The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 3.6, the seventh release of the 3.x stable release series.
Changes
Between 3.5 and 3.6, the following bugfixes were accomplished:
- Bug 397927 - Save the window size/position for Qif Account picker dialog
- Bug 577968 - Values are not stored by pressing in budget page
- Bug 583277 - Ask for confirmation for cancelling QIF import
- Bug 624176 - budget report - rollup-budget ignored
- Bug 642824 - Check for Placeholder Accounts in Qif Import: Placeholder accounts do not allow transactions so when the account picker dialog is presented, add an error dialog for placeholder selection and a column to display that the account is a placeholder.
- Bug 646361 - Estimate budget option to have same amount in each budget period
- Bug 668349 - Scroll to selected accounts in QIF import tree views
- Bug 676810 - Wrong accounting in multi-currency budget report
- Bug 679800 - Shortcut to allow population of all budgeting periods
- Bug 689753 - Budget Report: Neg Num Not Colored Red
- Bug 728873 - In Qif importer use the enter on account entry
- Bug 751290 - Rethinking the invoice ledger view
- Bug 754710 - Add column sorting to Qif import Match views
- Bug 781345 - Equity disregarded by budget totals
- Bug 788157 - Open Budget Menu Item Doesn't Select Default Budget
- Bug 796949 - Fix division and rounding of zero.
- Bug 797051 - Change Overwrite price confirmation
- Bug 797051 - Follow up - Change defaults for new price
- Bug 797051 - Overwrite prices without warning
- Bug 797089 - Wrong time for accounting period end date
- Bug 797104 - Translations not showing in receipt options
- Bug 797123 - Export transactions to CSV file.
- Bug 797126 - It is annoying to run cmake to get an updated mo file
- Bug 797127 - Company name and address in reports not display properly
- Bug 797134 - Decimal separator: Windows configured as dot,...
- Bug 797165 - Crash on price deletion.
- Bug 797169 - GnuCash hangs loading XML file
- Bug 797170 - gnucash-3.5 fails to compile with GTK+3-3.20.x
- Bug 797175 - Gnucash will not open from UNC paths.
- Bug 797175 - Opening a file from a gvfs mount point fails
- Bug 797183 - association head path with spaces displayed wrong
- Bug 797185 - Correct the sorting for the Transaction Association Dialog
- Bug 797186 - gtk crash closing parent window edit->stylesheets
- Bug 797188 - Default invoice prints credit note as invoice
- Bug 797196 - Allow for per-payment rounding in amortization calculations
- Bug 797197 - Transaction report: Error message when sorting on month
- Bug 797204 - Qif import Tradable commodities page
- Bug 797207 - Chart reports show blank when run from the build directory
- Bug 797215 - Add sorting to QIF duplicates page
- Bug 797223 - Preference missing tooltip
- Bug 797230 - Use after free in
- Bug 797232 - Convert dialog-ab.glade to gtk3
- Bug 797233 - Balance Sheet, Chart of Accounts, and other reports...
- Bug 797240 - Multicolumn report not showing each report name
- Bug 797241 - Some reports skip transactions of the last day of the selected period
- Bug 797244 - Remove the invert prices for less than 1
- Bug 797246 - Cleared Balance Remains Red After Turning Positive
- Bug 797249 - Cutting home account causes transaction to disappear
- Bug 797262 - Change "Today date format"
- Bug 797266 - Missing translation settings
- Bug 797277 - Assets over time ignores nested liabilities
- Bug 797278 - Create an option for type of commodity for Price import: Currently when you use the 'Commodity From' column for Price imports it can match against the wrong commodity like COP (Conoco Philips) would match against the currency COP (Columbian Peso). To fix this add a new column type 'From Namespace' and rename 'Commodity From' to 'From Symbol' so they match the Security Editor.
- Bug 797281 - Gnucash crashes when attempting to match online accounts
The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:
- Rewrite the Customer Summary Report to correctly handle multiple currencies.
- Improve the Owner Report's find-first function to consider currency when selecting the account.
