3.4 - 30 December 2018
o Convert help documents to use XInclude instead of SYSTEM entities
o Convert Guide and its translations to use XInclude instead of
SYSTEM entities
o Drop old DocBook xsl 1.75.2 stylesheet
o Base gnucash custom style sheet on DocBook xsl 1.79.2
o Add DocBook xsl v1.79.2
o Extract common entity declarations into a custom DTD
This custom DTD is based on the DocBook V4.5 DTD and is intended
to be used by all our documentation xml files.
o Update to DocBook XML spec 4.5
Documentation changes:
• Bug 796098 - V 3.1 Missing images in Tutorial and Concepts Guide in PDF and Online Help pages.
• Bug 795980 - Void Reason Has No Visible Purpose.
3.0 - 1 April 2018
o Correct field format in python-import-fields.
o German translation of Transactions chapter.
o Bug 122895 - general ledger should be named journal
o Bug 634181 - Inserting Part designations overall
o Bug 608098 - Document Transaction Rpt, including how to handle splits
o Clarify that creating a postponed SX will use the original date.
o Remove 'Remainder To' from loan assistant page 2.
o Bug 760407 - Note account separator isn't always a colon.
o Update partial date entry documentation based on new default behaviour
o Bug 762088 - Remove Section 9.4.3 From Guide
o New Russian translation o fthe guide.
o Fix chm mapfile target and cleanfiles.
The mapfile target would fail if the directory was already built,
apparently not recognizing that its target was complete.
Cleanfiles was missing several build targets.
o New Transaction Report section in Guide
o Replace some screenshots with new ones reflecting Gtk3.
2.6.19 - 16 December 2017
o Bug 782423 - Help 10.2. Setting Preferences is outdated #105
o Changing text in Help to reflect changes in Preferences dialogs.
o Translation of the german guides metafile
2.6.18 - 24 September 2017
o The Italian Help translation, which uniquely uses a PO file, is
frozen at commit 78cfa76 because of lack of a translator to
maintain it.
o Bug 120940 - Document how automatic decimal points work.
o Begin a Russian translation of the Guide by Dimitry Mangul.
o Some spelling corrections in the German Guide.
2.6.17 - 2 July 2017
o Improve internationalization of the Tutorial and Concepts Guide.
o Bug 781711: Add reversing transaction definition
o Bug 781714: Add Reversing Transaction text for Help document
2.6.16 - 26 March 2017
o Remove section "Changing the Register View" as better handled in Guide
section 4.2
o Bug 755174 - How to handle commission when buying and selling securities
o Bug 769457 - More info re register views
o Bug 774658 - Add warning to delete lot before deleting a cap gain/loss
transaction
o Glossary: Transactions have at least 2 splits
o Bug 777318 - Restructure Business Features Chapters.
o Bug 777287 - add tips on changing reconcile status of all transactions
in reconcile window panes
2.6.15 - 18 December 2016
o Bug 397135 - Hidden Accounts Show in ComboBox.
o Bug 633590 - Add a Reports Chapter to the Tutorial and
Guide.
o Bug 743671 - Add glossary to Tutorial and Guide.
o Bug 755174 - Document using Lots to create investment
capital gains transactions.
o Bug 770371 - Add note to documentation regarding Sort order
options.
o Bug 775592 - General Rewrite of Guide Chapter on Multiple
Currencies.
o Bug 775919 - Change Documentation of contributors
o Update German Translation (Mechtilde Stehmann)
o Fix resolution of screenshots.
Concurrent with the release of Gnucash 2.6.14 we're pleased to also release a new version 2.6.14 of the companion Help and Tutorial and Concepts Guide.
Bug 115461 - Highlight need to select Account Type when adding new stock account.
Bug 687290 - Add new chapter for expense type accounts.
Bug 769457 - Add note to 4.3 of Guide.
Bug 769746 - Zero interest loan formula fails.
Bug 771230 - Modify Windows portion of 8.6.3 of Guide.
Bug 769663 - Link update on Tutorial and concepts guide
Updated german translation of the F::Q appendix.
