GnuCash 2.6.1 released
The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.6.1, the first release
in our new 2.6-stable series. Please take the tour of all the new features.
Changes
Mike Alexander has extensively reworked the Advanced Portfolio Report.
Between 2.6.0 and 2.6.1, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
Bug #454827: Reports: Incorrect share value of stocks in foreign currency
Bug #553020: Reports: Incorrect share value of stocks in foreign currency
Bug #555182: Security Type template hidden
Bug #605991: Help button on New and Edit Job dialogs brings up wrong help
page.
Bug #677489: Critical error reported when initializing an Invoice
Bug #721211: Reconciliation checkboxes fail to sync for split transactions
across sub-accounts
Bug #721251: Incorrect Transaction Dates
Bug #721260: Crash on startup: gnucash cannot handle default locale
Bug #721290: SX Editor: Pressing "Enter" too soon hides
transaction
Bug #721306: Account hierarchy column widths are reset when restarting a
second time without changing the widths
Bug #721447: Entries with values of ,50 are imported as ,51
Bug #721464: Program won???t open the website link
Bug #721576: Gnucash can not work with files, that have russian symbols in
path.
Bug #721600: Segmentation fault on startup if report Income/Expense Chart
was opened since last running
Bug #721607: fix GnuCash version numbers and remove/update links.
Bug #721667: Accelerator key map loaded from one file and saved
Bug #721770: "Choose accounts to create" has no effect
Bug #721791: Segmentation fault when correcting invalid date
Bug #721825: Online prices displayed as unreadable fractions in 2.6.0
Bug #721913: Fetch Rate crashes application
Bug #721929: Importing a customer list causes a crash.
Bug #721954: Multiple Scheduled Transaction Editors
Bug #721966: --add-price-quotes ignoring compress files preference
Bug #722035: Missing space in the Spanish translation of msgid "Total
For "
Bug #722123: Zero price entry added to price database on stock purchase
Translations Updated: Catalan, Danish, German, Italian
Documentation
Concurrent with the release of Gnucash 2.6.1 we're pleased to also release a
new version 2.6.1 of the companion Help and Tutorial and Concepts Guide.
Changes between documentation versions 2.6.0 and 2.6.1 include:
First documention updates for credit notes
Adapt migration documentation to gsettings introduction
Move most of the text regarding business features from guide to help,
correct links and wording and many small improvements.
Add information about the Business tab in book options window.
Enable building Japanese PDF without requiring Debian or downloading fonts
from anywhere.
Add Fedora font paths
Adjust image after [23668] update.
Doc/guide/C: add cash account to accts-examples-organization2
Docs/guide/de: minor corrections of spelling and an extension by Martin
Mainka
Update Italian translation of guide.
Update instructions for Italian translation to adapt them to new generic
langcode.
Getting GnuCash for Windows (Win32 binary)
The Gnucash 2.6.1 Win32 setup executable can be downloaded from Sourceforge. It
will install everything needed to run GnuCash.
Mac OSX binary
The Gnucash 2.6.1 MacOS X Intel and PPC packages can be downloaded from
Sourceforge as well.
Getting GnuCash as source code
If you want to compile GnuCash 2.6.1 for yourself, the source code can be
downloaded from:
Sourceforge: bzip2, all files.
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.
Reading the documentation online
An online version of the documentation is available on the Documentation page of
the GnuCash website. The 2.6.1 documentation can be found under "GnuCash
v2.6 (current stable release)" in multiple languages.
Getting GnuCash Documentation in pdf, epub or mobi formats
The documentation can equally be downloaded in pdf, epub or mobi formats from
the Documentation page of the GnuCash website. The 2.6.1 documentation can be
found under "GnuCash v2.6 (current stable release)" in multiple
languages.
Getting GnuCash Documentation as source code
If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 2.6.1 for yourself, the source
code can be downloaded from:
Sourceforge
You can also checkout the sources directly from the subversion 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.