Announcement: GnuCash 2.6.12 Release 2016-03-28

[Dave H]

John,

Download links on gnucash.org seem to be still pointing to 2.6.11 download ?

Cheers Dave H.

On 29 March 2016 at 07:12, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> 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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