Upgrading is usually pretty straightforward, but it differs depending on your OS and platform. For example, on Windows, the new version uninstalls the earlier version, regardless. On Mac, you drag the new version into Applications (but you can keep earlier versions with simple renaming). On Linux, you might have a flatpack installation, or you may have installed from a package manager, or even compiled it yourself from sources (although if you'd done this, you'd probably be savvy enough not to need our help...). Each has its own upgrade path.
David T. On Apr 2, 2024, 1:11 PM, at 1:11 PM, Dave parker via gnucash-user <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: >I am pretty new to Gnucash. Do I need to uninstall and install the >newer version? Is there a link I just click on for the update? Just >don't know. > >What is the procedure to update to the new version of Gnucash? >Thanks for all you do for Gnucash. >Dave Parker > >Dave's Oil and Synthetics >Independent AMSOIL Dealer #5682897 >919-222-8362 >https://davesoilandsynthetics.myamsoil.com/ > > >On Sunday, March 31, 2024 at 07:36:56 PM EDT, John Ralls ><jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > >The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 5.6, the seventh release >in the stable 5.x series. >Between 5.5 and 5.6, the following bugfixes were accomplished: > > Bug 798946 - start/end of current/last quarter have off-by-one >error > Bug 799093 - Cannot reconcile since v5.4 > Bug 799179 - SLR won't allow change from "Reminder" to any other >state > Bug 799210 - Bad encoding of accented chars in account names in >"Import CSV" wizard > Bug 799213 - SIGSEGV caused by revising an auto completed >transaction > Bug 799222 - Crash when changing the parent of an account that has >had two or more levels of sub-accounts auto-created using the register >in the current session. > Bug 799224 - Import of QIF gets Bug detected during duplicates >(partial fix: If the new-splits object is null, it means the new >account tree from the current import has no splits. Therefore the >(apply min|max dates) will fail. Omitting the date query is a simple >fix to prevent crashing. This is a partial fix because the crash is >likely a symptom of another bug which causes the new account-tree to be >empty. > Bug 799225 - QIF Importer Crashes Silently after "Start Import" >Button: Don't allow a QIF investment transaction without an action >(buy/sell/etc) > Bug 799246 - import matcher will rename incorrect splits > >The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug >reports: > > Numeric parsing and string handling improvements in the Engine and >XML backend. > [gnc-dense-cal.c] sx popup: show date in preference (cf.locale) >format because the date format preference is user-facing and >customisable. it's jarring if the preference is dd/mm/yyyy and the >display shows mm/dd/yyyy in accordance to the locale. > Correct misleading description about creating Scheduled >Transaction. > Date parsing efficiency improvements. > Update minumum Python version to 3.8, made necessary by updating >the C API in the Python bindings. > Replace deprecated distutils.sysconfig with sysconfig. distutils is >not present in Python 3.12.2. > Query user via dialog for date when creating a reverse transaction. > More C++ conversions > Avoid deprecation warning for -py3 in swig >= 4.1 > [gnc-commodities.cpp] gnc_new_iso_codes is a std::unordered_map > Replace some naked for loops with C++ algorithms > Convert gnc-commodity to C++ and make GncQuoteSources a C++ class. > [test-commodities.cpp] add some tests for gnc_quote_sources > Remove the SLR status sort as it is too confusing > Allow sorting of the transaction column in the Since Last Run >dialog by schedule name or occurrence date. To sort by schedule name, a >schedule name is first selected and then the column header is pressed >to change order. To sort by occurrence date, a date is selected and >then the column header is pressed to change order based on the date of >the first occurrence. A tool tip has been added to indicate the sort >order being used. > [gtest-gnc-numeric] add operator comparisons with example int64 >numbers > [assistant-stock-transaction] store & retrieve associated account >as metadata > Update Form/Schedule line references for 2023 for the US Income Tax >Report > Update another gnucash-help to gnucash-manual > [invoice.scm] centralize layout components into layout-key-list >instead of maintaining 2 assoc lists. > [invoice.scm] normalize header section generators, changing the >functions to require 