How to get accurate info on gnucash releases

[Derek Atkins]

The README is wrong.  2.2.4 is the most recent stable release.

-derek

Quoting henrymds <henryf61 at gmail.com>:

>
> I am on v. 2.2.1 and tried to upgrade to 2.2.4 from source. I believed that
> the new release fixed some problems I had. When I unzipped the tarball for
> 2.2.4 and printed the Readme file, it began with dire warnings about the
> dangers of using this development release. I got scared, deleted everything
> I had downloaded and went back to 2.2.1.
>
> Later I read the heading more carefully. First problem is that it said it
> was the readme for 2.1.x even though it came with the 2.2.4 package. Then it
> stated that if you want something more stable, use the 2.0 stable series. I
> find this extremely disturbing. If I can't rely on a package's own
> documentation, what am I to do?  My 2.2.1 has presumably been tested and
> found safe by Canonical. I appreciate warnings about pre-releases but what
> good are completely obsolete warnings?
>
> I would very much like to use the most recent *debugged* version of gnucash.
> I am trying to move from Quicken to Ubuntu and this program is essential for
> me (unless there is another checkbook program).
>
> TIA for any help.
>
> Henry Fallon
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