GnuCash 2.2.0 released
The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.2.0, the new stable release of the GnuCash Open Source Accounting Software. With this new release series, GnuCash is available on Microsoft Windows for the first time, and it also runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX.
Download:
- http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=192
(Source code and Windows binary)
- http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/
(Source code only)
What's New in GnuCash 2.2.0?
This release has only a few user-visible new features, except for the completed port to the Microsoft Windows operating system. In summary, the following features are new, compared to the older 2.0.x series:
- Port to Microsoft Windows completed.
- Data file notice: In version 2.1.2 the format for scheduled transactions in the data file was changed. Files using the old format will be read without problems by this new version, but the new version of GnuCash only writes the new format. The new file format cannot be loaded by older versions of GnuCash. (If you try, the file will fail to be loaded with an error message.) As a result, if you begin using the new Gnucash, and you have data files with scheduled transactions, then these files will not be readable by older versions. If you have to make a new data file readable by older versions of GnuCash, this can be achived by deleting all records of scheduled transactions in the scheduled transaction editor.
- SWIG is now used instead of g-wrap for providing language bindings.
- The Scheduled Transaction list view is now improved and summarized more compactly. The Since-Last-Run dialog has been simplified.
- Check printing has been improved,with new formats and simpler format descriptions.
- Automatic saving of the data file was added
How can you help?
- We would like to encourage people to test this and any further releases as much as possible and submit bug reports in order that we can continuously polish GnuCash to be as stable as possible. Simply post any bugs you find to bugzilla http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash
- If you have the urge to help beyond testing please get involved in the discussions on the GnuCash mailing lists which you will find at http://www.gnucash.org. We especially need people to help with updating the documentation. Please see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development on how to get involved.
- Translating: The new release comes with some new translation strings. If you consider contributing a translation, we invite you to work with the translation template in this package. Our
development is in String Freeze now, so you can safely work on our translation. Please check http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status for updates on this.
Getting GnuCash
GnuCash 2.2.0 can be downloaded from sourceforge.net. It is available as source code and as self-installing setup program for Windows which includes all necessary additional libraries.
To install GnuCash from source code, users will need Gnome 2, guile, and slib. Neither the currently used swig nor the previously used g-wrap packages are needed anymore when compiling from tarball or when installing a binary. The Windows version requires Windows 2000, XP, or Vista; GnuCash does not run on Windows 98 or 95.
- http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=192
(Source code and Windows binary)
- http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/
(Source code only)
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. It is collaboratively developed by 12 people from over 5 countries.
Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.