Currently, this
includes the computation for whether the native or pkgsrc version of
the package is preferred. This causes USE_BUILTIN.* to be correctly
set when one builtin.mk file includes another.
The second major change is teach the builtin.mk files to consider
files under ${LOCALBASE} to be from pkgsrc-controlled packages. Most
of the builtin.mk files test for the presence of built-in software by
checking for the existence of certain files, e.g. <pthread.h>, and we
now assume that if that file is under ${LOCALBASE}, then it must be
from pkgsrc. This modification is a nod toward LOCALBASE=/usr. The
exceptions to this new check are the X11 distribution packages, which
are handled specially as noted below.
The third major change is providing builtin.mk and version.mk files
for each of the X11 distribution packages in pkgsrc. The builtin.mk
file can detect whether the native X11 distribution is the same as
the one provided by pkgsrc, and the version.mk file computes the
version of the X11 distribution package, whether it's built-in or not.
The fourth major change is that the buildlink3.mk files for X11 packages
that install parts which are part of X11 distribution packages, e.g.
Xpm, Xcursor, etc., now use imake to query the X11 distribution for
whether the software is already provided by the X11 distribution.
This is more accurate than grepping for a symbol name in the imake
config files. Using imake required sprinkling various builtin-imake.mk
helper files into pkgsrc directories. These files are used as input
to imake since imake can't use stdin for that purpose.
The fifth major change is in how packages note that they use X11.
Instead of setting USE_X11, package Makefiles should now include
x11.buildlink3.mk instead. This causes the X11 package buildlink3
and builtin logic to be executed at the correct place for buildlink3.mk
and builtin.mk files that previously set USE_X11, and fixes packages
that relied on buildlink3.mk files to implicitly note that X11 is
needed. Package buildlink3.mk should also include x11.buildlink3.mk
when linking against the package libraries requires also linking
against the X11 libraries. Where it was obvious, redundant inclusions
of x11.buildlink3.mk have been removed.
