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GnuCash 4.6 Released
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The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 4.6, the seventh release in the stable 4.x series

Between 4.5 and 4.6, the following bugfixes were accomplished:

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

  • Improve transaction sorting on effective num field so that alpha charachters and numbers larger than 1 billion will be ordered. Ordering is now numeric for leading numbers (so that 9 sorts before 10) and lexical beginning with the first non-numeric character. Note that if one of the values begins with an alpha character ordering will be entirely lexical. Lexical sorting is localized; as in the rest of GnuCash only standard ASCII numbers (codepoints U+0030 - U+0039) are treated as numbers.
  • Add import preferences for the difference in time considered when matching an existing transaction to an imported one. A difference less than the matching-date-threshold raises the score of the match; a difference greater than match-date-not-threshold lowers the score.
  • Add experimental report "IFRS weighted-average cost basis report". This is a work-in-progress to help calculate the cost basis of securities priced in a foreign currency.
  • [income-gst-statement] amend headers post Brexit. UK left EU, therefore VAT headers have now changed.
  • Plug a bunch of memory leaks.
  • Change how the print_info is obtained for the register: Currently the register sets up some 'print_info' values using the default account but if the register is a stock register they should be obtained from a parent account with a currency.
  • Change monetary value for gnc_default_share_print_info: Share values are not currencies so set the monetary value to 0 for the GNCPrintAmountInfo
  • Parse the register monetary cells for a currency symbol: Add the ability to strip the currency symbol from a registry monetary cell if it is pasted with one so it can be validated.
  • SKR-49 Account Template: Add codes 4500-4504, drop a duplicate, correct code 0674.
  • [gnc-plugin-page-register] Disable reverse on blank split
  • Make balancing transactions with trading accounts easier by removing and recalculating all trading splits. This ensures that there will be only one trading split pair per exchange and relieves the user of having to adjust the trading splits to match the accounting splits.
  • Don't bother scrubbing for orphans if there's no transaction currency. If it found one it would try to create an orphan account with no currency which will crash later.
  • [chartjs] upgrade chartjs to 2.9.4. Fixes CVE-2020-7746
  • [report-core] disallow define-report with incomplete export info. If exporting is allowed, 'export-types and 'export-thunk must both be defined.
  • [test-engine-extras] augment book data generators
  • ignore .vscode folder
  • Reorder and relabel price source list for better coherence
  • Python Bindings: Provide a deprecated GncPriceDB.lookup_latest_before_t64 to avoid breaking user scripts.
  • Update gnucash_core.py with gnc-pricedb function name change
  • Change some functions to use const gnc_commodity for gnc_pricedb
  • Reformat schedule transaction source files for white space
  • Add depreciation warnings for the removal of individual option tool tips
  • Remove individual tool tips from radio button options

    Removes the function gnc_option_permissible_value_description

  • ESC key was not working on load of Scheduled Transaction Editor
  • [budget.scm] show correct tooltip for report option
  • [html-acct-table] Remove unused 'pre-adjusting balances option
  • Bugfix: export-code for category-barchart reports would fail.

    This stems from trying to handle file-name when calling export code. Export code no longer require file-name, The export-code returns a string in the html-document object instead. Remove all file-name handling in reports. No backward compatibility issues because most users would not copy a GnuCash >=4.6 report code onto a <4.5 installation.

  • [gnucash-cli] improve discoverability of export-type. Formerly, selecting --export-type EXT would dump the cryptic "Report REPORTNAME has no export code". Modify to hint the user on acceptable reports with export-code.

