The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 4.6, the sixth release in the
stable 4.x series
Between 4.5 and 4.6, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
Bug 648335 - Display Created Transactions setting
Add a preference for the 'Review Created Transactions' setting in
the 'Since Last Run' dialog so that the default can be specified.
Bug 743753 - Nearest in time security price selection is incorrect in
reports
Add new price source - 'nearest before report date' will ignore
prices *after* report date.
Bug 743999 - Deleting a digit from an existing number greater than four
digits in length generates an error message.
Because the grouping is off. Checking grouping on input is pointless so just
ignore the grouping separator when parsing number input.
Bug 753283 - Current Selection Highlight Lost After Transaction Edit in
Scheduled Transaction Window
Bug 787813 - Price change from editing a transaction not reflected in
pricedb.
Bug 794877 - Intro text of "Online Banking Setup" is outdated
Bug 795804 - Extremely slow save
Only update the status bar when the percentage changes by at least 1%
because running the mainloop is expensive on macOS and Microsoft Windows. This
speeds up all operations that run the progress bar with overly-fine resolution.
Bug 796761 - Newline (char(10)) is inserted into the end of the string if
copy & paste text from excel into the description field of transaction
Bug 797787 - Feature request: preference setting to open new tabs adjacent
to currently active tab
tests preference; if enabled then new tab inserted after current. if
disabled then new tab is at the end.
Bug 797928 - Since last run asks for security price when no shares traded
Bug 798093 - Changing the symbol/abbreviation of a security after the
trading account was created breaks GnuCash.(Reopened)
Bug 798133 - Gnucash crash when any custom action is entered
Bug 798144 - Reconciliation uses different number than entered
If a number was pasted into the balance end value with a currency symbol the
number would silently fail on evaluate and cause the wrong value to be used.
With previous changes to the GNCAmountEdit widget a warning symbol will indicate
a validation error and prevents going forward.
Bug 798148 - "Accounts" page Present (USD) column uses future
prices
Bug 798151 - Value entry box not tied to associated transaction in Since
Last Run assistant
Bug 798156 - glib 2.68.0 breaks gnucash
Bug 798159 - Keyboard shortcut bug in 'manage document link'
Bug 798162 - Type Ahead Initialization Problem
Bug 798170 - Unbound variable: gnc-budget-lookup when running saved report
Budget Report via gnucash-cli
Bug 798177 - Price of new stock transactions not saved in price database
Bug 798186 - Incorrect result editting account in register when overtyping a
part selection.
Bug 798188 - The Invoice Editor -> Printable Invoice toolbar button
crashes on Windows
Bug 798196 - not building with Boost 1.76
Bug 798199 - Pasting invalid value in date column crashes GnuCash
Bug 798202 - Register input ignores theme on KDE rendering black text on
black background
Bug 798203 - g_assert fault while reversing transaction
Bug 798204 - Creation of Imbalance Accounts
Bug 798212 - right-click the down-arrow in the date register changes focus
to first split
The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:
Improve transaction sorting on effective num field so that alpha charachters
and numbers larger than 1 billion will be ordered. Ordering is now numeric for
leading numbers (so that 9 sorts before 10) and lexical beginning with the first
non-numeric character. Note that if one of the values begins with an alpha
character ordering will be entirely lexical. Lexical sorting is localized; as in
the rest of GnuCash only standard ASCII numbers (codepoints U+0030 - U+0039) are
treated as numbers.
Add import preferences for the difference in time considered when matching
an existing transaction to an imported one. A difference less than the
matching-date-threshold raises the score of the match; a difference greater than
match-date-not-threshold lowers the score.
Add experimental report "IFRS weighted-average cost basis report".
This is a work-in-progress to help calculate the cost basis of securities priced
in a foreign currency.
[income-gst-statement] amend headers post Brexit. UK left EU, therefore VAT
headers have now changed.
Plug a bunch of memory leaks.
Change how the print_info is obtained for the register: Currently the
register sets up some 'print_info' values using the default account but
if the register is a stock register they should be obtained from a parent
account with a currency.