- Prevent cutting the "anchor" split or pasting another split on top of it in account registers so that the transaction won't suddenly disappear from the register page. Displays an explanatory dialog just like trying to delete the anchor split does. Allow deleting, cutting, and pasting over all splits in Journal View registers which don't have anchor splits because they're not associated with any account.
- Disable editing the "blank split" (the new split at the bottom of a transaction in split view) if the transaction itself is read-only.
- Use the customer and vendor currency instead of the default currency from preferences when generating bills, invoices, or credit notes.
- Allow assigning a single target account to more than one transaction in the import matcher.
To do this select the new transactions and right-click to open a single-item context menu. Click the menu item to open the account selection dialog box. Note that imported transactions that match transactions already in the eriger, i.e. those marked "update" or "reconcile and update" are not eligible for inclusion.
This feature still has some rough edges that are being addressed for the next release. - Use the default currency from Properties>Accounts for the summary bar currency to make it configurable.
- Allow CSV export of grand total amounts from reports using the trep-engine.
- Fix XML file import failures into GnuCash for Android.
- Raise minimum CMake version to 3.5 for all platforms.
- Prevent crash in Aging Report when the book has no AP or AR accounts.
- Fix operation of the "default budget" option.
- Change the account-picker dialog to disable the OK button instead of raising a warning dialog if the selected account is a placeholder.
- Fix crash after unloading all files from the QIF import assistant.
- Disable the Next button in the QIF import assistant if no files are selected for import.
- New report "Balance Sheet-PNL" combines a Balance Sheet and an Income Statement in a single report.
- Rework localization in C++ on Win32 builds, fixing several crashes and speeding up file loading by 10x.
- Create a console window for displaying stdout/stderr. Define __MSWIN_CONSOLE__ and recompile to enable.
- Keep the selection in the Securities Editor on the commodity after editing it.
- Allow the Securities Editor to stack separately from the main window.
- Much more Scheme cleanup and refactoring.
- Python console improvements, including switching to Python3 and not killing GnuCash when quitting the console.
New API:
The following functions can now be used in scheduled transaction credit/debit calculations:
- gnc:amort_pmt
- gnc:amort_ppmt
- gnc:amort_ipmt
API Deprecations:
- gnc:html-table-prepend-column!
- gnc:html-acct-table-num-cols
- gnc:html-acct-table-append-row!
- gnc:html-acct-table-prepend-row!
- gnc:html-acct-table-append-col!
- gnc:html-acct-table-prepend-col!
- gnc:html-acct-table-remove-last-row!
- gnc:html-acct-table-render
- gnc:second-html-build-acct-table
We have revised translations for Croatian, Farsi, German, Romanian, and Ukrainian.
Known Issues
The following are open bug reports new to the 3.x series considered significant by the development team:
- Bug 787813 - Regression: Price database should allow multiple buy/sell prices on the same date
- Bug 791825 - Accounting Period dates (among others) stored with a TZ-sensitive time.
- Bug 792975 - missing hellip in menus
- Bug 792986 - Connecting with Bank server is very slow
- Bug 793306 - Price is not imported from CSV
- Bug 794584 - Register not updated when scheduled transactions created
- Bug 794644 - Remove Old Prices is very slow
- Bug 794807 - Calendar widget current month shown as (null)
- Bug 795071 - new account entry screen keeps on disappearing and coming back
- Bug 795251 - googletest detection cannot be overridden
- Bug 795383 - Gnucash crashes on import of a 1400-transaction (or more) CSV file
- Bug 795384 - GnuCash 3 is tremendously memory hungry on macOs
- Bug 795393 - Do not create .log files when using sqlite backend
- Bug 795614 - Unicode handling in amount fields [resubmission]
- Bug 795753 - Initial save into MySQL should use bulk inserts
- Bug 796100 - Autosave Doesn't Work if Preferences Changed During Data Entry
- Bug 796122 - Poor Performance Scanning Old Files During Autosave
- Bug 796492 - Wrong calculation of the first occurrence
- Bug 796496 - CSV Importer: Column Selectors invisible on Windows.
