GnuCash 2.6.20 Releaseed

The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 2.6.20, the tsenty-first and final maintenance release in the 2.6-stable series. 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 2.6.20, the following bugfixes were accomplished:

• Bug 765846 - Expense Over Time for subaccounts: An error occurred while running the report: Fix crash if acc-depth too low.
• Bug 790526 - Mathematical bug This change will fix 'num-of-weeks-since-1/jan/1970' which formerly used quotient to remove the fractional part of the division. For negative values of num-of-weeks, the number is truncated in the wrong direction (i.e. towards 0). This change uses floor instead to ensure the num-of-weeks found is the nearest integer LESS than the fractional number.
• Bug 791848 - GC 2.6.x does not handle ISO dates introduced with GC 2.7 Enable reading ISO-formatted dates, recognize GNC_FEATURE_SQLITE3_ISO_DATES.
• Bug 792008 - gnucash 2.6.19 fails to build Replace g_assert_true with g_assert for now
• Bug 793278 - wrong data in charts with accumulated values (like "net-linechart", "net-barchart" and "liabilities barchart")
• Bug 794030 - relative date functions compute wrong day of month

Some other fixes not associated with reported bugs:

• Online HBCI actions: Remove outdated non-SEPA menu items.
• Add XML namespaces for all Account Hierarchy Templates.
• General cleanup of Account Hierarchy Templates.
• Fix auto-selection of splits in reconcile. Really use all splits of any given day. Up to now usually the splits of the given date were not or not all included, as the time comparison didn't correctly ignore any given time-of-day of the splits. Instead, all possible time-of-days should be included.
• Properly detect git in case of linked worktree.
• Account Hierarchy for India: Set LANGUAGE=hi and LANG=en_IN to access it.
• Improve Import menu entries Customer & vendors use same menu label as others, replace template by tooltip, add ellipsis to entry, add comments to distinguish "Import" as verb and substantive.
• Provide preference panel to set the Alpha Vantage API key needed for Finance::Quote.
• Correct the appstream definition to match the current spec.
• Fix collectors and min-date handling in reports.

Translation Updates: Dutch, German, Spanish, Russian

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 2.6.20 we're pleased to also release a new version 2.6.20 of the companion Help and Tutorial and Concepts Guide.

• Bug 782423 - Help 10.2. Setting Preferences is outdated.
• Changing text in Help to reflect changes in Preferences dialogs.
• Translation of the german guides metafile

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. Links appear above this announcement.

The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are:

• 44baf7d0133b8bdc9fcb819ee4360afaca2f03a1a254c0221d02e23f35c93025  gnucash-2.6.20.tar.bz2
• 64b463a1c029e42983d8daebc332964ef6a98a2101a6f3b85a047e45c03a5eef  gnucash-2.6.20.tar.gz
• d985cb4147d3a347ab10090ed12583c65293324d821a45db4f6c0bc5a3718637  gnucash-2.6.20.setup.exe
• c65191166b6bb353385b7d846ca3386ead9b455a916b267130e5172ac461811d  Gnucash-Intel-2.6.20-2.dmg
• 4986d87bfac7b4ad3b8526d4337697c0cdb3ef447f510ced110f764ea4f68ad8  Gnucash-PPC-2.6.20-1.dmg
• 65c9ecf2d45ff432d35f8c955d36475c0f3ccecd271dc21435b091f50c6b08ea  gnucash-docs-2.6.20.tar.gz

Getting GnuCash as source code

If you want to compile GnuCash 2.6.20 for yourself, upi ca download one either gnucash-2.6.20.tar.bz2 or gnucash-2.6.20-tar.gz from the links above. 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 directly from this 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 2.6.20 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 2.6.20 for yourself, download gnucash-docs-2.6.20.tar.gz above or 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.