Update the list of Finance::Quote methods to 1.38.
Concurrent with the release of Gnucash 2.6.13 we're pleased to also release a new version 2.6.13 of the companion Help and Tutorial and Concepts Guide.
Fix the very stale Release Schedule link in the Guide.
Bug 637004 - Document Payable/Receivable Aging Rpts and new options for allowing customer and vendor address info to display.
Fix unclear statement re docbook stylesheets in README.
Bug 712764 - Clarify Account type designations in the Tutorial.
Bug 751686 - Explain how to use Find Transaction to report per-employee.
Bug 754239 - Fix order of Report menu items.
Bug 754239 - Update Report menu item names to Save Report Configuration.
Bug 765131 - Document Investment Return of Capital in the Guide.
Concurrent with the release of Gnucash 2.6.12 we're pleased to also release a new version 2.6.12 of the companion Help and Tutorial and Concepts Guide.
New Portuguese Translations from Pedro Albuquerque!
Bug 639776 - Update instructions for updating quote prices by cron.
Bug 649283 - Add links to where common report preferences are set.
Bug 728722 - Setting number format details appear wrong in Help, section 10.3.4. Counters Book Options Tab
Bug 729265 - Update documentation for Invoice and Bill payments to reflect the new features.
Bug 761025 - Add missing sect Guide ch2.8: New book options in New Acct Hierarchy.
Bug 762088 - Remove Section 9.4.3 From Guide that offered simplistic advice about money and life that does nothing to explain GnuCash functionality or use.
Bug 762656 - Add note to Guide section 2.3.3 For Column Widths
More German Translation work from Mechtilde Stehmann.
New German illustrations from Mechtilde Stehmann.
Use letter size paper only in US or C locales. The rest of the
world uses metric A4 paper. The locale detection is done at configure.
Clarify that creating a postponed SX will use the original date.
Bug 759859 - Reconcilation does not convert transactions' currency
to the main one making reconcilation impossible.
Bug 760016 - 2.6.10 and master dump script error while running configure.
Bug 760407 - Note account separator isn't always a colon.
Existing SHA1 digests verified, all found to be the same on the
machine holding the existing distfiles (morden). Existing SHA1
digests retained for now as an audit trail.
building.
2.6.5 - 16 December 2014
o Fix a path of freshly added XML files
o Add some comments about translation to the German documents where the translation wasn't updated to match the English version.
o Apply &untranslated property in German translations
o Fix path of newly-added XML files.
o Bug 739380 - Release tarball build fails. Git builds OK.
2.6.4 - 28 September 2014
o Add sentence about manually editing payment information for customers.
o Add warning and tip about account separator character.
o Correct field format in python-import-fields.
o Currency movements .. remain fully balanced if "Trading Accounts"
is enabled; "double entry" was not sufficient.
o Ersetze umgangssprachliches "Passiva" durch "Fremdkapital" und
zugehöriges Bild
o German translation of Transactions chapter.
o Guide C oview: update processor architecture: "backport" from de
o Guide C txns: Add a warning about dummy transactions and auditors.
o Guide C txns: Thinking is not enough for the cleared state of a
transaction
o Guide C txns: Upgrade note to warning "It is important to understand
that reconciliation..."
o Guide C txns: explain reconcilation state "cleared"; improved
wording by lmat
o Guide de ch_accts: Several minor corrections.
o Guide de ch_basics: several corrections.
o Guide de ch_oview: orthography and processor architecture update.
o Guide de ch_txns: several improvements, txns-sxn1 complete.
o Help Documentation: Add Advanced Portfolio Rpt details, Thanks to
Chris Good
o Improve explanation that Credit does NOT decrease equity accounts
o Improve readability of "Credit does NOT decrease ...".
o New chapters in the German translation: Overview, Basics, and
Accounts. Thanks to Mechtilde.
o Reduced proportional width of description column to increase overall
font size for a 510 pixel width image.
o Remove a few discrepancies between the german guide overview and
other components.
o Update of translators in gnucash-guide-de.omf
o Updated documentation to explain how to tie dividends received in
cash to the appropriate stock holding.
