Check out this page and references therein for most details: https://gnucash.org/new_features-4.0.phtml There are probably a few minor differences overlooked.
On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 9:59 AM Derek Zehr <dehrt...@daystar.io> wrote: > > Hello, > > That makes sense, David and John. Thanks. According to this list Ubuntu 20 > supports Gnucash 3.8 > > https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/allpackages?format=txt.gz > > Are there any major advantages and improvements to versions 3 and 4? > > Derek > > On Monday, August 24, 2020 06:12 EDT, "David Cousens" < > davidcous...@bigpond.com> wrote: > Derek, > > The choices on what versions are supplied wiith a given OS version are > made > by the maintainers of the OS distribution. They usually use the current > GnuCash version (but not always) at the time of release of a new OS > version. > If you want to stay up to date with GnuCash, the main options are to use > the > flatpak or snap versions of GnuCash where available or to build the latest > version of GnuCash from the sources as described in the wiki > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_On_Linux. Once build environment > and > the dependencies are installed the process is generally fairly simple. > Also > check the developer mailing list for any problems with building the most > recent version. MySQL8 proved problematical in building GC 4.0/4.1 > recently > on Linux Mint 20 (ubuntu 20.04 based) which was fixed by downgrading a > mysqlclient library that GnuCash depends on as described in the dev > mailing > list. > > David Cousens. > > > > ----- > David Cousens > -- > 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ 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.