- Bug 796500 - Scalability issue - importing large CSV to large book won't finish
- Bug 796520 - Layout overlapping in Income & Expense Chart
- Bug 796688 - "Next" Button Moves Repeatedly During New File Wizard
- Bug 796736 - Column Widths calculator need to allow more padding
- Bug 796740 - Selecting register value with mouse fails
- Bug 796746 - Cannot copy and paste anything into the amount field (both credit and debit)
- Bug 796750 - qof_query_search_for stores pointer of type string argument
- Bug 796758 - Improve error messages, why one can not remove a tax table
- 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 796764 - make check: hardcoded filenames in /tmp, vulnerable to symlink attacks
- Bug 796767 - The importer shows read-only and placeholder accounts
- Bug 796769 - Exposing new variables via swig sometimes results in an error "Undefined variable : <something>" while building
- Bug 796773 - Display of Negative numbers
- Bug 796774 - Investment account QIF Import does not import transaction
- Bug 796775 - Auto fill not working correctly (only match the first char you type ...)
- Bug 796779 - Window size in SEPA transaction
- Bug 796782 - Cannot import OFX file in new 3.2
- Bug 796783 - handling invalid date range in "get transaction..."
- Bug 796787 - report options - default plot size too big
- Bug 796788 - strange behavior in options of multicolumn report
- Bug 796799 - After Deleting Transaction Price, Enter Required 2x
- Bug 796810 - Account creation and editing dialogs do not allow entering umlaut-u
- Bug 796824 - took more than 2 hours to import 220 transactions
- Bug 796836 - Credit note wrong, database inconsistency
- Bug 796844 - Amount column of Customer Report should net Credits and Debits
- Bug 796850 - Auto-decimal-point causes incorrect price to display when amount is edited.
- Bug 796852 - Context sensitive Help broken
- Bug 796857 - Import of QIF duplicates transfer transactions
- Bug 796861 - Report HTML Pie Chart - default value #f for colors makes the pie chart renderer crash
- Bug 796862 - Report HTML Scatter Chart - default value #f for makercolor makes the scatter chart renderer crash
- Bug 796870 - Cannot (occasionally) undo invoice billing
- Bug 796878 - test-qofsession fails on x86_32
- Bug 796882 - Entering an amount as a calculation fails the first time in bills
- Bug 796885 - SX Editor Calendar Sometimes Shows Wrong Year, Wrong Next Date
- Bug 796890 - CSV import of multi-split transactions marks reconciliation status of first line as cleared
- Bug 796892 - Startup warning: undefined symbol PyOS_getsig
- Bug 796894 - Edit -> Preferences results in gnucash.exe- No Disk error box
- Bug 796895 - Report end and start dates not obeyed
- Bug 796896 - Button to complete an export not intuitively placed or discoverable
- Bug 796899 - FTBFS on [mips]: segfault; test-backend-dbi; endianness
- Bug 796900 - Problems in Description Editing. Select all implemented with the Caps Key (plus no Ctrl Z Undo, grrr)
- Bug 796905 - GNUcash does not start after windows 10 update
- Bug 796907 - After a series of actions to the window of GnuCash, some of or all of the contents will dispear and could not get them back
- Bug 796909 - Can't enter different notes and memos for an AR payment transaction
- Bug 796911 - Minimum window width is too large, so it may not be possible to maximise the window
- Bug 796925 - Database connections not closed by session.end()/session.destroy() when is_new=True
- Bug 796933 - Backspace key doesn't work, sometimes.
- Bug 796934 - Menu and message characters display as boxes
- Bug 796935 - Scrollbar indicator does not move while scrolling
- Bug 796936 - Saving XML-formatted file to CryFS volume crashes GNUCash
- Bug 796942 - Make Auto-Split Optional or Undo-Able for Data Entry
- Bug 796945 - Find Transaction Split Search Search Criteria window does not scroll when added criteria exceed a certain amount
- Bug 796948 - Scheduled Transactions Entered Since Last Run Are not Visible
- Bug 796954 - No scroll in invoice/billing and all columns not visible. Column resizing is disastrous
- Bug 796955 - Import CSV - Single-line two-currency transactions can't be imported
- Bug 796958 - GnuCash tries to lock the database even when opened read-only.
