The Gnucash Development Team is pleased to release Gnucash 2.7.5, the sixth
release of an unstable series leading to Gnucash 3.0
Notice that we've decided that beginning with the upcoming major release we
will use two-digit release numbers and that the next stable release will be 3.0.
Maintenance releases will be 3.1, 3.2, etc. The next unstable release will be
3.900 and will lead to 4.0.
This release is UNSTABLE and SHOULD NOT BE USED in production.
This release changes file locations, binding APIs, report options, and can make
your data file no longer compatible with previous versions. See the Update Notes
Page for details.
See the KNOWN PROBLEMS list at the bottom of the announcement.
New Features for Users
* Locate all user data and configuration files to platform-dependent standard
locations:
* Windows: CSIDL_APPDATA/Gnucash
* MacOS: $HOME/Library/Application Support/Gnucash
* Linux: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gnucash (or the default $HOME/.config/gnucash)
GnuCash currently uses the following files in this directory:
log.conf (to set what gets logged to gnucash.trace)
config-user.scm (to add custom scheme code like custom reports; replaces
config.user and config-<version>.user)
gtk-3.0.css (For theming)
On Windows and with the MacOS Gnucash.app we distribute the files will
already be in the correct locations; users will
need to rename any config*.user files to config.scm. On other platforms
except MacOS, where those files were previously
stored in $HOME/.gnucash, GnuCash will move log.conf (if it exists) and the
most recent config*.user, renaming the
latter, automatically. MacOS installations other than our Gnucash.app bundle
will have their data and configuration
files in $HOME/.gnucash but users will have to copy the files to
$HOME/Library/Application Support/Gnucash themselves.
* Further improvements to the Transaction and Income-GST-statement reports.
* Transaction Report: omit display of $0 in subtotals in other currencies.
Previously in dual-subtotal columns, the dual-
subtotal would attempt to print all commodities in the row. This meant if
user chose common-currency thereby triggering
additional commodities, the dual-subtotal would attempt to add amounts in
other commodities which would be 0, and
display the 0 amount.
For Developers and Distro packagers:
* Some cruft removal in libgnucash/scm plus moving some code to its only use
location. "main.scm" is renamed to
"utilities.scm".
* The "printf" family of Scheme custom functions is replaced with
the built-in "format" facility.
* Change a generally unnecessary warning about being unable to open a module
(usually because the file is still being
created) to a debug message. It appears mostly during highly parallel builds
and was distracting.
* Added dependency information to all CMake targets, replacing a dependency on
build order that was carried over from
autotools. Highly parallel builds in ninja now complete without interuption.
* Ensure that all GtkBuilder and GtkUIManager files are correctly installed
and that no configuration of build products in
those directories are.
* Appstream configuration is updated to the latest spec.
* Fix installation of a gnucash-only gschemas.compiled overwriting the system
one. Note that if you install to a DESTDIR
you'll need to re-run glib-compile-scemas after moving the contents of
$DESTDIR$PREFIX/share/glib-2.0/schemas to
$PREFIX.
* Added two functions to the Scheme option API:
* gnc:option-make-internal! will hide an existing option. e.g. a derived
report can set the value for a Display/*
option and hide it from the user.
* gnc:unregister-option will unregister option. This is primarily useful
for derived options e.g. another report
copies from transaction.scm and removes some options and recreates them
with different parameters.
For example, unregister existing option from section "Accounts"
name "Accounts", and recreate with different parameters
e.g. limited account types.
Bugs fixed in this release
* Bug 787095 - Gnucash Crashes when opening old XML file.
* Bug 792157 - Cannot create account with different currency
* Bug 792833 - User specifies source of 'num' field'; either
transaction number or split action (requires at least GnuCash
2.5.0) Strip leading delimiters from KVP keys when reading them
from the database. Leading delimiters are
incorrectly included in databases created with GnuCash 2.6.x.
* Bug 792883 - cmake: no way to turn off -Werror Prepend settings to
CMAKE_C_FLAGS and CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS so that values
supplied on the command line can override the fixed settings.
* Bug 792884 - cmake: gschemas.compiled missing
* Bug 793122 - 2.7.3: ninja build fails.
* Bug 793155 - Gnucash 2.7.4 crashes on launch MacOS 10.13.4 PB1
* Bug 793278 - wrong data in charts with accumulated values (like
"net-linechart", "net-barchart" and "liabilities
barchart")
* Bug 793568 - "Cash Flow" report crashes
Some other fixes not associated with reported bugs:
* An optimization in the GncDateTime string constructor provides substantial
speed up of loading SQL databases, and one in
Scheduled Transaction creation will speed up creation of large numbers of
scheduled transactions.
* More dialogs have transient-for set so that they pop up over the window
instead of in the upper left-hand corner of the
monitor.
KNOWN PROBLEMS:
* Bug 789594 - Unable to overwrite splite3 database file
* Bug 791823 - There is no Gtk3 theme-setting tool for Windows.
* Bug 791825 - Accounting period dates off-by-1
Updated Translations: German, Greek, Slovak, Spanish
A new set of business account templates for India's new GST; use locale
en_IN to enable them.
Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS
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.
SourceForge:
Download GnuCash for Win32:
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.7.5.setup.exe
Download GnuCash for Mac-Intel:
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/Gnucash-Intel-2.7.5-1.dmg
Github
Download GnuCash for Win32:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.7.5/gnucash-2.7.5.setup.exe
Download GnuCash for Mac-Intel:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.7.5/Gnucash-Intel-2.7.5-1.dmg
Getting GnuCash as source code
If you want to compile GnuCash 2.7.5 for yourself, the source code can be
downloaded from:
Sourceforge:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.7.5.tar.bz2
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.7.5.tar.gz
Github:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.7.5/gnucash-2.7.5.tar.bz2
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.7.5/gnucash-2.7.5.tar.gz
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: git clone
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.
The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are:
1d1596ce367e4e027ff63cb6b3502a1306a3045882caa567ca82e76c28ef224e
gnucash-2.7.5.tar.bz2
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gnucash-2.7.5.tar.gz
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gnucash-2.7.5.setup.exe
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GnuCash-Intel-2.7.5-1.dmg
Please consult the README.dependencies file in the sources for the required
dependencies and versions needed to build GnuCash from source. Additional
information on building GnuCash may be found at
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building.
Getting the documentation
The documentation is available at https://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml. 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.