ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 1.7.8 "Lil Devil"

[Chris Lyttle <chris wilddev net>]

Application
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GnuCash 1.7.8 "Lil Devil"

Description
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Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash allows you
to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. It is based on
professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate
reports.

What's New in GnuCash 1.7.8?

- Scheduled Transactions: 
	GnuCash now has the ability to automatically create and enter
	transactions, remind when a transaction is due, give a choice of
	entering a transaction or postponing it	and remove an automated
	transaction after a certain period.
- Mortgage & Loan Repayment Druid:
	Used to setup a variable payment loan scheduled transaction.
- Small Business Accounting Features: 
	GnuCash now can be used for Customer and Vendor tracking,
	Invoicing and Bill Payment, and using different Tax and Billing
	Terms in a small business.
- OFX Import:
	GnuCash is the first free software application to support the
	Open Financial Exchange protocol that many banks and financial
	services are moving to use. The development of OFX and HBCI 
	support has also resulted in an improved transaction matching
	system that more accurately picks duplicate transactions.
- HBCI Support: 
	GnuCash is the first free software application to support the
	German Home Banking Computer Interface protocol which includes
	statement download, initiate bank transfers and direct debits.
- New User Manual and Help:
	A brand new user help has been written which focuses on how to
	do tasks in conjunction with a Tutorial and Concepts guide that
	gives the user background information on using GnuCash.
- New Multi-Currency Transaction Handling:
	GnuCash no longer requires separate currency exchange accounts
	to handle multiple currency transfers.
- Redesigned Menu's
	The GnuCash menu's have been redesigned to conform more with the
	new GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.

Specifically updated in this version;

 o Welcome to Release Canidate 3
 o Fixed build issues introduced in last release
 o Fix compile errors on SuSE 8.0 + 8.1
 o Update translations, po/ru.po by Vitaly Lipatov, po/el.po by
   ta_panta_rei flashmail com
 o Ignore certain splits with an "amount" of zero.
 o Convert from the old to new symbols for Russian Roubles.
 o Invoices change a couple of columns.  Enable viewing the "taxable"
   entry.  Enable viewing all the tax accounts individually.
 o Scrub hbci include paths to prevent gcc 3.x compile errors.
 o Default the OFX import directory to the directory of the last OFX
   file imported, or the user's home dir for the first export.
   Remembered across invocations of gnucash.
 o Default the save directory to the directory of the last file used.
   Default the exports directory to the directory of the last file
   exported, or the user's home dir for the first export. Remembered
   across invocations of gnucash.
 o Correctly handle the case where no stocks have been defined and the
   user asks gnucash to get price quotes.
 o Work around bug in ghttp library so that intl users whose whole
   units/fractions separator is a comma can request web pages.
 o Add "Default Report Currency" preference.
 o Set invoice currency based on owner's currency.
 o Use invoice's currency for printing the invoice.
 o Make the progress bar argument a double instead of an int.  This
   gets around an issue with guile 1.6.
 o Add a checkbox to search-for-all
 o Changes to make the build system work on multiple architectures and
   with multiple versions of the autotools suite.  Make generated g-wrap
   sources depend on config.status.
 o Remove restriction on guile versions > 1.4 Provide a version
   dependant load path variable for the SRFI location. (Empty in 1.6
   since they're bundled with guile.)
 o Limit QIF matches against only the accounts in the old group, so we
   don't match against ourselves.  This should limit the matches to only
   "reasonable" matches.
 o Remove "user name" and "user address" preferences, as they are no
   longer used by anything.
 o Create a taxtable option type using the new generic optionmenu code
 o Create a default customer and default vendor taxtable option for
   the "File Properties" option menu.
 o Reset the search-type to "New Search" if we end up displaying no
   results.
 o Use the "New Search Limit" pref to decide when to start a new
   search vs. when refine the search.
 o Create two new global preferences: "Notify Bills Due?" and "Bills
   Due Days"
 o Added sources needed for OS X to dist.
 o Lots more bugfixes, see changelog.