Download GnuCash 2.6.8

Version 2.6.8 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:

Between 2.6.7 and 2.6.8, the following bug fixes were accomplished:

• Bug #724738 – Value in Display Symbol field not saved.
• Bug #746998 – Months Remaining spinbox in Loan Assistant is non-obvious. Provide a tool tip explaining what it’s for.
• Bug #747795 – Attached file not found. MS Win only. ShellExecuteW(“open”) doesn’t decode http escapes on file: IRIs.
• Bug #749077 – wrongfully invalidating any account save location/path starting with “.gnucash”
• Bug #752035 – Transaction Report “Filter By” Not Always Working.
• Bug #752204 – .gml2 files are modified during build. Since there’s no real benefit to saving the files most of the time, don’t, but leave the save line in, commented out, to make it easy to write new files if necessary.
• Bug #752879 – Finance::Quote TZ Date::Manip config variable is deprecated.
• Bug #753146 – free(): invalid pointer on duplicate transaction when Use Split Action Field for Number is set.
• Bug #754617 – Gnucash should use PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG
• Bug #754764 Budget Doxygen documentation – gnc-budget-view.c.

Some other fixes not associated with reported bugs:

• Clean up deprecated Gtk functions to make eventual migration to Gtk3 easier.
• Improve storage of prices in the price db so that there is only one per day and a preference list determines what sources can overwrite existing prices. Prices are stored in the direction that the price is greater than one to preserve precision for large prices that would be small in the other direction.
• Correct the Stock, Bond, Market Index, and Mutual Fund account types to ASSET in the template accounts. STOCK and MUTUAL are not compatible with currency.
• Clean up some non-fatal assertions.
• Developer documentation improvements.
• Fix backend Sync errors not being reported.
• Restore Date::Manip as an explicit dependency in gnc-fq-update; it’s required for gnc-fq-helper, not Finance::Quote.

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