[GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.12 Released, Flatpak delayed

[Brad Morrison]

Hi Dave & GnuCash users,  

As John covered the first question you had, I'll try the second.  

https://gnucash.org/download.phtml - the current version of GnuCash is
5.12, which was released in June 2025, about 1 year after the 5.8
version that you are using.  

You do not need to update GnuCash from 5.8 to the current version, 5.12,
but there is also no financial cost (GnuCash is open source software),
updating within versions doesn't take much time (some updating methods
are much quicker than others, depending on the operating system one is
using, the internet connection speeds one has access to, & the method of
updating used within the available operating systems) and most of the
updates to GnuCash are bug fixes, rather than major user interface
and/or design changes, which might take time to get used to.  

https://gnucash.org/donate.phtml - donations to the GnuCash project are
always appreciated!  

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Thanks, 

Brad - https://www.facebook.com/brad.morrison.12327/ &
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On 2025-07-09 19:41, John Ralls wrote:

> Dave,
> 
> Welcome to GnuCash. There are two ways to get an empty book in GnuCash: Select File>New from the menu and click Cancel on the File Hierarchy Assistant or start GnuCash from the command line with the --nofile option.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
>> On Jul 7, 2025, at 11:16, Dave parker via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello John
>> I have been using GnuCash for a Non Profit.  Over all, working great.  I learned a lot over the year.  We are starting a new Fiscal Year.  
>> I prefer to start a new year with GnuCash.  I know how to save my chart of accounts.  But how do I start with a fresh GnuCash for this fiscal Year?  Like a blank slate, then load my chart of accounts, Then add the current account balances . I just need help starting.
>> I am using Version: 5.8,  Build ID: 5.8+(2024-07-06)  Do I need to update?
>> Dave Parker
>> 
>> Dave's Oil and Synthetics 
>> Independent AMSOIL Dealer #5682897
>> 919-222-8362 
>> https://davesoilandsynthetics.myamsoil.com/
>> 
>> On Monday, June 30, 2025 at 10:41:43 PM EDT, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:  
>> 
>> One more thing about GnuCash 5.12. We added gvfs to the filesystems list to fix bug 799251 and that apparently requires a Flathub admin to bless it. I trust that will happen some time tomorrow.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
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