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Release 26.6.0

· 15 min read
Matt Fiddaman
Actual Budget Maintainer

This release adds new reports, a new bank sync provider, a UI for budget automations (goal templates) and releases custom themes as stable, as well as numerous other fixes.

Deprecation

Starting this release, rule action templating is deprecated in favour of formulae and will be removed in a future release. For more information, see Rule Action Templating.

Docker

The edge tag has been renamed to nightly. If you follow pre-release images, please update your Docker configuration to pull :nightly or :nightly-alpine.

No Advertising in Our Discord

· 3 min read
Matiss Janis Aboltins
Actual Budget Maintainer

Actual has grown a lot over the past few years, and our community has grown right alongside it. That growth is something we are proud of. But it has also brought a problem we did not have before. So we are introducing a new rule for our Discord server: no advertising.

Release 26.5.1 & 26.5.2

· One min read
Matiss Janis Aboltins
Actual Budget Maintainer

This patch release delivers bugfixes for authentication rate limiting, self-signed certificate handling, and UUID generation compatibility in insecure context (HTTP).

Note: versions 26.5.1 and 26.5.2 are functionally identical. The additional release was created solely to resolve an issue with publishing on the Windows Store.

Release 26.5.0

· 14 min read
Julian Dominguez-Schatz
Actual Budget Maintainer

This release introduces powerful new reporting capabilities as well as numerous fixes:

  • Experimental: Age of Money and Sankey Diagram reports
  • Experimental: Custom themes expanded with five new community themes (Nord, Ilavenil, Gruvbox Light/Dark, You Need A Theme Light/Dark)
  • Tax-style distribution in split transactions

Release 26.4.0

· 12 min read
Matt Fiddaman
Actual Budget Maintainer

This release contains the following notable improvements, along with numerous fixes:

  • Reorder transactions by drag and drop when they share the same date
  • Concentric donut charts that show category groups in an outer ring
  • Smarter autocomplete with an improved search algorithm for payees and categories
  • Experimental: Payee Locations: Actual can now remember where you've used a payee and suggest payees based on nearby locations
  • Experimental: Actual CLI: a new command-line tool for interacting with your budget, see the docs to get started

Release 26.3.0

· 11 min read
Julian Dominguez-Schatz
Actual Budget Maintainer

This release contains an important security fix for all users of the sync server. We suggest you update as soon as feasible.

This release also includes several user-facing improvements and performance work, along with numerous other fixes:

  • Reports: now accessible via the command bar

  • Bank sync: UX improvements to the account linking flow, as well as API support for balance updates

  • Tags: Support for managing tags via the API

  • Performance and responsiveness improvements

  • Custom themes: bar/pie chart theming support, simpler custom-theme CSS variables, and a new high-contrast light theme.

Release 26.2.0

· 13 min read
Matt Fiddaman
Actual Budget Maintainer

This release contains the following notable improvements, along with numerous fixes:

  • Allow multiple dashboard pages
  • Experimental feature: Custom themes docs
  • Experimental feature: Budget analysis report docs

Reflecting on Your 2025 Finances

· 2 min read
Matiss Janis Aboltins
Actual Budget Maintainer

As we step into 2026, it's natural to look back at the year that just passed. While many apps send you a "year in review" at the end of December, we thought it would be fun to create something special for Actual Budget users — a way to reflect on your financial journey throughout 2025.