ANNOUNCE: Re- GnuCash 5.7 Released

Sat Jul 6 20:57:43 EDT 2024

This time with the actual release notes:

The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 5.7, the eighth release in the stable 5.x series.
Between 5.6 and 5.7, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
• Bug 669031 - Save the Scheduled Transactions number of months
• Bug 669035 - Save the Scheduled Transaction divider position
• Bug 798822 - Move to blank transaction
• Bug 799047 - AutoComplete Only Considers Visible Transactions
• Bug 799258 - Reports calculating net worth incorrectly after stock split
• Bug 799262 - Failed import QIF investment
• Bug 799264 - option account selector fails to include appropriate hidden accounts.
• Bug 799268 - Cannot write a check over $1000
• Bug 799272 - Crashes when pasting a copied transaction
• Bug 799279 - Import Matcher (CSV) does not compute correctly the share amount based on security price
• Bug 799281 - Deleting a transaction may trigger a crash
• Bug 799290 - Invoice register context menu issue
• Bug 799298 - Shortcut Ctrl-G does not work in the General Journal register for the default date value
• Bug 799300 - Nullpointer exception in gnc_quote_source_s
• Bug 799305 - Crash when there is more than one unknown quote source for commodities
• Bug 799309 - Import Multi-split CSV can duplicate 'Notes' field from one transaction to next
• Bug 799320 - GNUCash Immediately Exits on Startup
• Bug 799324 - Invalid free in gvalue_from_kvp_value()
• Bug 799334 - GnuCash re-opens to incorrect account window if there are transient tabs present when closed.
• Bug 799336 - Stock Assistant closes with its New Account dialog
• Bug 799339 - RFE: Add Document Link for Payments to Owner Report

The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:
• New Report: Exprimental>Transaction Breakdown Report
   Retrieves transactions from an account, distributes the splits into accounts - note if a transaction has 2 or more splits into 1 account, the transaction account cell will show the sum of the 2 splits - note if a transaction's currency is different from the account's currency, both amounts will be shown into the appropriate currency. [txn-columns] multilevel sorting - type then name. 
• Add ability for the dense calendar to start from any week day.
• In the dense calendar, add a default number of months per column entry to the view model to get a better layout when the function gnc_dense_cal_set_num_months is solely used.
• Add today indication on the dense calendar
• Updated the Quote Sources list in the Security Editor to match F::Q v1.59
• Import Matcher - select row if none is selected yet when right-clicking the list of matches
• Change the default visible period for General Ledger from 1 calendar month to 30 days.
• Fix Failing SRFI-64 tests being reported as pass by ctest with guile-3.
• Ensure that filters are re-applied to multi-account registers when the number of included sub-accounts changes.
• Copy the latest price when creating a new entry in the Price Editor from a commodity selection
• New function gnc_account_foreach_until_date uses binary search to find first split after date, then for_each from earliest split to (but excluding) that split. 
• New function gnc_reports_foreach to abstract GHashTable-base implementation.
• Cleanup - remove deprecated function (re-)defines that were deprected 11 years ago.
• [engine.i] move gnc_accounts_and_all_descendants to engine.i
• [Account.cpp] Convert children from GList to std::vector. 
• [html-utilities.scm] show acct full names in gnc:html-render-options-changed
• [ifrs-cost-basis.scm] amend truth table as per bug 797796 comment 241 further amendments to match updated truth table.
• Clean up some obsolete tools and references to non-git VCS's
• Rework version-info rules to allow building from github downloaded zip archives
• Remove account splits in reverse crono order, speeds up book shutdown.
• Move libgnucash/doc/xml to libgnucash/backend/xml/DTD
• Remove libgnucash/docs, ensuring all of the content is available either in Doxygen comments or in the Wiki.
• Remove XCode info from HACKING, obsolete. Move valgrind/callgrind instructions to the Wiki.
• Move doxygen target and related files to toplevel. Note: this also means the target directory changes from libgnucash/docs/html to [toplevel]/doxygen/html and the main page is specified directly in doxygen.cfg.
• Drop old migration script to split qof from engine
• Update doxygen.cfg file to more recent release
• Doxygen - Clean up obsolete files and comments.
• [gnc-ofx-import.cpp] show message while deduplicating download
• Replace more GLib containers with C++ containers.
• Change python install path to be compatible with distro installations.
• Update some C++ template override signatures to be C++20 compliant.
• [gnc-log-replay.cpp] don't set import to DEBUG because it'll spew too many debug messages when gnc-log-replay completes.
• Fix transaction report sorting/show-account-description and display.
• [test-commodity-utils.scm] don't test TZ-sensitive datetimes
• [engine.i] gnc_get_match_commodity_splits from scheme to c++ for better efficiency.
• [utest-Account] add more balance limit tests
• Convert more C files to C++
• Fix more memory leaks and use-after-frees.
• [Transaction|Split.cpp] Remove Reg2 unused functions

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German AQBanking Users:
The AQBanking author is still working to get his updated PIN/TAN code finalized so the Flatpak, macOS, and Windows bundles of this release contain the last stable version, 6.5.4. The GnuCash nightly builds have beta releases with the new implementation, so consider using one of those if the stable AQBanking doesn't work for you.

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

Between 5.6 and 5.7, no bugfixes were accomplished:
The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:
	• gnc-struct: change entity and section id's for 'employee-voucher'
	• All: manual, ch_Business: Harmonize section IDs: Numbers for the nesting depth of the sections are not required.
	• All: manual, ch_Business, Change id=“busnss-emplyedit” to “busnss-emplyfind”, as the Find dialog is described here.
	• docbook: Improve entity untranslated
	• docbook: use entitiy for url-wiki
	• de, pt: Update &untranslated-*; to &untranslated;
	• C: Manual: Getting Help: resolve ambiguities
	• de: Handbuch: ergänze Leerzeichen, löse Mehrdeutigkeiten auf
	• docbook: additional entities for business menuitems
	• Guide(zh): fix xml validity error
New and Updated Translations: Chinese, German
Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS

GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows 10® 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:

• bdd09df26e0863b3b1b09d6e5ea469ad0224b04691380c6c794c76e51fbae702  gnucash-5.7.tar.bz2
• f6af2a455e7b8a5e95f3f71041f1eeec43fc92ec3bff37c3fdb4e364b2bb2239  gnucash-5.7.tar.gz
• 8c000a84246f08a193e9da22d3ae760499f00fbe4fb77d310488c596715c1487  gnucash-5.7-1.setup.exe
• 1f55eb6eadd1ff18c41947601d57d43e280732dff577621e0441b47d9d688b0a  Gnucash-Intel-5.7-1.dmg
• 1cb5dc4a7a84f12ce1d7f1f072456c8a5cbc14486b2ccf6918bf88c8dd98647a  gnucash-docs-5.7.tar.gz

Microsoft Windows:
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/5.7/gnucash-5.7.setup.exe
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.7/gnucash-5.7.setup.exe

Apple macOS:
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/5.7/Gnucash-Intel-5.7-1.dmg
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.7/Gnucash-Intel-5.7-1.dmg

Getting GnuCash as source code
If you want to compile GnuCash 5.7 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/5.7/gnucash-5.7.tar.bz2
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/5.7/gnucash-5.7.tar.gz
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.7/gnucash-5.7.tar.bz2
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.7/gnucash-5.7.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 5.7 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:

Sourceforge: https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/5.7/gnucash-docs-5.7.tar.gz 
GitHub: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.6/gnucash-docs-5.7.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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