- Bug 796959 - GnuCash complains about saving on close when read-only.
- Bug 796966 - Underscore showing in german translation strings in the gui - business - search invoice
- Bug 796970 - Disable editing of currency retrieval settings for currencies.
- Bug 796974 - Feature Request - Headings for the Matcher column Deposit/Withdrawal do not change to Debit/Credit when formal accounting labels are preferenced
- Bug 796977 - No amounts displaying after upgrade from 2.6.19 to 3.3
- Bug 796979 - GnuCash segfaults on first startup when run from remote X session
- Bug 796983 - fails when importing QIF exported by Quicken 2015 Deluxe
- Bug 796984 - Import Bills & Invoices: date of line item is not validated; can lead to unexpected results
- Bug 796985 - Import Bills & Invoices: option 'open not yet posted docs in tab' does not open tab if invoice could not be posted
- Bug 796986 - Import Bills & Invoices: in case of invalid posting date in import file, invoice is posted with unexpected date
- Bug 796987 - Import Bills & Invoices: fixing import items only works in special case
- Bug 796992 - gnucash --add-price-quotes always fails
- Bug 796995 - Income and GST Statement: wrong grouping of invoices with multiple tax rates
- Bug 796997 - Currency Conversion Dialog appears when recording transactions between same currency accounts.
- Bug 797003 - Number widget changes values by more than one
- Bug 797006 - Balance is misleading in "open subaccounts" when different currencies are involved
- Bug 797009 - Database error on split transaction
- Bug 797010 - Install v3.4 failure
- Bug 797016 - modifying existing entry don't allow to input zero price or zero stocks
- Bug 797022 - Import Bills & Invoices: expense/income account is not validated - leads to one-sided posting if account is invalid
- Bug 797023 - Import Bills & Invoices: no user confirmation requested for update of invoices, if new invoices is created first.
- Bug 797024 - Import Bills & Invoices: import matches csv data rows with too few separators, messing up the import data
- Bug 797025 - Import Bills & Invoices: the type of the post to account is not validated - enabling A/P and A/R postings on regular accounts
- Bug 797026 - Reimport of account structure not working
- Bug 797033 - The CSV Importer should not obey with the "automatic digital point" setting
- Bug 797035 - Date selection via calender
- Bug 797036 - Runtime Error During 3.4 Upgrade
- Bug 797037 - Counter formats not saving
- Bug 797038 - GnuCash hangs loading under XWindows
- Bug 797043 - Rouble Symbol missing in Windows.
- Bug 797045 - Improve error reporting for bad credentials with MySQL backend ("bad or corrupt data" => "access denied")
- Bug 797048 - GnuCash in English doesn't show dates in register when book contains Polish characters
- Bug 797049 - Typing in lists does no longer initiate text search
- Bug 797050 - Encoding problem at MT940 Import
- Bug 797052 - Unable to Use Shift Key After Autofill or Paste
- Bug 797053 - Window state isn't saved
- Bug 797054 - Reports are rendered in Greek glyphs
- Bug 797057 - gnc-gwen-gui.c is still based on the deprecated GtkTable
- Bug 797060 - When importing QFX transactions all dates are current date
- Bug 797063 - gncEntryGetDocValue is modifying the invoice or entry
- Bug 797064 - crash when try print report
- Bug 797065 - character is broken when display report
- Bug 797070 - With multiple monitors, menus only open in one monitor, regardless of which monitor GnuCash window is located
- Bug 797073 - Tax Schedule Report off by one year
- Bug 797076 - Net worth, Assets and Liabilities report wrong period
- Bug 797077 - Wrong Balance Displayed in Related Registers
- Bug 797078 - "Automatic decimal point" Should Not Cause 2 Different Behaviors
- Bug 797080 - "Rate of Gain" and "Rate of Return" Seem to be Mislabeled
- Bug 797083 - Gnucash crashes when trying to rename budget
- Bug 797084 - Provide an option to leave edited transactions reconciled
- Bug 797085 - Import Bills & Invoices – headers not translated
- Bug 797088 - Encoding problem with CSV-formated account tree import
- Bug 797092 - Save As fails: tries to save to reserved directory if path contains spaces
- Bug 797093 - Miscalculation in cashflow reports
- Bug 797096 - Bad display in dialog window
- Bug 797101 - repeated pop-up "confirm creation of" some mangled account name
- Bug 797102 - Advanced Portfolio Ignores Capital Gain Splits
- Bug 797106 - Advanced Portfolio Report shows too many decimals in security unit prices newly imported from Finance::Quote
- Bug 797110 - Column alignment on Trial Balance using a Stylesheet
- Bug 797112 - Unable to Close Period due to reconcile_date falling before 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
- Bug 797113 - Scrubbing crashes when creating small splits that round to value 0.
