GnuCash 2.7.1 released
The Gnucash Development Team is pleased to release Gnucash 2.7.1, thesecond
release of an unstable series leading to Gnucash 2.8.0.
This release is UNSTABLE and SHOULD NOT BE USED in production.
See the KNOWN PROBLEMS list at the bottom of the announcement.
Bugs fixed in this release
Bug 789298 - Prompt for file history update leads to crash during startup.
Some other fixes not associated with reported bugs:
GnuCash no longer crashes on startup on Windows.
GnuCash no longer crashes when loading price data.
The Options Dialogs will appear over the application window instead of
wherever Gdk decides is coordinates 0, 0 on the display.
Owners were not correctly linked to invoices in the SQL backend.
Building from a tarball with python enabled now works.
Fix Reconcile dialog always showing a 0 ending balance.
Fix the book being always marked dirty at startup if it contained any
scheduled transactions.
KNOWN PROBLEMS:
On Microsoft Windows starting the AQBanking Setup Wizard crashes GnuCash.
test-import-bayes built with autotools intermittently fails at line 381,
where the returned value is 1 instead of the expected 6.
Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS X
GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows XP? and later and MacOS X 10.9
(Mavericks)? and later in pre-built, all-in-one packages. An installer is
provided for Microsoft Windows? while the MacOS X? package is a disk image
containing a drag-and-drop application bundle.
The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are:
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gnucash-2.7.1.tar.bz2
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gnucash-2.7.1.tar.gz
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gnucash-2.7.1.setup.exe
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Gnucash-Intel-2.7.1-1.dmg
SourceForge:
Win32
Mac-Intel
Github
Win32
Mac-Intel
Getting GnuCash as source code
If you want to compile GnuCash 2.7.1 for yourself, the source code can be
downloaded from:
Sourceforge: bzip2, all files.
Github: bzip WARNING Do not try to use the github-generated files
labelled "Source Code". They have not been processed with swig and
will not build.
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.
Please refer to the "Nightly Builds" section at the bottom of the
page.
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.