GnuCash 2.6.8 released

[GT-I9070 H]

Congratulations!

Good Job!

GTI

2015-09-27 16:32 GMT-04:00 John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>:

>
> The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.6.8, the eighth
> maintenance release in the 2.6-stable series. Please take the tour of all
> the new features.
>
> Changes
>
> Between 2.6.7 and 2.6.8, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
>
>         • Bug #724738 - Value in "Display Symbol" field not saved.
>         • Bug #746998 - "Months Remaining" spinbox in Loan Assistant is
> non-obvious. Provide a tool tip explaining what it's for.
>         • Bug #747795 - Attached file not found. MSWin only.
> ShellExecuteW("open") doesn't decode http escapes on file: IRIs.
>         • Bug #749077 - wrongfully invalidating any account save
> location/path starting with ".gnucash"
>         • Bug #752035 - Transaction Report "Filter By" Not Always Working.
>         • Bug #752204 - .gml2 files are modified during build. Since
> there's no real benefit to saving the files most of the time, don't, but
> leave the save line in, commented out, to make it easy to write new files
> if necessary.
>         • Bug #752879 - Finance::Quote TZ Date::Manip config variable is
> deprecated.
>         • Bug #753146 - free(): invalid pointer on duplicate transaction
> when Use Split Action Field for Number is set.
>         • Bug #754617 - Gnucash should use PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG
>         • Bug #754764 Budget Doxygen documentation - gnc-budget-view.c.
> Some other fixes not associated with reported bugs:
>
>         • Clean up deprecated Gtk functions to make eventual migration to
> Gtk3 easier.
>         • Improve storage of prices in the price db so that there is only
> one per day and a preference list determines what sources can overwrite
> existing prices. Prices are stored in the direction that the price is
> greater than one to preserve precision for large prices that would be small
> in the other direction.
>         • Correct the Stock, Bond, Market Index, and Mutual Fund account
> types to ASSET in the template accounts. STOCK and MUTUAL are not
> compatible with currency.
>         • Clean up some non-fatal asserts.
>         • Developer documentation improvements.
>         • Fix backend Sync errors not being reported.
>         • Restore Date::Manip as an explicit dependency in gnc-fq-update;
> it's required for gnc-fq-helper, not Finance::Quote.
> Translations Updated: Danish, Dutch, French, German.
>
> Important update notification
>
> If you are updating from gnucash 2.6.0-2.6.4 on linux, you are advised to
> remove the guile user cache or several parts of gnucash may fail to work
> properly. This user cache can be found in .cache/guile/ccache/2.0-LE-8-2.0/
> in your home directory. It's safe to remove the whole contents of this
> directory.
>
> Note .cache is a hidden folder in your home directory. You may have to
> change your file manager's settings in order to view hidden files and
> folders.
>
> Documentation
>
> Concurrent with the release of Gnucash 2.6.8 we're pleased to also release
> a new version 2.6.8 of the companion Help and Tutorial and Concepts Guide.
>
>         • Extensive German Translation improvements -- Mechtilde Stehmann
>         • Bug 705309 - A/R & A/P Need Warnings, Sales Tax Table and
> Billing Terms Editor need documentation -- Chris Good
>         • Expand Help for Transfer Dialog, Multicurrency, and Price Editor
> -- John Ralls, David Carlson, Geert Janssens
> Getting GnuCash for Windows (Win32 binary)
>
> The Gnucash 2.6.8 Win32 setup executable can be downloaded from
> Sourceforge. It will install everything needed to run GnuCash.
>
> Mac OSX binary
>
> The Gnucash 2.6.8 MacOS X Intel and PPC packages can be downloaded from
> Sourceforge as well.
>
> Getting GnuCash as source code
>
> If you want to compile GnuCash 2.6.8 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 2.6.8 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 2.6.8 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 2.6.8 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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