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== Draft Release Schedule for 1.9.x ==
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This is a draft release schedule for unstable 1.9.x releases of gnucash, which will eventually lead to the stable 2.0.0 release of gnome2-based gnucash.
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! scope="row"|Languages
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| | [[He/{{PAGENAME:לוח_שחרורים}}|עִברִית]]
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==General Rules==
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* Usually '''stable versions''' are released at the ''last weekend of a quarter''.
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* '''String freeze''' is ''2 weeks before''. To publish the changed messages to [[Weblate]] a <syntaxhighlight lang="sh" inline>make pot; msgmerge …</syntaxhighlight> as described in [[Language_Administration#Program]] is required.
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: It is also a good opportunity for packagers to check for [[Dependency Updates]].
  
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=== Goal ===
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== Goals for 6.0 ==
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Goal for 2.0.0: For the first 2.0.0 release the plan is to finish porting those parts of gnucash that have already been started (i.e. new windowing system, account tree, commodities tree, etc.), but not to port any additional features unless absolutely required.
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Goals for 6.0:
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* Rewrite engine to remove dependencies on GLib/GObject using C++
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* Migrate from QofQuery to SQL Query
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* Make KVP a backend implementation detail; no direct KVP access except in the backends
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* Limit use of Guile to reports and F::Q; all other main application code should be C or C++.
  
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Purpose of all 1.9.x releases: Any 1.9.x is not yet stable, but is meant to provide easier access to the current source code for wider testing. Also, at some point in time the 1.9.x series should go into a string freeze so that translators can fully concentrate on their translation work.  
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We plan to release GnuCash 6.0 in Spring 2026 with unstable testing beginning in January 2026:
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{| class="wikitable"
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! width="90" | Release
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! width="90" | String Freeze
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! width="90" | Planned
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! width="90" | Actual 
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! width="360" | Notes
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|-
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| 6.0 
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! style="background-color:yellow" | 2026-03-08
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|| 2026-03-29 || ||
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|-
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| 5.904 || || 2026-03-22 ||
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! style="background-color:yellow" | Code Freeze, Release Candidate
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| 5.903 || || 2026-03-15 ||  ||
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| 5.902 || || 2026-03-08 ||
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! style="background-color:yellow" | String Freeze
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| 5.901 || || 2026-02-01 || 
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! style="background-color:yellow" | Feature Freeze
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|-
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| 5.900 || || 2026-01-04 || ||
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|}
  