Change monetary value for gnc_default_share_print_info: Share values are not
currencies so set the monetary value to 0 for the GNCPrintAmountInfo
Parse the register monetary cells for a currency symbol: Add the ability to
strip the currency symbol from a registry monetary cell if it is pasted with one
so it can be validated.
SKR-49 Account Template: Add codes 4500-4504, drop a duplicate, correct code
0674.
[gnc-plugin-page-register] Disable reverse on blank split
Make balancing transactions with trading accounts easier by removing and
recalculating all trading splits. This ensures that there will be only one
trading split pair per exchange and relieves the user of having to adjust the
trading splits to match the accounting splits.
Don't bother scrubbing for orphans if there's no transaction
currency. If it found one it would try to create an orphan account with no
currency which will crash later.
[chartjs] upgrade chartjs to 2.9.4. Fixes CVE-2020-7746
[report-core] disallow define-report with incomplete export info. If
exporting is allowed, 'export-types and 'export-thunk must both be
defined.
[test-engine-extras] augment book data generators
ignore .vscode folder
Reorder and relabel price source list for better coherence
Python Bindings: Provide a deprecated GncPriceDB.lookup_latest_before_t64 to
avoid breaking user scripts.
Update gnucash_core.py with gnc-pricedb function name change
Change some functions to use const gnc_commodity for gnc_pricedb
Reformat schedule transaction source files for white space
Add depreciation warnings for the removal of individual option tool tips
Remove individual tool tips from radio button options
Removes the function gnc_option_permissible_value_description
ESC key was not working on load of Scheduled Transaction Editor
[budget.scm] show correct tooltip for report option
[html-acct-table] Remove unused 'pre-adjusting balances option
Bugfix: export-code for category-barchart reports would fail.
This stems from trying to handle file-name when calling export code. Export
code no longer require file-name, The export-code returns a string in the
html-document object instead. Remove all file-name handling in reports. No
backward compatibility issues because most users would not copy a GnuCash
>=4.6 report code onto a <4.5 installation.
[gnucash-cli] improve discoverability of export-type. Formerly, selecting
--export-type EXT would dump the cryptic "Report REPORTNAME has no export
code". Modify to hint the user on acceptable reports with export-code.
New API
[report-utilities] Functions to dump splits in whole book:
gnc:dump-book - splits grouped by account
gnc:dump-all-transactions - splits grouped by transaction
gnc:dump-split - dumps single split
Rename a couple of gnc-pricedb functions that have not been used:
gnc_pricedb_lookup_latest_before_t64 to
gnc_pricedb_lookup_nearest_before_t64
gnc_pricedb_lookup_latest_before_any_currency_t64 to
gnc_pricedb_lookup_nearest_before_any_currency_t64
Add retrieval functions for price before the date given:
gnc_pricedb_convert_balance_nearest_before_price_t64 that retrieves the
balance using the last price dated before a specified date like today for the
preset value.
gnc_pricedb_get_nearest_before_price does the retrieval.
