ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 2.6.21 Released-Resend

[John Ralls]

Resending because I forgot to update the links on the first one.

The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 2.6.21, the twenty-second and final, final maintenance release in the 2.6-stable series. This snap release fixes a brace of significant bugs that would have prevented some users from having a 2.6.x fallback after using GnuCash 3.x. Note: This is the last version of GnuCash that will support MacOS X versions earlier than 10.9 or Microsoft Windows versions earlier than Windows 7.
Changes

Between 2.6.19 and 2.6.21, the following bugfixes were accomplished:

   Bug 795049 - GnuCash 2.6.21-1 (Fedora Linux package) is unable to open MariaDB database.
   Bug 795068 - src/optional/python-bindings missing several files.
   Bug 795078 - missing _inflateValidate symbol has recurred in 2.6.21 on MacOS.

Important update notification

If you are updating from gnucash 2.6.0-2.6.4 on linux, you are advised to remove the guile user cache or several parts of gnucash may fail to work properly. This user cache can be found in .cache/guile/ccache/2.0-LE-8-2.0/ in your home directory. It's safe to remove the whole contents of this directory.

Note .cache is a hidden folder in your home directory. You may have to change your file manager's settings in order to view hidden files and folders.
Documentation

Since this is a snap release there is no new documentation release.
Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS X

GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows XP® and later and MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard)® and later in pre-built, all-in-one packages. An installer is provided for Microsoft Windows® while the MacOS X® package is a disk image containing a drag-and-drop application bundle.

The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are:

   2c3bed2a9366ac0def3e1abf39e148b2850f5ef34c99d0497acd2643db4ffa58  gnucash-2.6.21.tar.bz2
   c6d78471253f06e701198ac27a613d08e2d74ead7f723ab98f5988b3ffc591df  gnucash-2.6.21.tar.gz
   159bdd06b11535c569c6fccb0a44c5052e428ea64ea365118675431b2836ed06  gnucash-2.6.21-setup.exe
   8fc8e5186f9939abe041b224ddaaac295ff7ae88b8210be456c0c6e2df19fc8a  Gnucash-Intel-2.6.21-1.dmg
   137fd4692a116de88300fcb1e8694ff52d80f4e199103c461725ec1ebb349d56  Gnucash-PPC-2.6.21-1.dmg


Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS

GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows XP® and later and MacOS X 10.9 (Mavericks)® and later in pre-built, all-in-one packages. An installer is provided for Microsoft Windows® while the MacOS X® package is a disk image containing a drag-and-drop application bundle.
SourceForge:

Download GnuCash for Win32: https://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.6.21.setup.exe
Download GnuCash for Mac-Intel: https://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/Gnucash-Intel-2.6.21-1.dmg
Download GnuCash for Mac-PPC: https://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/Gnucash-PPC-2.6.21-1.dmg

Github

Download GnuCash for Win32: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.6.21/gnucash-2.6.21.setup.exe
Download GnuCash for Mac-Intel: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.6.21/Gnucash-Intel-2.6.21-1.dmg
Download GnuCash for Mac-PPC: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.6.21/Gnucash-PPC-2.6.21-1.dmg

Getting GnuCash as source code

If you want to compile GnuCash 2.6.21 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:

Sourceforge: 
  http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.6.21.tar.bz2
  http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.6.21.tar.gz
Github:
  https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.6.21/gnucash-2.6.21.tar.bz2
  https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.6.21/gnucash-2.6.21.tar.gz
  WARNING Do not try to use the github-generated files labelled "Source Code". They have not been processed with
  swig and will not build.
You can also checkout the sources: git clone https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.


Please consult the README.dependencies file in the sources for the required dependencies and versions needed to build GnuCash from source. Additional information on building GnuCash may be found at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building.

Getting the documentation

The documentation is available at Documentation page of the GnuCash website. The 2.6.21 documentation can be found under "GnuCash v3 (current stable release)" in multiple languages both for reading online and for download in pdf, epub, and mobi formats.

If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 2.6.21 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:

 Sourceforge: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-docs-2.6.21.tar.gz
 GitHub: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.6.21/gnucash-docs-2.6.21.tar.gz
 You can also checkout the sources directly from the git repository as described at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git.

Detailed instructions for building GnuCash may be found at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building and for the Documentation at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Initializing_Documentation_Build_Environment.

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, Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows. Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.