Wanted to contribute to GnuCash but don't know how ? Here's your chance

The gnome platform is changing its software centre to work more like an appstore. So each application that wants to be visible in the new software centre needs some nice screen shots to show and a nice summary of what the application does.

That's the very short explanation. More details about this can be found here.

So what can you do ?

1. Look at the description that is currently in our appdata file and make it better. The guidelines for a proper description can be found here.

2. Make some nice screen shots of GnuCash in action and make them available somewhere for us to view. The best 3 will be used for the software centre. If there are many more submissions, a selection of the nicest screen shots will be used for a gallery on the GnuCash website.

Timing: please submit your work before December 10, so we can make the selection for the release-candidate release mid-December. To inform us of your work please send a mail to gnucash-devel@gnucash.org.

You will be doing many users a favour with this relatively easy opportunity to contribute.

GnuCash 2.5.9 (Unstable) released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.5.9, the tenth release in the 2.5.x series of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software which will soon lead to the stable version 2.6.0. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX.

Please TEST, TEST, and TEST some more any and all features important to you. Then post any bugs you find to Bugzilla

Major changes in the 2.5 series

• Register2 is now a configure option. Default builds, including the Windows and Mac All-in-one packages, will use only the old register. We've decided that it isn't ready for general use and the principal author doesn't have time to make it ready in time for a 2.6 release.
• GnuCash now requires Gtk+-2.24 and GLib-2.26. We've removed most of the dependencies on libraries obsoleted by project Ridley and will be in position to move to Gtk+-3.x once the GtkTreeModel register window work is complete. This means that GnuCash 2.5 requires Debian 6, RHEL 6, or one of the more aggressive distributions like Ubuntu.
• GnuCash now works with Guile-2.0, but enabling Guile-2.0 support requires building GnuCash with Swig-2.0.10. The distribution tarballs were built with this version and should work with Guile-2.0
• The business module has been revamped and we introduce some new features:
  • Credit Notes
  • Customer and Vendor Overview Pages
  • Customer Overview Reports
  • Existing Transactions may be reassigned as invoice payments
  • Support for duplicate invoices
  • Improved invoice and bill handling: Post, print, or duplicate multiple items directly from a search results list
  • Better invoice printing setup: Choose a default invoice report as a preference
  • Reorder invoice entries in the invoice window

• Geert Janssens has rewritten the preferences system to use GSettings from GIO (GLib) instead of GConf. This is a simpler and more robust backend which writes to the OS's native prefs — defaults on OS X and the Registry on MSWindows — and allows us to remove several troublesome dependencies including GConf, ORBit, and DBus.

  Note that window position, column sizes, and sort orders will not be migrated from GConf. Those settings will revert to the default the first time you use Gnucash 2.5.6 or later, but they will be saved once you've reset them.

• Patrick has contributed a new feature allowing one to link an external file to a transaction. This long-requested feature is available through the Transaction menu and a transaction's context menu. The files are displayed in the default viewer for that file type.
• The "Num" field is now optionally per-split rather than per-transaction.
• GnuCash can print to a PDF for reports and invoices
• Account "Filter By" settings can be saved and recalled
• Account entries in the Chart of Account can be colored
• When opening a locked "book" one now has the option of opening it read-only. Note that GnuCash is still a single-user program and that the database backends are still used only as a data store.
• Tom Loft has contributed an initial version of REST API allowing minimal information about accounts, invoices and customers to be accessed in JSON format. Includes modifications to gnucash_core.py to add additional functions.
• GnuCash is no longer subject to the "2038" bug, so that 30-year mortgages can now be entered correctly.
• Frédéric Perrin has contributed a change to display currency symbols whenever they are known and unambiguous.
• By agreement of all authors we have relicensed GnuCash to the Gnu Public License Version 2 or later from just Version 2.

Changes Since the Last Unstable Release

• Bug #644044: Lots: SQL backend loses link to Gain/Loss Txn
• Bug #704506: Connection loss to mysql after resume from hibernation
• Bug #707311: Tax Invoice fails to open when using guile 2
• Bug #710871: Python site-packages not found when not installed to default location using --prefix
• Bug #710905: Column withs, visibility, order and sort order not saved and restored
• Bug #711289: Win32 time zone handling is inconsistent between 2.4 and 2.5
• Bug #712299: Tax Invoice with guile 2 doesn't display currency symbols
• Bug #715041: Crash opening a file when a file is already open.
• Bug #715184: Bill or Invoice; a new Bill gives a new Invoice
• Bug #719471: Unused commodities saved to XML file
• No Bug Report: Work around libxml2 gzip archive alignment bug which occasionally prevented compressed XML files from opening.
• Translations updated: German, Italian

Caveats for Testers

Any 2.5.x version might crash unexpectedly. If you must test with important data in a 2.5.x release and are using the XML file backend for data storage, be sure to save the file frequently. If you are using the SQL backend, this is not required as every change is saved immediately to the database.

Although the screenshots have been updated in the documentation, much of the wording still describes GnuCash-2.4. Please help update the documentation: See the development wiki page on how to get involved.

How can you help?

• Testing: Please try out as many features as you can. Report problems either in bug reportsor on the devel mailing list
• Translating: Translators may begin work on new strings at any time, and while we haven't yet announced string freeze it's imminent. Status of translations is shown on the translation status page. If GnuCash isn't fully translated into your language and you'd like to pitch in, here's how to get involved.

Getting GnuCash

Source code for GnuCash 2.5.9 can be downloaded from multiple locations:

• The GnuCash website
• Sourceforge: bzip2, gzip, all files.
• You can also checkout the sources directly from the repository with subversion:
  
  svn co http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk gnucash

  Or with git:

  git clone git://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git

To install GnuCash, you will need Gnome 2 and guile 1.8 or 2.0, including devel packages. In addition you will need swig (swig-2.0.10 for guile 2.0, see the note at the top) if compiling from subversion or git.

