ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.1 Released

Sun Apr 30 15:20:37 EDT 2023

The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 5.1, the second release in the stable 5.x series
Between 5.0 and 5.1, the following bugfixes were accomplished:

    Bug 765920 - Running balance not accurate when sorted different ways

      * Renamed option to "Account Balance" to avoid confusion with running total.
      * Added helper function to ensure running balance and balance forward are only shown when transaction are
          grouped by account and sorted as in register. In that case column heading remains "Running Balance" and
          balance forward is shown. Otherwwise column heading is renamed "Account Balance" and balance forward is
          not shown.
      ( Also added missing code for Common Currency conversion.

    Bug 797879 - [Transaction Report] running balance column not consistent with amount column for SAME 
                 transaction date
    Bug 798461 - balance sheet shows positions with zero balances despite report options
    Bug 798775 - Why is General Journal called "Register" in the tabs?
    Bug 798802 - Online Price quote - Stocks not working GNU 5.0 Windows Bis
    Bug 798802 - Online Price quote - Stocks not working GNU 5.0 Windows
    Bug 798807 - Keyboard shortcuts not working
    Bug 798808 - Saved reports shown on main menu
    Bug 798810 - Income Statement (multicolumn) - account sorting is 'reversed' each time you restart.
    Bug 798812 - crashes after I open a customer report and select…
    Bug 798813 - Under File->Import, Missing OFX/QFX menu item
    Bug 798815 - flatpak run --command=gnucash-cli cannot download quotes since 5.0.
    Bug 798821 - Crash when running report in window
    Bug 798834 - CSS-based Stylesheet Help Button not working
    Bug 798839 - Edit -> Preferences string not translatable
    Bug 798844 - "Assign as Payment" does nothing in 4.14 & 5.0
    Bug 798845 - User Config and User Data link broken
    Bug 798851 - Account Balance 'include subaccounts' not saved
    Bug 798854 - Softkey 'Save Config' remains dark
    Bug 798862 - Merge identical strings
    Bug 798863 - Crash on clicking Settings button second time
    Bug 798864 - Budget Reporting on select reports are wrong
    Bug 798869 - Transaction Import MAP
    Bug 798872 - Reload inoperative for reports
    Bug 798877 - Program crashes upon selection of CSV profile
    Bug 798885 - Accented character in folder name on Account Export
    Bug 798886 - [Transaction Report] Subtotal upper headings do not follow font style of lower headings
    Bug 798893 - several menu tip messages in reports are marked translatable but unused.
    Bug 798894 - TOTD with ellipsis broken.

The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:

    Add filters to the File>Open dialog in File mode to show only files with GnuCash extensions, only those   
       matching GnuCash's backup file pattern, or any extension.
    Select the first result in the Customer/Vendor search box. This allows faster keyboard navigation -- Find 
       Customer, input search string, press ENTER, use up/down to select desired object, press ENTER to open
       object.
    Improve foreign currency handling in budget report
    Improve handling of the blank transaction when the register is sorted in reverse:
       * Change the preference option 'Future transactions after blank transaction'
       * Change tooltip for 'Blank Transaction' in register to mention moving to the blank transaction.
       * Show the blank transaction at top of register
    Prevent infinite recursion from gnucash_item_edit_focus_out when using an input method.
    Create obsolete features list with first member book_currency.Obsolete features set in the book will be removed
       from the book's KVP and ignored.
    Restore existence, but not implementation, of GNC_FEATURE_BOOK_CURRENCY.
       At least one user has managed to get it set on their book so even though it was supposed to be unimplemented
       it got through somehow. Restoring it allows books with it set to load.
    Offer to force edit non-identical fields when multiple matches are selected in the import matcher window.   
       Previously only identical Desc/Notes/Memo were unlocked for editing.
    Guard against there being no namespaces in the new security dialog
    Fix Finance::Quote use on Win32 by dealing with Win32 \r\n newlines on return from finance-quote-wrapper.
    Fix some menu labels that were not marked for translation
    Fix category in CSV export with simple layout.

    If Trading accounts is enabled, and the transaction is a transfer between two accounts of differing 
       commodities, the CSV simple-layout export would incorrectly show "--Split Transaction--" as the category.
    When configuring Guile use pkg-config before searching for binaries.

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Known Problems: A complete list of all open bugs: https://bugs.gnucash.org/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=blocker&bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=major&bug_severity=normal&bug_severity=minor&bug_severity=trivial&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=REOPENED&limit=0&list_id=8149&order=priority%2Cbug_severity&query_format=advanced

Complete list of all open bugs.
Documentation

Concurrent with the release of GnuCash 5.1 we're pleased to also release a new version of the companion Manual and Tutorial and Concepts Guide
The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:

    Add details for some CSV import options.

New and Updated Translations: None
Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS

GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows 8.1® and later and MacOS 10.13 (High Sierra)® and later in pre-built, all-in-one packages. An installer is provided for Microsoft Windows® while the MacOS® package is a disk image containing a drag-and-drop application bundle.

GnuCash is also available as a flatpak from Flathub.org. Instructions for installing and running.

The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are:

    8a6581ddf7c7409db636510601351af724eda363ab59b1d5da8d981033f26f72  gnucash-5.1.tar.bz2
    bd73204896d71cb19c2071bca9cc6faaf19d1499be66124f4fe66c8e15f876cb  gnucash-5.1.tar.gz
    3ddc5547b5694a11a33e21e4110d1adb908f04995637a54bfa930df68c7df014  gnucash-5.1.setup.exe
    48c38097fe744a7da7bbd454d0e58e3619194d8f41e6542137c0bebac440e386  Gnucash-Intel-5.1-1.dmg
    59bd2b5ccc1efa7a034b38663e28f855b4ad16ee28b2248d61af8145097152f6  gnucash-docs-5.1.tar.gz

Microsoft Windows:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.1/gnucash-5.1.setup.exe
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/5.1/gnucash-5.1.setup.exe

Apple macOS:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.1/Gnucash-Intel-5.1-1.dmg
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/5.1/Gnucash-Intel-5.1-1.dmg

Getting GnuCash as source code
If you want to compile GnuCash 5.1 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.1/gnucash-5.1.tar.bz2
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.1/gnucash-5.1.tar.gz
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/5.1/gnucash-5.1.tar.bz2
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/5.1/gnucash-5.1.tar.gz

To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need at least Gtk+ 3.22.29, Guile 2.0, Boost 1.67, WebKitGtk 2.4, GoogleTest 1.8.0, cmake 3.10 and SWIG 2.0.12. Please consult the README.dependencies file in the sources for the exact list of dependencies and versions.
Getting the documentation

Note that the documentation for unstable releases is not on the GnuCash website. It is built daily and may be found on the development server under the locale directory; "C" is English, "de" is German, and so on.

The documentation is included in the MacOS and Windows application bundles.

If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 5.1 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:

  Sourceforge: https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/5.1/gnucash-docs-5.1.tar.gz 
  GitHub: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.1/gnucash-docs-5.1.tar.gz

  You can also checkout the sources directly from the git repository as described at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git.

About the Program

GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and available for GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, MacOS, and Microsoft Windows. Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.

Regards,
John Ralls

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