[GNC] [Gnucash/gnucash] Release 5.2 - GnuCash 5.2 Released

Sun Jun 25 16:31:04 EDT 2023

Hi John - thank you and the team for the 5.2 release! Just letting you know
on GitHub the windows build has gnucash-5.0.setup.exe
<https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.2/gnucash-5.0.setup.exe>
instead of 5.2
<https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.2/gnucash-5.0.setup.exe>

On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 2:42 PM John Ralls <notifications at github.com> wrote:

> GnuCash 5.2 Released <https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/tag/5.2>
>
> Repository: Gnucash/gnucash <https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash> · Tag:
> 5.2 <https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/tree/5.2> · Commit: 4bba182
> <https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commit/4bba18271be9ff8e402ca9458f6922f14980b630>
> · Released by: jralls <https://github.com/jralls>
>
> The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 5.2, the third release in
> the stable 5.x series
> Between 5.1 and 5.2, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
>
>    - Bug 777472 - reconcile does not work if transaction selected
>    <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777472>
>
>    Check that there's no outstanding activity in the current register
>    page before starting a reconciliation. It is still possible to start
>    modifying a transaction after the reconciliation window is open but this
>    will stop the most common issue with the process. Starting a reconciliation
>    from the account tree is left unprotected.
>    - Bug 798564 - GnuCash is slow when there are a lot of open
>    tabs/registers (37) <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798564>
>
>    Lazily load registers as is already done with reports.
>    - Bug 798597 - The word "Separators" needs two separate versions
>    <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798597>
>
>    Use "Character-separated" when it's a choice between that and fixed
>    field width and "Select Separator Character" when it's a heading.
>    - Bug 798695 - Deleting everything from the "Transfer" cell after
>    suggestions pop-up restricts search to the first 30 accounts
>    <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798695>
>
>    Skip the search on an empty value and return all accounts in the combo
>    box as it normally does if the account list is opened without searching for
>    something.
>    - Bug 798796 - Account list incomplete in report options
>    <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798796>
>
>    Allow stock/fund accounts that are descendants of Bank accounts to be
>    selected for the Advanced Portfolio, Investment Lots and Investment
>    Portfolio reports.
>    - Bug 798809 - Multicolumn report error when reopened after saving.
>    <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798809>
>    - Bug 798839 - Edit -> Preferences string not translatable (reopened)
>    <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798839>
>    - Bug 798862 - Merge identical strings (reopened)
>    <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798862>
>
>    Ensure similar strings are identical and use double line view instead
>    of double line mode.
>    - Bug 798879 - RFE: [Transaction Report] add Running Total option
>    <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798879>
>    - Bug 798885 - Accented character in folder name on Account Export
>    (reopened) <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798885>
>    - Bug 798899 - Gnucash crashes during CSV import when using a template
>    if the destination account is changed from one used in the template
>    <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798899>
>    - Bug 798901 - Wrong value for very small prices from Finance::Quote.
>    <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798901>
>    - Bug 798916 - Exchange rates fetched from openexchange off by factor
>    of 10 <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798916>
>    - Bug 798919 - Inconsistent signs in creating budget
>    <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798919>
>    - Bug 798923 - OFX import is no longer matching security nor asking
>    for stock account. <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798923>
>    - Bug 798930 - invoices won't sequence to the next number
>    <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798930>
>    - Bug 798948 - XML file corrupted by saving twice in extremely short
>    period <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798948>
>    - Bug 798952 - Unable to set day threshold or counters in properties.
>    <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798952>
>    - Bug 798960 - Transaction completion horizontal scrolling opens