Win32 and MacOSX binary

The following pre-compiled application packages are also available:

• GnuCash 2.5.9 Win32 setup executable
• GnuCash 2.5.9 MacOSX dmg for Intel Macs
• GnuCash 2.5.9 MacOSX dmg for PowerPC Macs

About the Program

GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2 or Version 3 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 2.5.8 (Unstable) released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.5.8, the ninth release in the 2.5.x series of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.6.0. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX.

Please TEST, TEST, and TEST some more any and all features important to you. Then post any bugs you find to Bugzilla

Major changes in the 2.5 series

• Register2 is now a configure option. Default builds, including the Windows and Mac All-in-one packages, will use only the old register. We've decided that it isn't ready for general use and the principal author doesn't have time to make it ready in time for a 2.6 release.
• GnuCash now requires Gtk+-2.24 and GLib-2.26. We've removed most of the dependencies on libraries obsoleted by project Ridley and will be in position to move to Gtk+-3.x once the GtkTreeModel register window work is complete. This means that GnuCash 2.5 requires Debian 6, RHEL 6, or one of the more aggressive distributions like Ubuntu.
• GnuCash now works with Guile-2.0, but enabling Guile-2.0 support requires building GnuCash with Swig-2.0.10. The distribution tarballs were built with this version and should work with Guile-2.0
• The business module has been revamped and we introduce some new features:
  • Credit Notes
  • Customer and Vendor Overview Pages
  • Customer Overview Reports
  • Existing Transactions may be reassigned as invoice payments
  • Support for duplicate invoices
  • Improved invoice and bill handling: Post, print, or duplicate multiple items directly from a search results list
  • Better invoice printing setup: Choose a default invoice report as a preference
  • Reorder invoice entries in the invoice window

• Geert Janssens has rewritten the preferences system to use GSettings from GIO (GLib) instead of GConf. This is a simpler and more robust backend which writes to the OS's native prefs — defaults on OS X and the Registry on MSWindows — and allows us to remove several troublesome dependencies including GConf, ORBit, and DBus.

  Note that window position, column sizes, and sort orders will not be migrated from GConf. Those settings will revert to the default the first time you use Gnucash 2.5.6 or later, but they will be saved once you've reset them.

• Patrick has contributed a new feature allowing one to link an external file to a transaction. This long-requested feature is available through the Transaction menu and a transaction's context menu. The files are displayed in the default viewer for that file type.
• The "Num" field is now optionally per-split rather than per-transaction.
• GnuCash can print to a PDF for reports and invoices
• Account "Filter By" settings can be saved and recalled
• Account entries in the Chart of Account can be colored
• When opening a locked "book" one now has the option of opening it read-only. Note that GnuCash is still a single-user program and that the database backends are still used only as a data store.
• Tom Loft has contributed an initial version of REST API allowing minimal information about accounts, invoices and customers to be accessed in JSON format. Includes modifications to gnucash_core.py to add additional functions.
• GnuCash is no longer subject to the "2038" bug, so that 30-year mortgages can now be entered correctly.
• Frédéric Perrin has contributed a change to display currency symbols whenever they are known and unambiguous.
• By agreement of all authors we have relicensed GnuCash to the Gnu Public License Version 2 or later from just Version 2.

Changes Since the Last Unstable Release

• Bug #707311:Tax Invoice fails to open when using guile 2
• Bug #709589: make check fails with guile 2
• Bug #711289: Time Zone Handling is Inconsistent between 2.4 and 2.5
  Partial fix that may also correct 699997
• Bug #711294: Gnucash repeatedly asks for associated income account when importing QFX file. Patch by Kuang-che Wu
• Bug #711493: Fix unselected account that is NULL
• Translations updated: German

Caveats for Testers

Any 2.5.x version might crash unexpectedly. If you must test with important data in a 2.5.x release and are using the XML file backend for data storage, be sure to save the file frequently. If you are using the SQL backend, this is not required as every change is saved immediately to the database.

Although the screenshots have been updated in the documentation, much of the wording still describes GnuCash-2.4. Please help update the documentation: See the development wiki page on how to get involved.

How can you help?

• Testing: Please try out as many features as you can. Report problems either in bug reportsor on the devel mailing list
• Translating: Translators may begin work on new strings at any time, and while we haven't yet announced string freeze it's imminent. Status of translations is shown on the translation status page. If GnuCash isn't fully translated into your language and you'd like to pitch in, here's how to get involved.

Getting GnuCash

Source code for GnuCash 2.5.8 can be downloaded from multiple locations:

• The GnuCash website
• Sourceforge: bzip2, gzip, all files.
• You can also checkout the sources directly from the repository with subversion:
  
  svn co http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk gnucash

  Or with git:

  git clone git://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git

To install GnuCash, you will need Gnome 2 and guile 1.8 or 2.0, including devel packages. In addition you will need swig (swig-2.0.10 for guile 2.0, see the note at the top) if compiling from subversion or git.

Win32 and MacOSX binary

The following pre-compiled application packages are also available:

• GnuCash 2.5.8 Win32 setup executable
• GnuCash 2.5.8 MacOSX dmg for Intel Macs
• GnuCash 2.5.8 MacOSX dmg for PowerPC Macs

About the Program

GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2 or Version 3 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 2.5.7 (Unstable) released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.5.7, the eighth release in the 2.5.x series of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.6.0. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX.