- Bug 797114 - Fixing an SX due to deleted account stuck in an error loop
- Bug 797115 - Can't 're-activate' an expired SX
- Bug 797116 - request for review: gnc doesn't understand the chars it allows to be stored in a file and should
- Bug 797118 - Date entered incorrectly if entered as yyyy with some Date Time Local Settings
- Bug 797119 - Duplicating transaction produces blocked edit
- Bug 797121 - Unable to save to database
- Bug 797124 - Request for Enhancement: Preferences and Saved Reports should be per-book not per-user
- Bug 797133 - CSV Import of multicurrency transaction export in multiline form
- Bug 797137 - Advanced portfolio for currency accounts
- Bug 797142 - txf export report outputs incorrect values in schedule c
- Bug 797145 - QIF Importer CP1252->UTF-8 transcoding fails
- Bug 797147 - invoice.GetDatePosted() returns 1970-01-01 for unposted invoices in MySQL backend rather than Null
- Bug 797158 - gnc:make-account-sel-limited-option is not working
- Bug 797161 - first transaction with trn:date-posted on 1st day of month counted to previous month by graphs (due to timezone)
- Bug 797163 - qof_book_get_option segfaults when retrieving a non-leaf frame
- Bug 797164 - QFX import dialog creates Floppy Drive Not Ready error on a computer with no floppy drive
- Bug 797166 - Stock scrubbing does not handle Return of Capital Transactions
- Bug 797167 - Paste from clipboard to invoice editing window fails
- Bug 797171 - Allow multiple credit/debit columns to be selected
- Bug 797172 - Allow accounting terms in drop down list.
- Bug 797173 - Allow user to specify a debit/credit column needs to be negated.
- Bug 797182 - Doesn't respond correctly when using Windows Snap feature
- Bug 797184 - chargeback customer invoicing
- Bug 797187 - Payment processing falsely initialized with order list in the customer entry field (workaround described)
- Bug 797188 - Default invoice prints credit note as invoice
- Bug 797190 - When Translations Not Selected, 75 MB of Help Files Installed
- Bug 797191 - Gnu Cash does not save certificates permanently
- Bug 797194 - Hebrew fonts are not shown correctly
- Bug 797199 - AqBanking HBCI import Visa Card (comdirect bank) without line result: from to dates switched
- Bug 797200 - closing window in python console should trigger regular shutdown or none at all
- Bug 797201 - ipython shell broken
- Bug 797203 - autofill value is incorrect in split tx across currencies with trading accounts enabled
- Bug 797205 - Python Shell startup message: PyGTKDeprecationWarning: Using positional arguments with the GObject constructor has been deprecated
- Bug 797206 - qif import: investment accounts with cash transactions that are transfers cause import to fail with bug detected
- Bug 797211 - Very slow UI - dependent on window size
- Bug 797213 - import map editor shows no maps, takes ~22 seconds to display nothing, yet QIF importer remembers maps somehow
- Bug 797214 - enhancement: gnucash file anonymizer, great for providing sample errant data to dev/test
- Bug 797216 - The order of multi-split journal entries in the CSV-importfile is blocking a valid import
- Bug 797218 - qif import: Quicken exported QIF files do not import diacritic extended characters, they are replaced with ?
