John Ralls
2016-Mar-28 21:12 UTC
ANNOUNCE: Announcement: GnuCash 2.6.12 Release 2016-03-28
GnuCash 2.6.12 released
The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 2.6.12, the twelfth maintenance
release in the 2.6-stable series. Please take the tour of all the new features.
Changes
Between 2.6.11 and 2.6.12, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
Bug 482186 - Customer and vendor report for partners who get invoiced/paid in
foreign currency show total labeled with the symbol of the default currency
Bug 620281 - Adding reversing transaction to bill transactions creates
undeleteable transactions
Bug 642292 - General Ledger report - 'Primary Sort Key' value is not
persistent
Bug 687504 - Not possible to reset an invoice/bill counter format
Bug 693342 - Print (bottom) prints to middle for 3-check pages
Bug 719904 - Decide payment type only based on the account type involved
Bug 720934 - Barcharts with many data points have overlapping x-axis labels
Bug 722996 - Cannot add stock price on Price Editor
Bug 723689 - Splash screen doesn't set the floating hint.
Bug 728074 - Posting bill converts currency to itself using 0 rate
Bug 728722 - Setting number format details appear wrong in Help, section
10.3.4. Counters Book Options Tab
Bug 733164 - [MacOSX] Command-H Invokes Help->Help Contents
Bug 742352 - Budget Summary section does not show expense totals
Bug 744157 - Tip about subaccount is confusing
Bug 754209 - Bills can be posted from "find bill" search results
even if bill is already posted and results in extra $ posted to A/P
Bug 754856 - scheduled transaction fails without warning
Bug 756469 - CSV Invoice Import - Items with double quote escape not
imported.
Bug 760015 - guile support is automagic
Bug 760529 - Get Quotes updates value just once per day
Bug 760711 - Non-ASCII characters not shown in Report Name when a report is
created with 2.6.12
Bug 762971 - Duplicating multiple invoices results in invoices without an ID
number
Bug 763111 - commodities prices editor creates hidden db entries
Bug 763146 - Invalid exchange rate is recorded when entering multi-currency
transaction
Bug 763279 - GnuCash has empty reports in recent Gentoo builds.
Some other fixes not associated with reported bugs:
Various memory leaks.
More multi-currency fixes related to bug 763146.
Be more liberal in accepting business counter custom formats: li, lli, I64i,
and whatever is defined to G_GINT_64 or PRIx64 on the system on which GnuCash is
compiled.
Correctly re-value splits when the transaction currency is changed.
Reset the transaction currency to match the currently open account when
auto-completing.
Refine the MacOS X localization when the system-generated POSIX locale
isn't a supported locale: Prefer the country to language when selecting an
alternate locale, but still pass the original language to gettext.
Check printing: extract address from invoice/bill for payment transactions.
Robert Fewell has contributed changes needed to allow the 2.6 series to read
files from future major versions which use GUIDs instead of names to identify
matched accounts with the Bayesian import matcher.
Translations Updated:Azeri, Basque, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Czech,
Danish, Dutch, Farsi, Japanese, Kinyarwandan, Portuguese, Slovak, Serbian,
Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.
Important update notification
If you are updating from gnucash 2.6.0-2.6.4 on linux, you are advised to remove
the guile user cache or several parts of gnucash may fail to work properly. This
user cache can be found in .cache/guile/ccache/2.0-LE-8-2.0/ in your home
directory. It's safe to remove the whole contents of this directory.
Note .cache is a hidden folder in your home directory. You may have to change
your file manager's settings in order to view hidden files and folders.
Documentation
Concurrent with the release of Gnucash 2.6.12 we're pleased to also release
a new version 2.6.12 of the companion Help and Tutorial and Concepts Guide.
New Portuguese Translations from Pedro Albuquerque!
Bug 639776 - Update instructions for updating quote prices by cron.
Bug 649283 - Add links to where common report preferences are set.
Bug 728722 - Setting number format details appear wrong in Help, section
10.3.4. Counters Book Options Tab
Bug 729265 - Update documentation for Invoice and Bill payments to reflect
the new features.
Bug 761025 - Add missing sect Guide ch2.8: New book options in New Acct
Hierarchy.
Bug 762088 - Remove Section 9.4.3 From Guide that offered simplistic advice
about money and life that does nothing to explain GnuCash functionality or use.
Bug 762656 - Add note to Guide section 2.3.3 For Column Widths
Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS X
GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows XP? and later and MacOS X 10.5
(Leopard)? and later in pre-built, all-in-one packages. An installer is provided
for Microsoft Windows? while the MacOS X? package is disk image containing a
drag-and-drop application bundle.
SourceForge:
Win32
Intel
PPC
Github
Win32
Intel
PPC
Getting GnuCash as source code
If you want to compile GnuCash 2.6.12 for yourself, the source code can be
downloaded from:
Sourceforge: bzip2, all files.
Github: gzip
You can also checkout the sources directly from the git repository as
described here.
To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need at least
Gnome 2, Guile, and slib. In addition you will need swig if compiling from git.
Please consult the README file in the sources for the exact list of dependencies
and versions.
Getting the documentation
The documentation is available at Documentation page of the GnuCash website.
The 2.6.12 documentation can be found under "GnuCash v2.6 (current stable
release)" in multiple languages both for reading online and for download in
pdf, epub, and mobi formats.
If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 2.6.12 for yourself, the
source code can be downloaded from:
Sourceforge or GitHub
You can also checkout the sources directly from the git repository as
described here.
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.