Re: Upgrading to 2.7 series
Thanks John for the comprehensive answer, I will hold off until 3.0 On 14/03/18 00:30, John Ralls wrote: On Mar 13, 2018, at 4:47 AM, elvis wrote: Hi, I run Gnucash under Gentoo and it has recently recommended it be upgraded to 2.7.4 Currently I use 2.6.15 I was wondering if there was any real problem with doing this? I understand the database changes format, that's not a problem. The reason Gentoo recommends upgrading to 2.7.x is that 2.6.x requires an old version of libwebkit and Gentoo wants to get rid of that dependency. 2.7.x uses up-to-date libwebkit. Unfortunately 2.7.x is an unstable release series with frequent releases and Gentoo isn’t keeping up: 2.7.4 was from the end of January, we just released 2.7.6 yesterday and will release 2.7.7 next weekend. If everything goes well 3.0 will follow the weekend after that. I’d recommend *not* installing 2.7.4. 2.7.6 is much more stable, but there are still a couple of significant bugs that we know about. If you want to be a beta-tester you could install that, but if you just want to get your accounting done you should wait for 3.0. Regards, John Ralls ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: Upgrading to 2.7 series
> On Mar 13, 2018, at 4:47 AM, elvis wrote: > > Hi, > > I run Gnucash under Gentoo and it has recently recommended it be upgraded to > 2.7.4 > > > Currently I use 2.6.15 > > I was wondering if there was any real problem with doing this? I understand > the database changes format, that's not a problem. The reason Gentoo recommends upgrading to 2.7.x is that 2.6.x requires an old version of libwebkit and Gentoo wants to get rid of that dependency. 2.7.x uses up-to-date libwebkit. Unfortunately 2.7.x is an unstable release series with frequent releases and Gentoo isn’t keeping up: 2.7.4 was from the end of January, we just released 2.7.6 yesterday and will release 2.7.7 next weekend. If everything goes well 3.0 will follow the weekend after that. I’d recommend *not* installing 2.7.4. 2.7.6 is much more stable, but there are still a couple of significant bugs that we know about. If you want to be a beta-tester you could install that, but if you just want to get your accounting done you should wait for 3.0. Regards, John Ralls ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: Upgrading to 2.7 series
As I understand it, the 2.7 series is an unstable developmental version of the program, not intended for production use. By its very nature it will have bugs, 'cause that's part of the process of testing it and making improvements. In short, if you're just using the program, I'd not fiddle with the 2.7 series. - Ken Farley -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
