1.9.5 - 16 Apr 2006
o Welcome to GnuCash 1.9.5 aka "The final countdown begins" the sixth
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 fifth 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 Fixes to Scheduled Transactions.
o Report fixes.
o Make the entire UI insensitive when the progress bar is showing.
o Fixes for currencies and currency quote retrievals.
o Lots of Qof fixes.
o Profiling fixes to improve speed and response.
o Memory leak fixes.
o Fixes for 64-bit compiles.
o Add a per-account "hidden" flag.
o Fixes to compile with gcc4.
o Fixes to xml file format.
Changes from 1.4.0:
All systems:
- Several race conditions in the host tracking and handling in the fileserver
which could cause inconsistent behavior and crashes have been fixed.
- A fileserver bug where a reference to a volume could be leaked and later
cause a deadlock as a result of a bulk status call
- Reference counting of fileserver objects in unsigned 32 bit integers
instead of signed 16 bit integers.
- Avoid type mismatches when handling time values (betweemn 32 bit and 64 bit
variables).
- Fix a memory leak during multilevel packet queue handling.
- Audit log output had been updated to include FIDs for newly created files.
- asetkey is now included to ease Kerberos 5 integration for server
administrators.
- A new fileserver statistics collection including callback statistics was
added.
- man pages are now generated.
be created just before its "configure" phase, obviating the need
for the hackish dependency on a qmail-users package. Since the new
functionality in bsd.pkginstall.mk also records and enforces numeric
UIDs and GIDs in binary packages, remove the note on that matter
from MESSAGE.
Bump PKGREVISION.
Fix typos in SUBST_MESSAGE*
Add missing x11.buildlink3.mk.
Remove two files from PLIST, because they are not built on my 3.99.18/i386
test system. Bump PKGREVISION.
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Version 0.11
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o Validate desktop file categories (Emmet Hikory, Vincent Untz)
o Use GKeyFile instead of the old egg code in update-desktop-database (Vincent)
o Use GOption instead of popt (Vincent)
o Fix grammar problem in one of the strings (Moritz Barsnick)
o NULL terminate search patch in update-desktop-database (Mike Hearn)
o Fix language to encoding mapping to match spec (Ville Skyttä)
+ Add an INSTALL script that detects the presence of the old
sqwebmail state directory and that informs the admin to move it
to the new location.
+ Install some more of the HTML documentation in the location expected
by courier-mta.
* Complete re-implementation of the LDAP addressbook.
* Increase the maximum size of the CGI environment to avoid certain
classes of browser/website problems.
