[GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.9 Released

Mon Sep 30 02:27:25 EDT 2024

Not to put to fine a point on it, why then have a central website that
doesn't provide the most current stable relesase?  And, no, I don't read
entire messasges that do little more than list bug fixes just to find more
websites.

On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 1:51 AM Patrick James via gnucash-user <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

> Joseph Keithley,
>
> Please read the entire original message, including the links near the
> bottom.
>
>
> > On 09/29/2024 10:37 PM PDT Joseph Keithley <joeyiii57 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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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