From aad24c076ac9e8098c96835ff823b8842f34aaee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Ralls Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 09:15:48 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Release 2.5.5 --- externals/global_params.php | 2 +- news/130910-announce-2.5.5.news | 236 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 237 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 news/130910-announce-2.5.5.news 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

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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.

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WARNING: This is an UNSTABLE version of GnuCash.

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This release is intended for developers and testers who want to +help find bugs and other problems to make the eventual stable release +better.

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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.

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NOTE: The latest stable version is 2.4.13.

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Please TEST, TEST, and TEST some more any and all features important to you. +Then post any bugs you find to Bugzilla

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Major changes in the 2.5 series

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Changes Since the Last Unstable Release

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Caveats for Testers

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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.

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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.

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How can you help?

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Getting GnuCash

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Source code for GnuCash 2.5.5 can be downloaded from multiple locations:

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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.

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Win32 and MacOSX binary

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The following pre-compiled application packages are also available:

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About the Program

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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.