The Gnucash Development Team is pleased to release Gnucash 2.7.3, the fourth release of an unstable series leading to Gnucash 3.0

Notice that we've decided that beginning with the upcoming major release we will use two-digit release numbers and that the next stable release will be 3.0. Maintenance releases will be 3.1, 3.2, etc. The next unstable release will be 3.900 and will lead to 4.0.

This release is UNSTABLE and SHOULD NOT BE USED in production.

This release changes file locations, binding APIs, report options, and can make your data file no longer compatible with previous versions. See the Update Notes Page for details.

See the KNOWN PROBLEMS list at the bottom of the announcement.

With this release we set feature freeze and string freeze. Translators and documentors are implored to begin work so that the localization and documentation will be ready for the 3.0 release.

New Features for Users

• A greatly enhanced Transaction report with many new options and features including a reconciliation report thanks to Chris Lam.
• Removed 6-figure rounding from price calculations, allowing prices to have up to 18 digit precision.
• A flatter storage scheme for Bayes account-matching scores, thanks to Aaron Laws. This is a compatibility change guarded by a feature.
• GnuCash no longer supports Guile-1.8 and now does support Guile-2.2
• A CSV Price importer, thanks to Bob Fewell.
• Enhanced python bindings exposing more GnuCash API thanks to Guy Taylor

Bugs fixed in this release

• Bug 616709 - Pressing delete key while editing account name offers to delete account.
• Bug 771667 - Change reconciled splits warning.

  This patch displays two distinct warnings when changing protected fields of a transaction that contains reconciled splits. If the fields date, num and description are changed, then the warning list the accounts that have reconciled splits and also advises that they will be unreconciled after editing the transaction. If the fields account, transfer, debit or credit are changed then the warning advises that the split will be unreconciled after editing the transaction. There is still just one warning preference as it is all to do with fields protected by reconciliation.

• Bug 787497 - Disabling options cripples dist package

  PARTIAL FIX: WITH_OFX, WITH_SQL and WITH_AQBANKING handling is fixed. The dist files for these features are always included in the dist tarball.

• Bug 790526 - Mathematical bug.
• Bug 791848 - GC 2.6.x does not handle ISO dates introduced with GC 2.7.

  Set a feature to prevent versions older that 2.6.20 from loading a database from which they cannot read the dates. Ideally we would do this only if the database is written to, but the current persistence design includes committing back to the database during the load so the net effect is that the flag would be set anyway. This is a compatibility change guarded by a feature.

Some other fixes not associated with reported bugs:

• Tests now pass in all timezones.
• More dialogs are made "transient for" so that they pop up centered on the main Gnucash window instead of somewhere on the left edge of the screen.
• A lot of Gtk3 issues and errors are fixed, thanks to Bob Fewell.
• Test struct tm* returns from gnc_gmtime and gnc_localtime to ensure that we don't crash for dereffing a nullptr.
• Removed the gnc:numeric type from Scheme code in favor of Scheme's own rational numbers. This allows direct conversion between Scheme numbers and gnc_numeric without the performance or accuracy penalties arising from using doubles as an intermediary.
• Pass KVP paths as a collection of elements instead of a delimited string. This allows keys to contain '/'. Thanks to Aaron Laws.
• Added a frameowrk for migrating preferences.
• Made separate functions for finding a widget's parent window: gnc_ui_get_gtk_window tries to find the immediate parent and gnc_ui_get_main_window tries to find the widget's parent toplevel, returning the first-mapped window.
• Make the splash/lock screen the transient parent for dialog boxes if the main window is not yet mapped.
• Rework directory determination in CMake builds.

  Sets paths for finding componenents depending on the state of ENABLE_BINRELOC, GNC_UNINSTALLED, GNC_BUILDDIR and whether any install paths have been set outside of CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.

  GNUInstallDirs changes the name of CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR depending on the operating system and distro. When CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX is /usr, /usr/local, or any subdirectory of /opt it also changes CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_SYSCONFDIR to /etc. An earlier commit by Aaron Laws mirrors the name of CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR to the build library directory.

