GnuCash 5.5 Released

The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 5.5, the sixth release in the stable 5.x series.

Between 5.4 and 5.5, the following bugfixes were accomplished:

• Bug 607000 - SLR visible transactions

  Change the Since Last Run dialog to show only transactions with a non-empty Status.

• Bug 792241 - Allow sorting scheduled transactions
• Bug 798025 - SLR Value entry not tied to location

  Disable scrolling and the horizontal scroll bar while an entry has focus.

• Bug 798760 - SLR OK button to complete value entry

  With this change the Since Last Run dialog's OK button will commit an in-progress edit and advance to the next edit requiring input. It will close the dialog only if there are no more edits.

• Bug 798760 - SLR change reminder with value entry

  Change transaction state from Reminder to ToCreate when the user has provided the needed value and clicked OK.

• Bug 798890 - Printing Problem
• Bug 799087 - Import - Unbalanced (need acct) transactions now show in red (previously orange).
• Bug 799090 - Right Clicking scheduled transaction

  Ensure that the selection highlight changes to the item under the pointer when right-clicking in the SX Editor.

• Bug 799092 - GnuCash 5.4 leaves background process running on exit

  Clear the schema_hash at app shutdown via gnc_prefs_remove_registered and make that function available to the Python bindings so that python programs can do so too.

• Bug 799099 - Crash when trying to get quotes
• Bug 799104 - "Asset Chart" broken
• Bug 799108 - "Since Last Run" crashes if there are any errors creating a scheduled transaction

  Capture errors and display them in a dialog box instead.

• Bug 799113 - "Start Import" button reports "Failed"
• Bug 799121 - Parse error on CSV import on MacOS
• Bug 799130 - split-register.c:1847:gnc_split_register_save: assertion failed: (xaccTransIsOpen (blank_trans))
• Bug 799134 - Fails to build with GCC 14 (‘find_if’ is not a member of ‘std’; did you mean ‘find’)
• Bug 799138 - Port to new Python C config API

  Note that this increases the minimum Python version to 3.8.

• Bug 799143 - FTBFS on 32bit architectures
• Bug 799144 - Date Completion is broken after 5.4 upgrade
• Bug 799148 - Reliable crash when saving a modified saved report configuration
• Bug 799150 - Can't paste text (with Ctrl+V) in Notes field in Account Tree View
• Bug 799151 - gnc_date_get_last_mday () does not account for leap years correctly.
• Bug 799152 - normalize_reldate_tm() does not handle dates with months greater than 11 or less than -11 correctly.
• Bug 799156 - normalize_struct_tm() does not normalize seconds,minutes, and hours correctly.

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

• Cancel the QIF import instead of inserting the default directory if the user cancels the file-selection dialog.
• Memory leak fixes
• Rename the scheduled transaction edit/new/delete menus to resolve a shortcut conflict.
• Allow saving the sort column in the Since Last Run dialog
• Ensure that Print Checks obtains for the check amount the sum of all splits in the current register account and subaccounts.
• Ensure that report page actions are re-enabled after editing options. Some actions (Print, PDFExport, and Report Options) had been left disabled.
• Ensure GncDateEntry always reverts to today if the user enters an invalid date string.
• Direct cmake to find the base installed Python3 instead of the latest version installed. Reference Cmake Issue 24126, Cmake Issue 24878, and CMake merge request 8287. Note that this requires CMake 3.20 or later; users of older versions will still get the newest installed Python version.
• CI: Run distcheck on one workflow to catch quickly instances where someone adds a file but forgets to update the distribution.
• Primarily of interest to developers: We've added a new CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE, Asan, with two options -DLEAKS and -DODR, both of which default to OFF. This creates a non-optimized, with-symbols build with the Address Sanitizer hooks compiled in. While the primary motivation is a CI run to ensure that there aren't any memory allocation errors revealed in the test suite, this is also a useful build to use when debugging a segfault crash, many of which are caused by use-after-free errors. When building on non-Apple platforms -DLEAKS=ON will add leak detection, dumping a stack trace for the allocation of any leaked heap or free-store allocations. Similarly and on non-Apple platforms only -DODR=ON will log violations of the C++ one definition rule.
• Also of interest to developers: A new cmake option -DCOVERAGE. When on and in a non-optimized build this will instrument the program and libraries to count usage for every source line. The option also adds three targets, lcov-initialize, lcov-collect, and lcov-generate-html. The primary motivation is to assess the completeness of tests in CI, see Coverage-HTML for the latest results.

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Known Problems

Complete list of all open bugs.

Documentation

No changes were associated with bug reports between releases 5.4 and 5.5

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

• EBICS: for business customers (of the bank) rather than business users.
• docbook: additional entities for business GUI-elements
• docbook: gnc-gui-*: Rename the scheduled edit/new/delete menus to match a change in the program.

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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:

• b4daf67bb892b706323f62e9fa97242039d7dd0a2e1e10771e0c25817dd0ed3b  gnucash-5.5.tar.bz2
• 73d2c367f7f1c2da045ce08cb7dfc619e43002ac1e17bb708e3287edff96ae47  gnucash-5.5.tar.gz
• 720a60dca57e4199f28b5449158ddc89e62012f042a62c43b16c569fa0890275  gnucash-5.5.setup.exe
• a27ab3dd3ada69456cb8033473f7bab5ae5874a4880416672d9b4fd2e1c26408  Gnucash-Intel-5.5-1.dmg
• 93560f55d9305aef45525cf7e7143b72503365c353840dfaaa382d9dfb97c8ab  gnucash-docs-5.5.tar.gz

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