how to download newest version

[John Ralls]

> On Dec 20, 2016, at 7:20 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> Op maandag 19 december 2016 17:53:27 CET schreef lj:
>> John Ralls wrote:
>>> SourceForge has some secret algorithm for setting the download links on
>>> the
>>> project page (the big green button and the "Looking for the latest" line
>>> just under the header). It's supposed to figure out the latest release
>>> based on the OS your browser user-agent string reports, but sometimes goes
>>> off somewhere else.
>> 
>> I'm pretty sure you have to set that yourself. Not secret or magic. Not
>> automatic either. This lets the SF project admin decide what is the default.
>> 
>> Browsing around your download area on Sourceforge, I see that
>> gnucash-2.6.11.bz2 is currently the default download for Linux + BSD +
>> Solaris, gnucash-2.6.13-setup.exe is the default download for Windows, and
>> Gnucash-intel-2.6.13-1.dmg is the default download for MacOSX. That's
>> probably not what you want.
>> 
>> You can change these when logged in as project admin in the download file
>> list. Click on the "i" to the right of the file, and check the boxes for
>> platform. You should designate 1 file as the default download for each
>> platform.
>> 
> Indeed. I remember doing this in the past and have now corrected the defaults 
> for gnucash 2.6.15.
> 
> I *thought* I even documented this in our release process... Lo and behold! 
> It's still there in the Sourceforge section :)
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Release_Process#Sourceforge_file_uploads <http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Release_Process#Sourceforge_file_uploads>


I had just cleared the settings on older versions. They override an underlying algorithm that's supposed to feed the most recent release automatically. That algorithm worked correctly when I tested on all three OSs last night.

Regards,
John Ralls