  It's possible for builders to set any of the install directories anywhere they please. Setting any directory outside of CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX breaks Binreloc so the toplevel CMakeLists.txt now detects that and disables Binreloc. If Binreloc is enabled then all path queries use it to find paths. This works in the build directory because the gnucash executable and all of the test programs are in build_directory/bin and LIBDIR, DATADIR, and SYSCONFDIR can be found in the same root path. If Binreloc is disabled then in order to build or run programs from the build directory one must set GNC_UNINSTALLED and set GNC_BUILDDIR to the absolute path of the build directory. When those are set GNC_BUILDDIR replaces CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX in all paths that are subdirectories of CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX; paths that are not in CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX are appended whole to GNC_BUILDDIR. This process is constent between CMake and gnc_path_get_foo. GnuCash is unlikely to run from a DESTDIR without Binreloc.

KNOWN PROBLEMS:

• On Microsoft Windows starting the AQBanking Setup Wizard crashes GnuCash.
• test-import-bayes built with autotools intermittently fails at line 381, where the returned value is 1 instead of the expected 6.
• Bug 789594 - Unable to overwrite splite3 database file
• Bug 791823 - There is no Gtk3 theme-setting tool for Windows.
• Bug 791825 - Accounting period dates off-by-1

Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS X

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
• Download GnuCash for Mac-Intel

Github

• Download GnuCash for Win32
• Download GnuCash for Mac-Intel

Getting GnuCash as source code

If you want to compile GnuCash 2.7.3 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:

• Sourceforge: bzip2 tarball, gzip tarball, all files.
• Github: bzip2 tarball, gzip tarball 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 the git repository as described here.

The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are:

• 5ea0912a527874f8410e80f63d94d63608ead2ff4c3ae25a8b203c25d1ee4749  gnucash-2.7.3.tar.bz2
• 3420546911e5cc6aa4ec595cd0566aba49aab4e9b7a5086acf366aaf3edb0288  gnucash-2.7.3.tar.gz
• 71f2d6e16fea330967fc11fcf4a7ee811851ab751913768cae431de6a9f087d1  gnucash-2.7.3.setup.exe
• 47246f9b0da50a80a3d7bb7a894a997d94f3e0bfa1517d0cfc83f97e980fee71  Gnucash-Intel-2.7.3-1.dmg

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 in the Wiki

Getting the documentation

The documentation is available at Documentation page of the GnuCash website. Please refer to the "Nightly Builds" section at the bottom of the page.

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.

Announcement: GnuCash 2.7.2 Release—2017-10-29

GnuCash 2.7.2 released

The Gnucash Development Team is pleased to release Gnucash 2.7.2, the third release of an unstable series leading to Gnucash 2.8.0.

This release is UNSTABLE and SHOULD NOT BE USED in production.

This release changes file locations, binding APIs, report options, and can make your data file no longer compatible with previous versions. See the Update Notes Page for details.

See the KNOWN PROBLEMS list at the bottom of the announcement.

Bugs fixed in this release

• Bug 734865 - Assign as Payment... can silently 'unpay' a payed invoice
  • if the selected transaction is already linked to an existing payment, the payment dialog will present this payment again (same partner, post-to account, same selected document(s), same amount, memo, and transfer account).
  • if the selected transaction is not linked to an existing business transaction the logic will make a best guess as to whether the payment should be for a customer or vendor.
  • in both situations if the existing transaction has multiple splits that can be considered as transfer (or 'payment') splits the payment dialog can't work with it (it can only deal with one transfer split). In this case the user will be informed that only one valid transfer split will be retained and the others ignored.
  • the other thing the payment dialog can't handle are APAR type splits that are not associated to a lot at all. In case of transactions not part of a business transaction they will be silently ignored on the assumptions these were manually entered transactions with the intention to be linked to business transactions. On the other hand if such a split is part of a transaction that is also linked to a business payment already, a warning will be issued these splits will be removed from the new payment.
• Bug 778692 - Assign as payment should work for employee expense vouchers
  • if gnucash can deduce a partner from the transaction that partner will be proposed this works for all transactions that are part of a business transaction already and will correctly detect pre-existing customer, vendor and employee payments
  • if no partner can be deduced gnucash will assume the transaction to be a vendor or customer payment based on the sign
  • in all cases the user can change the partner type in the payment window that's presented to any of customer, vendor or employee to correct gnucash' suggestion.
• Bug 784623 - GNUCash does not work with sql backend.