Please TEST, TEST, and TEST some more any and all features important to you. Then post any bugs you find to Bugzilla

Major changes in the 2.5 series

• Register2 is now a configure option. Default builds, including the Windows and Mac All-in-one packages, will use only the old register. We've decided that it isn't ready for general use and the principal author doesn't have time to make it ready in time for a 2.6 release.
• GnuCash now requires Gtk+-2.24 and GLib-2.26. We've removed most of the dependencies on libraries obsoleted by project Ridley and will be in position to move to Gtk+-3.x once the GtkTreeModel register window work is complete. This means that GnuCash 2.5 requires Debian 6, RHEL 6, or one of the more aggressive distributions like Ubuntu.
• GnuCash now works with Guile-2.0, but enabling Guile-2.0 support requires building GnuCash with Swig-2.0.10. The distribution tarballs were built with this version and should work with Guile-2.0
• The business module has been revamped and we introduce some new features:
  • Credit Notes
  • Customer and Vendor Overview Pages
  • Customer Overview Reports
  • Existing Transactions may be reassigned as invoice payments
  • Support for duplicate invoices
  • Improved invoice and bill handling: Post, print, or duplicate multiple items directly from a search results list
  • Better invoice printing setup: Choose a default invoice report as a preference
  • Reorder invoice entries in the invoice window

• Geert Janssens has rewritten the preferences system to use GSettings from GIO (GLib) instead of GConf. This is a simpler and more robust backend which writes to the OS's native prefs — defaults on OS X and the Registry on MSWindows — and allows us to remove several troublesome dependencies including GConf, ORBit, and DBus.

  Note that window position, column sizes, and sort orders will not be migrated from GConf. Those settings will revert to the default the first time you use Gnucash 2.5.6 or later, but they will be saved once you've reset them.

• The "Num" field is now optionally per-split rather than per-transaction.
• GnuCash can print to a PDF for reports and invoices
• Account "Filter By" settings can be saved and recalled
• Account entries in the Chart of Account can be colored
• When opening a locked "book" one now has the option of opening it read-only. Note that GnuCash is still a single-user program and that the database backends are still used only as a data store.
• Tom Loft has contributed an initial version of REST API allowing minimal information about accounts, invoices and customers to be accessed in JSON format. Includes modifications to gnucash_core.py to add additional functions.
• GnuCash is no longer subject to the "2038" bug, so that 30-year mortgages can now be entered correctly.
• Frédéric Perrin has contributed a change to display currency symbols whenever they are known and unambiguous.
• By agreement of all authors we have relicensed GnuCash to the Gnu Public License Version 2 or later from just Version 2.

Changes Since the Last Unstable Release

• Building Gnucash now requires Automake version 1.11 or later.
• Configure will abort if --enable-ofx is set but no libofx configuration files are found.
• Budget periods may no longer set to values greater than the budget's num_periods, and the budget options descriptions will wrap. Contributed by Robert Ratliff.
• Bug #668530: In budget flow report options, change the maximum value for period to 60 (Note the FIXMEs) Author: Robert Ratliff
• Bug #687478: Bills due reminder doesn't work well with credit notes
• Bug #687479: Automatic invoice/payment matching on posting an invoice should be an optional feature
• Bug #693244: View Lots window enhancements
• Bug #708659: Totals column moves to right hand side when periods are added Remove unneeded gnc_plugin_page_budget_refresh_cb Author: R Ratliff
• Bug #710055: advanced portfolio report counts capital gains split as dividend. Author: Jason McCarty <jmccarty@sent.com>
• Bug #710311: Missing ChangeLogs
• Bug #710739: Fill in field for remote bank account information also for SEPA transfers.
• Bug #710979: Crash in gnc_plugin_page_invoice_summarybar_position_changed
• Translations updated: None

Caveats for Testers

Any 2.5.x version might crash unexpectedly. If you must test with important data in a 2.5.x release and are using the XML file backend for data storage, be sure to save the file frequently. If you are using the SQL backend, this is not required as every change is saved immediately to the database.

Although the screenshots have been updated in the documentation, much of the wording still describes GnuCash-2.4. Please help update the documentation: See the development wiki page on how to get involved.

How can you help?

• Testing: Please try out as many features as you can. Report problems either in bug reportsor on the devel mailing list
• Translating: Translators may begin work on new strings at any time, and while we haven't yet announced string freeze it's imminent. Status of translations is shown on the translation status page. If GnuCash isn't fully translated into your language and you'd like to pitch in, here's how to get involved.

Getting GnuCash

Source code for GnuCash 2.5.7 can be downloaded from multiple locations:

• The GnuCash website
• Sourceforge: bzip2, gzip, all files.
• You can also checkout the sources directly from the repository with subversion:
  
  svn co http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk gnucash

  Or with git:

  git clone git://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git

To install GnuCash, you will need Gnome 2 and guile 1.8 or 2.0, including devel packages. In addition you will need swig (swig-2.0.10 for guile 2.0, see the note at the top) if compiling from subversion or git.

Win32 and MacOSX binary

The following pre-compiled application packages are also available:

• GnuCash 2.5.7 Win32 setup executable
• GnuCash 2.5.7 MacOSX dmg for Intel Macs
• GnuCash 2.5.7 MacOSX dmg for PowerPC Macs

About the Program

GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2 or Version 3 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 2.5.6 (Unstable) released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.5.6, the seventh release in the 2.5.x series of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.6.0. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX.

