Announcement: GnuCash 2.6.9 Release 2015-09-27
The GnuCash development team humbly announces GnuCash 2.6.9, the eighth
maintenance release in the 2.6-stable series, a snap release to repair a serious
bug on Microsoft Windows. Please take the tour of all the new features.
Changes
Between 2.6.8 and 2.6.9, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
Bug #755920 - Crash (Freeze) when using File Save As.. in Windows OS Fix
termination of the loop so that it's not dependent upon Linux paths
Bug #755778 - Test failure: test-engine: duplicate test case paths.
Bug #755781 - Files with copyright but no grant of license.
Translations Updated: German.
Important update notification
If you are updating from gnucash 2.6.0-2.6.4 on linux, you are advised to
remove the guile user cache or several parts of gnucash may fail to work
properly. This user cache can be found in .cache/guile/ccache/2.0-LE-8-2.0/ in
your home directory. It's safe to remove the whole contents of this
directory.
Note .cache is a hidden folder in your home directory. You may have to
change your file manager's settings in order to view hidden files and
folders.
Documentation
Concurrent with the release of Gnucash 2.6.9 we're pleased to also
release a new version 2.6.9 of the companion Help and Tutorial and Concepts
Guide.
More German Translations from Mechtilde Stehmann.
Getting GnuCash for Windows (Win32 binary)
The Gnucash 2.6.9 Win32 setup executable can be downloaded from Sourceforge.
It will install everything needed to run GnuCash.
Mac OSX binary
The Gnucash 2.6.9 MacOS X Intel and PPC packages can be downloaded from
Sourceforge as well.
Getting GnuCash as source code
If you want to compile GnuCash 2.6.9 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 2.6.9 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 2.6.9 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 2.6.9 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.