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Alex Aycinena | 8 Feb 20:58
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ANNOUNCE: Fwd: GnuCash 2.4.10 released - How to get updated US Tax Info

As Christian mentions in his 2.4.10 announcement, below, this release
contains updates that "reflect changes to US Income Tax Forms and
Schedules for 2011". These are not extremely significant changes but
if you are subject to US Income Tax reporting requirements and use
gnucash to aid in preparing your US tax returns, you should upgrade so
that your Tax Report reflects these latest updates.

If you are using Windows or a Mac, the announcement tells you where to
get the update.

If you are using another operating system (Linux, etc.), the easiest
way to get the update is to wait until it becomes available through
your normal package distribution mechanism. But sometimes there can be
significant delays between the gnucash release and its availability
through these normal distribution channels. And since tax time in the
US is upon us now, there is a way that you may be able to get just the
US Tax updates into your existing gnucash installation before the
2.4.10 release is available to you, if certain prerequisites apply to
your installation. See the instructions that follow Christian's
announcement:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Christian Stimming <christian@...>
> To: gnucash-devel@...,
gnucash-user@..., gnucash-announce@...
> Cc:
> Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:16:44 +0100
> Subject: GnuCash 2.4.10 released
> GnuCash 2.4.10 released
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Derek Atkins | 27 Oct 16:13
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ANNOUNCE: [MAINT,YANO] Yet Another Network Outage

Hey all,

I appologize again for the 16 hour outage.  Comcast, my network
provider, inadvertantly double-booked a net-block and assigned me the
same block as another customer.  So the outages over the past few days
have been the result of that customer and I fighting it out.  I finally
got to someone last night who determined the actual problem, but as a
result I got renumbered.  As a result of the renumbering I had to get a
number of other pointers updated to the new address and that finally
took as of a few minutes ago.

SO.... Packets are now flowing again, and HOPEFULLY we wont have this
kind of outage again.  *fingers crossed*

Again, I am very sorry for the inconvenience.  Hopefully this will be
the last one.  (at least until the power outages start ;)

-derek, your friendly neighborhood sysadmin.
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Derek Atkins | 26 Oct 14:25
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ANNOUNCE: GnuCash Network Failure -- but back up now.

Hey all,

You may have noticed an outage since about 1pm US EDT yesterday.  There
was a total network failure and my network provider (Comcast Business
Class) didn't actually track it down until this morning.  It should be
all fixed now and services should be up and running normally.  I am very
sorry for the inconvenience.

Long version:

At shortly after 1pm I noticed my network was out and I couldn't get to
any websites.  I quickly determined that I could only get 3 hops out
into Comcast's network so I called Comcast support to report the
problem.  I spent an hour on the phone with them during which time they
blamed me for bad settings on my systems!!!!  Stupid first-line techs.

Anyways, I escalated and was supposed to get a callback from 2nd tier
support within 4 hours.  That didn't happen so I called back again
around 7pm only to be told that no, it was an 8 hour callback window.
Of course I never got the callback.

This morning I called back yet again and this time the tech worked
through the problem.  He could ping my gateway address but NOT ping my
router..  At which point he FINALLY started troubleshooting.  They
finally determined that someone had "stolen" my network block so he was
pinging their modem and not mine.

They reset my modem and voila, it's all working again.  At least until
that other guy calls in and resets his modem, too...   *sigh*
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Geert Janssens | 22 Oct 15:40
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ANNOUNCE: Announcement: GnuCash 2.4.8 Release

GnuCash 2.4.8 released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.4.8, the eigth bug 
fix release in a series of stable of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software. 
With this release series, GnuCash can use an SQL database using SQLite3, MySQL 
or PostgreSQL. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows and Mac 
OSX.
Getting GnuCash for Windows (Win32 binary)

The Gnucash 2.4.8 Win32 setup executable can be downloaded from Sourceforge. 
It will install everything needed to run GnuCash.
Mac OSX binary

The Gnucash 2.4.8 MacOSX package can be downloaded from Sourceforge as well.
Getting GnuCash as source code

If you want to compile GnuCash 2.4.8 for yourself, the source code can be 
downloaded from:

    Sourceforge: bzip2, gzip, all files.
    You can also checkout the sources directly from the subversion repository 
as described here.

To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need Gnome 2, 
guile, slib. In addition you will need swig if compiling from subversion.
Changes

Between 2.4.7 and 2.4.8, the following bugfixes were included:

  * Bug #655901 - Fix build with guile 2.0
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Derek Atkins | 17 Oct 18:44
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ANNOUNCE: [MAINT] Planned server outage Thursday, Oct 20, 1500-2100 EDT

Hi All,

Summary:

What:  Planned outage of most of the GnuCash server facilities (SVN,
       Email, Wiki, Logs, gncbot)
When:  Thursday, October 20, 2011  1500-2100 US/EDT (1900-0100 UCT)
Why:   Moving the hardware about 15 miles

Details:

I'm going to be moving the physical hardware on which GnuCash's servers
run.  I plan to move the hardware on Thursday, October 20th sometime in
the afternoon US/EDT.  I'm leaving a 6-hour window in which I will shut
down the servers, unplug everything, haul them to the car, drive them to
the new location, haul them from the car, plug them in and turn them on.

During this outage there will be no access to Email, Wiki, Subversion,
Email Logs, IRC Logs, or gncbot.  Access to www.gnucash.org will remain,
as it's hosted elsewhere.  I will send an email prior to shutting down
the services, and I'll keep people updated on IRC while I'm still online.

Note that there will be a followup outage sometime in a few weeks while
the hardware gets properly installed once the server facilities get put
together.  More on that as the time approaches.

Please let me know if you have any issues with this time frame.

