For Windows users, note that "winget" offers a way to sidestep the common problem with the Gnucash installer downloaded from the main web site being blocked as malware. It's a command-line Windows package manager similar to the one in Linux, and can update most applications (including gnucash) in a Windows 10 or 11 computer.  Open a terminal or command window, and at the Powershell or command prompt type "winget upgrade gnucash" (if you already have an older version installed) or "winget install gnucash". The latest version usually becomes available a week or 2 after the official release. It generally runs quicker than the installer downloaded from the web site, too - maybe it skips some or all of the malware scanning otherwise done by Windows Security/Defender?

For a wider-ranging search for things to update, you can run "winget upgrade --all" or for the widest search "winget upgrade --all --include-unknown". If a version of gnucash higher than what you have is available, it'll be installed. Usual download source is at github. Fair warning, though: this search can turn up a lot of things to update, and you have to sit there and provide admin authorization for each (probably, there's a way to bypass that with a switch or an answer file, but I haven't gotten around to looking for it yet). I've tried logging into a terminal with admin rights, but for some reason the search didn't work for me that way.

Yes, there *is* still a Windows command line...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/winget/

Mike Brady
Plain Olde User

On 12 May 2026, Ken Pyzik <[email protected]>  wrote:

OK - so I remember awhile back that there was some discussion about hosting of 
gnucash.org maybe having some issues.  Today, I went to Gnucash.org and saw 
that it was working fine.  BUT.... it was saying on the page that the latest 
version is 5.14.  However, I know for fact the latest version is 5.15.  I have 
5.15-1 installed on my machine (I am Linux Mint) and it is working fine.  
Additionally, when I do flatpak update it says my version is the latest version.

Therefore, my question is ? is the website out of date?  Is the 5.15 version 
NOT official?  According to the schedule, come 6/30 will version 5.16 still be 
released?  Just asking...... thanks!

Ken

and Patrick James <[email protected]> wrote:
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Other than the obvious typo, 5.15 was released on the planned date of March 29.

According to the schedule, come 6/30 will version 5.16 still be released?
If history is any indicator of the future, I'd expect that 5.16 will be 
released as scheduled on June 28, so it will be available on June 30.

https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Release_Schedule


On 05/12/2026 1:26 PM PDT Ken Pyzik <[email protected]> wrote:

OK - so I remember awhile back that there was some discussion about hosting of gnucash.org maybe having some issues. Today, I went to Gnucash.org and saw that it was working fine. BUT.... it was saying on the page that the latest version is 5.14. However, I know for fact the latest version is 5.15. I have 5.15-1 installed on my machine (I am Linux Mint) and it is working fine. Additionally, when I do flatpak update it says my version is the latest version.

Therefore, my question is ? is the website out of date?  Is the 5.15 version 
NOT official?  According to the schedule, come 6/30 will version 5.16 still be 
released?  Just asking...... thanks!

Ken
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