[GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.9 Released

Mon Sep 30 01:37:16 EDT 2024

The Gnucash.org page still only has versin 5.8 as the download.  Where do I
get 5.9?

On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 4:19 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 5.9, the tenth release in
> the stable 5.x series.
> Between 5.8 and 5.9, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
>         • Bug 724745 - Added new transaction during reconcile, didn't show
> up in reconcile window.
>         • Bug 797045 - Improve error reporting for bad credentials with
> MySQL backend ("bad or corrupt data" => "access denied")
>         • Bug 798568 - Transaction Copy/Paste problem
>         • Bug 799308 - sqlite backend: Example Python script prints error
> when creating new file.
>         • Bug 799370 - Transaction Journal view cursor placement after
> commit to transaction change.
>         • Bug 799384 - Reconciled date cannot be parsed.
>         • Bug 799389 - Crash when removing an account
>         • Bug 799391 - Transaction Cut/Paste doesn't move the transaction
> to the target account
>         • Bug 799395 - relative date offset quarters occasionally wrong
>         • Bug 799399 - Windows Keypad decimal locale error
>         • Bug 799416 - Post invoice: post to account dropdown listbox too
> small
>         • Bug 799419 - Intermittent quote price issue
> The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:
>         • Add YH Finance (FINANCEAPI) API Key to Quotes infrastructure
> with a preference in the Online Quotes page and add financeapi to known
> sources.
>         • Move copied_class and copied_leader_guid
> Move static copied_class and static copied_leader_guid to be part of the
> copied_item structure. This makes it more evident that calling
> clear_copied_item needs to be called before copied_item is used.
>         • [gnc-datetime] improve CSV date parser with ICU and Boost.
>                 • Add dateformat "Locale" with ICU; uses current locale
> for date parsing. ICU's locale date parser may parse "3 May 2023" or
> "2024年9月13日" (LC_TIME=zh_TW.utf8) and maybe others.
>                 • Augment d-m-y m-d-y and y-m-d with boost UK/US/ISO
> parsers. This allows CSV import of dates with months as words as "30 Sep
> 2023" or "May 4, 1978" or "2023-Dec-25". Note boost parser cannot recognise
> 2-digit years, therefore "30 Sep 24" is invalid.
>         • Csv Import - improve assisant's introduction page
>         • Correctly handle uncommitted edits when opening a file from
> history.
>         • Don't use gnc_difftime and deprecate it because it casts time64
> to doubles
>         • [gnc-pricedb.h] remove unused gnc_pricedb_substitute_commodity
>         • [gnc-pricedb.h] remove unused gnc_pricedb_lookup_at_time64
> New and Updated Translations: Assamese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese
> (Traditional), Croatian, Dutch, English (United Kingdom), Hebrew,
> Hungarian, Macedonian, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian,
> Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
>
> Help translate GnuCash on Weblate:
> https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/gnucash/
>
> German AQBanking Users:
> The AQBanking author is still working to get his updated PIN/TAN code
> finalized so the Flatpak, macOS, and Windows bundles of this release
> contain the last stable version, 6.5.4. The GnuCash nightly builds have
> beta releases with the new implementation, so consider using one of those
> if the stable AQBanking doesn't work for you.
>
> 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
>
> The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:
>         • Update github CI actions versions.
> New and Updated Translations: German
>
> Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS
>
> GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows 10® 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:
>
> • 5be2e5364fc36464fc32c768e2ab460a630f74db6aeb7d44266e3dab98222fd0
> gnucash-5.9.tar.bz2
> • 35375b2b1affe2a7e46becefb9e1205f432262c6ed0c7baa72f41b3b13f7235d
> gnucash-5.9.tar.gz
> • 18882e68d445c32b7f06c58a55b6b81480cef4fdf6e159e8d628040357479b86
> gnucash-5.9.setup.exe
> • ab56dc3d9e7e07ad5b3abd97e181070780d62010a4184ff826bbe935a7d84a1d
> Gnucash-Arm-5.9-1.dmg
> • ebb05ce936059a1f6d5ceecd2de2de4aa7a5808210b35c8df318cdce9fc40475
> Gnucash-Intel-5.9-1.dmg
> • 9bc43a2bd11cb431de446023fa6c273e0c432b5bd8933e2177ad007091f294c9
> gnucash-docs-5.9.tar.gz
>
> Microsoft Windows:
>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/5.9/gnucash-5.9.setup.exe
>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.9/gnucash-5.9.setup.exe
>
> Apple macOS:
>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/5.9/Gnucash-Intel-5.9-1.dmg
>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/5.9/Gnucash-Arm-5.9-1.dmg
>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.9/Gnucash-Intel-5.9-1.dmg
>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.9/Gnucash-Arm-5.9-1.dmg
>
> Getting GnuCash as source code
> If you want to compile GnuCash 5.9 for yourself, the source code can be
> downloaded from:
>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/5.9/gnucash-5.9.tar.bz2
>
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/5.9/gnucash-5.9.tar.gz
>
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.9/gnucash-5.9.tar.bz2
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.9/gnucash-5.9.tar.gz
>
> To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need at
> least Gtk+ 3.22.30, Guile 2.0.9, Boost 1.67, WebKitGtk 2.4, GoogleTest
> 1.8.0, cmake 3.14.5 and SWIG 3.0.12. 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 5.9 for yourself, the
> source code can be downloaded from:
>
> Sourceforge:
> https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/5.9/gnucash-docs-5.9.tar.gz
> GitHub:
> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.6/gnucash-docs-5.9.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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