Latest version for Windows?

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Fri Feb 9 14:32:29 EST 2018



> On Feb 9, 2018, at 7:41 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Feb 9, 2018, at 5:57 AM, cicko <alen.siljak at gmx.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I find a bit confusing as to where to find the latest version for Windows.
>> The maintainance releases are apparently going out but somehow I can't
>> figure out what the flow is.
>> 
>> The main www.gnucash.org page points to
>> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.6.19-1.setup.exe
>> which does not exist.
>> 
>> The Installation page simply points to the Windows directory on SourceForge.
>> The Stable version there is 
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash%20%28stable%29/2.6.19/gnucash-2.6.19-setup.exe/download
>> which looks like the first 2.6.19 version?
>> However, on the same page there is a hash
>> 1fa83d9578e8c62bd7dcef3b953e0e7610bf03bed9c1a037a72a6eee1ac79e37
>> gnucash-2.6.19-3.setup.exe
>> which refers to 2.6.19-3 version for Windows(!).
>> 
>> And, finally, Windows wiki page (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows)
>> points to 
>> https://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/maint/
>> which shows what I believe are the weekly maintenance builds, based on the
>> info in their names and the description on the wiki page.
>> 
>> So, if I want to get the *latest stable version* for Windows, which one
>> should I use?
> 
> You should use https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash%20%28stable%29/2.6.19/gnucash-2.6.19-setup.exe/download<https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash%20(stable)/2.6.19/gnucash-2.6.19-setup.exe/download> or https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.6.19/gnucash-2.6.19-setup.exe<https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.6.19/gnucash-2.6.19-setup.exe>
> 
> (They’re the same file; Github lacks SourceForge’s annoying advertising).
> 
> And I’ll get the mess of wrong pointers and names cleaned up.
> 

The pointer on www.gnucash.org and the README.txt on SourceForge are fixed now. Sorry for the confusion.

Regards,
John Ralls




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