diff --git a/externals/global_params.php b/externals/global_params.php
index dc6722ea..674a16f6 100644
--- a/externals/global_params.php
+++ b/externals/global_params.php
@@ -10,12 +10,12 @@
# $latest_stable_mac_intel = $latest_stable."-2";
$latest_stable_mac_intel = $latest_stable;
- $latest_unstable = "2.5.6";
+ $latest_unstable = "2.5.7";
// There's currently no unstable release being worked on, so disable it
# $latest_unstable = False;
$latest_unstable_win = $latest_unstable;
$latest_unstable_mac_ppc = $latest_unstable."-1";
- $latest_unstable_mac_intel = $latest_unstable."-3";
+ $latest_unstable_mac_intel = $latest_unstable."-1";
// The definitions below use the latest version definitions above
// to define several paths that will be used on several pages
diff --git a/news/131104-announce-2.5.7.news b/news/131104-announce-2.5.7.news
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8d42fa5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/131104-announce-2.5.7.news
@@ -0,0 +1,209 @@
+Announcement: GnuCash 2.5.7 (Unstable) Release
+2013-11-04
+
+GnuCash 2.5.7 (Unstable) released
+
+The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.5.7,
+the eighth release in the 2.5.x series of the GnuCash
+Free Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable
+version 2.6.0. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX.
+
+
+
WARNING: This is an UNSTABLE version of GnuCash.
+
+
This release is intended for developers and testers who want to
+help find bugs and other problems to make the eventual stable release
+better.
+
+
Make sure you make backups of any files used in testing versions
+of GnuCash in the 2.5.x series. Although the developers go to great
+lengths to ensure that no data will be lost we cannot guarantee that
+your data will not be affected if for some reason GnuCash crashes in
+testing these releases.
+
+
+
NOTE: The latest stable version is 2.4.13.
+
Please TEST, TEST, and TEST some more any and all features important to you.
+Then post any bugs you find to Bugzilla
+Major changes in the 2.5 series
+
+
+ - Register2 is now a configure option. Default builds, including
+ the Windows and Mac All-in-one packages, will use only the old
+ register. We've decided that it isn't ready for general use and the
+ principal author doesn't have time to make it ready in time for a
+ 2.6 release.
+
+
+ - GnuCash now requires Gtk+-2.24 and GLib-2.26. We've removed most
+ of the dependencies on libraries obsoleted by project Ridley and will
+ be in position to move to Gtk+-3.x once the GtkTreeModel register
+ window work is complete. This means that GnuCash 2.5 requires Debian
+ 6, RHEL 6, or one of the more aggressive distributions like
+ Ubuntu.
+
+ - GnuCash now works with Guile-2.0, but enabling Guile-2.0 support
+ requires building GnuCash with
+ Swig-2.0.10. The distribution tarballs were built with this version and should work with Guile-2.0
+
+ - The business module has been revamped and we introduce some new features:
+
+ - Credit Notes
+ - Customer and Vendor Overview Pages
+ - Customer Overview Reports
+ - Existing Transactions may be reassigned as invoice payments
+ - Support for duplicate invoices
+ - Improved invoice and bill handling: Post, print, or duplicate
+ multiple items directly from a search results list
+ - Better invoice printing setup: Choose a default invoice report as a
+ preference
+ - Reorder invoice entries in the invoice window
+
+
+
+ Geert Janssens has rewritten the preferences system to use
+ GSettings from GIO (GLib) instead of GConf. This is a simpler
+ and more robust backend which writes to the OS's native prefs
+ — defaults on OS X and the Registry on MSWindows — and
+ allows us to remove several troublesome dependencies
+ including GConf, ORBit, and DBus.
+
+ WARNING: Preferences are not completely migrated
+ from GConf
Some preferences are not yet
+ migrated. What's more, the migration occurs every time you
+ start up, over-writing anything that you've changed, so you
+ may want to move ~/.gconf aside after the first time you run
+ GnuCash-2.5.7. You can move it back when you need to use
+ 2.4.13 for real work.
- The "Num" field is now optionally per-split rather than
+ per-transaction.