Please TEST, TEST, and TEST some more any and all features important to you. Then post any bugs you find to Bugzilla

Major changes in the 2.5 series

• Robert Fewell has contributed a rewrite of the register (GnuCash's primary interface window) to use the GtkTreeModel (select "register 2" from the menu) as well as a new CSV import/export facility for account trees. Take care not to try to open a single account in both the old and new registers at the same time. Doing so will crash Gncuash

  Note that this introduces some new preferences:

  • In the Accounts Pane:
    • Show the Account Color as background
    • Show the Account Color on tabs
    These both default to "off", which means that if you have account colors on tabs in an earlier version of GnuCash, you'll want to enable the second one.
  • In the Register Defaults Pane:
    • Number of characters for auto complete
    • Show entered and reconciled dates on selection
    • Show the calendar buttons
    • Move the selection to the blank split on expand
    These affect the behavior of only the new Register2 windows.
  These new preferences have not yet been documented in the Help Manual.
• GnuCash now requires Gtk+-2.24 and GLib-2.26. We've removed most of the dependencies on libraries obsoleted by project Ridley and will be in position to move to Gtk+-3.x once the GtkTreeModel register window work is complete. This means that GnuCash 2.5 requires Debian 6, RHEL 6, or one of the more aggressive distributions like Ubuntu.
• GnuCash now works with Guile-2.0, but enabling Guile-2.0 support requires building GnuCash with Swig-2.0.10. The distribution tarballs were built with this version and should work with Guile-2.0
• The business module has been revamped and we introduce some new features:
  • Credit Notes
  • Customer and Vendor Overview Pages
  • Customer Overview Reports
  • Existing Transactions may be reassigned as invoice payments
  • Support for duplicate invoices
  • Improved invoice and bill handling: Post, print, or duplicate multiple items directly from a search results list
  • Better invoice printing setup: Choose a default invoice report as a preference
  • Reorder invoice entries in the invoice window

• Geert Janssens has rewritten the preferences system to use GSettings from GIO (GLib) instead of GConf. This is a simpler and more robust backend which writes to the OS's native prefs — defaults on OS X and the Registry on MSWindows — and allows us to remove several troublesome dependencies including GConf, ORBit, and DBus.

  WARNING: Preferences are not completely migrated from GConf
  Some preferences are not yet migrated. What's more, the migration occurs every time you start up, over-writing anything that you've changed, so you may want to move ~/.gconf aside after the first time you run GnuCash-2.5.6. You can move it back when you need to use 2.4.13 for real work.

• The "Num" field is now optionally per-split rather than per-transaction.
• GnuCash can print to a PDF for reports and invoices
• Account "Filter By" settings can be saved and recalled
• Account entries in the Chart of Account can be colored
• When opening a locked "book" one now has the option of opening it read-only. Note that GnuCash is still a single-user program and that the database backends are still used only as a data store.
• Tom Loft has contributed an initial version of REST API allowing minimal information about accounts, invoices and customers to be accessed in JSON format. Includes modifications to gnucash_core.py to add additional functions.
• GnuCash is no longer subject to the "2038" bug, so that 30-year mortgages can now be entered correctly.
• By agreement of all authors we have relicensed GnuCash to the Gnu Public License Version 2 or later from just Version 2.

Changes Since the Last Unstable Release

• Bug #63362: Unable to create "reversing transaction" again after it is removed with the SQL backend.
• Bug #654196: "Make check" fails when built with --enable-dbi and no dbi backends are installed. Now fails in configure, as it should.
• Bug #674862: 2038 Bug with Postgres and MySql backends.
• Bug #682280: Bill/Invoice importer fails to save the imported item to the SQL backend.
• Bug #684670: Interest amount calculation is wrong in SQL backend. The backend wasn't storing the already-elapsed periods.
• Bug #699450: New budgets cause Account Name column to expand until display bigger than screen. – Robert Ratliff
• Bug #708700: Make check fails from missing glib bits – Frédéric Perrin
• Translations updated: Dutch

Caveats for Testers

Any 2.5.x version might crash unexpectedly. If you must test with important data in a 2.5.x release and are using the XML file backend for data storage, be sure to save the file frequently. If you are using the SQL backend, this is not required as every change is saved immediately to the database.

Although the screenshots have been updated in the documentation, much of the wording still describes GnuCash-2.4. Please help update the documentation: See the development wiki page on how to get involved.

How can you help?

• Testing: Please try out as many features as you can. Report problems either in bug reportsor on the devel mailing list
• Translating: Translators may begin work on new strings at any time, though string freeze isn't planned until the 2.5.6 release in early September. Status of translations is shown on the translation status page. If GnuCash isn't fully translated into your language and you'd like to pitch in, here's how to get involved.

Getting GnuCash

Source code for GnuCash 2.5.6 can be downloaded from multiple locations:

• The GnuCash website
• Sourceforge: bzip2, gzip, all files.
• You can also checkout the sources directly from the repository with subversion:
  
  svn co http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk gnucash

  Or with git:

  git clone git://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git

To install GnuCash, you will need Gnome 2 and guile 1.8 or 2.0, including devel packages. In addition you will need swig (swig-2.0.10 for guile 2.0, see the note at the top) if compiling from subversion or git.

Win32 and MacOSX binary

The following pre-compiled application packages are also available:

• GnuCash 2.5.6 Win32 setup executable
• GnuCash 2.5.6 MacOSX dmg for Intel Macs
• GnuCash 2.5.6 MacOSX dmg for PowerPC Macs

About the Program

GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2 or Version 3 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 2.5.5 (Unstable) released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.5.5, the sixth release in the 2.5.x series of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.6.0. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX.

