GnuCash 2.7.8 released: Release Candidate
Pre-release
The Gnucash Development Team is pleased to release Gnucash 2.7.8, the ninth release of an unstable series leading to Gnucash 3.0. This release is a release candidate; if no bugs requiring major work are reported in the next few days we'll release 3.0 next weekend.
This release changes file locations, binding APIs, report options, and can make your data file no longer compatible with previous versions. See the Update Notes Page for details.
Bugs fixed in this release:
- Bug 787439 - Segmentation Fault in Transfer dialog after clearing Date field and pressing escape.
- Bug 794242 - Remove keep above setting for assistant hierarchy
Some other fixes not associated with reported bugs:
- When doing a file save from the a new start we have no key file
- Stop critical error due to testing null filename
- Change dialog-new-user to use a GtkWindow
- More transient-parent fixes.
- Add missing response section to the account picker dialog.
- Glade 3.20 adds surplus padding option to action area.
- Add XML namespaces for all Account Hierarchy Templates.
- Increase default options dialog size
Updated Translations:
None.
Getting GnuCash for Windows® and MacOS®
GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows XP® and later and MacOS X 10.9 (Mavericks)® and later in pre-built, all-in-one packages. An installer is provided for Microsoft Windows® while the MacOS® package is a disk image containing a drag-and-drop application bundle.
SourceForge:
Github
Getting GnuCash as source code
If you want to compile GnuCash 2.7.8 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:
- Sourceforge: bzip2 tarball, gzip tarball, all files.
- Github: bzip2 tarball, gzip tarball WARNING Do not try to use the github-generated files labelled "Source Code". They have not been processed with swig and will not build.
- You can also checkout the sources directly from the git repository as described here.
The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are:
380c08d73b91d381a0197c108e672c20341c894bebb4ae98e9ab74df2a659797gnucash-2.7.8.tar.bz2758f822d62d1249455f3580f1f587ed80fc30e915a56b36095ae545e9a38b4dagnucash-2.7.8.tar.gz3126e50a4194fe747efb6f8385d2c224a4c31c103cf523ffc54e7df1a29c976bgnucash-2.7.8.setup.exee1c4e66401d2d69d71bb592c33a2c45a20298b518936dedcc6b9ededf7ae6bdcGnuCash-Intel-2.7.8-1.dmg
Please consult the README.dependencies file in the sources for the required dependencies and versions needed to build GnuCash from source. Additional information on building GnuCash may be found in the Wiki
Getting the documentation
The documentation is available at Documentation page of the GnuCash website. Please refer to the "Nightly Builds" section at the bottom of the page.
About the Program
GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and available for GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris®, MacOS® and Microsoft Windows®. Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.