New API

  • [report-utilities] Functions to dump splits in whole book:
    • gnc:dump-book - splits grouped by account
    • gnc:dump-all-transactions - splits grouped by transaction
    • gnc:dump-split - dumps single split
  • Rename a couple of gnc-pricedb functions that have not been used:
    • gnc_pricedb_lookup_latest_before_t64 to gnc_pricedb_lookup_nearest_before_t64
    • gnc_pricedb_lookup_latest_before_any_currency_t64 to gnc_pricedb_lookup_nearest_before_any_currency_t64
  • Add retrieval functions for price before the date given:
    • gnc_pricedb_convert_balance_nearest_before_price_t64 that retrieves the balance using the last price dated before a specified date like today for the preset value.
    • gnc_pricedb_get_nearest_before_price does the retrieval.

Deprecations

  • gnc:get-start-next-year
  • gnc:get-end-next-year
  • gnc:get-start-next-month
  • gnc:get-end-next-month
  • gnc:get-start-next-quarter
  • nc:get-end-next-quarter
  • gnc:get-one-month-ago
  • gnc:get-one-month-ahead
  • gnc:account-code-less-p
  • gnc:account-name-less-p

Chinese (Simplified) translation moved from the Gnu Translation Project to weblate

New and Updated Translations: Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian

Known Problems

Complete list of all open bugs.

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Documentation

Concurrent with the release of GnuCash 4.6 we're pleased to also release a new version of the companion Help and Tutorial and Concepts Guide

Between 4.5 and 4.6, the following bugfixes were accomplished:

The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:
  • Update ch_invest.xml
  • Help/C: New screenshots, remove unused images, and image optimization
  • New help/de/figures/Main-window-callouts + helper files
  • Add ENTITY vers-last-2 for reference of major changes
  • Make calibre optional in cmake
  • Create Github actions to replace TravisCI
  • Fixes reference to Help Manual
  • Help: link Setup for Online Transactions in C, de
  • Help: Replace most <literallayout> by <screen>
  • Help pt: Add missing xmlns:xi parameters
  • Replace most <literallayout> by <screen>; <screen> uses Monospace while <literallayout> keeps the default (proportional) font
  • Backport of improvements from de/Help_ch_GUIMenus.xml
    • Added new menu items
    • Corrected the order of menu items
    • Removed duplicate descriptions
    • insert <accel>-Tags
  • Update PACKAGE_URL of configure.ac
  • xmlformat all docs
  • EEC became EU decades ago, but we had still references
  • Several fixes of shortcuts in C and pt
  • Check for " >" to avoid unwanted wraps
  • Add xmlformat incl. configuration
  • Improve the wiki link in the note for translators

New and Updated Translations: German

Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS

GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows 8.1® and later and MacOS 10.13 (High Sierra)® 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:

  • 251b01dfb9f9c679db26926f934ca4d13c7092a485be04f60e2031d85a445733  gnucash-4.6.tar.bz2
  • ad3a6ec1f5fdf15fd167808cf351bc1aa7c012ea03a16c73a3d1c29bbd59a03d  gnucash-4.6.tar.gz
  • de0447be56f3c56194132a89766221dfac72742c04aa87a84716cdd1ff93cfa7  gnucash-4.6.setup.exe
  • 1d641691a5c6c4e6cfb32438175c242bdcfb2f1c497db35fc66b4fecd9f084b2  Gnucash-Intel-4.6-1.dmg
  • 5c4f8957d4e4a27bd7be3bc42f6a0823c1bfa4da1efff3fc17d57db43899c58c  gnucash-docs-4.6.tar.gz

GnuCash is now available as a flatpak from Flathub.org. Instructions for installing and running.

To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need at least Gtk+ 3.22.29, Guile 2.0, Boost 1.67, WebKitGtk 2.4, GoogleTest 1.8.0, cmake 3.10 and SWIG 2.0.12. Please consult the README.dependencies file in the sources for the exact list of dependencies and versions.

Getting the documentation

The documentation is available at Documentation page of the GnuCash website. The 4.6 documentation can be found under "GnuCash v4 (current stable release)" in multiple languages both for reading online and for download in pdf, epub, and mobi formats. The documentation is also included in the MacOS and Windows application bundles.

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.

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