Please TEST, TEST, and TEST some more any and all features important to you. Then post any bugs you find to Bugzilla

Major changes in the 2.5 series

• Robert Fewell has contributed a rewrite of the register (GnuCash's primary interface window) to use the GtkTreeModel (select "register 2" from the menu) as well as a new CSV import/export facility for account trees. Take care not to try to open a single account in both the old and new registers at the same time. Doing so will crash Gncuash

  Note that this introduces some new preferences:

  • In the Accounts Pane:
    • Show the Account Color as background
    • Show the Account Color on tabs
    These both default to "off", which means that if you have account colors on tabs in an earlier version of GnuCash, you'll want to enable the second one.
  • In the Register Defaults Pane:
    • Number of characters for auto complete
    • Show entered and reconciled dates on selection
    • Show the calendar buttons
    • Move the selection to the blank split on expand
    These affect the behavior of only the new Register2 windows.
  These new preferences have not yet been documented in the Help Manual.
• GnuCash now requires Gtk+-2.24 and GLib-2.26. We've removed most of the dependencies on libraries obsoleted by project Ridley and will be in position to move to Gtk+-3.x once the GtkTreeModel register window work is complete. This means that GnuCash 2.5 requires Debian 6, RHEL 6, or one of the more aggressive distributions like Ubuntu.
• GnuCash now works with Guile-2.0, but enabling Guile-2.0 support requires building GnuCash with Swig-2.0.10. The distribution tarballs were built with this version and should work with Guile-2.0
• The business module has been revamped and we introduce some new features:
  • Credit Notes
  • Customer and Vendor Overview Pages
  • Customer Overview Reports
  • Existing Transactions may be reassigned as invoice payments
  • Support for duplicate invoices
  • Improved invoice and bill handling: Post, print, or duplicate multiple items directly from a search results list
  • Better invoice printing setup: Choose a default invoice report as a preference
  • Reorder invoice entries in the invoice window
• The "Num" field is now optionally per-split rather than per-transaction.
• GnuCash can print to a PDF for reports and invoices
• Account "Filter By" settings can be saved and recalled
• Account entries in the Chart of Account can be colored
• When opening a locked "book" one now has the option of opening it read-only. Note that GnuCash is still a single-user program and that the database backends are still used only as a data store.
• Tom Loft has contributed an initial version of REST API allowing minimal information about accounts, invoices and customers to be accessed in JSON format. Includes modifications to gnucash_core.py to add additional functions.
• GnuCash is no longer subject to the "2038" bug, so that 30-year mortgages can now be entered correctly.
• By agreement of all authors we have relicensed GnuCash to the Gnu Public License Version 2 or later from just Version 2.

Changes Since the Last Unstable Release

• Bug #334939: Account Report and Account Transaction Report are apparently the same, but different. Change menu entry for the single transaction Account Report from "Accout Transaction Report" to "Account Report - Single Transaction" Author: Carsten Rinke
• Bug #603183: Equity statement shows incorrect changes Add function gnc:account-get-total-flow to report-utilities.scm This function filters the splits from the source to the target accounts and returns a commodity collector. It does NOT do currency exchanges. Export the new function gnc:account-get-total-flow from report-utilities.scm. Apply the new function gnc:account-get-total-flow for the "Withdrawal" calculation. Author: Carsten Rinke
• Bug #629136: Move the code that updates the sensitivity of immutable page actions from gnc_main_window_switch_page to gnc_main_window_generate_title. Patch by Guilherme Salgado.
• Bug #696492: Change report name in menu or in report output to be consistent Change the register name to "Accout Transaction Report" when the register type is GENERAL_LEDGER, INCOME_LEDGER, or default in function gnc_reg_get_name(). Patch by Carsten Rinke.
• Bug #704039: time zone is not respected on windows Author: Kuang-che Wu
• Bug #704056: Online Banking (Online Actions) does not appear in Action menu Ensure that all functions are exported to the dll.
• Bug #704525: When you have a mix of chart types (bar charts and pie charts). Add new procedure gnc:substring-replace-from-to Similar to gnc:substring-replace, but offers the possibility to replace substrings in a range of occurances. Add calls to gnc:substring-replace-from-to to procedure gnc:report-run. Filter out all occurances of jquery.min.js and jquery.jqplot.js except for the first occurances. Author: Carsten Rinke
• Translations updated: Lithuanian

Caveats for Testers

Any 2.5.x version might crash unexpectedly. If you must test with important data in a 2.5.x release and are using the XML file backend for data storage, be sure to save the file frequently. If you are using the SQL backend, this is not required as every change is saved immediately to the database.

Although the screenshots have been updated in the documentation, much of the wording still describes GnuCash-2.4. Please help update the documentation: See the development wiki page on how to get involved.

How can you help?

• Testing: Please try out as many features as you can. Report problems either in bug reportsor on the devel mailing list
• Translating: Translators may begin work on new strings at any time, though string freeze isn't planned until the 2.5.5 release in early September. Status of translations is shown on the translation status page. If GnuCash isn't fully translated into your language and you'd like to pitch in, here's how to get involved.

Getting GnuCash

Source code for GnuCash 2.5.5 can be downloaded from multiple locations:

• The GnuCash website
• Sourceforge: bzip2, gzip, all files.
• You can also checkout the sources directly from the repository with subversion:
  
  svn co http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk gnucash

  Or with git:

  git clone git://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git

To install GnuCash, you will need Gnome 2 and guile 1.8 or 2.0, including devel packages. In addition you will need swig (swig-2.0.10 for guile 2.0, see the note at the top) if compiling from subversion or git.

Win32 and MacOSX binary

The following pre-compiled application packages are also available:

• GnuCash 2.5.5 Win32 setup executable
• GnuCash 2.5.5 MacOSX dmg for Intel Macs
• GnuCash 2.5.5 MacOSX dmg for PowerPC Macs

About the Program

GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2 or Version 3 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 2.5.4 (Unstable) released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.5.4, the fifth release in the 2.5.x series of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.6.0. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX.

