diff --git a/externals/global_params.php b/externals/global_params.php
index 33052372..d49d69ab 100644
--- a/externals/global_params.php
+++ b/externals/global_params.php
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
# $latest_stable_mac_intel = $latest_stable."-2";
$latest_stable_mac_intel = $latest_stable;
- $latest_unstable = "2.5.3";
+ $latest_unstable = "2.5.5";
// There's currently no unstable release being worked on, so disable it
# $latest_unstable = False;
$latest_unstable_win = $latest_unstable;
diff --git a/news/130910-announce-2.5.5.news b/news/130910-announce-2.5.5.news
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c93b66c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/130910-announce-2.5.5.news
@@ -0,0 +1,236 @@
+Announcement: GnuCash 2.5.5 (Unstable) Release
+2013-09-10
+
+
GnuCash 2.5.5 (Unstable) released
+
+The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.5.5,
+the sixth 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
+
+
+ -
Robert Fewell has contributed a rewrite of the register (GnuCash's
+ primary interface window) to use the GtkTreeModel (select "register 2"
+ from the menu) as well as a new CSV import/export facility for account
+ trees. Take care not to try to open a single account in both the old and
+ new registers at the same time. Doing so will crash Gncuash
+ Note that this introduces some new preferences:
+
+
+ -
+ In the Accounts Pane:
+
+ - Show the Account Color as background
+ - Show the Account Color on tabs
+
+ These both default to "off", which means that if you have account colors on tabs in an earlier version of GnuCash, you'll want to enable the second one.
+
+ - In the Register Defaults Pane:
+
+ - Number of characters for auto complete
+ - Show entered and reconciled dates on selection
+ - Show the calendar buttons
+ - Move the selection to the blank split on expand
+
+ These affect the behavior of only the new Register2 windows.
+
+
+ These new preferences have not yet been documented in the Help Manual.
+
+
+ - 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
+
+
+
+ - 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.
+
+ - 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
+
+
+- Bug
+ #334939: Account Report and Account Transaction Report are
+ apparently the same, but different. Change menu entry for the single
+ transaction Account Report from "Accout Transaction Report" to
+ "Account Report - Single Transaction" Author: Carsten Rinke
+
+- Bug
+ #603183: Equity statement shows incorrect changes Add function
+ gnc:account-get-total-flow to report-utilities.scm This function
+ filters the splits from the source to the target accounts and returns
+ a commodity collector. It does NOT do currency exchanges. Export the
+ new function gnc:account-get-total-flow from
+ report-utilities.scm. Apply the new function
+ gnc:account-get-total-flow for the "Withdrawal" calculation. Author:
+ Carsten Rinke
+
+- Bug
+ #629136: Move the code that updates the sensitivity of immutable
+ page actions from gnc_main_window_switch_page to
+ gnc_main_window_generate_title. Patch by Guilherme Salgado.
+
+- Bug
+ #696492: Change report name in menu or in report output to be
+ consistent Change the register name to "Accout Transaction Report"
+ when the register type is GENERAL_LEDGER, INCOME_LEDGER, or default
+ in function gnc_reg_get_name(). Patch by Carsten Rinke.
+
+- Bug
+#704039: time zone is not respected on windows Author: Kuang-che
+Wu
+
+- Bug
+ #704056: Online Banking (Online Actions) does not appear in
+ Action menu Ensure that all functions are exported to the dll.
+
+- Bug
+ #704525: When you have a mix of chart types (bar charts and pie
+ charts). Add new procedure gnc:substring-replace-from-to Similar to
+ gnc:substring-replace, but offers the possibility to replace
+ substrings in a range of occurances. Add calls to
+ gnc:substring-replace-from-to to procedure gnc:report-run. Filter
+ out all occurances of jquery.min.js and jquery.jqplot.js except for
+ the first occurances. Author: Carsten Rinke
+
+ - Translations updated: Lithuanian
+
+
+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 2.5.5 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 2.5.5 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.