GStreamer core:
* 736969 : queue2: dead lock when buffering
* 738092 : basesink: clamp reported position based on direction
* 740001 : task: race condition when pausing and stopping
GStreamer Plugins Base:
* 741420 : video pools: should update size in configuration after applying alignment
* 715050 : add typefinder for audio/x-audible
* 739544 : tcp: Add test and fix memory leak in tcp elements
* 739840 : typefind should recognize Apple Core Audio Format (CAF)
* 740556 : videodecoder: don't complain when DTS != PTS on keyframes
* 740675 : playsink: continues playback, reset mute property
* 740730 : rtspconnection: don't remove child source if parent source is already destroyed
* 740853 : audiodecoder: Push pending events before sending EOS.
* 740952 : alsa: NetBSD fixes
* 741045 : audiorate can can lose timestamp precision in some cases
* 741198 : playbin: leaks GstPads
GStreamer Plugins Good:
* 711437 : apev2mux: should not put APEv2 tags at beginning of WavPack files
* 726194 : v4l2src does not cope well when a capture card is sometimes interlaced, sometimes progressive at the same resolution
* 736397 : flvdemux: Per-stream resyncing behavior causes A/V-desyncs
* 737603 : v4l2bufferpool: set buffer interlace flags when field is V4L2_FIELD_INTERLACED
* 739476 : vpx: fails to build against libvpx from git
* 739722 : matroskamux: Thread safe register GstMatroskamuxPad
* 739789 : v4l2allocator: fix error message if allocator is already active
* 739791 : v4l2bufferpool: unref pool when v4l2_allocator_new() fails
* 739792 : v4l2allocator: fix gst_v4l2_allocator_stop prototype
* 739996 : videomixer: Drops a lot of frames, if one of the sources is live
* 740040 : v4l2src: Fails in presence of V4L2_BUF_FLAG_ERROR
* 740392 : rtspsrc: mikey base64 decoded key-mgmt leak
* 740407 : qtmux limits capture to 4096x4096
* 740633 : v4l2src: RW io-mode is broken
* 740636 : v4l2src: framerate is not always set on driver
* 740671 : aspectratiocrop: crop needs to be reset when video size changes
* 740905 : v4l2: still has 1 include to linux/videodev.h
* 741271 : rtph264pay: Buffer leak in H.264 payloader when using SPS/PPS
* 741381 : rtph264pay: Race condition may cause crash when going from PAUSED- > READY
* 741407 : deinterlace: in query_caps return only supported formats if filter is interlaced
* 737579 : v4l2object: set colorspace for output devices
* 739754 : v4l2bufferpool: Should validate that all memories are writeable before queueing back
GStreamer Plugins Bad:
* 722764 : rawparse: fix SEEKING query handling
* 729768 : mpegtsbase: Raise limit to read more bytes initially to find PCR
* 739152 : gl/cocoa: build with GNUStep fails
* 740191 : dvbbasesink: segfaults on 32-bit (rpi)
* 740201 : gl/cocoa: Does not compile on OSX < 10.7 anymore
* 740451 : srtpdec: leaks rtp/rtcp sink events
* 740953 : configure.ac: unportable test(1) comparison operator
* 741321 : opusparse: fix header parsing esp. of encoded output of libopus
GStreamer RTSP Server:
* 739481 : rtsp-stream: leaks srtp decoder when leaving rtpbin
Version History
---------------
2.6.3 - 30 March 2014
o There have been no documentation changes since 2.6.2
2.6.2 - 2 March 2014
o Bug 547386 - Help text for Employee section missing.
o Bug 723173 - One error and some typos in documentation. Thanks to
Imat for the patch.
o Bug 725013 - dividends reinvested example text doesn't match
graphic. Also remove a useless figure and improve text.
o Assorted typos and version number corrections.