Please TEST, TEST, and TEST some more any and all features important to you. Then post any bugs you find to Bugzilla

Major changes in the 2.5 series

• Robert Fewell has contributed a rewrite of the register (GnuCash's primary interface window) to use the GtkTreeModel (select "register 2" from the menu) as well as a new CSV import/export facility for account trees. Take care not to try to open a single account in both the old and new registers at the same time. Doing so will crash Gncuash

  Note that this introduces some new preferences:

  • In the Accounts Pane:
    • Show the Account Color as background
    • Show the Account Color on tabs
    These both default to "off", which means that if you have account colors on tabs in an earlier version of GnuCash, you'll want to enable the second one.
  • In the Register Defaults Pane:
    • Number of characters for auto complete
    • Show entered and reconciled dates on selection
    • Show the calendar buttons
    • Move the selection to the blank split on expand
    These affect the behavior of only the new Register2 windows.
  These new preferences have not yet been documented in the Help Manual.
• GnuCash now requires Gtk+-2.24 and GLib-2.26. We've removed most of the dependencies on libraries obsoleted by project Ridley and will be in position to move to Gtk+-3.x once the GtkTreeModel register window work is complete. This means that GnuCash 2.5 requires Debian 6, RHEL 6, or one of the more aggressive distributions like Ubuntu.
• GnuCash now works with Guile-2.0, but enabling Guile-2.0 support requires building GnuCash with Swig-2.0.10. The distribution tarballs were built with this version and should work with Guile-2.0
• The business module has been revamped and we introduce some new features:
  • Credit Notes
  • Customer and Vendor Overview Pages
  • Customer Overview Reports
  • Existing Transactions may be reassigned as invoice payments
  • Support for duplicate invoices
  • Improved invoice and bill handling: Post, print, or duplicate multiple items directly from a search results list
  • Better invoice printing setup: Choose a default invoice report as a preference
  • Reorder invoice entries in the invoice window
• The "Num" field is now optionally per-split rather than per-transaction.
• GnuCash can print to a PDF for reports and invoices
• Account "Filter By" settings can be saved and recalled
• Account entries in the Chart of Account can be colored
• When opening a locked "book" one now has the option of opening it read-only. Note that GnuCash is still a single-user program and that the database backends are still used only as a data store.
• Tom Loft has contributed an initial version of REST API allowing minimal information about accounts, invoices and customers to be accessed in JSON format. Includes modifications to gnucash_core.py to add additional functions.
• GnuCash is no longer subject to the "2038" bug, so that 30-year mortgages can now be entered correctly.
• By agreement of all authors we have relicensed GnuCash to the Gnu Public License Version 2 or later from just Version 2.

Changes Since the Last Unstable Release

• Register Rewrite Update:
  • Restore the delete-transaction-up/down feature
  • Replace the filter-and-sort model with a qof query
  • Date and Cursor improvements
  Author: Robert Fewell
• Revert the Bitcoin support until the patch is rewritten for a better UI
• Localization Improvements:
• Make the CSV Account import table header tranlatable
• Fix translation of table headers
• Fix dash-marker usage
• Other translation issues
Author: Aurimas Fišeras
• Bug #703897: Functions which can return NULL always return a Python object (Tom Lofts)
• Bug #704183: OFX file import tries to match online_id against ACCTID[space]ACCTKEY even when ACCTKEY is empty. (G. Paul Ziemba)
• Bug #704185: GnuCash 2.5 doesn't build on FreeBSD
• Translations updated: Catalan, Danish, Italian, and Lithuanian

Caveats for Testers

Any 2.5.x version might crash unexpectedly. If you must test with important data in a 2.5.x release and are using the XML file backend for data storage, be sure to save the file frequently. If you are using the SQL backend, this is not required as every change is saved immediately to the database.

Although the screenshots have been updated in the documentation, much of the wording still describes GnuCash-2.4. Please help update the documentation: See the development wiki page on how to get involved.

How can you help?

• Testing: Please try out as many features as you can. Report problems either in bug reportsor on the devel mailing list
• Translating: Translators may begin work on new strings at any time, though string freeze isn't planned until the 2.5.5 release in early September. Status of translations is shown on the translation status page. If GnuCash isn't fully translated into your language and you'd like to pitch in, here's how to get involved.

Getting GnuCash

Source code for GnuCash 2.5.4 can be downloaded from multiple locations:

• The GnuCash website
• Sourceforge: bzip2, gzip, all files.
• You can also checkout the sources directly from the repository with subversion:
  
  svn co http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk gnucash

  Or with git:

  git clone git://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git

To install GnuCash, you will need Gnome 2 and guile 1.8 or 2.0, including devel packages. In addition you will need swig (swig-2.0.10 for guile 2.0, see the note at the top) if compiling from subversion or git.

Win32 and MacOSX binary

The following pre-compiled application packages are also available:

• GnuCash 2.5.4 Win32 setup executable
• GnuCash 2.5.4 MacOSX dmg for Intel Macs
• GnuCash 2.5.4 MacOSX dmg for PowerPC Macs

About the Program

GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2 or Version 3 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 2.5.3 (Unstable) released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.5.3, the fourth release in the 2.5.x series of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.6.0. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX.