  Wherin the problem is that MySQL's TIMESTAMP has a date range of 1970-01-01 00:00:01 to 2038-01-19 03:14:07 and is unable to handle time_t of 0. MySQL's TIMESTAMP also assumes that input is in the server's timezone and adjusts it to UTC. GnuCash has already done that conversion.

• Bug 789608 - Compilation problems when linking libraries.
• Bug 789928 - FTBFS with libdbi 0.9.0-5 on Debian.
• Bug 790550 - FTBFS: missing __init__.py

Some other fixes not associated with reported bugs:

• SQL parameter quoting is corrected in the backend so that only string parameters are quoted. This caused trouble when trying to store SQL NULL; the string 'NULL' is different from the value NULL.
• SQL table versions weren't set consistently and a bogus version test could cause some tables to be not loaded.
• Better, more targeted handling of MySQL's penchant for setting date-time fields to "0000-00-00 00:00:00" if it doesn't like the input. This should be much less common thanks to fixing Bug 784623.
• Major repairs to the "Dense Calendar" date selector.
• Fix colors on graph reports so that the selections work and the defaults are no longer transparent.
• Two large batches of styling fixes for Gtk3 from Bob Fewell.
• Fix the guile-compiled path in the environment file so that GnuCash can start on Windows.
• Convert the graphical reports to use GnuCash's rational numbers instead of doubles for better accuracy.

KNOWN PROBLEMS:

• On Microsoft Windows starting the AQBanking Setup Wizard crashes GnuCash.
• test-import-bayes built with autotools intermittently fails at line 381, where the returned value is 1 instead of the expected 6.

Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS X

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
• Download GnuCash for Mac-Intel

Github

• Download GnuCash for Win32
• Download GnuCash for Mac-Intel

Getting GnuCash as source code

If you want to compile GnuCash 2.7.2 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:

• Sourceforge: bzip2 tarball, gzip tarball, all files.
• Github: bzip2 tarball, gzip tarball 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 the git repository as described here.

The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are:

• baa6bae13918da62be58fe09d904ccf38893607e57dae4eba53db4ff96ab61b3  gnucash-2.7.2.tar.bz2
• 567e654f24e611a780ef66d3e92c0da695196594c7611bbfa99e550e04a2ca87  gnucash-2.7.2.tar.gz
• ea5ec52e896e05eec4659088866dca5132374f5e9ed424a4e2ad4d4d072b7be5  gnucash-2.7.2.setup.exe
• 9db9a3482e6bdac56251868d72aea69f30f372c8aeb0362bd9c757975561ec13  Gnucash-Intel-2.7.2-2.dmg

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 in the Wiki

Getting the documentation

The documentation is available at Documentation page of the GnuCash website. Please refer to the "Nightly Builds" section at the bottom of the page.

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.

GnuCash 2.7.0 Released

The Gnucash Development Team is pleased to release Gnucash 2.7.0, the first release of an unstable series leading to Gnucash 2.8.0.

This release is UNSTABLE and SHOULD NOT BE USED in production.

See the KNOWN PROBLEMS list at the bottom of the announcement.

Note: Version information in the splash screen and About dialog will now reflect the date of the last commit used to build GnuCash rather than the date it was compiled. This is to assist quality assurance and debugging efforts by Linux distribution maintainers.