- Bug 797220 - delete account allows move of all transactions to account having non-matching currency
- Bug 797222 - Resetting the "change reconciled split" warning doesn't take effect until GnuCash is restarted.
- Bug 797226 - Minor Issues in GnuCash Export Format
- Bug 797227 - Feature Request: Use trading accounts only for currency conversion
- Bug 797229 - Two Finger Horizontal Scroll in Register Broken
- Bug 797231 - Split transaction doesn't complete in future
- Bug 797232 - dialog-ab.glade was written for gtk 2.16.
- Bug 797234 - gnucash closes when trying to open new file
- Bug 797235 - 'Memorised' is british EnglishBug 797236 - Regression: Reconcile window transaction list resets to top when new transaction created in account
- Bug 797237 - Default currency is USD no matter what you choose
- Bug 797243 - Slow XML load/save on OS X 10.11
- Bug 797244 - Commodity categories are inconsistent
- Bug 797245 - Smallest fraction of Vietnam Dong VND should be 1
- Bug 797251 - File choosers have lost the ability to type file names and paths
- Bug 797256 - AR/AP: placeholder accounts are selectable in the Posting menu for invoices and bills
- Bug 797260 - msys2 setup incomplete with current setup-mingw64.ps1 bootstrap
- Bug 797263 - Tax Schedule Report fails to generate
- Bug 797264 - 3.5 can't use Chinese IME input
- Bug 797268 - Stock Split Assistant can create nonsense transactions
- Bug 797270 - Budget Chart report - translation of header and dates
- Bug 797275 - Multiselection contains matched transactions
- Bug 797276 - Hitting the cancel button when editing a scheduled transaction does not undo changes
- Bug 797279 - Reports RTL do not support RTL
- Bug 797280 - Balance Sheet and P&L Reports use different rounding.
- Bug 797282 - Bills Due Reminder does not update document count message after processing payment
- Bug 797283 - Permanent hang on clicking on report tabs
- Bug 797284 - A column of an account can be too small (width 1), so that it is not possible to get it back with a double-click on it
- Bug 797285 - QIF import fails and then crashes
- Bug 797287 - summary bar is wonky
- Bug 797290 - out-of-memory during register dropdown for income account
- Bug 797292 - Amounts are displayed and stored with fractions smaller than the commodity's SCU
- Bug 797293 - Crash when import "U+R" or "R"
- Bug 797294 - Billing functions freezing
- Bug 797295 - problems with entering swedish åäö in company address
Documentation
Concurrent with the release of Gnucash 3.6 we're pleased to also release a new version 3.6 of the companion Help and Tutorial and Concepts Guide.
Documentation changes:
- Guide: Move the FDL appendix into the appendix part
- Guide Bus: Add IDs to tables so that they will appear in the "List of Tables"
- Use <equation> instead of <emphasis> in chapter basics To generate a "List of Equations" in most outut formats
- New Debit and Credits section Debit and Credit section showing which account types have debit balances and which haave credit balances and the effect of debits and credits on each account type.
- Add screenshots of book options in help
- New Dependencies: FontBox for ru pdf
- Use full words and sentences for reconciliation state in Help Transactions
Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS
GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows 7® 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® package is a disk image containing a drag-and-drop application bundle.
The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are:
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gnucash-3.6.tar.bz2a9275a8d2aef576016b7f58b08bcc71739902e2e81787171af83c2576e21d085
gnucash-3.6.tar.gzcb8ba5aa13dce6c9caedfb774abef47b8e352c2cda7d762d3f74840f1b12766a
gnucash-3.6.setup.exea9275a8d2aef576016b7f58b08bcc71739902e2e81787171af83c2576e21d085
Gnucash-Intel-3.6-1.dmg32d373a4faa96cde2bba564bc8d7143d6317f121c488492f2dc5ebe99b4b6163
gnucash-docs-3.6-1.tar.gz
To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need at least Gtk+ 3.10, Guile 2.0, Boost 1.54, WebKitGtk 2.4, and GoogleTest 1.7.0. In addition you will need SWIG 2.0.10 if compiling from git. Please consult the README.dependencies file in the sources for the exact list of dependencies and versions.
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.