[GNC] [GNC-dev] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.3 Released

Mon Jun 26 19:32:46 EDT 2023

It's built and I've manually published it. It should show up at https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnucash.GnuCash in a few hours.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Jun 26, 2023, at 3:56 PM, Stephen Cohoon <smcohoon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I don't see the flatpak update for 5.3 yet.  Is that coming?
> 
> -Stephen
> 
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 6:36 AM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> 
>> The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 5.3, the fourth release in
>> the stable 5.x series. This is a snap release to fix the bug listed below.
>> 
>> Between 5.2 and 5.3, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
>> 
>>        • Bug 798967 - Cannot Save to Any Path After Upgrading to 5.2 Fix
>> inverted if statement condition for save success flag
>> The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:
>> 
>>        • Some memory cleanup by Chris Lam.
>>        • Missing from the 5.2 release notes is that Chris streamlined the
>> transaction scrubbing so that each transaction gets scrubbed only once.
>> This improves--in some cases substantially--the time to load and to run
>> Check and Repair.
>> New and Updated Translations: Dutch, French, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> This being a snap release there is no new documentation. Please continue
>> to use the 5.2 versions.
>> 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:
>> • 1458cb08c585eae9d724bec6f2812bcc03bbe83ed294a46a7897aaab01a6f15a
>> gnucash-5.3.tar.bz2
>> • e0d04e0fd5f03f39136e1f4d941ccd0202b64a6e92418f5382cb6a6772493529
>> gnucash-5.3.tar.gz
>> • 4cd66cf6c261fe7f5fc071b8e01314f33fb97e3496fe832e07bad360c1cf685a
>> gnucash-5.3.setup.exe
>> • 6bf4940d851b49a4edf5d6dd3cbe37a1112bc3606cdb924ed6668ce0ad7c7427
>> Gnucash-Intel-5.3-1.dmg
>> • b9eb6581b403665c308b8909cc4d588c9ce483139cbc3ed3638403f61aefb49b
>> gnucash-docs-5.2.tar.gz
>> 
>> Microsoft Windows:
>> 
>> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.3/gnucash-5.3.setup.exe
>> 
>> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/5.3/gnucash-5.3.setup.exe
>> 
>> Apple macOS:
>> 
>> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.3/Gnucash-Intel-5.3-1.dmg
>> 
>> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/5.3/Gnucash-Intel-5.3-1.dmg
>> 
>> Getting GnuCash as source code
>> If you want to compile GnuCash 5.3 for yourself, the source code can be
>> downloaded from:
>> 
>> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.3/gnucash-5.3.tar.bz2
>> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.3/gnucash-5.3.tar.gz
>> 
>> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/5.3/gnucash-5.3.tar.bz2
>> 
>> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/5.3/gnucash-5.3.tar.gz
>> 
>> To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need at
>> least Gtk+ 3.22.29, Guile 2.0, Boost 1.67, WebKitGtk 2.4, GoogleTest 1.8.0,
>> cmake 3.10 and SWIG 2.0.12. Please consult the README.dependencies file in
>> the sources for the exact list of dependencies and versions.
>> Getting the documentation
>> 
>> Note that the documentation for unstable releases is not on the GnuCash
>> website. It is built daily and may be found on the development server under
>> the locale directory; "C" is English, "de" is German, and so on.
>> 
>> The documentation is included in the MacOS and Windows application bundles.
>> 
>> If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 5.2 for yourself, the
>> source code can be downloaded from:
>> 
>> Sourceforge:
>> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28unstable%29/5.3/gnucash-docs-5.2.tar.gz
>> GitHub:
>> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.3/gnucash-docs-5.2.tar.gz
>> 
>> You can also checkout the sources directly from the git repository as
>> described at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git.
>> 
>> 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,
>> MacOS, and Microsoft Windows. Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its
>> first stable release was in 1998.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
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> Stephen Cohoon
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> 
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> problem really worth solving?
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