[GNC] When will verion 5.13 be fixed to allow bills to be paid without crashing?

[sunfish62 at yahoo.com]

John, 

I hesitate greatly to bring it up, but given the ongoing upheaval surrounding the initial release of 5.13, would there be any possibility of snap releases to fix the show stopping bugs? You've done it for Mac releases before, and the current glitches are affecting a much larger part of the user base...

⁣David T. ​

On Oct 24, 2025, 6:19 AM, at 6:19 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>
>> On Oct 23, 2025, at 10:56 AM, Keith Myers <keith.myers at att.net>
>wrote:
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>> Ever since my Ubuntu 24.04 distro automatically upgraded me from my
>previously eminently stable version 5.12 to the new version 5.13 I have
>been unable to pay any of my scheduled bills.  The program instantly
>exits with a crash.
>> I have been advised to install to install the Flatpak version 5.13
>but this too has the same exact problem of crashing when you attempt to
>pay a scheduled bill.
>> I have only been able to downgrade the Flatpak version 5.13 to and
>older 5.12 commit  and that has allowed me to pay my bills.
>> But the unfortunate side effect is that this 5.12 version has broken
>Finance:Quote version 1.67 so I an now unable to pull any of my
>security quotes.
>> When will this fiasco with the official stable 5.13 be resolved?
>
>Your Ubuntu 24.04 didn’t automatically upgrade you to GnuCash 5.13.
>Ubuntu doesn’t do that with GnuCash, so 24.04 provides only the version
>of GnuCash that was available in April 2024, 5.5:
>https://packages.ubuntu.com/noble/gnucash.
>The latest Ubuntu release, 25.10 “Questing Quokka” has GnuCash 5.13.
>Perhaps that's what you’re actually running.
>
>Next, the 5.12 flatpak didn’t break F::Q 1.67, it doesn’t *have* F::Q
>1.67, it has 1.65. Flatpak sandboxing means that the flatpak has to
>contain F::Q and all of its dependencies, so it gets what was current
>when it was built.
>
>That aside, once a release is done, it’s done. We may repackage it—I
>did so for flatpak a couple of days ago because the original Gnome
>Runtime was obsolete—but GnuCash 5.13 is what it is. GnuCash 5.14 will
>be along in a little over 8 weeks. In the meantime you can either go
>back to 5.12, install the latest flatpak nightly build from
>https://code.gnucash.org/ or build GnuCash stable from source. That
>latest flatpak nightly also has F::Q 1.67.
>
>Regards,
>John Ralls
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