The Gnucash Development Team is pleased to release Gnucash 2.7.8, the ninth
release of an unstable series leading to Gnucash 3.0. This release is a Release
Candidate: If no bugs requiring major work are reported the next release will be
3.0.
This release changes file locations, binding APIs, report options, and can make
your data file no longer compatible with previous versions. See
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/UpdateNotes for details.
The following bugs are fixed only in unstable/master:
Bug 787439 - Segmentation Fault in Transfer dialog after clearing Date field
and pressing escape.
Bug 794242 - Remove keep above setting for assistant hierarchy
Other repairs not marked as bugs in git:
When doing a file save from the a new start we have no key file
Stop critical error due to testing null filename
More transient-parent fixes.
Add missing response section to the account picker dialog.
Glade 3.20 adds surplus padding option to action area
Add XML namespaces for all Account Hierarchy Templates.
Increase default options dialog size
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-2.7.8.setup.exe
Download GnuCash for Mac-Intel:
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/Gnucash-Intel-2.7.8-1.dmg
Github
Download GnuCash for Win32:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.7.8/gnucash-2.7.8.setup.exe
Download GnuCash for Mac-Intel:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.7.8/Gnucash-Intel-2.7.8-1.dmg
Getting GnuCash as source code
If you want to compile GnuCash 2.7.8 for yourself, the source code can be
downloaded from:
Sourceforge:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.7.8.tar.bz2
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.7.8.tar.gz
Github:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.7.8/gnucash-2.7.8.tar.bz2
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.7.8/gnucash-2.7.8.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:
380c08d73b91d381a0197c108e672c20341c894bebb4ae98e9ab74df2a659797
gnucash-2.7.8.tar.bz2
758f822d62d1249455f3580f1f587ed80fc30e915a56b36095ae545e9a38b4da
gnucash-2.7.8.tar.gz
3126e50a4194fe747efb6f8385d2c224a4c31c103cf523ffc54e7df1a29c976b
gnucash-2.7.8.setup.exe
e1c4e66401d2d69d71bb592c33a2c45a20298b518936dedcc6b9ededf7ae6bdc
GnuCash-Intel-2.7.8-1.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.