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The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 3.0, the
first release in our new 3.x stable series.
New Features for Users:
The headline item for this release is that GnuCash now uses
the Gtk+-3.0 Toolkit and the WebKit2Gtk API. This change was
forced on us by some major Linux distributions dropping support
for the WebKit1 API. Unfortunately the Webkit project doesn't
support Microsoft Windows so that platform will continue to
use the WebKit1 API, though with Gtk3. We've selected Gtk+-3.14.0
as the minimum version because it fully supports CSS theming.
New editors to remove outdated or incorrect match data from
the import maps, a new user interfacs for managing files
associated with transactions, an improved facility for removing
old prices from the price database, and a way to remove deleted
files from the history list in the file menu.
New Reports: A Reconciliation Report based on the Transaction
Report,a Income GST Report, and a Cashflow Barchart report.
A new CSV importer largely rewritten in C++, adding new features
including the ability to re-import CSV files exported from
GnuCash, along with a separate CSV price importer.
A new preference panel for the Alphavantage API key so that
Finance::Quote users need not edit /etc/gnucash/environment.
We've removed all references to the various Yahoo! quote sources
and made Alphavantage the default.
Data file directories are now located appropriately to the operating system's conventions by default:
Windows: CSIDL_APPDATA/Gnucash
MacOS: $HOME/Application Support/Gnucash
Linux: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gnucash (or the default $HOME/.config/gnucash)
It's still possible to overried with the environment variable GNC_DOC_PATH, which replaces GNC_DOT_DIR in earlier versions of GnuCash.
Accounts in the Bayes import map are now linked by GUID instead
of names so that the matcher won't have to be retrained if you
rename an account. The Bayesian import maps are also stored in
a flatter structure to allow faster access, especially in SQL.
These changes mean that if you have Bayesian mapping data, once
converted your database will be loadable only by GnuCash 2.6.20
and later.
MySQL and SQLite3 date storage has changed a bit. Once converted,
MySQL and SQLite3 database will be loadable only by GnuCash
2.6.19 and later.
Numerics are rewritten to allow for more significant digits.
The old 6-digit-maximum fraction is now 9-digits, and prices
may have up to 18 digit precision.
Chart Reports appearance is improved, including more modern
chart colours as suggested by http://clrs.cc/.
Transaction Report improvements, including regular expression
filtering and many more options and features including a
"Subtotal Summary Grid" The subtotal summary-grid will tabulate
subtotals - prime-sortkey vertically, sec-sortkey horizontally.
For example, with prime-sortkey = accounts, sec-sortkey = date,
sec-subtotal = monthly will produce a monthly time series table.
The About dialog box layout is improved and now includes the
detected Finance::Quote version.
GnuCash will always build the locale-specific tax modules. This
was optional when building with autotools and never enabled
when building with cmake. Note that the only supported tax
locales are en_US and de_DE.
On Macs the Reconcile Window's menu moved to the menubar.
GnuCash no longer supports Guile-1.8 and now does support Guile-2.2
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