ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.8 Released

[John Ralls]

The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 5.8, the ninth release in the stable 5.x series. This is a snap releae to fix a serious bug in GnuCash 5.8.
Between 5.7 and 5.8, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
	• Bug 799347 - Edit account to make it sub account under other account
There were no other changes.
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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

No changes were made between 5.7 and 5.8.

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:



Microsoft Windows:
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/5.8/gnucash-5.8.setup.exe
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.8/gnucash-5.8.setup.exe

Apple macOS:
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/5.8/Gnucash-Intel-5.8-1.dmg
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.8/Gnucash-Intel-5.8-1.dmg

Getting GnuCash as source code
If you want to compile GnuCash 5.8 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/5.8/gnucash-5.8.tar.bz2
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/5.8/gnucash-5.8.tar.gz
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.8/gnucash-5.8.tar.bz2
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.8/gnucash-5.8.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 5.8 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:

Sourceforge: https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/5.8/gnucash-docs-5.8.tar.gz 
GitHub: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.8/gnucash-docs-5.8.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