GnuCash 1.9.0 Released 221
Grendel Drago writes "The GnuCash team have released GnuCash 1.9.0.
After literally years of waiting, GnuCash is now a GTK2 application. The current version is unstable, and testers are needed."
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.
FINALLY! (Score:5, Informative)
It would be nice for someone to do a mini-review or comparison of the different FOSS or FOSS-friendly financial packages, because frankly, I'm ready to leave Intuit.
Oh, and speaking of which--y'all know that you can file your taxes for free [irs.gov], right? Or at least 70% of Americans can. Down from 100% last year, but still something.
W
Re:Finally (Score:5, Informative)
The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 1.9.0 aka "We're gonna make it!", the first of several unstable 1.9.x releases of the GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.0.0. This release is the very first of the gtk2-based GnuCash series, and is intended for developers and adventurous testers who want to help tracking down all those bugs that are still in there.
I Am Really Interested In Looking This Over (Score:5, Informative)
The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 1.9.0 aka "We're gonna make it!", the first of several unstable 1.9.x releases of the GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.0.0. This release is the very first of the gtk2-based GnuCash series, and is intended for developers and adventurous testers who want to help tracking down all those bugs that are still in there.
What's New in GnuCash 1.9.0?
o Welcome to GnuCash 1.9.0 aka "We're gonna make it!" the first of several unstable releases of the GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.0.0. This release is the very first of the gtk2-based GnuCash series and is 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=Gn uCash [gnome.org]
o If you have the urge to help beyond testing please get involved in the discussions on the GnuCash mailing lists which you will find at http://www.gnucash.org./ [www.gnucash.org] We especially need people to help with updating the documentation as all texts refer currently to the 1.8.x series. Please see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development [gnucash.org] on how to get involved.
o PS I'm not going to list the many features changed or updated in this release because obviously there is so much that has changed.
Caveats
Caveats for testers:
* Any 1.9.x version might crash unexpectedly at any point during runtime. If you test some serious work in a 1.9.x release, make sure you hit "Save" after ever non-trivial workstep.
* Keep in mind that features which are not used in everyday work might crash unexpectedly at all times. This includes but is not limited to: graphical reports, scheduled transaction editor, price editor, financial calculator, OFX/QIF/HBCI import.
* Especially all the new features might crash instantly on testing. This applies in particular to any of the budget-related features. We may always decide to disable such new features for the initial 2.0.0 release, and re-enable them in a later release.
* The documentation is completely outdated. All help texts usually only refer to the 1.8.x series; please expect all descriptions in the help texts to be totally wrong when applied to the upcoming 1.9.x series. Everyone is invited to help improve the documentation; see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development [gnucash.org] on how to get involved.
How can you help?
* Testing: Test it and help us discover all bugs that might show up in there. Please enter each and every bug into bugzilla at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Gn uCash [gnome.org]
* Translating: The new release comes with plenty of new translation strings. If you consider contributing a translation, we invite you to test this release already, but please keep in mind that we are not yet in our string freeze phase. Please check http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status [gnucash.org] for updates on this, as we recommend to wait for the string
Re:FINALLY! (Score:5, Informative)
Courtasy of the always great LWN [lwn.net]. They are from September of last year.
Re:Finally (Score:3, Informative)
Clearly, you're a moron.
KMyMoney (Score:5, Informative)
Now, I have nothing bad to say about GnuCash. It's a good program and served me well when I used it. I only mention KMyMoney as an alternative worth considering.
Re:I Am Really Interested In Looking This Over (Score:3, Informative)
Like what? I was eagerly awaiting this release, mainly because GTK1 sucks on OS X (no umlauts in my experience). So far, the only changes I noticed (besides the GTK2 switch) is budgeting and closing of a financial year, both of which I haven't tried so far. Plus a dubious UI change by presenting account windows as tabs and not as real windows, meaning you can only see one account at a time. It still has the old UI bugs, my favorite being that the reports don't resize with the window and that reports are lost when you switch files. This after years of work.
Woohoo! (Score:3, Informative)
Horray!! Thank you, GNUCash team!!
Re:FINALLY! (Score:3, Informative)
It's my understanding that Moneydance can appear to banks as if it were Windows Quicken, when really it's Moneydance running on a Mac, or whatever.
If I'm wrong about this, someone correct me, because this is an important feature that I'd kinda need for my bank...
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Re:GNUCash Ported Elsewhere? (Score:2, Informative)
Although more suited to business, you may want to check out sql-ledger. It's multi-platform capable, free as in beer, and in every way an equal to Quickbooks:
http://www.sql-ledger.org/ [sql-ledger.org]
Re:Where I come from it's called a failure... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:FINALLY! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Financial programs (Score:4, Informative)
Re:The Kot (Score:4, Informative)
So, what's German tax information doing in there? Let's look a little further into the file where this exact same technique is repeated in another function... This is a very simple hack that loads the (new, special) German tax definition file in a German locale, or (default) loads the previous US tax file. */
A clear answer: this is a hack not really intended for general consumption. I'm guessing someone is experimenting with integrating the German data, but it isn't quite ready yet. LOCALE_SPECIFIC_TAX may be a "this is under development and will hopefully eventually work, but not now" setting. Little unused hackery and experiments live in most mainstream code, commented or #ifdefed out. It's fairly common in proprietary software because the end user has little to no chance of learning that they're there.
It looks like this little hack is present, if no enabled, in the trunk of their repository. That's not good and it should probably be removed (or marked more clearly so it doesn't accidentally ship). But it's hardly a Major Problem.
Re:Just what I needed (Score:3, Informative)
Since it's Italian, it's capice.
It's capisce, third person (singular) of the verb capire (to understand) with the imperative form in a question (capisce, lei? == do you understand?).
It's pronounced in english as ka-pee-sh, but in italian the final e is not muted, so it's pronounced like ka-pee-sh-e.
Re:Years of waiting... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Not a M$ Windos fan but..... (Score:2, Informative)
I can certainly relate to your experience with Quicken, although mine is with an AT&T VPN dialer. When it refused to work after an upgrade, I had to re-explain my problem over and over again, and their perspective, even after spending hours on the phone with me, was that *I* was the one doing something wrong. I've gotten better tech support by calling Microsoft, if you can believe it.
Best wishes anyway.
~Boring
Sounds like MS Money! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:I Am Really Interested In Looking This Over (Score:2, Informative)
simple.
or Window->new window with page
even simpler.
This is a huge, extremely complicated project being developed by a literal handful of volunteers. Give them some credit
Re:With a web browser (Score:5, Informative)
Free, my arse! (Score:4, Informative)
One reply suggested that GnuCash was a viable alternative to quicken. My problem with GnuCash (or really with Quickbooks) was that I couldn't export the accounts from Quickbooks into GnuCash. Well anyway, at the time of the Novell article, we had just hit our year end, so we had P&L and Balance sheets for everything.
So, perfect time to try GnuCash, just resetting everything off the Balance Sheet. Anyway, through this process I discovered that Quickbooks had 'lost' some of my previous VAT payments. Added them all up - £400 for me (don't worry I triple checked - no messing with the tax man). So GnuCash wasn't free for me - they actually paid me to use it. Cheers, GnuCash!
I miss the simple 'VAT Report' from QuickBooks - it's quite tricky in GnuCash. But if it was costing me £400 - I can handle the minor inconvenience.
I'm really looking forward to the 1.9.0 - hopefully, some more of the inconveniences will disappear and maybe the interface will be a little less GTK1.
Quicken 2004 on Crossover (Score:2, Informative)