GnuCash 2.6.19 released

[Geert Janssens]

Op woensdag 20 december 2017 15:45:51 CET schreef John Ralls:
> > On Dec 20, 2017, at 6:24 AM, ticotexas <tkallmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I installed 2.6.19 on Win10, ran Install Online Price Retrieval, and now
> > cannot update any quotes using alphavantage. During installation, it said
> > I
> > have the latest version of Date::Manip and Finances::Quote, and
> > installation succeeded. In 2.6.18, updating prices was perfect, but if I
> > downgrade and install 2.6.18 again, quotes will not update any longer.
> > The error I get is Unable to retrieve quotes for these items:, then a
> > long list of all my securities. I'm a newbie and don't know what to try
> > next. Any ideas?
> Unfortunately the environment file is part of the GnuCash distribution and
> gets overwritten when you reinstall or upgrade. You’ll need to edit it
> again to add the alphavantage key.

... a problem that will be fixed in gnucash 2.8 soon. When that release comes 
out, you can create a file named environment.local to store your local 
environment corrections. This file will not be overridden during upgrades.

Geert