>    without the new text being visible and remembers previous position/width
>    <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798960>
>    - Bug 798966 - Uninitialised variable used in
>    dialog-account-picker.c:dialog_response_cb()
>    <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798966>
>
> The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:
>
>    - The type-ahead selection of transaction descriptions has been
>    substantially overhauled based on extensive user feedback. Matches are now
>    only on the beginning of words and are now sorted by age since last use.
>    This both substantially reduces the number of matches and prioritizes the
>    most recently used as being the most likely candidates for re-use. To help
>    distinguish cases of long descriptions where the match would be outside the
>    popup's viewport the viewport is automatically scrolled horizontally so
>    that the end of the left-most (right-most in rtl languages) matches is
>    centered in the view. Completion can be aborted with the <escape> key or a
>    new *Don't autocomplete* selection that's the first entry in the popup.
>    - Fix lockup on Windows in type-ahead selection of transaction
>    descriptions.
>    - More budget-module sign fixes and improvements.
>    - Lots of memory-leak fixes, GLib modernization, and code cleanup by
>    Richard Cohen, Simon Arlott, & Chris Lam.
>    - bugfix xaccTransGetTxnType: avoid returning TXN_TYPE_LINK
>    incorrectly: A TXN_TYPE_PAYMENT will have non-APAR splits; a TXN_TYPE_LINK
>    will not have non-APAR splits. This bug manifests as a regular
>    TXN_TYPE_PAYMENT transaction being later voided being incorrectly changed
>    to TXN_TYPE_LINK.
>    - Including brokerage fees in Money Out calculation (if not ignoring
>    them) in advanced-portfolio.scm report and updating the "advanced" tests to
>    reflect selling fees being included into the money out value
>    - [stock-txn-asst] Don't use the initial value in amount edit widgets
>    unless they're valid. Otherwise the invalid value will log an error that
>    will prevent later valid input from working.
>    - BUGFIX: Actions > Online Actions > Show log Window does not open
>    when it is first clicked.
>    - cmake: check gdk only when building GUI
>    - Get the tooltip working on "Online Banking Setup"
>
> New and Updated Translations: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional),
> Croatian, English (Australia), English (New Zealand), English (United
> Kingdom), Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Marathi,
> Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian
>
> Help translate GnuCash on Weblate
> <https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/gnucash/>
> Known Problems
>
> Complete list of all open bugs.
> <https://bugs.gnucash.org/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=blocker&bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=major&bug_severity=normal&bug_severity=minor&bug_severity=trivial&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=REOPENED&limit=0&list_id=8149&order=priority%2Cbug_severity&query_format=advanced>
> Documentation
>
> Concurrent with the release of GnuCash 5.2 we're pleased to also release a
> new version of the companion Manual and the Tutorial and Concepts Guide:
>
> There are no changes in the documentation for this release.
> Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS
>
> GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows 8.1® and later and MacOS
> 10.13 (High Sierra)® and later in pre-built, all-in-one packages. An
> installer is provided for Microsoft Windows® while the MacOS® package is a
> disk image containing a drag-and-drop application bundle.
>
> GnuCash is also available as a flatpak from Flathub.org. Instructions for
> installing and running. <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak>
>
> The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are:
>
>    - 4826176b7e70bb889f99c206faffadd892628d78525715e9f7128ecf48b14680
>      gnucash-5.2.tar.bz2
>    - 2d594cc889bb723746beb490f50853ccfb987b6e99e0a4587b058c51ca2a75a3
>      gnucash-5.2.tar.gz
>    - 8299701f54d9b19743cbe90f1f369a4c998fd87436571d1b8fc630e7c71ffc13
>      gnucash-5.2.setup.exe
>    - f7f0c82976755d228c32f71db4db8bde4e5de40c161011071dc39cac1f6f5a20
>      Gnucash-Intel-5.2-1.dmg
>    - b9eb6581b403665c308b8909cc4d588c9ce483139cbc3ed3638403f61aefb49b
>      gnucash-docs-5.2.tar.gz
>
> —
>
> This release has 7 assets:
>
>    - gnucash-5.0.setup.exe
>    - gnucash-5.2.tar.bz2
>    - gnucash-5.2.tar.gz
>    - gnucash-docs-5.2.tar.gz
>    - Gnucash-Intel-5.2-1.dmg
>    - Source code (zip)
>    - Source code (tar.gz)
>
> Visit the release page
> <https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/tag/5.2> to download them.
>
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