John Ralls
2017-Jul-03 04:11 UTC
ANNOUNCE: Announcement: GnuCash 2.6.17 Release 2017-07-02
GnuCash 2.6.17 released
The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 2.6.17, the seventeenth
maintenance release in the 2.6-stable series.
Changes
Between 2.6.16 and 2.6.17, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
Bug 603379 - Prevent changing some Account Options if it has transactions
Relax the account type change restrictions. In the new implementation account
types can't be changed for an account with splits:
if the change woud force a commodity change e.g. from type STOCK to BANK
as the former takes only non-currency commodities and the latter only currency.
for immutable accounts
At the time of this commit the following account types are considered
immutable:
Accounts Receivable
Accounts Payable
Trading accounts
Bug 776396 - Foreign currency reports, amounts are not aligned correctly
Improve the styling of the table element used for foreign currencies in the
Balance sheet report so they end up aligned with the other currencies.
Bug 780845 - link in github repo README file needs correction/editing
Bug 780889 - Split-register transactions result in invalid price:type
"transaction" Add 'transaction' to the schema and document it
in gnc-pricedb.h.
Bug 781476 - Online Banking Wizard Crashes for Windows (gnucash-on-windows)
Bug 781634 - Alert on missing account currency when opening account Also
separate translatable commodity namespace strings from those used in storage:
There is now a separate GNC_COMMODITY_NS_ISO_GUI label to be used everywhere the
user needs to read 'Currency namespace'. It's currently set to
'Currencies' and can be translated.
Bug 782274 - Transactions produced by Transfer Funds or Process Payment
dialogs sort to beginning of day and do not honor NUM field for custom sorting.
Bug 782897 - Stock Split Assistant crashes GnuCash if you enter a New Price
and that already exists in the Price DB
Bug 783095 - gnucash-2.6.16 segfaults on startup
Bug 784317 - typo in 'import customers or vendors from text file'
dialog
Some other fixes not associated with reported bugs:
Fix crash on Mac when trying to create or edit an AQBanking User.
(gnucash-on-osx)
Properly define the template namespace rather than using a local string
everywhere
Correctly store time64 0 in the SQL backend: The SQL backend ignored time64
0 when saving dates. time64 is a perfectly valid timestamp (1970-01-01 00:00:00)
and should be stored.
Clamp time64 values passed to GDateTime functions to the valid range. Fixes
a bug reported on the mailing list wherein a date of 0000-00-00 in a MySql
database would crash GnuCash. Such dates may come from a bad conversion of
1970-01-01 or from a crash.
Add XSU to iso-4217-currencies
Some banks include additional purpose information for a transaction in
non-swift-section 17 (aka transaction text). If available, this transaction text
is put in front of the other purpose texts to provide full transaction
information. Adds a preference to control import behaivour of transaction text.
Translation Updates: Arabic, Japanese, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish
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 2.6.17 we're pleased to also release
a new version 2.6.17 of the companion Help and Tutorial and Concepts Guide.
Bug 781711: Add reversing transaction definition
Bug 781714: Add Reversing Transaction text for Help document
Improve German translation of gnucash-guidem fix some typos, reconstruct
some rev. history
Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS X
GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows XP? and later and MacOS X 10.5
(Leopard)? 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.
The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are:
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gnucash-2.6.17.tar.bz2
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gnucash-2.6.17.tar.gz
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gnucash-2.6.17.setup.exe
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Gnucash-Intel-2.6.17-1.dmg
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Gnucash-PPC-2.6.17-1.dmg
>84c79c333937ccfdcc0b94f9eec78b707e27043402560c3fbc85a3eefa211c56
gnucash-docs-2.6.17.tar.gz
SourceForge:
Win32
Intel
PPC
Github
Win32
Intel
PPC
Getting GnuCash as source code
If you want to compile GnuCash 2.6.17 for yourself, the source code can be
downloaded from:
Sourceforge: bzip2, all files.
Github: gzip
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.
Getting the documentation
The documentation is available at Documentation page of the GnuCash website.
The 2.6.17 documentation can be found under "GnuCash v2.6 (current stable
release)" in multiple languages both for reading online and for download in
pdf, epub, and mobi formats.
If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 2.6.17 for yourself, the
source code can be downloaded from:
Sourceforge or GitHub
You can also checkout the sources directly from the git 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.