GnuCash 2.4.8 released The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.4.8, the eigth bug fix release in a series of stable of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software. With this release series, GnuCash can use an SQL database using SQLite3, MySQL or PostgreSQL. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX. Getting GnuCash for Windows (Win32 binary) The Gnucash 2.4.8 Win32 setup executable can be downloaded from Sourceforge. It will install everything needed to run GnuCash. Mac OSX binary The Gnucash 2.4.8 MacOSX package can be downloaded from Sourceforge as well. Getting GnuCash as source code If you want to compile GnuCash 2.4.8 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from: Sourceforge: bzip2, gzip, all files. You can also checkout the sources directly from the subversion repository as described here. To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need Gnome 2, guile, slib. In addition you will need swig if compiling from subversion. Changes Between 2.4.7 and 2.4.8, the following bugfixes were included: * Bug #655901 - Fix build with guile 2.0 * Fix handling a directory as a dataset file. * Bug #626970 - Crash when saving a transaction whose destination account was deleted in the meantime * Bug #661721 - Exposed Password * Bug #651522 - crash in query_free_compiled, gnc_query_list_reset_query * Use "Nimbus" gtk theme on Windows. A previous attempt failed to set this in the installer. * Bug #644977 - Add new Quicken Check 21 format. Thanks to Steve Holland <sholland at napervillegi.com> * Update Mac customizations for gtk-mac-integration-1.0.0. Mac integration has had a name and api change from ige-mac-integration as part of migration from Sourceforge to Gnome. * Bug #553432 - Status line of edit invoice page mixes invoice currency amount with default currency symbol * Bug #365928 - Jobs do not stick in Expense Vouchers * Find the python libraries and includes even if the path to them includes a symlink. When python is installed using MacPorts there is a symlink in the path. * Bug #612562 - Transfer Funds dialog - 'Show Income/Expense' checkboxes are not working. Subaccounts of income and expense are not always shown. * Make sure that exiting conn_test_dbi_library on a failure doesn't leave the locale at "C". * Bug #645216 - Fix wrong permissions on server result in bogus error message. * Change default post date: * customer invoices: post at the current date * bills/vouchers: post at the last date on the bill/voucher * Bug #658244 - Custom css stylesheet and logo in Tax Invoice report require protocol in exported HTML * Bug #655901 - Fix build with guile 2.0 Patch by Petr Gajdos * Fix critical error regarding the color tabs when trying to display the search results and also on the scheduled transactions template. * Patch by Robert Fewell In 2.4.8, the following languages had their translations updated: Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Russian, Hungarian. 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, Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows. Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.