For Users

• The headline item for this release is that GnuCash now uses the Gtk+-3.0 Toolkit and the WebKit2Gtk API. This change was forced on us by some major Linux distributions dropping support for the WebKit1 API. Unfortunately the Webkit project doesn't support Microsoft Windows with the newer API so that platform will continue to use the WebKit1 API, though with Gtk3. We've selected Gtk+-3.14.0 as the minimum version because it fully supports CSS theming. (Geert Janssens, Robert Fewell, and John Ralls)
• There's a new CSV importer largely rewritten in C++, adding new features including the ability to re-import CSV files exported from GnuCash. (Geert Janssens)
• Data file directories are now located appropriately to the operating system's conventions by default. It's still possible to overried with the environment variable GNC_DOC_PATH, which replaces GNC_DOT_DIR in earlier versions of GnuCash. (Geert Janssens)
• Accounts in the Bayes import map are now linked by GUID instead of names so that the matcher won't have to be retrained if you rename an account. This will make your file unreadable by previous versions of gnucash. There's a new editor to remove outdated or incorrect match data from the import maps, a new user interfacs for managing files associated with transactions, an improved facility for removing old prices from the price database, and a way to remove deleted files from the history list in the file menu. (All from Robert Fewell!)
  ^ Numerics are rewritten to allow for more significant digits. The old 6-digit-maximum fraction will be a 9-digit maximum by 2.8. there is still some cleanup required before the limit can actually change. (John Ralls)
• New Income GST Report and some improvements to the Transaction report. (Christopher Lam)
• Chart Reports appearance is improved (Carsten Rinke)

For Developers

• The code is reorganized into a core library directory, libgnucash, and applications-specific directory, gnucash. Code lifted from other projects is in borrowed. (Geert Janssens)
• Several parts of the engine and the SQL backend are rewritten in C++, an effort that will continue in the next development cycle. KVP is now private to libgncmod-engine. Object properties stored using KVP are generally accessible using g_object_get and g_object_set; there is also a more direct access available via qof_instance_get and qof_instance_set. (John Ralls and Aaron Laws)
• KVP and GUID are reimplemnted in C++ using boost::variant and boost::UUID respectively (Aaron Laws).
• The date implementation is migrated to boost::date-time, replacing a Glib GDateTime implementation. This makes the earliest date recordable 1 January 1400CE instead of 1 January 1CE. (John Ralls)
• Distribution tarballs can now be built with CMake as well as Autotools. (Rob Gowin)
• The CuteCash front end has been removed. The code we need from GOffice has been brought into the GnuCash code base so GOffice is no longer a dependency.
• A new Russian translation of the Guide has been started by Dmitriy Mandel. Downloads in the usual formats are available at https://code.gnucash.org/docs/ru/; the HTML is at https://code.gnucash.org/docs/ru/gnucash-guide/.
• There will be no unstable documentation release at this time. There have been very few relatively minor changes to the master documentation branch; those documents may be viewed in the nightly builds at https://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml.

BUGS FIXED (excluding those fixed in the stable branch)

• Bug 87652 - KVP modification does not change 'dirty' flag.
• Bug 120250 - KVP XML loader ignores '0' timestamps?
• Bug 122895 - general ledger should be named journal
• Bug 343227 - Summary bar alignment patch.
• Bug 388500 - Add option to remove deleted files from the history list.

  Allows removing files from the MRU list if they no longer exist.

• Bug 541541 - RFE: auto-hide unused accounts
• Bug 608098 - Option is hard to find: Change Transaction Report to show account names in multirow txn

  On the Transaction report the General->Style option has been replaced with a similar Display->Detail Level option. This was done in order to make the display of some columns dependent on the value of this option.

  When upgrading from 2.6.x or earlier to 2.8.x and you had saved or open reports that had set General->Style to 'Multi-line' you will have to update these reports to set 'Multi-line' on the Display->Detail Level option instead and optionally resave your report.

