{"id":2715,"date":"2013-12-30T07:25:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T07:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=2715"},"modified":"2014-07-25T12:47:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T12:47:17","slug":"free-accounting-software-gnucash-2-6-0-stable-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/free-accounting-software-gnucash-2-6-0-stable-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Accounting Software GnuCash 2.6.0 Stable Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/gnucash_logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/gnucash_logo.jpg\" alt=\"GnuCash 2.6 Stable\" width=\"237\" height=\"233\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2716\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest stable release of <b>GnuCash<\/b>, a personal and small-business financial-accounting software now is at version <b>2.6.x<\/b>, announced on 29th Dec 2013. <\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s New in GnuCash 2.6:<\/h3>\n<p><b>New Features:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Preferences have been migrated from GConf to GSettings. This is a simpler and more robust backend which writes to the OS&#8217;s native prefs &#8212; defaults on OS X and the Registry on MSWindows &#8212; and allows us to remove several troublesome dependencies including GConf, ORBit, and DBus. The change includes a migration script that will run at Gnucash startup.<\/p>\n<p>New date handling which allows GnuCash to use dates after March 2038.<\/p>\n<p>Guile-2 compatibility: GnuCash now requires either Guile-1.8 or Guile-2.0 Documents outside of GnuCash, images of receipts for example, can now be linked to transactions, with the facility of opening them in the default application for the document type.<\/p>\n<p>Cutsom Reports can now be saved without renaming the report, and modifications can overwrite an existing report.<\/p>\n<p>The import assistant now finishes much more quickly after assigning contra-accounts.<\/p>\n<p>GnuCash now requires Gtk+-2.24.0 and GLib-2.26.0. Most of the dependencies on obsolete libraries have been removed; only libgnomecanvas remains. Unfortunately the effort to rewrite the register code to use GtkTreeModel wasn&#8217;t completed in time, so GnuCash is not on the cusp of converting to Gtk3.<\/p>\n<p>The Business Module has been substantially revamped, including support for Credit Notes and import of customers and vendors from a CSV file.<\/p>\n<p>The Num field in the register display is now optionally per-split, so for example a check number can be entered for the checking account split and an invoice number for the expense account split.<\/p>\n<p>GnuCash can now open locked books read-only so that more than one user can view a file. GnuCash still does not support multiple simultaneous writers.<\/p>\n<p>By agreement of all authors, GnuCash is now licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2 or later rather than simply Version 2. This allows derivative works to be licensed under the GPL Version 3 if the author of such a work so desires.<\/p>\n<p><b>Bug fixes<\/b> since 2.5.10:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Asset account&#8217;s &#8220;total&#8221; value should use most recent transaction prices<\/li>\n<li>libofx can supply broken UTF-8 for account id<\/li>\n<li>GnuCash should sanitise UTF-8 before serialising files to avoid writing broken unparseable XML.<\/li>\n<li>General Ledger &#8211; Can&#8217;t Enter Transaction Amounts<\/li>\n<li>The Tip of the Day preference isn&#8217;t getting saved<\/li>\n<li>New Book Tabs on Windows<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>       Other Changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t create a second account hierarchy page when cancelling the Hierarchy Assistant or when using Actions->New Account Hierarchy on an already open book.<\/li>\n<li>Reset Warnings dialog: show translated warnings<\/li>\n<li>The locale-names for Help and the Tutorial and Concepts Guide have been renamed to language-only so that, for example, someone using the Swiss-German locale will be shown help in German instead of English.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Download &#038; Install GnuCash 2.6:<\/h3>\n<p>Source Code and Windows EXE file are available in <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/gnucash\/files\/gnucash%20%28stable%29\/\" title=\"GnuCash Stable download page\" target=\"_blank\">sf download page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For Ubuntu users, build GnuCash 2.6 from source or wait for Canonical updating the universe repository.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnucash.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">GnuCash Website<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest stable release of GnuCash, a personal and small-business financial-accounting software now is at version 2.6.x, announced on 29th Dec 2013. 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