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=== Requirements of 1.9.x releases ===
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== Schedules ==
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* Any 1.9.x has to offer full backward-compatibility of the data file. It should always be possible to use a 1.9.x-saved XML datafile again with any 1.8.x version. (Note: Actually we restrict this backward compatibility to >= 1.8.5 because we are using the correct XML namespace definitions in the file; capabilities for reading those were added in 1.8.5, 17 Aug 2003)
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=== Stable 5.x ===
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* [[Bugzilla]] queries for the list of bugs assigned to those milestones:
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{| class="wikitable"
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** [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=GnuCash&target_milestone=1.9.0 All Bugzilla items with 1.9.0 milestone including resolved]
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! width="90" | Release
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** [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=GnuCash&target_milestone=1.9.1 All Bugzilla items with 1.9.1 milestone including resolved]
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! width="90" | String Freeze
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** [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=GnuCash&target_milestone=1.9.2 All Bugzilla items with 1.9.2 milestone including resolved]
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! width="90" | Planned
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** [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=GnuCash&target_milestone=1.9.3 All Bugzilla items with 1.9.3 milestone including resolved]
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! width="90" | Actual 
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** [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=GnuCash&target_milestone=1.9.4 All Bugzilla items with 1.9.4 milestone including resolved]
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! width="360" | Notes
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** [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=GnuCash&target_milestone=1.9.5 All Bugzilla items with 1.9.5 milestone including resolved]
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** [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=GnuCash&target_milestone=1.9.6 All Bugzilla items with 1.9.6 milestone including resolved]
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| 5.12
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** [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=GnuCash&target_milestone=1.9.7 All Bugzilla items with 1.9.7 milestone including resolved]
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!style="background-color:yellow"| 2025-12-14 
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** [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=GnuCash&target_milestone=2.0.0&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=NEEDINFO Open Bugzilla items with 2.0.0 milestone] ([http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=GnuCash&target_milestone=2.0.0 including resolved])
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!style="background-color:yellow"| 2025-12-21 
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| 5.12 || 2025-09-21  || 2025-09-28  ||  ||
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| 5.11 || 2025-06-22  || 2025-06-29  ||  ||
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|-
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| 5.10 || 2025-03-23  || 2025-03-30  ||  ||
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|-
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| 5.9 || 2024-12-08  || 2024-12-15  ||  ||
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| 5.8 || 2024-09-21  || 2024-09-29  ||  ||
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|-
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| 5.7 || 2024-06-16  || 2024-06-23  ||  ||
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|-
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| 5.6 || 2024-03-24  || 2024-03-31  ||  ||
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|-
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| 5.5 || 2023-12-10  || 2023-12-17  || 2023-12-17 ||
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|-
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| 5.4 || 2023-09-17  || 2023-09-24  || 2023-09-24 ||
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|-
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| 5.3 ||  || || 2023-06-26 || Snap release to fix [https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798967 Bug 798967]
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| 5.2 || 2023-06-18  || 2023-06-25  || 2023-06-25 ||
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| 5.1 ||  || 2023-04-30  || 2023-04-30 || Short loop for things that missed 5.0, bug fixes
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| 5.0 ||  || 2023-03-28  || 2023-03-28  ||
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=== Caveats ===
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=== Old Stable 4.x (Closed to Development)===
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Caveats for testers:
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* Any 1.9.x version might crash unexpectedly at any point during runtime. If you test some serious work in a 1.9.x release, make sure you hit "Save" after ever non-trivial workstep.
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! width="90" | Release
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* The documentation has had screenshots updated, however, most help texts usually only refers to the 1.8.x series. Everyone is invited to help improve the documentation; see [[Development]] on how to get involved.
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! width="90" | String Freeze
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! width="90" | Planned
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! width="90" | Actual 
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! width="360" | Notes
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| 4.14 || 2023-03-12 || 2023-03-26 || 2023-03-26 ||
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| 4.13 || 2022-12-04 || 2022-12-18 || 2022-12-18 ||
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| 4.12 || 2022-09-15 || 2022-09-25 || 2022-09-25 ||
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| 4.11 || 2022-06-12 || 2022-06-26 || 2022-06-26 ||
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| 4.10 || 2022-03-13 || 2022-03-27 || 2022-03-27 ||
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| 4.9 || 2021-12-05 || 2021-12-19 || 2021-12-19 ||
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| 4.8 ||  ||  || 2021-09-28 || Snap release to correct crash.
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| 4.7 || 2021-09-12 || 2021-09-26 || 2021-09-26 ||
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| 4.6 || 2021-06-13 || 2021-06-27 || 2021-06-27 ||
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| 4.5 || 2021-03-14 || 2021-03-28 || 2021-03-28 ||
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| 4.4 || || || 2020-12-27 || Snap release to fix [https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798063 Bug 798063]
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| 4.3 || 2020-12-13 || 2020-12-27|| 2020-12-27 ||
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|-
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| 4.2 || || 2020-09-27 || 2020-09-27 ||
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|-
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| 4.1 || || 2020-07-26 || 2020-07-26 ||
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| 4.0 || || 2020-06-28 || 2020-06-28 ||
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=== Schedule ===
 
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Actual release dates:
 
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* 1.9.0 February 8th; [[Announcement 1.9.0]], Initial announcement and call for adventurous testers
 
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* 1.9.1 February 19th; [[Announcement 1.9.1]]; bugfixes
 
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* 1.9.2 March 5th; [[Announcement 1.9.2]]; bugfixes
 
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* 1.9.3 March 19th; [[Announcement 1.9.3]]; bugfixes
 
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* 1.9.4 April 5th; [[Announcement 1.9.4]]; "soft" string freeze; bugfixes; call for translations; call for more testers
 
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* 1.9.5 April 16th; [[Announcement 1.9.5]]; bugfixes; start of [[String Freeze]].
 
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* 1.9.6 May 14th; [[Announcement 1.9.6]]; bugfixes; still [[String Freeze]]; first "beta" release
 
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* 1.9.7 June 5th; [[Announcement 1.9.7]]; bugfixes; second "beta" release
 
  
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Proposed future schedule. All dates are the Sunday of a weekend. It is proposed to have a release every other week or in three week intervals.
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Release notes can be found on the [http://www.gnucash.org GnuCash Web Page].
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* 1.9.8 June 18th? release candidate?
 
