Before starting to update to 1.5, the following are differences to be aware of between 1.4 and 1.5:
See below for explanations of each of these differences.
Important note: before trying to migrate your database to a new version of LedgerSMB, create a backup of the database!
The LedgerSMB project is proud to announce the release of 1.5.0, the start of a new line of maintenance releases.
This release can be summarized as a major user experience boost through improvements in performace, look and stability. Performance improvements are being achieved by moving from per-request-invoked CGI-scripts to a preloaded-PSGI application as well as moving to a single-page web application using the Dojo toolkit.
The table below lists the compatibility of LedgerSMB versions with Perl versions. Products for which support has ceased due to End-of-Life date being reached are not listed and should not be used.
This page explains how to set up LedgerSMB's first company after having completed the 1.5 quick-start installation instructions or the 1.6 quick-start installation instructions.
Useful Starman commands.
Using the perl based Starman webserver is the easiest way to run LedgerSMB locally (and quite possibly for production use as well).
## At the terminal, and from your LedgerSMB directory:
### Start Starman
starman tools/starman.psgi
Default port is 5000.
starman -l :8080 tools/starman.psgi
Start with 8080 specified as the port.
Note: some documentation specifies the switch
--preload-app
It has been sugggested that this may give performance advantages in a production environment but isn't recommended while developing.
The manpage has more to say on this.
The answer to this question depends on what using means to you.
As a user of the web application, yes, there should be absolutely no problem using a recent (as in: no more than 2 or 3 years old) web browser in order to take advantage of all the features available.
This content is outdated and kept here for reference only!
This page contains the comprehensive version with the installation instructions for LedgerSMB 1.5 (as of 1.5.0) targetting a production installation from release tarballs and deals with these steps:
If you already have all of the above, proceed to the "Preparing for first use" guide.
Starting 1.4.17 account hierarchies - which were part of LedgerSMB for a looong time already - will now be used for financial reporting: balance sheet and income statement. In addition to grouping accounts into the subgroups defined by the hierarchy, amounts are aggregated up the tree as well. This article demonstrates how to use this feature. Scroll all the way to the end to see what happens if you don't want to update your configuration (yet).
Below is a listing of demos available from different hosting companies:
Versions 1.12 and higher are under active development and are supported by the community. Planned end-of-life dates for current releases are:
If you're looking for help on how to use EOL-ed versions, please try mailing the users mailing list.
If you're looking for someone to create bugfixes, please check with one of the parties providing commercial support or for less urgent fixes LedgerSMB Issues
Version 1.11 has been declared end-of-life on 2025-10-03. The last release in the series is 1.11.28. No futher releases will be made by the community.
Version 1.10 has been declared end-of-life on 2024-10-08. The last release in the series is 1.10.38. No futher releases will be made by the community.
Version 1.9 has been declared end-of-life on 2023-09-24. The last release in the series is 1.9.30. No futher releases will be made by the community.
Version 1.8 has been declared end-of-life on 2022-09-04. The last release in the series is 1.8.31. No futher releases will be made by the community.
Version 1.7 has been declared end-of-life on 2022-10-04. The last release in the series is 1.7.41. No further releases will be made by the community.
Version 1.6 has been declared end-of-life on 2021-06-10. The last release in the series is 1.6.33. No further releases will be made by the community.
Version 1.5 has been declared end-of-life on 2019-12-23. The last release in the series is 1.5.30. No further releases will be made by the community.
Version 1.4 has been declared end-fo-life on 2017-09-16. The last release in the series is 1.4.42. No further releases will be made by the community.
Version 1.3 has been declared end-of-life on 2015-12-23. The last release in the series is 1.3.47. No further releases will be made by the community.
LedgerSMB versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 won't be maintained any further due to the fact that there are some known security issues which can't be fixed.