GnuCash 2.6.8 released

[Geert Janssens]

Thanks a lot John!

Geert

On Sunday 27 September 2015 13:32:56 John Ralls wrote:
> 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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