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* maybe? 2.0.0 June 25th?; draft [[Announcement 2.0.0]]
 
  
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This is only a DRAFT and subject to change at all times. --[[User:Cstim|Cstim]] 05:55, 16 January 2006 (EST)
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== Previous Releases ==
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We maintain an [[Release Schedule/Archive | archive page]] of older release announcements.
  
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Updated --[[User:Warlord|Warlord]] on 1 March 2006.
 
  
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String freeze cannot be met with 1.9.4 - the "1.8.x data file importing" feature is still missing and will require addition of new strings. String freeze has to be moved to 1.9.5. Two weeks of String Freeze in total  until 2.0.0 is way too short for translators; need to move 2.0.0 to mid-May for that reason. --[[User:Cstim|Cstim]] 07:23, 29 March 2006 (EST)
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[[Category:Releases]] [[Category:Development‎‏]] [[Category:Version‎‏]]
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Updated --[[User:Hampton|Hampton]] on 6 May 2006.
 
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See [https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2006-May/017477.html] for further discussion. --[[User:Cstim|Cstim]] 07:01, 10 May 2006 (EDT)
 
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===TODO===
 
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Any other issues that cannot be added to [[Bugzilla]] are collected here.
 
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* The tarball is prepared ("make dist") and copied on the ftp server by Chris Lyttle.
 
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(Feel free to add more issues here.)
 

Revision as of 16:36, 1 January 2024

Languages עִברִית

General Rules

  • Usually stable versions are released at the last weekend of a quarter.
  • String freeze is 2 weeks before. To publish the changed messages to Weblate a make pot; msgmerge … as described in Language_Administration#Program is required.
It is also a good opportunity for packagers to check for Dependency Updates.

Goals for 6.0

Goals for 6.0:

  • Rewrite engine to remove dependencies on GLib/GObject using C++
  • Migrate from QofQuery to SQL Query
  • Make KVP a backend implementation detail; no direct KVP access except in the backends
  • Limit use of Guile to reports and F::Q; all other main application code should be C or C++.

We plan to release GnuCash 6.0 in Spring 2026 with unstable testing beginning in January 2026:

Release String Freeze Planned Actual Notes
6.0 2026-03-08 2026-03-29
5.904 2026-03-22 Code Freeze, Release Candidate
5.903 2026-03-15
5.902 2026-03-08 String Freeze
5.901 2026-02-01 Feature Freeze
5.900 2026-01-04

Schedules

Stable 5.x

Release String Freeze Planned Actual Notes
5.12 2025-12-14 2025-12-21
5.12 2025-09-21 2025-09-28
5.11 2025-06-22 2025-06-29
5.10 2025-03-23 2025-03-30
5.9 2024-12-08 2024-12-15
5.8 2024-09-21 2024-09-29
5.7 2024-06-16 2024-06-23
5.6 2024-03-24 2024-03-31
5.5 2023-12-10 2023-12-17 2023-12-17
5.4 2023-09-17 2023-09-24 2023-09-24
5.3 2023-06-26 Snap release to fix Bug 798967
5.2 2023-06-18 2023-06-25 2023-06-25
5.1 2023-04-30 2023-04-30 Short loop for things that missed 5.0, bug fixes
5.0 2023-03-28 2023-03-28

Old Stable 4.x (Closed to Development)

Release String Freeze Planned Actual Notes
4.14 2023-03-12 2023-03-26 2023-03-26
4.13 2022-12-04 2022-12-18 2022-12-18
4.12 2022-09-15 2022-09-25 2022-09-25
4.11 2022-06-12 2022-06-26 2022-06-26
4.10 2022-03-13 2022-03-27 2022-03-27
4.9 2021-12-05 2021-12-19 2021-12-19
4.8 2021-09-28 Snap release to correct crash.
4.7 2021-09-12 2021-09-26 2021-09-26
4.6 2021-06-13 2021-06-27 2021-06-27
4.5 2021-03-14 2021-03-28 2021-03-28
4.4 2020-12-27 Snap release to fix Bug 798063
4.3 2020-12-13 2020-12-27 2020-12-27
4.2 2020-09-27 2020-09-27
4.1 2020-07-26 2020-07-26
4.0 2020-06-28 2020-06-28


Release notes can be found on the GnuCash Web Page.

Previous Releases

We maintain an archive page of older release announcements.

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