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@jralls jralls released this 30 Apr 19:20
· 1679 commits to stable since this release

The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 5.1, the second release in the stable 5.x series

Between 5.0 and 5.1, the following bugfixes were accomplished:

The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:

  • Add filters to the File>Open dialog in File mode to show only files with GnuCash extensions, only those matching GnuCash's backup file pattern, or any extension.
  • Select the first result in the Customer/Vendor search box. This allows faster keyboard navigation -- Find Customer, input search string, press ENTER, use up/down to select desired object, press ENTER to open object.
  • Improve foreign currency handling in budget report
  • Improve handling of the blank transaction when the register is sorted in reverse:
    • Change the preference option 'Future transactions after blank transaction'
    • Change tooltip for 'Blank Transaction' in register to mention moving to the blank transaction.
    • Show the blank transaction at top of register
  • Prevent infinite recursion from gnucash_item_edit_focus_out when using an input method.
  • Create obsolete features list with first member book_currency.Obsolete features set in the book will be removed from the book's KVP and ignored.
  • Restore existence, but not implementation, of GNC_FEATURE_BOOK_CURRENCY.

    At least one user has managed to get it set on their book so even though it was supposed to be unimplemented it got through somehow. Restoring it allows books with it set to load.

  • Offer to force edit non-identical fields when multiple matches are selected in the import matcher window. Previously only identical Desc/Notes/Memo were unlocked for editing.
  • Guard against there being no namespaces in the new security dialog
  • Fix Finance::Quote use on Win32 by dealing with Win32 \r\n newlines on return from finance-quote-wrapper.
  • Fix some menu labels that were not marked for translation
  • Fix category in CSV export with simple layout.

    If Trading accounts is enabled, and the transaction is a transfer between two accounts of differing commodities, the CSV simple-layout export would incorrectly show "--Split Transaction--" as the category.

  • When configuring Guile use pkg-config before searching for binaries.

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Known Problems

Complete list of all open bugs.

Documentation

Concurrent with the release of GnuCash 5.1 we're pleased to also release a new version of the companion Manual and the Tutorial and Concepts Guide:

The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug reports:

  • Add details for some CSV import options.

New and Updated Translations: None

Getting GnuCash for Windows and MacOS

GnuCash is provided for both Microsoft Windows 8.1® and later and MacOS 10.13 (High Sierra)® and later in pre-built, all-in-one packages. An installer is provided for Microsoft Windows® while the MacOS® package is a disk image containing a drag-and-drop application bundle.

GnuCash is also available as a flatpak from Flathub.org. Instructions for installing and running.

The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are:

  • 8a6581ddf7c7409db636510601351af724eda363ab59b1d5da8d981033f26f72  gnucash-5.1.tar.bz2
  • bd73204896d71cb19c2071bca9cc6faaf19d1499be66124f4fe66c8e15f876cb  gnucash-5.1.tar.gz
  • 3ddc5547b5694a11a33e21e4110d1adb908f04995637a54bfa930df68c7df014  gnucash-5.1.setup.exe
  • 48c38097fe744a7da7bbd454d0e58e3619194d8f41e6542137c0bebac440e386  Gnucash-Intel-5.1-1.dmg
  • 59bd2b5ccc1efa7a034b38663e28f855b4ad16ee28b2248d61af8145097152f6  gnucash-docs-5.1.tar.gz

To compile GnuCash from the source code by yourself, you will need at least Gtk+ 3.22.29, Guile 2.0, Boost 1.67, WebKitGtk 2.4, GoogleTest 1.8.0, cmake 3.10 and SWIG 2.0.12. Please consult the README.dependencies file in the sources for the exact list of dependencies and versions.

Getting the documentation

The documentation is available at Documentation page of the GnuCash website. The 5.1 documentation can be found under "GnuCash v4 (current stable release)" in multiple languages both for reading online and for download in pdf, epub, and mobi formats. The documentation is also included in the MacOS and Windows application bundles. Note that we are preparing to remove autotools support from the documentation build and that it is no longer included in the tarball.