GnuCash 2.6 Presseerklärung

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.6.0, the latest stable release of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software. GnuCash Users can experience the following new features:

• Preferences have been migrated from GConf to GSettings. This is a simpler and more robust backend which writes to the OS's native prefs -- defaults on OS X and the Registry on MSWindows -- 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.
• New date handling which allows GnuCash to use dates after March 2038.
• 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.
• Cutsom Reports can now be saved without renaming the report, and modifications can overwrite an existing report.
• The import assistant now finishes much more quickly after assigning contra-accounts.
• 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't completed in time, so GnuCash is not on the cusp of converting to Gtk3.
• The Business Module has been substantially revamped, including support for Credit Notes and import of customers and vendors from a CSV file.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Fixed more than 500 bugs.

Other Changes:

• Don't create a second account hierarchy page when cancelling the Hierarchy Assistant or when using Actions->New Account Hierarchy on an already open book.
• Reset Warnings dialog: show translated warnings
• 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.

Getting GnuCash for Windows (Win32 binary)

The Gnucash 2.6.0 Win32 setup executable can be downloaded from Sourceforge. It will install everything needed to run GnuCash.

Mac OSX binary

The Gnucash 2.6.0 MacOS X Intel and PPC packages can be downloaded from Sourceforge as well.

Getting GnuCash as source code

If you want to compile GnuCash 2.6.0 for yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:

• Sourceforge: bzip2, all files.
• You can also checkout the sources directly from the git repository as described here.

To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need at least Gnome 2, Guile, and slib. In addition you will need swig if compiling from git. Please consult the README file in the sources for the exact list of dependencies and versions.

How can you help?

Translating: The new release comes with some new translation strings. If you consider contributing a translation, we invite you to test this release already.

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, Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows. Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.

Ältere Versionen

• Gnucash 2.4
• Gnucash 2.2
• Gnucash 2.0
• Gnucash 1.8
• Gnucash 1.6