Download GnuCash 2.6.17

Version 2.6.17 of GnuCash has been released. GnuCash is a cross platform and open source accounting program for individuals and small businesses. It uses the double-entry bookkeeping system and is able to easily keep track of, for example, bank accounts, investments, income and expenses, budgets, mortgages and loans, and can of course create reports and graphs. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

GnuCash 2.6.17 released

The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 2.6.17, the seventeenth maintenance release in the 2.6-stable series. Between 2.6.16 and 2.6.17, the following bug fixes were accomplished:

• Bug 603379 – Prevent changing some Account Options if it has transactions Relax the account type change restrictions. In the new implementation account types can’t be changed for an account with splits:
  • if the change woud force a commodity change eg from type STOCK to BANK as the former takes only non-currency commodities and the latter only currency.
  • for immutable accounts

  At the time of this commit the following account types are considered immutable:

  • Accounts Receivable
  • Accounts Payable
  • Trading accounts
• Bug 776396 – Foreign currency reports, amounts are not aligned correctly Improve the styling of the table element used for foreign currencies in the Balance sheet report so they end up aligned with the other currencies.
• Bug 780845 – link in github repo README file needs correction/editing
• Bug 780889 – Split-register transactions result in invalid price:type “transaction” Add ‘transaction’ to the schema and document it in gnc-pricedb.h.
• Bug 781476 – Online Banking Wizard Crashes for Windows (gnucash-on-windows)
• Bug 781634 – Alert on missing account currency when opening account Also separate translatable commodity namespace strings from those used in storage: There is now a separate GNC_COMMODITY_NS_ISO_GUI label to be used everywhere the user needs to read ‘Currency namespace’. It’s currently set to ‘Currencies’ and can be translated.
• Bug 782274 – Transactions produced by Transfer Funds or Process Payment dialogs sort to beginning of day and do not honor NUM field for custom sorting.
• Bug 782897 – Stock Split Assistant crashes GnuCash if you enter a New Price and that already exists in the Price DB
• Bug 783095 – gnucash-2.6.16 segfaults on startup
• Bug 784317 – typo in ‘import customers or vendors from text file’ dialog

Some other fixes not associated with reported bugs:

• Fix crash on Mac when trying to create or edit an AQBanking User. (gnucash-on-osx)
• Properly define the template namespace rather than using a local string everywhere
• Correctly store time64 0 in the SQL backend: The SQL backend ignored time64 0 when saving dates. time64 is a perfectly valid timestamp (1970-01-01 00:00:00) and should be stored.
• Clamp time64 values ​​passed to GDateTime functions to the valid range. Fixes a bug reported on the mailing list wherein a date of 0000-00-00 in a MySql database would crash GnuCash. Such dates may come from a bad conversion of 1970-01-01 or from a crash.
• Add XSU to iso-4217-currencies
• Some banks include additional purpose information for a transaction in non-swift-section 17 (aka transaction text). If available, this transaction text is put in front of the other purpose texts to provide full transaction information. Adds a preference to control import behavior of transaction text.

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Important update notification
If you are updating from gnucash 2.6.0-2.6.4 on linux, you are advised to remove the guile user cache or several parts of gnucash may fail to work properly. This user cache can be found in .cache/guile/ccache/2.0-LE-8-2.0/ in your home directory. It’s safe to remove the whole contents of this directory.
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