GnuCash Portable News

This release integrates the official splash screen and updates the app to Pre-Release status, soon to be released on PortableApps.com.

GnuCash Portable has been updated to the latest GnuCash 2.2.4 release. This is a full install release due to new GnuCash binaries.

This is a full install release because of the new feature to choose whether or not to include the GnuCash locale translation files to save space.

This has been released as a full installer only as it includes UPX compressed GnuCash binaries.

This has been released as both an update and a larger full install (including GnuCash binaries) to facilite the addition of the application to PortableApps.com.

This has been released as both an update and a larger full install (including GnuCash binaries) to facilite the addition of the application to PortableApps.com.

The GnuCash Portable 2.2.3 Development Test has been released as a full installer. There is no updater for this release as it incorporates the new 2.2.3 version of GnuCash.

The GnuCash Portable 2.2.2 Development Test has been released as a full installer. There is no updater for this release as it incorporates the new 2.2.2 version of GnuCash.

GnuCash Portable has been given the go-ahead by John T. Haller of PortableApps.com to start the process of becoming an official PortableApps.com application.

The next release of GnuCash Portable, incorporating GnuCash 2.2.2, will be a Development Test release and incorporate the PortableApps.com logo and design.

The GnuCash Project has released a new stable version of GnuCash, version 2.2.2.

Packaging of this into GnuCash Portable 2.2.2 is under way.

11/30/2007 - 0.1.5
- Fixed bug where local temp files were not being deleted after running locally.
- Added PerlPath to ini options to specify the path to the Perl binaries, needed for
online banking support. By default the path is set to 'C:\Perl\bin'.
- Reworked how PATH environment variable is used. Existing path is no longer prepended
to the Gnucash binary paths. Instead the path is overwritten with the Gnucash binary
paths and the Perl binary path. Use of the PerlPath ini option is necessary to
enable online banking support if Perl binaries are not located at C:\Perl\bin.
This fixes the following two bugs:
- Fixed bug with PATH environment variable being set to null when the existing path
contained quotes. This was causing Gnucash to fail to execute on affected systems.
- Fixed bug with PATH environment variable being truncated when the existing path is
near the maximum PATH size (1024/2048 bytes).
- Added localization strings to launcher. English only for now.
- Cosmetic changes to launcher source to reflect changes in latest PAF sources
(modelled after Firefox Portable 2.0.0.10).

11/26/2007 - 0.1.4
- Fixed bug with Win2k liborbit fix. Non-win2k OS will now no longer use the older liborbit files.
- Changed TMP directory to PROFILEDIRECTORY\Temp. This directory is now removed on exit.
- Changed launcher to wait for gconfd-2.exe to exit before cleaning up since it hangs around after gnucash-bin.exe exits and has temp files locked.
- Added environment variables check to debug log
- Updated findprocDLL to newest version. Old version was used in previous binaries and would not properly detect running processes due to different return values.
- Updated App\AppInfo\appinfo.ini to version 0.9.8.
- Changed installer and updater to use App\AppInfo\appicon.ico as icon. Removed installer.ico from source.... read more

11/15/2007 - 0.1.3
- Added registry entry handling for aqbanking & gwenhywfar. These are HKLM keys,
so they require admin access. Online banking wizard should work correctly now if
you have admin rights. If you do not have admin rights Gnucash will run fine,
only some online banking features will not work.
- Changed Wait & Admin warnings to mention online banking dependencies.
- Added version check to "intelligent start". Fixes are re-applied if version has
changed since last run.
- Combined GnucashPortableSource & GnucashSource folders to a single Source folder.
- Changed program icon to one with 16, 32 & 48 sizes.
- Fixed typos in Readme.txt.
- Changed installer source to look in separate folders under "Files" for
PortableApp and App files in preparation for a separate updater.
- Added "updater" source which is basically an installer that doesn't include the
App files. This allows distribution of a 360KB update rather than a 39MB full
install when a new PAF release does not contain an updated version of the App.
- Added help.html and related files.

11/12/2007 - 0.1.2
- Added launcher status logging. On by default during development test. Log saved to EXE directory
as LauncherLog.txt

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This release changes the behavior when Gnucash Portable finds registry entries from a non-portable Gnucash install. Previously it would abort if the user did not have admin rights sufficient to disable those entries. Now it will warn the user that non-portable files may be used but offer the option to continue.

Also a script (UPXGnc.cmd) has been added in the source directory which compresses binaries in the Gnucash directory to save space. This script currently causes crashes during runtime as not all binaries which do not run properly when compressed have been discovered. The script is not run by default. It requires an external download of UPX, a binary compressor.

Gnucash Portable provides a PortableApps.com style NSIS launcher enabling Gnucash to run from a portable drive without installing it on the host machine.

Test of GnuCash Portable 2.2.1 has been released. Gnucash 2.2.1 runs portably from a PortableApps.com style launcher (http://www.portableapps.com). Several options are available in the ini file, and the launcher also plays nice with existing Gnucash installations. ... read more