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-GnuCash is designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible.
-It allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses.
-As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is based
-on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and
-accurate reports. It is extensible in guile (an embedded scheme
-interpreter).
+NOTE: THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT RELEASE!!! THIS VERSION HAS NOT
+BEEN TESTED PROPERLY AND MAY DO ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING!
+
+USE AT YOUR OWN RISK (AND KEEP *LOTS* OF BACKUPS)
+
+See the pkgsrc/finance/gnucash package for the stable version.
+
+GnuCash is a personal finance manager. A check-book like register GUI
+allows you to enter and track bank accounts, stocks, income and even
+currency trades. A full set of reports allow you to see the state of
+your finances. The interface is designed to be simple and easy to use,
+but is backed with double-entry accounting principles to ensure
+balanced books.
+
+Features include:
+
+  - An easy-to-use interface.  If you can use the
+    register in the back of your checkbook, you
+    can use GnuCash.  Type directly into the register,
+    tab between fields, and use quick-fill to
+    automatically complete the transaction.
+    The interface is customizable from within the
+    application itself (no editing config files :) )
+  - Scheduled Transactions
+  - Mortgage & Loan Repayment Druid
+  - Small Business Accounting Features
+  - OFX Import
+  - HBCI Support
+  - Quicken File Import
+  - Reconcile window  with running reconciled
+    and cleared balances makes reconciliation easy.
+  - Stock/Mutual Fund Portfolios
+  - Get Stock & Mutual Fund quotes from various web sites,
+    update portfolio automatically (more funds being added
+    regularly).
+  - Reports
+  - Multiple Currencies & Currency Trading
+  - New Multi-Currency Transaction Handling
+  - Chart of Accounts
+  - Split Transactions
+  - Double Entry
+  - Income/Expense Account Types (Categories)
+  - General Ledger
+  - Written in C with embedded scheme support via Guile.
+  - File access is locked in a network-safe fashion, preventing
+    accidental damage if several users attempt to access the
+    same file, even if the file is NFS-mounted.
+  - Provides a byte-stream format, which allows accounts and
+    account groups to be transmitted to other processes
+    via pipes or sockets.
+  - International date handling, many different translations.
+  - New User Manual and Help
+  - Redesigned Menus