PLEASE TEST TEST AND TEST SOME MORE any and all features important to you. Then post any bugs you find to bugzilla

Major changes in the 2.5 series

• Robert Fewell has contributed a rewrite of the register (Gnucash's primary interface window) to use the GtkTreeModel (select "register 2" from the menu) as well as a new CSV import/export facility for account trees.Take care not to try to open a single account in both the old and new registers at the same time. Doing so will crash Gncuash
• Gnucash now requires Gtk+-2.24 and GLib-2.26. We've removed most of the dependencies on libraries obsoleted by project Ridley and will be in position to move to Gtk+-3.x once the GtkTreeModel register window work is complete. This means that Gnucash 2.5 requires Debian 6, RHEL 6, or one of the more aggressive distributions like Ubuntu.
• Gnucash now works with Guile-2.0, but enabling Guile-2.0 support requires building Gnucash with Swig-2.0.10. The distribution tarballs were built with Swig 2.0.9, so they do not work with Guile-2.0. If you need Guile-2.0 support you will have to build Gnucash-2.5.3 from the repo after installing Swig-2.0.10 on your system
• The business module has been revamped and we introduce some new features:
  • Credit Notes
  • Customer and Vendor Overview Pages
  • Customer Overview Reports
  • Existing Transactions may be reassigned as invoice payments
  • Support for duplicate invoices
  • Improved invoice and bill handling: Post, print, or duplicate multiple items directly from a search results list
  • Better invoice printing setup: Choose a default invoice report as a preference
  • Reorder invoice entries in the invoice window
• The "Num" field is now optionally per-split rather than per-transaction.
• Gnucash can print to a PDF for reports and invoices
• Account "Filter By" settings can be saved and recalled
• Account entries in the Chart of Account can be colored
• When opening a locked "book" one now has the option of opening it read-only. Note that Gnucash is still a single-user program and that the database backends are still used only as a data store.
• Tom Loft has contributed an initial version of REST API allowing minimal information about accounts, invoices and customers to be accessed in JSON format. Includes modifications to gnucash_core.py to add additional functions.
• Gnucash is no longer subject to the "2038" bug, so that 30-year mortgages can now be entered correctly.
• By agreement of all authors we have relicensed Gnucash to the Gnu Public License Version 2 or later from just Version 2.

Changes Since the Last Unstable Release

• Register Rewrite Update:
  • Better commodity/currency handling
  • Sanity checks when converting TreePaths
  • Posted dates now work like old register
  • Enable online actions in Register2
  Author: Robert Fewell

• Customized report settings have been redesigned so that it's no longer necessary to change the report's name to save it, multiple versions of the same report can be saved (the names are automatically numbered) using Save As, and saved reports can be easily updated by clicking Save.

  Author: Geert Jansens

• Faster versions of several reports by Peter Broadberry
• It's now possible to post multiple invoices from the find dialog. GnuCash was crashing if you searched for all unposted invoices, selected two or more of them, and posted them. This was because the list of invoices to be posted changed while it was being processed. As part of fixing this the prompt for post date, due date, etc. will only be given once, not once per invoice.
• One can now reorder un-numbered transactions within a date by drag and drop or with arrow keys.
• Bug #703272 list of windows in OSX Windows menu
• Bug #699686 Startup dialog windows should be top level (Simon Arlot)
• Bug #701670 (OSX)Command-V in reconcile window pastes data in register
• Bug #702899 Fix crash in scrubbing code
• Bug #703305 Fix crash on entering a non-valid date
• Bug #691587 Catch scheme exceptions when converting error messages
• Bug #669964 Fix txn creation that forgot to set a txn currency
• Bug #672595 After creation of a new book, make sure to set it to dirt
• Bug #700582
• Translations updated: Danish, Italian, German

Caveats for Testers

Any 2.5.x version might crash unexpectedly. If you must test with important data in a 2.5.x release and are using the XML file backend for data storage, be sure to save the file frequently. If you are using the SQL backend, this is not required as every change is saved immediately to the database.

Although the screenshots have been updated in the documentation, much of the wording still describes Gnucash-2.4. Please help update the documentation: See the development wiki page on how to get involved.

How can you help?

• Testing: Please try out as many features as you can. Report problems either in bug reportsor on the devel mailing list
• Translating: Translators may begin work on new strings at any time, though string freeze isn't planned until the 2.5.5 release in early September. Status of translations is shown on the translation status page. If Gnucash isn't fully translated into your language and you'd like to pitch in, here's how to get involved.

Getting GnuCash

Source code for GnuCash 2.5.3 can be downloaded from multiple locations:

• The GnuCash website
• Sourceforge: bzip2, gzip, all files.
• You can also checkout the sources directly from the repository with subversion:
  
  svn co http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk gnucash

  Or with git:

  git clone git://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git

To install GnuCash, you will need Gnome 2 and guile 1.8 or 2.0, including devel packages. In addition you will need swig (swig-2.0.10 for guile 2.0, see the note at the top) if compiling from subversion or git.

Win32 and MacOSX binary

The following pre-compiled application packages are also available:

• Gnucash 2.5.3 Win32 setup executable
• Gnucash 2.5.3 MacOSX dmg for Intel Macs
• Gnucash 2.5.3 MacOSX dmg for PowerPC Macs

About the Program

GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2 or later 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 2.5.2 (Unstable) released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.5.2, the third release in the 2.5.x series of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.6.0. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX.

