Announcement: GnuCash 2.6.18 Release 2017-09-24

[John Ralls]

GnuCash 2.6.18 released

The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 2.6.18, the seventeenth maintenance release in the 2.6-stable series.
Changes

Between 2.6.17 and 2.6.18, the following bugfixes were accomplished:

    Bug 644898 - Calendar of upcoming SXes has various display issues.
    Bug 647805 - Interdependent report options fail to change state after using apply for a limited number of times.
    Bug 771246 - Set Invoice/Bill items date correctly from imported CSV.
    Bug 784284 - unifying "Clear the entry." tooltip on Loan Repayment Calculator.
    Bug 787479 - Persian currency symbol is doubled.

Some other fixes not associated with reported bugs:

    Added Catalan Accounts for the New Account Assistant
    Fixed errors from loading init.py.
    Run the python bindings tests in a CMake build.
    Implement dist, distcheck, and uninstall targets for CMake build.

Translation Updates: Farsi, German, Japanese, Latvian, Serbian, Spanish
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 2.6.18 we're pleased to also release a new version 2.6.18 of the companion Help and Tutorial and Concepts Guide.

    The Italian Help translation, which uniquely uses a PO file, is frozen at commit 78cfa76 because of lack of a translator to maintain it.
    Bug 120940 - Document how automatic decimal points work.
    Begin a Russian translation of the Guide by Dimitry Mangul.
    Some spelling corrections in the German Guide.

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-2.6.18.tar.bz2
    4fa7b851b854f8b07e9fd5662374cea25658c207deaf4812884731892899ef20  gnucash-2.6.18.tar.gz
    ba57a15d4b89dc7a6b447569e4214f96cc545c9dd3124e859e76890699f68550  gnucash-2.6.18.setup.exe
    f60238bc7bced79bc50e223ba0d4047d3235e71a7f815a375745242977ecfdeb  Gnucash-Intel-2.6.18-1.dmg
    1d41e4e9d818a66a166ae6def9a9ac7add42da148d3a6c058b12d79701497416  Gnucash-PPC-2.6.18-1.dmg
    84c79c333937ccfdcc0b94f9eec78b707e27043402560c3fbc85a3eefa211c56  gnucash-docs-2.6.18.tar.gz

    SourceForge:
        Win32: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.6.18-1.setup.exe
        Intel: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/Gnucash-Intel-2.6.18-1.dmg
        PPC: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/Gnucash-PPC-2.6.18-1.dmg
    Github
        Win32: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.6.18/gnucash-2.6.18-1.setup.exe
        Intel: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.6.18/Gnucash-Intel-2.6.18-1.dmg
        PPC: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.6.18/Gnucash-PPC-2.6.18-1.dmg
    Getting GnuCash as source code

    If you want to compile GnuCash 2.6.18 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:
        Sourceforge: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.6.18.tar.bz2
        Github: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.6.18/gnucash-2.6.18.tar.bz2 <https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.6.18/gnucash-2.6.18.tar.bz2> WARNING: Do not try to use the github-generated files labelled "Source Code". They have not been processed with swig and will not build.
        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 2.6.18 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 2.6.18 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.