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| author |   Repository QA checks <repo-qa-checks@gentoo.org> | 2018-01-15 03:06:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Repository QA checks <repo-qa-checks@gentoo.org> | 2018-01-15 03:06:18 +0000 |
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diff --git a/metadata/news/2018-01-14-gnucash/2018-01-14-gnucash.en.txt b/metadata/news/2018-01-14-gnucash/2018-01-14-gnucash.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..334c1c078335 --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/news/2018-01-14-gnucash/2018-01-14-gnucash.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Title: GnuCash 2.7+ Breaking Change +Author: Aaron W. Swenson <titanofold@gentoo.org> +Posted: 2018-01-14 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Installed: <app-office/gnucash-4 + +Along with changes to use modern libraries, GnuCash 2.7+ has changed the +schema [1] it uses for both databases and files. GnuCash will +automatically modify the file or database in place upon open. + +Therefore, it is imperative that you back up any files or databases +before using GnuCash 2.7 in case you run into an issue and want or need +to revert back to 2.6. + +Close any open session of GnuCash including remote sessions, then +follow the relevant backup instructions as follows: + +For XML (plain files): +$ cp /path/to/file.gnucash /path/to/file.gnucash.bak + +For MySQL: +$ mysqldump gnucash_db | xz > gnucash-2.6.sql.xz + +For PostgreSQL: +$ pg_dump -U gnucash_user -Z 5 gnucash_db > gnucash-2.6.sql.gz + +For SQLite: +$ cp /path/to/sqlite.file.gnucash /path/to/sqlite.file.gnucash.bak + +[1] https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/tag/2.7.0a |