Announcement: GnuCash 2.6.17 Release 2017-07-02
Ben Pracht
ben.pracht at gmail.com
Mon Jul 3 09:10:10 EDT 2017
I'd like to put in a request for multiuser support. How can I do this?
Thanks,
Ben
On Jul 3, 2017 00:20, "John Ralls" <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
> GnuCash 2.6.17 released
>
> The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 2.6.17, the seventeenth
> maintenance release in the 2.6-stable series.
> Changes
>
> Between 2.6.16 and 2.6.17, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
>
> Bug 603379 - Prevent changing some Account Options if it has
> transactions Relax the account type change restrictions. In the new
> implementation account types can't be changed for an account with splits:
> if the change woud force a commodity change e.g. from type STOCK
> to BANK as the former takes only non-currency commodities and the latter
> only currency.
> for immutable accounts
> At the time of this commit the following account types are considered
> immutable:
> Accounts Receivable
> Accounts Payable
> Trading accounts
> Bug 776396 - Foreign currency reports, amounts are not aligned
> correctly Improve the styling of the table element used for foreign
> currencies in the Balance sheet report so they end up aligned with the
> other currencies.
> Bug 780845 - link in github repo README file needs correction/editing
> Bug 780889 - Split-register transactions result in invalid price:type
> "transaction" Add 'transaction' to the schema and document it in
> gnc-pricedb.h.
> Bug 781476 - Online Banking Wizard Crashes for Windows
> (gnucash-on-windows)
> Bug 781634 - Alert on missing account currency when opening account
> Also separate translatable commodity namespace strings from those used in
> storage: There is now a separate GNC_COMMODITY_NS_ISO_GUI label to be used
> everywhere the user needs to read 'Currency namespace'. It's currently set
> to 'Currencies' and can be translated.
> Bug 782274 - Transactions produced by Transfer Funds or Process
> Payment dialogs sort to beginning of day and do not honor NUM field for
> custom sorting.
> Bug 782897 - Stock Split Assistant crashes GnuCash if you enter a New
> Price and that already exists in the Price DB
> Bug 783095 - gnucash-2.6.16 segfaults on startup
> Bug 784317 - typo in 'import customers or vendors from text file'
> dialog
>
> Some other fixes not associated with reported bugs:
>
> Fix crash on Mac when trying to create or edit an AQBanking User.
> (gnucash-on-osx)
> Properly define the template namespace rather than using a local
> string everywhere
> Correctly store time64 0 in the SQL backend: The SQL backend ignored
> time64 0 when saving dates. time64 is a perfectly valid timestamp
> (1970-01-01 00:00:00) and should be stored.
> Clamp time64 values passed to GDateTime functions to the valid range.
> Fixes a bug reported on the mailing list wherein a date of 0000-00-00 in a
> MySql database would crash GnuCash. Such dates may come from a bad
> conversion of 1970-01-01 or from a crash.
> Add XSU to iso-4217-currencies
> Some banks include additional purpose information for a transaction in
> non-swift-section 17 (aka transaction text). If available, this transaction
> text is put in front of the other purpose texts to provide full transaction
> information. Adds a preference to control import behaivour of transaction
> text.
>
> Translation Updates: Arabic, Japanese, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish
> 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 2.6.17 we're pleased to also
> release a new version 2.6.17 of the companion Help and Tutorial and
> Concepts Guide.
>
> Bug 781711: Add reversing transaction definition
> Bug 781714: Add Reversing Transaction text for Help document
> Improve German translation of gnucash-guidem fix some typos,
> reconstruct some rev. history
>
> 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 a disk
> image containing a drag-and-drop application bundle.
>
> The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are:
>
> db965f39b6c5181810a064a1d1f5bb719722ac3b54dfce0cecf43ee7b38e593c
> gnucash-2.6.17.tar.bz2
> 4fa7b851b854f8b07e9fd5662374cea25658c207deaf4812884731892899ef20
> gnucash-2.6.17.tar.gz
> ba57a15d4b89dc7a6b447569e4214f96cc545c9dd3124e859e76890699f68550
> gnucash-2.6.17.setup.exe
> f60238bc7bced79bc50e223ba0d4047d3235e71a7f815a375745242977ecfdeb
> Gnucash-Intel-2.6.17-1.dmg
> 1d41e4e9d818a66a166ae6def9a9ac7add42da148d3a6c058b12d79701497416
> Gnucash-PPC-2.6.17-1.dmg
> >84c79c333937ccfdcc0b94f9eec78b707e27043402560c3fbc85a3eefa211c56
> gnucash-docs-2.6.17.tar.gz
>
> SourceForge:
> Win32
> Intel
> PPC
> Github
> Win32
> Intel
> PPC
> Getting GnuCash as source code
>
> If you want to compile GnuCash 2.6.17 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 2.6.17 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 2.6.17 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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