Gnucash/gnucash 3.8b on GitHub

The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 3.8, the eighth release of the 3.x stable release series.

Changes

Between 3.7 and 3.8, the following bugfixes were accomplished:

The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:

The Customer/Employee/Vendor reports have been rewritten. The new versions may be found in Reports>Experimental.
[stylesheet-css] a user-customisable CSS based stylesheet New stylesheet.
Exposes a single text box for full CSS customisability.
Allow account selection by typing into the post-to field of the payment window
When sizing some register columns take account of 'Tot' being added.
Take account for the pop up button border in the register.
Change the date sample so it has the maximum text width possible
[new-owner-report] bugfix: balance row needs variable linked cols
Improve translations by scriptedly removing the removed colon suffix.
[report-utilities] bugfix: aging-list was incorrect. off-by-1 error.
[report-utilities] bugfix: overpayment works for AP accounts.
Swap the buttons around on the Budget Open dialogue
Swap the OK and Cancel buttons so they conform to the normal layout.
[report-utilities] bugfix: fix overpayment detection
For 1 payment to >1 invoices, previously would miscalculate overpayment.
[budgets.scm] Budget reports handle both natural & reversed budgets.
This change is protected by a Feature: Using it will prevent the file from being opened by earlier versions of GnuCash.
[gnc-budget-view.c] totals - 5 fundamental types
previous showed income/expense/transfers/totals budget totals, of uncertain meaning. now shows income/expense/asset/liability/equity budget totals. The 5 lines also become sensitive to the global sign-reverse property.
bindings-python - drop references to gnucash-env
We no longer ship a gnucash-env script, directly use python(3) instead
[balsheet-pnl] fix: single-date balsheet missed printing date
[balsheet-pnl] fix: hide Equity sections when not needed
- If currencies are not converted, Unrealized Gains are meaningless. Hide them.
- If there are no income/expense accounts, retained earnings will be nil. Remove row.
Ignore trailing noise on imported transaction account numbers.
AQBanking6 uses a separate method for retrieving account numbers for account info and transactions, where the transactions method can have additional characters, most often the ISO4217 currency code. That results in match failures when importing. As a work-around, compare only the length of the account-info-generated online id when comparing it to the transaction-generated one. Note that this is only a partial solution: At least one German bank also appends characters to the transaction-generated bank id and that will still cause the match to fail.
[dialog-payment] Add warning label if payment is unattached
Completing a payment for a customer without associating with an open invoice is allowable and is used for prepayments. Enable a warning to inform that the payment does not have an invoice/bill document attached.
[aging] update error reporting
This error handling was for transactions in APAR accounts whereby Transaction Currency != Owner Currency. An example is a manually entered transaction, then assigned as payment to a customer with a different currency.
Fixed German IBAN error message
Allow edit of some fields for posted invoice
Allow editing of some fields for posted invoice. For reasons, see bug report: https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797400
[average-balance] show monetaries instead of numbers in data table
UK VAT template: replace obsolete EEC and EC by EU
Implement the presentation of static optical TAN challenges (photoTAN and QR) inside the enter TAN dialogue.
[budget] fixcrash: fix crasher for some periods
eg. the following combo would previously crash: - periods from next to current - use accumulated amounts
[budget] fixcrash: prevent crash if periods start > end
It's silly to input start-period > end-period. Nevertheless handle it by swapping them instead of crashing. i.e. report budget periods from end to start.
[budget-flow] fixcrash: exchange-fn needs to specify exchange date
because some exchange-fn *do* require date eg. pricedb-nearest. use the period end-date for the exchange date.
[portfolio report] There's no report-currency. Use currency.
[window-report] show backtrace when report crashes
- Exposes a SCM string last-captured-error containing last backtrace
- when rendering report-crash window, include it

New Scheme Functions:

gnc:html-markup-ol: creates an HTML ordered list.
gnc:multiline-to-html-textt: creates html-text with
elements.
gnc:make-html-table-cell/min-width: Create a table-cell with min-width style attribute
gnc:collector+ and gnc:collector-

API Deprecations:

gnc:html-table-append-ruler/at!
gnc:html-table-remove-last-row!

We have revised translations for Chinese(Simplified), Croatian, German, Hebrew, Ukrainian

Known Issues

The following are open bug reports to the 3.x series considered significant by the development team:

Documentation

Concurrent with the release of Gnucash 3.8 we're pleased to also release a new version 3.8 of the companion Help and Tutorial and Concepts Guide.

Documentation changes:

Replace web links with entities.
Replace <code> tag with <command>. The latter is correct for Docbook.
Change the app entity to GnuCash for Gnome conformance.
Use &app; for this case and &appname; for the undecorated "GnuCash".
Series of updates to the Help manual Importing Transactions section to change the orientation more towards a description of the interface functionality in the help manual
More work on cmake build system.

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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05744be1fc8c60609e9315c2bdaf5f7c7ad51c513bea8408df7546f7d1ed30e7 Gnucash-Intel-3.8-3.dmg
a2504c9a0e66db154dd6498a0019ccf13219c4cb8553fee6ec441cd5209b66a7 gnucash-docs-3.8.tar.gz

Gnucash/gnucash 3.8b GnuCash 3.8 Released on GitHub