GnuCash 2.6.7 released

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Sun Jun 28 19:10:40 EDT 2015


The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.6.7, the seventh maintenance release in the 2.6-stable series. Please take the tour of all the new features.
Changes

Between 2.6.6 and 2.6.7, the following bugfixes were accomplished:

    Bug #681225 - income statement displays blank base currency entries when trading account transactions are present during the report period.
    Bug # 734183 - Set value to zero before calling gnc_exp_parser_parse.
    Bug #739271 - pt_BR translation wrong word "limpesa". Should be "limpeza".
    Bug #740955 - Correct general journal and general ledger reports to properly handle Use-Split-Action-For-Num option in File->Properties.
    Bug #744858 - Update exchange rate on bill only possible once per session (after unpost/repost).
    Bug #746163 - Custom register colors (table rows) not recognized from .gtkrc-2.0.gnucash file.
    Bug #746792 - process payment in foreign currency leads to broken equation.
    Bug #746873 - Gnucash asks sql passwords before wallet password.
    Bug #746977 - scm ccache files should be in pkglibdir not pkgdatadir.
    Bug # 747300 - SQL backend missing from most recent DMG?
    Bug #747377 - Fix overly restrictive input validation for IBAN of SEPA transfer.
    Bug #747812 - unset LDFLAGS when unsetting CFLAGS.

Some other fixes not associated with reported bugs were accomplished:

    Fix hidden panes in lot viewer.
    Fix some abs() errors from new clang and gcc versions.
    Fix dbi driver detection on linux and similar.
    Improve "Auto pay on posting" message.
    Enable travis continuous integration tests on the gnucash repository.

Translations Updated: Azerbaijani, Basque, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, German, Kinyarwanda, Persian (Farsi), Portuguese, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.

New Translations: Serbian
Documentation

Concurrent with the release of Gnucash 2.6.7 we're pleased to also release a new version 2.6.7 of the companion Help and Tutorial and Concepts Guide.

Only minor changes have been made since the last documentation release.
Getting GnuCash for Windows (Win32 binary)

The Gnucash 2.6.7 Win32 setup executable can be downloaded from Sourceforge. It will install everything needed to run GnuCash.
Mac OSX binary

The Gnucash 2.6.7 MacOS X Intel and PPC packages can be downloaded from Sourceforge as well.
Getting GnuCash as source code

If you want to compile GnuCash 2.6.7 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:

    Sourceforge: bzip2, all files.
    You can also checkout the sources directly from the git repository as described here.

To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need at least Gnome 2, Guile, and slib. In addition you will need swig if compiling from git. Please consult the README file in the sources for the exact list of dependencies and versions.
Reading the documentation online

An online version of the documentation is available on the Documentation page of the GnuCash website. The 2.6.7 documentation can be found under "GnuCash v2.6 (current stable release)" in multiple languages.
Getting GnuCash Documentation in pdf, epub or mobi formats

The documentation can equally be downloaded in pdf, epub or mobi formats from the Documentation page of the GnuCash website. The 2.6.7 documentation can be found under "GnuCash v2.6 (current stable release)" in multiple languages.
Getting GnuCash Documentation as source code

If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 2.6.7 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:

    Sourceforge
    You can also checkout the sources directly from the subversion repository as described here.

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, Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows. Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.




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