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# GnuCash 5.0 Release Adds a New Report Feature and Stock Transaction Assistant
- URL: https://itsfoss.com/news/gnucash-5-0-release/
- Published: 2023-03-28T11:35:51.000Z
- Updated: 2023-03-28T11:35:51.000Z
- Description: A new GnuCash upgrade introduces new features to assist you better. What do you think?
- Author: Sourav Rudra
- Tags: Application Releases, News, #Import 2025-11-08 21:15

GnuCash is a cross-platform, open-source double-entry accounting software designed for personal and small-business use cases.

It offers an **intuitive user interface with plenty of useful features** that can be used to do a variety of accounting tasks effortlessly.

Recently, GnuCash 5.0 was released with quite a few improvements.

Let's take a look at it.

## 🆕 GnuCash: What's New?

![a screenshot of the about section of gnucash 5.0](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/03/GnuCash_5.0.jpg)

This release of GnuCash has some interesting things to offer, some highlights include:

- **Stock Transaction Assistant**
- **Revamped Online Quotes Facility**
- **Investment Lots Report**
- **Improved Report and Book Options**

### Stock Transaction Assistant

This is a new addition to GnuCash that will guide you throughout the process of investment transactions for stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.

When on the Accounts page or when a stock/fund is selected, the assistant can be accessed via the 'Actions' menu, by selecting the 'Stock Assistant' option.

### Revamped Online Quotes Facility

The online quotes facility has received a complete rewrite, with the old 'gnc-fq-check', 'gnc-fq-dump', and 'gnc-fq-helper' programs being written off in favor of 'finance-quote-wrapper'.

**So, what does this mean for the end-user?**

The functions performed by those programs can now be done by forwarding commands to 'gnucash-cli -Q'.

Furthermore, the interface for Finance::Quote has been rewritten in C++ resulting in better functionality and error reporting.

### Investment Lots Report

![a screenshot of the new investments lot report on gnucash 5.0](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/03/GnuCash_5.0_2.jpg)

Want to see all your capital gains and losses in a period by investment lot? 

Well, now you can do that with GnuCash 5.0\. It features a dedicated report for such scenarios.

You can access the report by going into 'Reports' > 'Assets & Liabilities' > 'Investment Lots'.

I must say, my investment portfolio is looking very dry 😵

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### Improved Report and Book Options

The code for the report and book options was rewritten in C++ with SWIG enabling Guile Scheme access for reports.

Furthermore, access to the Vault has been changed, with the backend for the options dialog being also rewritten in C++.

### 🛠️ Other Changes & Improvements

The above-mentioned points were the highlights, here are some other changes that are worth mentioning:

- New tab added to the 'New/Edit Account' dialog for setting high and low limits on an account.
- The report generated by the 'Print Invoice' button on the 'Edit Invoice' tab can now be configured as a book option at the bottom of the 'Business' tab.
- Import matcher now allows editing descriptions, notes, and memo fields in the matcher window before the creation of transactions.
- Hundreds of small fixes to prevent memory leaks.
- Modernized menus and toolbars back-end.

If you would like, go through the [release notes](https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/tag/5.0?ref=itsfoss.com) to get more technical details.

## 📥 Get GnuCash 5.0

GnuCash 5.0 is being offered in a variety of different packaging formats; starting from tar.gz, tar.bz2, .dmg, .exe and more.

Head over to its official [GitHub repo](https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash?ref=itsfoss.com) to get the package of your choice. If you prefer Flatpak, then you click on the button below to **get it from Flathub**. 

[GnuCash 6.0 (Flathub)](https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnucash.GnuCash?ref=itsfoss.com)