ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.3 Released

[John Ralls]

The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 5.3, the fourth release in the stable 5.x series. This is a snap release to fix the bug listed below.

Between 5.2 and 5.3, the following bugfixes were accomplished:

	• Bug 798967 - Cannot Save to Any Path After Upgrading to 5.2 Fix inverted if statement condition for save success flag
The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:

	• Some memory cleanup by Chris Lam.
	• Missing from the 5.2 release notes is that Chris streamlined the transaction scrubbing so that each transaction gets scrubbed only once. This improves--in some cases substantially--the time to load and to run Check and Repair.
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Known Problems

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

Documentation

This being a snap release there is no new documentation. Please continue to use the 5.2 versions.
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: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak

The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are:
• 1458cb08c585eae9d724bec6f2812bcc03bbe83ed294a46a7897aaab01a6f15a  gnucash-5.3.tar.bz2
• e0d04e0fd5f03f39136e1f4d941ccd0202b64a6e92418f5382cb6a6772493529  gnucash-5.3.tar.gz
• 4cd66cf6c261fe7f5fc071b8e01314f33fb97e3496fe832e07bad360c1cf685a  gnucash-5.3.setup.exe
• 6bf4940d851b49a4edf5d6dd3cbe37a1112bc3606cdb924ed6668ce0ad7c7427  Gnucash-Intel-5.3-1.dmg
• b9eb6581b403665c308b8909cc4d588c9ce483139cbc3ed3638403f61aefb49b  gnucash-docs-5.2.tar.gz

Microsoft Windows:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.3/gnucash-5.3.setup.exe
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/5.3/gnucash-5.3.setup.exe

Apple macOS:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.3/Gnucash-Intel-5.3-1.dmg
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/5.3/Gnucash-Intel-5.3-1.dmg

Getting GnuCash as source code
If you want to compile GnuCash 5.3 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.3/gnucash-5.3.tar.bz2
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.3/gnucash-5.3.tar.gz
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/5.3/gnucash-5.3.tar.bz2
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/5.3/gnucash-5.3.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 5.2 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:

Sourceforge: https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/5.3/gnucash-docs-5.2.tar.gz 
GitHub: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.3/gnucash-docs-5.2.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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