Announcement: GnuCash 2.6.12 Release 2016-03-28

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Mon Mar 28 17:12:34 EDT 2016


GnuCash 2.6.12 released

The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 2.6.12, the twelfth maintenance release in the 2.6-stable series. Please take the tour of all the new features.
Changes

Between 2.6.11 and 2.6.12, the following bugfixes were accomplished:

   Bug 482186 - Customer and vendor report for partners who get invoiced/paid in foreign currency show total labeled with the symbol of the default currency
   Bug 620281 - Adding reversing transaction to bill transactions creates undeleteable transactions
   Bug 642292 - General Ledger report - 'Primary Sort Key' value is not persistent
   Bug 687504 - Not possible to reset an invoice/bill counter format
   Bug 693342 - Print (bottom) prints to middle for 3-check pages
   Bug 719904 - Decide payment type only based on the account type involved
   Bug 720934 - Barcharts with many data points have overlapping x-axis labels
   Bug 722996 - Cannot add stock price on Price Editor
   Bug 723689 - Splash screen doesn't set the floating hint.
   Bug 728074 - Posting bill converts currency to itself using 0 rate
   Bug 728722 - Setting number format details appear wrong in Help, section 10.3.4. Counters Book Options Tab
   Bug 733164 - [MacOSX] Command-H Invokes Help->Help Contents
   Bug 742352 - Budget Summary section does not show expense totals
   Bug 744157 - Tip about subaccount is confusing
   Bug 754209 - Bills can be posted from "find bill" search results even if bill is already posted and results in extra $ posted to A/P
   Bug 754856 - scheduled transaction fails without warning
   Bug 756469 - CSV Invoice Import - Items with double quote escape not imported.
   Bug 760015 - guile support is automagic
   Bug 760529 - Get Quotes updates value just once per day
   Bug 760711 - Non-ASCII characters not shown in Report Name when a report is created with 2.6.12
   Bug 762971 - Duplicating multiple invoices results in invoices without an ID number
   Bug 763111 - commodities prices editor creates hidden db entries
   Bug 763146 - Invalid exchange rate is recorded when entering multi-currency transaction
   Bug 763279 - GnuCash has empty reports in recent Gentoo builds.

Some other fixes not associated with reported bugs:

   Various memory leaks.
   More multi-currency fixes related to bug 763146.
   Be more liberal in accepting business counter custom formats: li, lli, I64i, and whatever is defined to G_GINT_64 or PRIx64 on the system on which GnuCash is compiled.
   Correctly re-value splits when the transaction currency is changed.
   Reset the transaction currency to match the currently open account when auto-completing.
   Refine the MacOS X localization when the system-generated POSIX locale isn't a supported locale: Prefer the country to language when selecting an alternate locale, but still pass the original language to gettext.
   Check printing: extract address from invoice/bill for payment transactions.

Robert Fewell has contributed changes needed to allow the 2.6 series to read files from future major versions which use GUIDs instead of names to identify matched accounts with the Bayesian import matcher.

Translations Updated:Azeri, Basque, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Farsi, Japanese, Kinyarwandan, Portuguese, Slovak, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.
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 2.6.12 we're pleased to also release a new version 2.6.12 of the companion Help and Tutorial and Concepts Guide.

   New Portuguese Translations from Pedro Albuquerque!
   Bug 639776 - Update instructions for updating quote prices by cron.
   Bug 649283 - Add links to where common report preferences are set.
   Bug 728722 - Setting number format details appear wrong in Help, section 10.3.4. Counters Book Options Tab
   Bug 729265 - Update documentation for Invoice and Bill payments to reflect the new features.
   Bug 761025 - Add missing sect Guide ch2.8: New book options in New Acct Hierarchy.
   Bug 762088 - Remove Section 9.4.3 From Guide that offered simplistic advice about money and life that does nothing to explain GnuCash functionality or use.
   Bug 762656 - Add note to Guide section 2.3.3 For Column Widths

Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS X

GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows XP® and later and MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard)® and later in pre-built, all-in-one packages. An installer is provided for Microsoft Windows® while the MacOS X® package is disk image containing a drag-and-drop application bundle.

   SourceForge:
       Win32
       Intel
       PPC
   Github
       Win32
       Intel
       PPC
   Getting GnuCash as source code

   If you want to compile GnuCash 2.6.12 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:
       Sourceforge: bzip2, all files.
       Github: gzip
       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.
   Getting the documentation

   The documentation is available at Documentation page of the GnuCash website. The 2.6.12 documentation can be found under "GnuCash v2.6 (current stable release)" in multiple languages both for reading online and for download in pdf, epub, and mobi formats.

   If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 2.6.12 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:
       Sourceforge or GitHub
       You can also checkout the sources directly from the git 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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