• Bug 639401 - Invoices Due Reminder.
• Bug 645786 - Fancy invoice report still doesn't use fancy date format preference.
• Bug 647230 - Display the blank split after the "now" line instead of at the end.
• Bug 679791 - Import Template for importing CSV files - part2
• Bug 684719 - Man pages for gnc-fq-* perl scripts.
• Bug 689489 - Be able to show file location

  The file location is now visible in the status bar while hovering over the recent file list of the File menu. The currently open file is the top-most file in this list so its location can be seen by hovering over it with the mouse.

• Bug 695610 - GnuCash Tax Invoice for Australia
• Bug 706021 - Test match text for valid account path
• Bug 726535 - Budget BarChart Report - add option to change to a line chart
• Bug 728136 - Rate in Job
• Bug 729001 - Fix a minor typo affecting the profile option in the previous commit.
• Bug 731589 - Add account level selection on accounts option tab.
• Bug 733186 - [PATCH] Extend account tree view search function.
• Bug 734168 - Tax invoice can be a bill too.
• Bug 737171 - After account creation wizard and saving, empty account window is shown.
• Bug 738462 - Fixes Report Scheme error.
• Bug 738477 - WebKit is broken on Win32.
• Bug 741810 - Compilation fails because of creating .gnucash.
• Bug 747377 - Fix overly restrictive input validation for IBAN of SEPA transfer.
• Bug 752686 - Initialize temp GValues in xaccAccountGetReconcileLastInterval.
• Bug 754530 - Add CSV Export Simple Layout.
• Bug 754533 - Change finish page text for Search and General Journal register exports.
• Bug 756373 - Typos in Transaction Rpt options mouse-over text.
• Bug 757532 - [PATCH] Make start and end rows editable by keyboard.
• Bug 759674 - GNUCash crashes when importing invoices or bills with delimited import.
• Bug 760107 - Change default date completion to sliding window.

  The default date completion when entering partial dates has been changed from "always complete in current calendar year" to "complete to a sliding window starting 11 months before current month". For example if you enter "1/23" (January 23rd) while today is December 10th 2015, the date will be expanded to January 23rd 2016 rather than 2015. If you prefer to keep the old behaviour, you can restore to it via Edit->Preferences->Date/Time->Date Completion. In addition if you were already using the sliding window before, but didn't change the previous 6 months before default, you will now also get the new default 11 months before. Again if you prefer the old behaviour it can be restored via the same Preference.

• Bug 764268 - MT940 import select account based on transaction info.
• Bug 769115 - db name isn't escaped well.
• Bug 769576 - Seg Fault on Editing Scheduled Transaction's Amount.
• Bug 778042 - These are the script changes for jqplot reports.

  Adds resize function to graphical reports.

• Bug 780845 - link in github repo README file needs correction/editing.

KNOWN PROBLEMS:

• On Microsoft Windows starting the AQBanking Setup Wizard crashes GnuCash.
• test-import-bayes built with autotools intermittently fails at line 381, where the returned value is 1 instead of the expected 6.

Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS X

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.

The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are:

429f9aef704fe9378aa400d3e29c22e383e184d54ed4bc364406e38356ac01ef  gnucash-2.7.0.tar.bz2
afa303bfbc183a700f77013b214f0b25843ee5a8da83994daae1926af990e525  gnucash-2.7.0.tar.gz
2c83e8f79042e997f624efdb1abd154f50aafa5c7afa30e837f34dd16e381d85  gnucash-2.7.0.setup.exe
1b2fd8157c077dd2f2da2b1b1a7ffc88a57583ad931b0b4ed0e30a15fc2e7193  Gnucash-Intel-2.7.0-1.dmg

SourceForge:

• Win32
• Mac-Intel

Github

• Win32
• Mac-Intel

Getting GnuCash as source code

If you want to compile GnuCash 2.7.0 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:

• Sourceforge: bzip2, all files.
• Github: bzip 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 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. Please refer to the "Nightly Builds" section at the bottom of the page.

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.