2.6.1 - 1 January 2014
o First documention updates for credit notes
o Adapt migration documentation to gsettings introduction
o Move most of the text regarding business features from guide
to help, correct links and wording and many small improvements.
o Add information about the Business tab in book options window.
o Enable building Japanese PDF without requiring Debian or
downloading fonts from anywhere.
o Add Fedora font paths
o Adjust image after [23668] update.
o Doc/guide/C: add cash account to accts-examples-organization2
o Docs/guide/de: minor corrections of spelling and an
extension by Martin Mainka
o Update Italian translation of guide.
o Update instructions for Italian translation to adapt them
to new generic langcode.
2.6.0 - 29 December 2013
o Updated documentation for new GnuCash stable version 2.6.0
o Update Preferences section
o Menu and Toolbar references
o Update Business Documentation: Bobby Ratliff
o Budget Features: Bobby Ratliff
o Update Copyrights, Author lists, and metadata
o Add facility to publish docs as e-pubs
o Bug 513122 - Documentation doesn't explain how to import
account tree.
o Bug 604519 - Explain scope of Find Transaction tool.
o Bug 608932 - The documentation provided for opening a new
stock account is not appropriate
o Bug 633524 - Guide: introduce some splits concepts to help
with understanding transactions.
o Bug 638955 - Add documentation for book closing
o Bug 639264 - Add information in Concepts 4.5 to Explain
Starting Balance in Reconcile window
o Bug 661705 - OMF files not installed at the right place:
Yelp doesn't see them
o Bug 670354 - [PATCH] Outdated Docs - Assign Starting Invoice Number
o Bug 672668 - Add section explaining how to migrate data.
o Bug 684709 - Some rearrangement of text and chapters.
o Bug 687476 - Document Customer/Vendor overview feature
o Bug 688425 - Fix steps in putting it all together section.
o Bug 688579 - Run xmllint or variant in make distcheck
o Bug 688968 - Investment documentation improvements for
chapter about selling shares.
o Bug 691762 - Clarify behaviour of Find Transaction dialog
box's `Reconcile' criteria buttons.
o Bug 692917 - Note for keys when entering transactions.
o Bug 693493 - Add text to Tutorial 2.2.3 to explain
Debit/Credit Columns in register
o Bug 699430 - Describe the Assets over Time barchart Report
o Bug 700656 - Tutorial does not explain type of security
o Bug 702039 - Canadian stocks are fetched in USD by Finance-Quote
o Bug 712308: Double click on parent account doesn't open the
register - new behaviour not documented.
o Bug 715161 - File structure csv import customers and vendors
o Updated Translations: German, Italian
2.4.2 - 17 Nov 2012
o Updated to release 2.4.2.
o New or improved documentation for
o Data migration
o New documentation formats: epub and mobi
o Translation updates: Japanese, Italian
o Several small updates and fixes
2.4.1 - 4 Aug 2010
o Updated to release 2.4.1.
o New or improved documentation for
o Python invoice import plugin
o Scheduled transactions
o Style sheets
o Translation updates: Italian
o Several small updates and fixes
2.4.0 - 11 Feb 2012
o Updated to release 2.4.0.
o Many changes to line up with the GnuCash 2.4 series
o New Japanese translation of the concepts guide
o Initial German translation, still incomplete
o Lots of markup improvements
o Fix generation of pdf files
o Several small updates and fixes
2.2.2 - 2 July 2011
o Updated to release 2.2.2.
o This release contains improvements and fixes that got
backported from the 2.4 release
2.2.1 - 4 Aug 2010
o Updated to release 2.2.1.
o Several small updates and fixes
2.0.0 - 9 July 2006
o Updated to release 2.0.0
o Most of the text still needs work
1.9.0 - 28 May 2006
o First release with screenshots updated for the 2.0.0 GnuCash
o Most of the text still needs work
o Build system is now updated to remove the html version
and doc-tools and only to use the GNOME help system.
1.8.5 - 11 Dec 2004
o general-customization.xsl patch from Johan Buret
o David Harrison's updates to ch_dep.xml
o Add outline for German translation of gnucash guide.
o chapter overhaul by pks
o update language support list