+
+ - GnuCash can print to a PDF for reports and invoices
+
+ - Account "Filter By" settings can be saved and recalled
+
+ - Account entries in the Chart of Account can be colored
+
+ - When opening a locked "book" one now has the option of opening it
+ read-only. Note that GnuCash is still a single-user program and that
+ the database backends are still used only as a data store.
+
+ - Tom Loft has contributed an initial version of REST API allowing
+ minimal information about accounts, invoices and customers to be
+ accessed in JSON format. Includes modifications to gnucash_core.py
+ to add additional functions.
+
+ - GnuCash is no longer subject to the "2038" bug, so that 30-year
+ mortgages can now be entered correctly.
+
+ - Frédéric Perrin has contributed a change to display currency
+ symbols whenever they are known and unambiguous.
+
+ - By agreement of all authors we have relicensed GnuCash to the Gnu
+ Public License Version 2 or later from just Version 2.
+
+
+
+Changes Since the Last Unstable Release
+
+
+ - Building Gnucash now requires Automake version 1.11 or later.
+
+ - Configure will abort if --enable-ofx is set but no libofx
+ configuration files are found. Contributed by Robert Ratliff.
+
+ - Budget periods may no longer set to values greater than the
+ budget's num_periods, and the budget options descriptions will
+ wrap. Contributed by Robert Ratliff.
+
+ - Bug #668530: In budget flow report options, change the maximum value for period to 60 (Note the FIXMEs) Author: Robert Ratliff <ratliff.bobby@gmail.com>
+ - Bug #687478: Bills due reminder doesn't work well with credit notes
+- Bug #687479: Automatic invoice/payment matching on posting an invoice should be an optional feature
+- Bug #693244: View Lots window enhancements
+- Bug #708659: Totals column moves to right hand side when periods are added Remove unneeded gnc_plugin_page_budget_refresh_cb Author: R Ratliff <ratliff.bobby@gmail.com>
+- Bug #710055: advanced portfolio report counts capital gains split as dividend. Author: Jason McCarty <jmccarty@sent.com>
+- Bug #710311: Missing ChangeLogs
+- Bug #710739: Fill in field for remote bank account information also for SEPA transfers.
+- Bug #710871: Fix for Python site-packages not found when not installed to default location.
+- Bug #710979: Crash in gnc_plugin_page_invoice_summarybar_position_changed
+ - Translations updated: None
+
+
+Caveats for Testers
+Any 2.5.x version might crash unexpectedly. If you must test
+with important data in a 2.5.x release and are using the XML file
+backend for data storage, be sure to save the file frequently. If you
+are using the SQL backend, this is not required as every change is
+saved immediately to the database.
+
+Although the screenshots have been updated in the documentation,
+much of the wording still describes GnuCash-2.4. Please help update
+the documentation: See the development wiki
+page on how to get involved.
+
+How can you help?
+
+
+ - Testing: Please try out as many features as you can. Report
+ problems either in bug
+ reportsor on the devel
+ mailing list
+
+ - Translating: Translators may begin work on new strings at any time,
+ though string freeze isn't planned until the 2.5.7 release in early
+ September. Status of translations is shown on the translation
+ status page. If GnuCash isn't fully translated into your language
+ and you'd like to pitch in, here's how to get
+ involved.
+
+
+Getting GnuCash
+Source code for GnuCash 2.5.7 can be downloaded from multiple locations:
+
+ - The GnuCash website
+
+ - Sourceforge: bzip2,
+ gzip,
+ all
+ files.
+
+ - You can also checkout the sources directly from the
+ repository with subversion:
svn co http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk
+ gnucash
+ Or with git:
git clone git://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git
+
+
+To install GnuCash, you will need Gnome 2 and guile 1.8 or 2.0,
+including devel packages. In addition you will need swig (swig-2.0.10
+for guile 2.0, see the note at the top) if compiling from subversion
+or git.
+
+Win32 and MacOSX binary
+The following pre-compiled application packages are also available:
+
+
+About the Program
+GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under
+the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2 or Version 3 and available
+for GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows.
+Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was
+in 1998.