The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 2.6.21, the twenty-second and
final, final maintenance release in the 2.6-stable series. This snap release
fixes a brace of significant bugs that would have prevented some users from
having a 2.6.x fallback after using GnuCash 3.x. Note: This is the last version
of GnuCash that will support MacOS X versions earlier than 10.9 or Microsoft
Windows versions earlier than Windows 7.
Changes
Between 2.6.19 and 2.6.21, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
Bug 795049 - GnuCash 2.6.20-1 (Fedora Linux package) is unable to open
MariaDB database.
Bug 795068 - src/optional/python-bindings missing several files.
Bug 795078 - missing _inflateValidate symbol has recurred in 2.6.20 on
MacOS.
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
Since this is a snap release there is no new documentation release.
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:
2c3bed2a9366ac0def3e1abf39e148b2850f5ef34c99d0497acd2643db4ffa58
gnucash-2.6.21.tar.bz2
c6d78471253f06e701198ac27a613d08e2d74ead7f723ab98f5988b3ffc591df
gnucash-2.6.21.tar.gz
159bdd06b11535c569c6fccb0a44c5052e428ea64ea365118675431b2836ed06
gnucash-2.6.21-setup.exe
8fc8e5186f9939abe041b224ddaaac295ff7ae88b8210be456c0c6e2df19fc8a
Gnucash-Intel-2.6.21-1.dmg
137fd4692a116de88300fcb1e8694ff52d80f4e199103c461725ec1ebb349d56
Gnucash-PPC-2.6.21-1.dmg
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-2.6.20.setup.exe
Download GnuCash for Mac-Intel:
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/Gnucash-Intel-2.6.20-1.dmg
Download GnuCash for Mac-PPC:
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/Gnucash-PPC-2.6.20-1.dmg
Github
Download GnuCash for Win32:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.6.20/gnucash-2.6.20.setup.exe
Download GnuCash for Mac-Intel:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.6.20/Gnucash-Intel-2.6.20-1.dmg
Download GnuCash for Mac-PPC:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.6.20/Gnucash-PPC-2.6.20-1.dmg
Getting GnuCash as source code
If you want to compile GnuCash 2.6.20 for yourself, the source code can be
downloaded from:
Sourceforge:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.6.20.tar.bz2
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-2.6.20.tar.gz
Github:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.6.20/gnucash-2.6.20.tar.bz2
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.6.20/gnucash-2.6.20.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.
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 Documentation page of the GnuCash website. The
2.6.20 documentation can be found under "GnuCash v3 (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 2.6.20 for yourself, the source
code can be downloaded from:
Sourceforge:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-docs-2.6.20.tar.gz
GitHub:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/2.6.20/gnucash-docs-2.6.20.tar.gz
You can also checkout the sources directly from the git repository as
described at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git.
Detailed instructions for building GnuCash may be found at
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building and for the Documentation at
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Initializing_Documentation_Build_Environment.
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.