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Continuing to reward contributors

· 2 min read
Matiss Janis Aboltins
Actual Budget Maintainer

Three months ago, we launched an experiment: using community donations to directly support the people who keep this project running. The idea was simple — compensate core contributors for the invisible but essential work of reviewing pull requests, triaging issues, and preparing releases.

Today, we’re excited to share that the trial has been a success. 🎉

Thanks to your feedback, patience, and ongoing support, we’ve ironed out the kinks in the system, resolved bugs in the points tracking process, and proven that this model is both fair and sustainable.

As a result: we’re making contributor payments permanent.

Release 25.10.0

· 7 min read
Matt Fiddaman
Actual Budget Maintainer

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

  • Add a mobile view for the payees page
  • Add API endpoints for interaction with schedules
  • Expand the range of display currencies available
  • Introduce a graph to show balance over time on account pages

Release 25.9.0

· 9 min read
Julian Dominguez-Schatz
Actual Budget Maintainer

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

  • Add a mobile view for the rules page
  • Show experimental budget currency on reports page
  • Release experimental Pluggy.ai bank connector

Release 25.8.0

· 7 min read
Matt Fiddaman
Actual Budget Maintainer

This release contains the following notable improvements:

  • Add a dedicated page for managing transaction tags
  • New experimental feature to display currency in some areas of the app
  • Upgraded keyboard shortcut help menu

Release 25.7.0

· 7 min read
Julian Dominguez-Schatz
Actual Budget Maintainer

This release has many notable improvements. Some highlights:

  • Select income categories to automatically hold for next month
  • Show bank-sync balances when reconciling accounts
  • Open a command bar with Ctrl-K (Cmd-K on Mac)

As of this release we are also now publishing nightly versions of all the NPM packages, giving more consistency for anyone testing features before they are released.

Proposal for spending community funds

· 3 min read
Matiss Janis Aboltins
Actual Budget Maintainer

Our open source community has reached an exciting point: thanks to the incredible generosity of our donors, we now have a steady flow of funds coming in. First of all — thank you.

This support allows us to make the project more sustainable for everyone involved. We want to start by addressing something that is often overlooked in open source: the invisible labor that keeps everything running.

We’re proposing a 3-month trial program to pay our core maintainers for the essential (but often unglamorous) work of:

  • Reviewing pull requests
  • Triage and categorize GitHub issues
  • Preparing releases

We believe it’s time to recognize the financial value of labor — but before we move forward, we want to hear your feedback. Join the conversation on [Discord] or leave anonymous feedback in [this form].

Update: This proposal has been approved. More details about the payment system can be found in the paying contributors page.

Release 25.6.1

· One min read
Matt Fiddaman
Actual Budget Maintainer

This release contains the following improvements:

  • Ensures the server version is accurately displayed when deploying using Docker
  • Fixes a rare crash when selecting dates
  • Upgrades the Docker image to use Node.js version 20

Release 25.6.0

· 9 min read
Julian Dominguez-Schatz
Actual Budget Maintainer

This release includes the ability to run the sync server from within the desktop app. This should make it much simpler to get access to features such as bank sync.

Other notable improvements:

  • Upcoming/missed/due schedules in a category template are now shown on the desktop budget table
  • Numerous fixes for bugs and visual glitches

Release 25.5.0

· 7 min read
Julian Dominguez-Schatz
Actual Budget Maintainer

This release has many notable improvements. Some highlights:

  • Download custom reports as an image
  • Merge different transactions into a single transaction
  • Run Actual outside of a Docker container without building from source—for more information, please check out the docs
  • Use Cloudflare Access tunnels to connect to an Actual instance (newly fixed)