-derek
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Derek Atkins | 7 Aug 00:41
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ANNOUNCE: GnuCash Outage: over 48 hours of network outage.

Hi all,

You may have noticed that the mailing lists have been quiet, and if
you're a developer you may have noticed that SVN has been inaccessible.
This is due to a network outage at my location that took over 48 hours
for my ISP to correct.  I plan to change class of service in a few
months which should speed up recovery of any future outages.  The outage
started around 1pm on Thursday and the ISP was notified within 15
minutes.  Of course due to the plebian level of service I currently
purchase from them they couldn't schedule a technician until today.  The
technician replaced some equipment and the packets began to flow again.

I am extremely sorry for any inconveniences this may have caused you.

As of 6:11pm US/EDT all services should be running normally again.

-derek
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Derek Atkins | 27 Jul 21:15
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ANNOUNCE: Unplanned GnuCash Outage -- network outage

Hey all,

You may have noticed that SVN, Wiki, Email, and Trac have been down for
the past 13 hours.  Comcast decided that they didn't want to provide
service for about 12 hours starting around 1:30am.  Once they decided to
restore it they decided I needed a new IP address so I needed to get the
network reconfigured, which took another hour.

Packets seem to be flowing as of 3:05pm EDT.

I'm sorry for any inconvenience.

-derek
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John Ralls | 3 Jul 02:50
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ANNOUNCE: Announcement: Gnucash 2.4.7 Released

    GnuCash 2.4.7 released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.4.7, the
seventh bug fix release in a series of stable of the GnuCash Free
Accounting Software. With this release series, GnuCash can use an SQL
database using SQLite3, MySQL or PostgreSQL. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD,
Solaris, Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX.

      Getting GnuCash for Windows (Win32 binary)

The Gnucash 2.4.7 Win32 setup executable
<http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.4.7-setup.exe>
can be downloaded from Sourceforge. It will install everything needed to
run GnuCash.

      Mac OSX binary

The Gnucash 2.4.7 MacOSX package
<http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/Gnucash-Intel-2.4.7.dmg>
can be downloaded from Sourceforge as well.

      Getting GnuCash as source code

If you want to compile GnuCash 2.4.7 for yourself, the source code can
be downloaded from:

  * Sourceforge: bzip2
    <http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.4.7.tar.bz2>,
    gzip
    <http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.4.7.tar.gz>,
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Geert Janssens | 2 Jul 18:27
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ANNOUNCE: Release of GnuCash Documentation 2.4.1

GnuCash Documentation 2.4.1 released

The GnuCash documentation team proudly announces release 2.4.1 of the GnuCash 
help manual and concepts guide. This documentation is intended for the 2.4 
series of GnuCash.

Note: version 2.4.0 of the GnuCash Documentation was only partially released 
and had several issues. Hence it was never officially announced and should be 
skipped.
Reading the documentation online

An online version of the documentation is available on the Documentation page 
of the GnuCash website. The 2.4.1 documentation can be found under "GnuCash 
v2.4 (current stable release)" in multiple languages.

Getting GnuCash Documentation as pdf

An pdf version of the documentation available on the Documentation page of the 
GnuCash website. The 2.4.1 documentation will be found under "GnuCash v2.4 
(current stable release)" in multiple languages.

Getting GnuCash Documentation as source code

If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 2.4.1 for yourself, the 
source code can be downloaded from:

    * Sourceforge
    * You can also checkout the sources directly from the subversion
      repository as described here.
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Geert Janssens | 2 Jul 18:20
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ANNOUNCE: Release of GnuCash Documentation v2.2.2

GnuCash Documentation 2.2.2 released

The GnuCash documentation team proudly announces release 2.2.2 of the GnuCash 
help manual and concepts guide. This documentation is intended for the 2.2 
series of GnuCash.

Note that this will be the last documentation release for the 2.2 series. All 
future documentation efforts will go into the 2.4 and unstable series.
Reading the documentation online

An online version of the documentation is available on the Documentation page 
of the GnuCash website. The 2.2.2 documentation will be found under "Older 
GnuCash Documentation", "GnuCash v2.2".
Getting GnuCash Documentation as source code

If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 2.2.2 for yourself, the 
source code can be downloaded from:

    * Sourceforge
    * You can also checkout the sources directly from the subversion
      repository as described here.

Changes

Changes between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 include

    * Bugs fixed
          o Bug #588035: Correct keyboard shortcut for Actions > Split menu 
            item.
          o Bug #621573: Simplify explanation of entering a split transaction
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Derek Atkins | 3 Jun 22:22
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ANNOUNCE: [MAINT] Planned Service Outage, Tuesday, June 6, 8am-10pm US/EDT

Hi,

I'd like to upgrade the operating system software on code.gnucash.org.
It's currently running a 2.5-year-old system (Fedora 10).  I'd like to
upgrade it to Fedora 15.  The upgrade will probably take the better part
of a day, considering I need to go through each step from 10-15, and
each upgrade will probably take an hour or two.  So I expect total time
offline to be around 5-10 hours, give or take.

During the maintenance period there will be no access to:
* Subversion
* Trac
* Wiki
* Email
* Email Archives

Access to www.gnucash.org will NOT be affected.

My plan would be to shut down the system and bring it up on a private
address during the upgrade process.  Then I'll revert over to the
regular address once it's upgraded and tested.

I plan to start the process around 0800 US/EDT (1200 UTC) on Tuesday,
June 6.  I hope to finish before 2200 US/EDT (0200 UTC).  Status updates
will be sent to the #gnucash IRC channel on irc.gimp.org

Developers: please let me know if this window does not work for you.

Assuming no objections I'll send out a follow-up email on Monday evening
as a reminder, and then another email once services have been restored.
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