1 options argument only > Update invoice.scm: Add spacing for long Invoice ID's (Displayed as >"Reference" on the Invoice) > >New and Updated Translations: Croatian, Dutch, English (Australia), >English (New Zealand), English (United Kingdom), French, German, >Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, >Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish > >Help translate GnuCash on Weblate >Help translate GnuCash on Weblate: >https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/gnucash/ > >Known Problems > >Complete list of all open bugs: >https://bugs.gnucash.org/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=blocker&bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=major&bug_severity=normal&bug_severity=minor&bug_severity=trivial&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=REOPENED&limit=0&list_id=8149&order=priority%2Cbug_severity&query_format=advanced > >Documentation > >Between 5.5 and 5.6, the following bugfixes were accomplished: > > Bug 799237 - Dead Link > >The following fixes and improvements were not associated with bug >reports: > > C, de:Manual:Finance-Quote: Note about Expected Time Commitment > C, de:Manual:Finance-Quote: Tip about 'gnc-fq-update: Command not >found' > docbook: gnc-gui-de: Improve accelerator of menuitems > Link >https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Documentation_Translation#The_Procedure >in recent gnc-gui-*.dtd files > Replace *dquote entities by <quote> tags > C:Manual:Tools:Unify main section titles and other minor >improvements > Unify filename extension > C:Manual:CSV Import: show icons > xmlformat: Apply changes at the element 'screeninfo' > xmlformat.conf: new element 'screeninfo' with no entry- and no >exit-break > >New and Updated Translations: German > >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: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak > >The SHA256 Hashes for the downloadable files are: > >* b4b42c626350f3e79f7ca1f2173545cc63ddee1addf2460b1a1f22221bf21bd1 >gnucash-5.6.tar.bz2 >* 50aebe914da600003c3b668c6a0b86df3d583a200c378f0f16658bec299bbbd3 >gnucash-5.6.tar.gz >* dc6139469696168ddd13ad617a8fbd31c2389b0960a82bc2da1c0c5606b37f46 >gnucash-5.6.setup.exe >* 2cc91f36d9939065dac366058aae1a6a8c41cfe84850b6b549ee87ba075d50d4 >Gnucash-Intel-5.6-1.dmg >* 8ad9da28199074fc5ef604d4489a82413031290a06e5f6418fe85cceb5fa3f02 >gnucash-docs-5.6.tar.gz > > >Microsoft Windows: >https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.6/gnucash-5.6.setup.exe >https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/5.6/gnucash-5.6.setup.exe > >Apple macOS: >https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.6/Gnucash-Intel-5.6-1.dmg >https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/5.6/Gnucash-Intel-5.6-1.dmg > >Getting GnuCash as source code >If you want to compile GnuCash 5.5 for yourself, the source code can be >downloaded from: >https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.6/gnucash-5.6.tar.bz2 >https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.6/gnucash-5.6.tar.gz >https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/5.6/gnucash-5.6.tar.bz2 >https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/5.6/gnucash-5.6.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 > >Note that the documentation for unstable releases is not on the GnuCash >website. It is built daily and may be found on the development server >under the locale directory; "C" is English, "de" is German, and so on. > >The documentation is included in the MacOS and Windows application >bundles. > >If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 5.6 for yourself, the >source code can be downloaded from: > >Sourceforge: >https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnucash/gnucash%20%28stable%29/5.6/gnucash-docs-5.6.tar.gz > >GitHub: >https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/download/5.6/gnucash-docs-5.6.tar.gz > >You can also checkout the sources directly from the git repository as >described at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git. > >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. > >Regards, >John Ralls > >_______________________________________________ >gnucash-announce mailing list >gnucash-annou...@gnucash.org >https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-announce > >_______________________________________________ >gnucash-user mailing list >gnucash-user@gnucash.org >To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >----- >Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
