Which stable version of GnuCash should I move to?

[Maf. King]

On Sun 5 April 15 11:52:05 Santhosh Paul wrote:

> 
>    The one cloud in an otherwise sunny sky is this message that keeps
> popping up once in a while when I fire up Gnucash:
> 
> Warning!! This is a DEVELOPMENT version of GnuCash. It probably has lots of
> bugs and unstable features! If you are looking for a stable personal
> finance application, you should use the latest release of GnuCash 2.4.
> 
>    This makes me uneasy. I've been ignoring the message all these years,
> but better late than never. The version I'm using is 2.4.0, built from svn
> r19971 on 2010-12-21.Which version should I be using (I'm on XP), and is it
> possible to transition to it from my current version?
> 
>     Thanks!
> 
> Santhosh

Hi Santhosh.

Y'know.  there's been a little voice at the back of my head saying "Why's this 
user so hung up on the 'development version'  x.<even>.y are stable versions.  
x.<odd>.y are the development series"

Then another, very faint voice took a few days to be heard and it said "I'm 
sure i remember a stable version with that message, and it was a 
"documentation error".

see bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=639172 (which was fixed in 
2.4.1)  

IMHO, you should have no problems opening your datafile in any of the later 
2.4.x or 2.6.x gnucash versions, but you may then be unable to go back to 
2.4.0 (but why would you, so many other bugs and glitches have been fixed in 
later stable versions?)

As others have said, keep a known-good 2.4.0 datafile backed up somewhere safe 
for a while.

HTH,
Maf.