[GNC-dev] GnuCash 4.14 Released

Sun Mar 26 17:04:45 EDT 2023

The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 4.14, the fifteenth and final release in the stable 4.x series.

Between 4.13 and 4.14, the following bugfixes were accomplished:

    Bug 797477 - Manual foreign transaction from APAR to another doesn't trigger price input
    Bug 797725 - Untranslatable string "For Period Covering ~a to ~a"
    Bug 797903 - Transaction window: The 'blue line' is always (erroneously) topmost when t. sorting order is inverted.
    Bug 798570 - Totals for the income, expenses and remaining to budget incorrect for one specific date.
    Bug 798625 - "Last up through report date" changed in 4.12

    Don't adjust report dates with time64CanonicalDayTime. They're set to 23:59:59 local which is always >= neutral time at which prices and transactions are timestamped. Local noon is before neutral time for all time zones east of UTC+2.
    Bug 798679 - Unicode normalization should be used for comparison but not stored.

    Change to NFC normalization for all comparisons because the Unicode meaning of compatible might collide with the user's intent.
    Bug 798702 - Crash in gnc_plugin_page_focus_idle_destroy() closing a report before it completes.
    Bug 798705 - ] New: UI string mismatch: OK vs. Next
    Bug 798712 - Regional Decimal Point not recognized in budgets
    Bug 798717 - Reports > Business > Fancy Invoice duplicates company details
    Bug 798732 - : Type of balance carry forward accounts for german skr49 account template fixed
    Bug 798734 - Aging Reports don't handle mixed currency payments and invoices without Trading Accounts
    Bug 798734 - Aging Reports don't handle mixed currency payments and invoices without Trading Accounts
    Bug 798737 - Minor grammatical error - 'for' missing in 'You will be asked a conversion rate for each.'
    Bug 798740 - Build fails with gcc 13
    Bug 798747 - Crash in Investment Portfolio report
    Bug 798748 - Transaction Notes field's value does not appear in reverse transaction.
    Bug 798754 - Build fails with gcc 13 and glib > 2.76
    Bug 798759 - Register widths for 'with sub-account' not saved
    Bug 798765 - Increase the limit for Maximum Slices in the Expense Piechart

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

    Budget totals for one period would be wrong when increasing the number of periods.
    Allow C decls after statements, legal since C99.
    [kvp] Use static strings and boxed in gvalue_from_kvp_value. Saves allocating and copying complex values, avoiding potential memory leaks.
    L10N:DE:Updating accounts from 0001 to 8000 DATEV-SKR04 2022-01-01.
    Payment dialog - always list all possible post accounts. Before only the post account in the currency of the selected vendor or customer was available.
    Revisit invoice payment in multi-currency context
        Show proper amount in dialog when applying or editing an existing transaction as payment
        Be more careful not to waste the existing payment split
        If the user changed the payment amount while starting from an existing transaction unreconcile the changed payment split
        Avoid needlessly changing transaction currency (only do so if the user chose a new transfer account and the old currency is neither the new transfer account's currency nor the post account's currency)
    Edit/assign payment - be more prudent not to lose data

    We can't handle the case where a transaction has splits in more than one APAR account. Instead of only warning that some of them will be lost refuse to continue and leave it to the user to fix the transaction first.
    Multi-currency - show split amount rather than transaction value
    Activate feature GNC_FEATURE_EQUITY_TYPE_OPENING_BALANCE
    [balsheet-pnl] move out of experimental into regular menu. After 4 years it can finally graduate.
    [dialog-sx-editor]Allow a daily SX to show all recurrences in the calendar instead of only 6 months.
    Update Form/Schedule line references for 2022 for the US Income Tax Report

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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

Documentation

Concurrent with the release of GnuCash 4.14 we're pleased to also release a new version of the companion Help and Tutorial and Concepts Guide
The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:

    Only use localized &url-docs-*; entities
    Guide:C: Replace several wrong usages off "Help"
        Protocol "help:" Link type "Help"—both are available only under Linux
        Document reference should be "Manual"

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:

    ac1b550bc6a85c458323fbee5090828ed939aefd33a6902a0bba3e5d99c04199  gnucash-4.14.tar.bz2
    441a49b93874a400ba2152a3974e508cf7918c2d8d85340398b21c9ee8968e71  gnucash-4.14.tar.gz
    5454676a365f3d6539b4f01081fc1859185829761e644f13edfd1b9e51535d2d  gnucash-4.14.setup.exe
    4ed562c3bbfe4f5317b222b1d3728bd1c1bbf5f36ab335bab28c53a04417ab7d  Gnucash-Intel-4.14-1.dmg
    03793eb6a962018716628be7c7979e759b5db050990e2ac78c8905c037736da9  gnucash-docs-4.14.tar.gz

Microsoft Windows:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.14/gnucash-4.14.setup.exe
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/4.14/gnucash-4.14.setup.exe

Apple macOS:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.14/Gnucash-Intel-4.14-1.dmg
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/4.14/Gnucash-Intel-4.14-1.dmg

Getting GnuCash as source code
If you want to compile GnuCash 4.14 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.14/gnucash-4.14.tar.bz2
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.14/gnucash-4.14.tar.gz
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/4.14/gnucash-4.14.tar.bz2
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/4.14/gnucash-4.14.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 4.14 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:

   Sourceforge: https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/4.14/gnucash-docs-4.14.tar.gz 
   GitHub: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.14/gnucash-docs-4.14.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