Announcement: GnuCash 2.6.6 Release 2015-03-30
GnuCash 2.6.6 released
The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.6.6, the sixth
maintenance release in the 2.6-stable series. Please take the tour of all the
new features.
Changes
Between 2.6.5 and 2.6.6, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
Bug #619899 - Use normal gettext or intltool toolchain also for scm files
Bug #649933 - Creating cash flow report takes a long time
Bug #672760 - Postponed transaction applied invalid date
Bug #721196 - CSV. Cannot import lines with empty fields for deposit or
withdrawal in bank transaction download.
Bug #723409 - Incorrect symbol for Turkish lira
Bug #727466 - The symbol of CNY changed to ???
Bug #727647 - "gncInvoiceGetTotal" is not read-only function?
Bug #731889 - guile 2 exports different autoconf macros than what is
expected
Bug #733685 - Fancy Date Format doesn't stick
Bug #738749 - Broken account template en_GB/uk-vat.gnucash-xea.
Bug #739228 - Advanced Portfolio report: wrong calculation of Value
Correctly convert the value into the report's currency.
Bug #739584 - gnucash-2.6.4 segfaults regularly on transfer .
Bug #740471 - Applying payment to invoice Segmentation fault
Bug #741228 - "Red line" threshold applies to Template scheduled
transactions
Bug - Compilation fails because of creating .gnucash
Bug #742089 - Decimal places. Set the debit and credit cells' print_info
to the account so that the decimal places are correct for the commodity.
Bug #742332 - German tax report uses US tax quarters and not real quarters.
Bug #742624 - Scheduled Transaction Editor results in immediate segfault
Bug #743609 - Add configure options to disable libsecret detection
Bug #743807 - Stops critical error messages.
Bug #745265 - Segfault in generate_statusbar_lastmodified_message on
Windows. Actually change the default date format without AM/PM
Bug #745354 - Enhance the Find Transactions dialog. Make it possible to
define search criteria that consist of multiple terms anded or ored together.
Use this to define a new criterion to look for specified text in any of the
Description, Notes, or Memo fields
Bug #746517 - gnc-sql-backend.c compile fails with
-Werror=format-nonliteral. Use GCC pragma to disable the warning in the one
place that trips it
Bug #746977 - scm ccache files should be in pkglibdir not pkgdatadir.
Some other fixes not associated with reported bugs were accomplished:
Let CPAN and ActiveState package managers take care of dependencies instead
of explicitly installing a few of them directly.
Correct the number field displayed in the reconcile window to correspond
with the source specified in File->Options
Fix some bugs found by SWIG version 3.0.5. Prior to version 3.0.3 SWIG
silently ignored invalid preprocessor directives
Scrubbing Improvements, including avoiding a potential infinite loop.
Remove build and run of no-longer-existant intl-scm/guile-strings.
Rewrite gnc-test-env in perl. This eliminates another guile dependency in
the build chain.
Switch from guile to xml to manage our iso-currencies source file
Numeric values with more than commodity smallest fraction get silently
dropped.
Update US Income Tax data to reflect minor changes for 2014
Advanced portfolio should respect report date when looking for other
income/expense
Improve income and expense reporting in advanced portfolio report
Accept prices of the form n.nnne[+-]nn, i.e. with an exponent. An example
requiring this is currency conversion from IDR to USD
Added Lithuanian language business accounts
Fix crash when running check & repair on an open AP/AR register
Translations Updated: Danish, Dutch, German, Spanish
New Translations:Maithili, Manipuri(Bengali Script), Manipuri (Meetei Mayek
Script). Thanks to The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC),
Pune, India. Translation Team Leader: Chandrakant Dhutadmal
Documentation
Concurrent with the release of Gnucash 2.6.6 we're pleased to also release a
new version 2.6.6 of the companion Help and Tutorial and Concepts Guide.
Explain sorting by TXF code within Tax Form Sections
Insert Part designations and update the Basics Chapter
Document latest changes to the Advanced Portfolio Report
Remove obolete sections about "Cannot find default values" left
over from gconf.
Getting GnuCash for Windows (Win32 binary)
The Gnucash 2.6.6 Win32 setup executable can be downloaded from Sourceforge. It
will install everything needed to run GnuCash.
Mac OSX binary
The Gnucash 2.6.6 MacOS X Intel and PPC packages can be downloaded from
Sourceforge as well.
Getting GnuCash as source code
If you want to compile GnuCash 2.6.6 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 2.6.6 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 2.6.6 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 2.6.6 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.