GnuCash 5.3: What's New in Financial Accounting SW
Something very normal in the Free Software and Open Source applications, is the rate at which stable releases receive maintenance updates. A recent and good example of this is the free software called GnuCash. Which, I release the first stable version of its 5 series, just less than 4 months ago (end of March). While, at the end of July, it already offers us the third maintenance update of the same, that is, of «GnuCash 5.3».
For this reason, and in order not to lose track of such a great application for a long time, today we will address its interesting news and useful changes. Which will surely be well valued by its current and future users. Above all, because in GNU/Linux there are not usually many financial accounting software for individuals and small businesses.
GnuCash is free, open source software that offers personal financial management and professional bookkeeping capabilities.
But, before starting this post about the news of this release on ««GnuCash 5.3»», we recommend that you then explore the previous related post with version 5.0:
GnuCash 5.3: New maintenance release
What is GnuCash?
If you know little or nothing about GnuCash It is important that you keep in mind that this software is described and promoted by its Free and Open Community on its Official website as follows:
GnuCash is financial accounting software for individuals and small businesses, licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. In addition, it is designed to be easy to use, as well as flexible and powerful. Therefore, it is appropriate for bank accounts, actions, income and expenses. It is fast and intuitive, and in its use as record boxes it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports.
What's New in GnuCash 5.3
According to official launch announcement, GnuCash 5.3 includes the following few news (mainly bug fixes and internal improvements), with the aim of improving its operation and stability on the operating system used:
- Completely fixed a frequent error (#798967) within version 5.2, in which, could not be saved to any path after upgrading to that version. The fix focused on fixing the "If inverted" statement condition for the save success flag.
- Improved transaction cleanup optimization so that each transaction is cleared only once. Which, in some cases, substantially improves the loading and execution time of verifying and repairing.
- This version includes the availability of installers for Microsoft Windows 8/10/11, Apple macOS ≥ 10.13—»High Sierra» y Linux via FlatHub o files bzip y gzip.
- Added new and updated translations for Dutch, French, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese.
- Some memory cleanup actions were implemented in the code.
There are a number of really good financial applications on Linux that are more than capable of handling both personal and small business accounting operations. Of which, the most popular and well-known Linux ones are GnuCash, HomeBank, KMyMoney, and Skrooge. And in terms of features and performance, they are as good as or even equivalent to those of Microsoft Windows: MSMoney and Quicken. 3 great accounting apps you can use on Linux
Summary
In short, this new and third maintenance update (GnuCash 5.3)Undoubtedly, it comes to contribute its grain of sand like many other previous versions, to continue contributing to improving said software in general. And of course, in favor of its current and future Community of users.
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