Software Update: GnuCash 3.3

Version 3.3 of GnuCash has been released. GnuCash is a cross platform and open source accounting program for individuals and small businesses. It uses the double-entry bookkeeping system and is able to easily keep track of, for example, bank accounts, investments, income and expenses, budgets, mortgages and loans and can of course make reports and graphs. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Between 3.2 and 3.3, the following bug fixes were accomplished:

• Bug 771667 – Different warnings when changing reconciled splits vs. splits linked to reconciled splits.
• Bug 784420 – “Save changes on closing” window waits 2^32 seconds when “Time to wait for answer” is set 0.
• Bug 786708 – GnuCash won’t load currency fractions larger than 1000000. Also create larger fractions for the account dialog.
• Bug 787439 – Segmentation Fault in Transfer dialog after clearing Date field and pressing escape.
• Bug 789594 – Unable to overwrite sqlite3 database file.
• Bug 792446 – Mixed languages ​​in error dialog.
• Bug 794526 – Python bindings can’t find loadable modules.
• Bug 794755 – Commodity Register displays fractional prices. Prices will now be displayed in decimal, rounded to two more places than the currency’s smallest unit.
• Bug 794870 – If no book is opened, gnucash still asks if the user wants to save changes when opening a file.
• Bug 795821 – GnuCash could not obtain the lock for file://C:\Users\username\Documents\GnuCash\2.6.21\xxxx\xxxx.gnucash
• Bug 796054 – Unposting and reposting invoice doubles amounts.
• Bug 796137 – query.search_for outputs critical qof.object errors and prevents queries being run.
• Bug 796248 – Editing Scheduled Transaction. In addition to not beginning to edit already-loaded transactions, don’t try to load splits that are already loaded. It shouldn’t be possible to load a transaction without also loading its splits.
• Bug 796474 – Segmentation fault while setting up online banking. Allow only a single instance of the assistant.
• Bug 796509 – Saved reports don’t respect *some* ‘Edit report options’.
• Bug 796579 – Cannot go forward with empty duplicates screen.
• Bug 796665 – Backspace Key Inoperable After Ctrl+V.
• Bug 796669 – Dark Theme Text Colors Hard to Read. Only add the register-foreground class when using Gnucash built in colours. When this setting not used, the foreground color by default will be what ever the theme has set and will be down to the user to over ride along with the other register colours.
• Bug 796724 – Can’t overwrite gnucash DB on MariaDB.
• Bug 796725 – 4 of 6 Date Posted options fail to return matching transactions.
• Bug 796734 – Auto-complete entry not highlighting to allow for incremental entry.
• Bug 796737 – Patch to restore gncmod-python.c.
• Bug 796739 – Toolbar buttons have no labels.
• Bug 796751 – reconcile window usability – R column should be next to Amount.
• Bug 796755 – buggy window handling at startup.
• Bug 796756 – OFX import fails to recognize associated income accounts.
• Bug 796759 – –add-price-quotes leaves a lock on the file.
• Bug 796762 – Scrollbar partially hides the delete button in the Saved Report Configurations window. The vertical scrollbar obscures the delete button in the tree view so add a dummy blank column to the end and set it to the width of the vertical scrollbar.
• Bug 796766 – Credit note creating ‘imbalance’ with wrong entries.
• Bug 796777 – CVE-2008-1391: Integer overflow in included strfmon function.
• Bug 796788 – Strange behavior in options or multicolumn report.
• Bug 796792 – SaveAs Overwrite dialogue in background and not visible.
• Bug 796812 – gnc_date_cell_get_date and gnc_date_cell_get_date_gdate have different date validation behavior.
• Bug 796813 – Date validation inconsistent.
• Bug 796814 – Changing a book’s read-only threshold doesn’t immediately affect open registers.
• Bug 796816 – Notes field in Duplicate Invoice dialogue is ‘read-only’.
• Bug 796819 – Bad icon with Spanish localization. Drop translations of the ‘gnucash-icon’ string from our po files and add a note for translators to not translate this string or use the literal ‘gnucash-icon’ as translation.
• Bug 796820 – References to ‘Gnome Bugzilla’ should be changed to ‘GnuCash Bugzilla’.
• Bug 796833 – Excel csv Format misprocessed. Convert all line ending styles to the one expected by the C++ standard library before starting to parse a csv file.
• Bug 796839 – Find transaction won’t filter on Date Posted.
• Bug 796858 – TypeError: in method ‘qof_query_int32_predicate’, argument 2 or type ‘gint32’ on gnucash.gnucash_core.QueryInt32Predicate.

The Following fixes and improvemts were not associated with bug reports:

• Set toolbar buttons to show both icon and text. And make the icon small to recover some vertical screen estate. The motivation for this is that Gtk has dropped the ability for users to change a toolbar’s appearance. And as our icons are often less than descriptive many users benefit from having textual descriptions as well. This is the best compromise we can make until the gui gets an in-depth redesign.
• Add preference for forcing prices to decimal display. Anticipating that some users might prefer to see exact prices, add a preference to General>Numbers to configure whether prices are rounded to decimals or are displayed as exact fractions.
• Reverts the “Average Cost” pricing changes made in 2.6.17. These changes broke trial balances in many books.
• Allow saving to xml over an existing sqlite3 file and the other way around.
• Add customer/vendor ID in client section of invoices. Partly fixes bugs 430259 and 742086; full fixes would require not-backward-compatible data model changes.
• Change the default filter for General Ledger. The General Ledger default for the number of days shown is 30 but for the Register it is 0, meaning show all. So change the default filter based on ledger type and use this when determining if the setting should be saved or removed.
• Fix gtk accelerator mixups by explicitly disabling actions that are not relevant. For example, File->Print and its variants for various page types all use the same ‘p’ as global accelerator. It was possible to have gnucash invoke the ‘Print Report…’ action instead of the ‘Print Invoice…’ action when hitting p on an invoice page. If no report page was open at this point, gnucash would crash. If a report was open, gnucash would invoke the print action on that report instead of opening an invoice report for the invoice.
• [job-report] Prevent Crash if there is no AR account
• Add the ability to cascade account colors in account tree. The color on an account that has sub-accounts can be applied to its sub-accounts; by default only those sub-accounts that don’t have a color set are affected, but there’s a preference to override that.
• Speed ​​up loading the preference dialog by blocking register updates until the dialog is fully loaded.
• Update change_tax_code.py, add basic test for python query.
• Simplify GNCQueryView’s data model: It was managing a number of redudant parameters which were leaking memory all over the place. The information that was tracked could easily be extracted from the underlying GtkTreeView, GtkTreeModel or GtkTreeSelection when needed.
• Open customer/vendor/employee report when double-clicking an the respective owner the cust/vend/empl overview page.
• Update Overview of README based on
• Many new tests for reports.
• Some substantial speedups when loading large amounts of business transactions from a SQL backend.
• Clean up a lot of memory leaks.
• Remove all use of Timespec in the program. Provide deprecated wrapper functions supporting timespecs for custom reports; users should update the reports as soon as possible.