PLEASE TEST TEST AND TEST SOME MORE any and all features important to you. Then post any bugs you find to bugzilla

Major changes in the 2.5 series

• Robert Fewell has contributed a rewrite of the register (Gnucash's primary interface window) to use the GtkTreeModel (select "register 2" from the menu) as well as a new CSV import/export facility for account trees.Take care not to try to open a single account in both the old and new registers at the same time. Doing so will crash Gncuash
• Gnucash now requires Gtk+-2.24 and GLib-2.26. We've removed most of the dependencies on libraries obsoleted by project Ridley and will be in position to move to Gtk+-3.x once the GtkTreeModel register window work is complete. This means that Gnucash 2.5 requires Debian 6, RHEL 6, or one of the more aggressive distributions like Ubuntu.
• Gnucash now works with Guile-2.0, but enabling Guile-2.0 support requires building Gnucash with the just-released (as in yesterday) Swig-2.0.10, which missed our deadline for this release. Consequently the Gnucash-2.5.2 tarballs do not work with Guile-2.0. If you need Guile-2.0 support you will have to build Gnucash-2.5.2 from the repo after installing Swig-2.0.10 on your system
• The business module has been revamped and we introduce some new features:
  • Credit Notes
  • Customer and Vendor Overview Pages
  • Customer Overview Reports
  • Existing Transactions may be reassigned as invoice payments
  • Support for duplicate invoices
  • Improved invoice and bill handling: Post, print, or duplicate multiple items directly from a search results list
  • Better invoice printing setup: Choose a default invoice report as a preference
  • Reorder invoice entries in the invoice window
• The "Num" field is now optionally per-split rather than per-transaction.
• Gnucash can print to a PDF for reports and invoices
• Account "Filter By" settings can be saved and recalled
• Account entries in the Chart of Account can be colored
• When opening a locked "book" one now has the option of opening it read-only. Note that Gnucash is still a single-user program and that the database backends are still used only as a data store.
• Tom Loft has contributed an initial version of REST API allowing minimal information about accounts, invoices and customers to be accessed in JSON format. Includes modifications to gnucash_core.py to add additional functions.
• Gnucash is no longer subject to the "2038" bug, so that 30-year mortgages can now be entered correctly.
• By agreement of all authors we have relicensed Gnucash to the Gnu Public License Version 2 or later from just Version 2.

Changes Since the Last Unstable Release

• Register Rewrite Update:

  This update fixes the following:

  • Corrects the default behaviour for share/price/value changes
  • A scrolling issue
  • Column resizing
  • Wrong title spelling
  • Allows the mouse to change reconcile / type flags
  • Change transaction paste

  And adds the following features:

  • Adds commit of transaction by change of transaction by cursor keys with some changes to used functions
  • Added commit of transaction by enter
  • Changed the account accelerator function
  • Changed treeview to fixed height mode
  • Allow mouse to change reconcile flag
  • Allow changes when in sub account view
  • Reduce view default title lengths
  • Add missing help text
  • Changes default find on account page to the new view
  Author: Robert Fewell
• Support for querying Bitcoin/Litecoin prices via F::Q's MtGox module Author: Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk>
• Win32 build:
  • Update versions of gwenhywfar, aqbanking
  • git: fetch potentially new tags before running the tags build
  • Fix path to git build script for tags
  • Build 2.5 tagged releases from git instead of svn
  • Fix charts on Windows. Local filenames should be given as URIs with file://; otherwise browsers will interpret the drive letter (e.g., C:) to be an unknown network protocol.
• Bug #700197 - Critical SQL backend errors when creating customers via python bindings Patch supplied by the reporter Tom Lofts.
• Round properly when computing fraction of the transaction's value due to a given split. Also use GNC-DENOM-AUTO instead of a constant zero when appropriate.
• Bug #682800 Generated balances on Report different than calculated balances on Ledger when using "open subaccounts" Author: Carsten Rinke <carsten.rinke@gmx.de>
• Bug 640962 Make check failure: test_backend_dbi
• Bug #622778 Miscalculation in cashflow reports Author: Carsten Rinke <carsten.rinke@gmx.de>
• Bug #589865 In the report "Budget flow" period it doesn't work ok Authors : Carsten Rinke <carsten.rinke@gmx.de> and Mikhail TSaplin <tsmisher@gmail.com>
• Bug #584869 net change line in general journal report broken Author: Carsten Rinke <carsten.rinke@gmx.de>
• Translations updated: Danish, Italian, German

Caveats for Testers

Any 2.5.x version might crash unexpectedly. If you must test with important data in a 2.5.x release and are using the XML file backend for data storage, be sure to save the file frequently. If you are using the SQL backend, this is not required as every change is saved immediately to the database.

Although the screenshots have been updated in the documentation, much of the wording still describes Gnucash-2.4. Please help update the documentation: See the development wiki page on how to get involved.

How can you help?

• Testing: Please try out as many features as you can. Report problems either in bug reportsor on the devel mailing list
• Translating: Translators may begin work on new strings at any time, though string freeze isn't planned until the 2.5.5 release in early September. Status of translations is shown on the translation status page. If Gnucash isn't fully translated into your language and you'd like to pitch in, here's how to get involved.

Getting GnuCash

Source code for GnuCash 2.5.2 can be downloaded from multiple locations:

• The GnuCash website
• Sourceforge: bzip2, gzip, all files.
• You can also checkout the sources directly from the repository with subversion:
  
  svn co http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk gnucash

  Or with git:

  git clone git://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git

To install GnuCash, you will need Gnome 2 and guile 1.8 or 2.0, including devel packages. In addition you will need swig (swig-2.0.10 for guile 2.0, see the note at the top) if compiling from subversion or git.

Win32 and MacOSX binary

The following pre-compiled application packages are also available:

• Gnucash 2.5.2 Win32 setup executable
• Gnucash 2.5.2 MacOSX dmg for Intel Macs
• Gnucash 2.5.2 MacOSX dmg for PowerPC Macs

About the Program

GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2 or later 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.

Website repository is now git only

As of today the repository that manages the GnuCash website is only available in git. This is the first of the GnuCash repositories to migrate fully to git.

This means that from now on the svn htdocs repository has been disabled. If you need to access the GnuCash website sources, you can use the git gnucash-htdocs repository instead.

To learn how to set up this repository, please refer to our Git wiki page.

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