Deprecations
gnc:get-start-next-year
gnc:get-end-next-year
gnc:get-start-next-month
gnc:get-end-next-month
gnc:get-start-next-quarter
nc:get-end-next-quarter
gnc:get-one-month-ago
gnc:get-one-month-ahead
gnc:account-code-less-p
gnc:account-name-less-p
Chinese (Simplified) translation moved from the Gnu Translation Project to
weblate
New and Updated Translations: Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese
(Traditional), Croatian, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian,
Italian, Japanese, Norwegian Bokm?l, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil),
Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian
Known Problems
Complete list of all open bugs:
https://bugs.gnucash.org/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=blocker&bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=major&bug_severity=normal&bug_severity=minor&bug_severity=trivial&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=REOPENED&limit=0&list_id=8149&order=priority%2Cbug_severity&query_format=advanced
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Documentation
Concurrent with the release of GnuCash 4.6 we're pleased to also release a
new version of the companion Help and Tutorial and Concepts Guide
Between 4.5 and 4.6, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
Bug 798178 - : Wrong Color in Scheduled Transactions Window text
Bug 798217 - minor mistakes in Tutorial and Concepts guide
The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:
Update ch_invest.xml
Help/C: New screenshots, remove unused images, and image optimization
New help/de/figures/Main-window-callouts + helper files
Add ENTITY vers-last-2 for reference of major changes
Make calibre optional in cmake
Create Github actions to replace TravisCI
Fixes reference to Help Manual
Help: link Setup for Online Transactions in C, de
Help: Replace most <literallayout> by <screen>
Help pt: Add missing xmlns:xi parameters
Replace most <literallayout> by <screen>; <screen> uses
Monospace while <literallayout> keeps the default (proportional) font
Backport of improvements from de/Help_ch_GUIMenus.xml
Added new menu items
Corrected the order of menu items
Removed duplicate descriptions
insert <accel>-Tags
Update PACKAGE_URL of configure.ac
xmlformat all docs
EEC became EU decades ago, but we had still references
Several fixes of shortcuts in C and pt
Check for " >" to avoid unwanted wraps
Add xmlformat incl. configuration
Improve the wiki link in the note for translators
New and Updated Translations: German
Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS
GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows 8.1? and later and MacOS 10.13
(High Sierra)? and later in pre-built, all-in-one packages. An installer is
provided for Microsoft Windows? while the MacOS? package is a disk image
containing a drag-and-drop application bundle.
The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are:
251b01dfb9f9c679db26926f934ca4d13c7092a485be04f60e2031d85a445733
gnucash-4.6.tar.bz2
ad3a6ec1f5fdf15fd167808cf351bc1aa7c012ea03a16c73a3d1c29bbd59a03d
gnucash-4.6.tar.gz
1d641691a5c6c4e6cfb32438175c242bdcfb2f1c497db35fc66b4fecd9f084b2
gnucash-4.6.setup.exe
1d641691a5c6c4e6cfb32438175c242bdcfb2f1c497db35fc66b4fecd9f084b2
Gnucash-Intel-4.6-1.dmg
1d641691a5c6c4e6cfb32438175c242bdcfb2f1c497db35fc66b4fecd9f084b2
gnucash-docs-4.6.tar.gz
Microsoft Windows:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.6/gnucash-4.6.setup.exe
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/4.6/gnucash-4.6.setup.exe
Apple macOS:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.6/Gnucash-Intel-4.6-1.dmg
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/4.6/Gnucash-Intel-4.6-1.dmg
GnuCash is now available as a flatpak from Flathub.org. Instructions for
installing and running may be found at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak.
Note that at the time of this announcement the flathub.org build is broken
because of a problem with Finance::Quote installation. We will get a release up
there as soon as we can resolve the issue.
Getting GnuCash as source code
If you want to compile GnuCash 4.6 for yourself, the source code can be
downloaded from:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.6/gnucash-4.6.tar.bz2
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.6/gnucash-4.6.tar.gz
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/4.6/gnucash-4.6.tar.bz2
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/4.6/gnucash-4.6.tar.gz
You can also checkout the sources directly from the git repository, see
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git for instructions.
To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need at least Gtk+
3.24, Guile 2.0, Boost 1.54, WebKitGtk 2.4, GoogleTest 1.7.0, cmake 3.10 and
SWIG 2.0.12. Please consult the README.dependencies file in the sources for the
exact list of dependencies and versions.
Getting the documentation
If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 4.6 for yourself, the source
code can be downloaded from:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/4.6/gnucash-docs-4.6.tar.gz
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/4.6/gnucash-docs-4.6.tar.gz
Note that the documentation for stable releases is not on the GnuCash website.
It is built daily and may be found on the development server under the locale
directory; "C" is English, "de" is German, and so on.
The documentation is included in the MacOS and Windows application bundles.
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, MacOS, and
Microsoft Windows. Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable
release was in 1998.