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Version 5.8, 5.8.1, & 5.8.2 (9_2018 & 10_2018)

The 5.8 release has a number of improvements in reports, budgets, investments and performance.
Security and Performance Improvements

  • NEW - In 5.8, all password protected files will be encrypted by default, making your files more secure. However, this will increase the time it takes to open and close files. If you want to go back to the way it used to work, go to Quicken > Preferences and click on Security to turn off encryption.
  • IMPROVED - Optimized investment transaction downloads so updating should go a lot faster now.

Report and Budget Improvements

  • NEW - In 5.8, you'll now be able to customize a report with No Tag and No Payee as options.
  • NEW - Reports now have a Scale to Fit printing option so that wide reports can be shrunk to fit on a single page, saving paper.
  • IMPROVED - Comparison reports now print in color.
  • NEW - Full budgets can be printed based on the number of months you want to see on a page. You have the option of having 12, 6, 4, or 3 months per page.
  • NEW - Added an option to print a summary budget.
  • IMPROVED - Budget transaction details now go to a customizable transaction report which allows you to pick the columns to see.

Investment Improvements

  • NEW - In 5.8, we added the ability to print, export, and copy the portfolio view without lots.
  • IMPROVED - The Price and Holdings As Of date is now added to both exported and printed versions of the portfolio view.
  • NEW - Added the Scale to Fit printing feature to the portfolio view so that everything fits on a single page.
  • NEW - Also added a checkbox to the portfolio view graph to start the Y-Axis at zero.
  • FIXED - Fixed an issue where the Find Security contextual menu item didn't work in the investment register.
  • FIXED - 5.8 also has a number of fixes for options. Fixed downloaded option information from brokerages. Also fixed an issue with option placeholders where contracts and shares weren't correctly converted.

Check Printing Improvements

  • NEW - In 5.8, we added a button to the check screen to auto-fill the address using the Payee's bill pay address.
  • IMPROVED - Quicken can now print checks using bold text to make them easier to read. Select the Bold Text option in the check printing screen.

Other Improvements

  • IMPROVED - A blue dot now appears next to a bill in the Bills & Income view to let you know it's been updated.
  • IMPROVED - Added a What is an eBill screen when trying to link an eBill for the first time.
  • IMPROVED - Added a Mobile column to the alert preference screen to allow one to turn on mobile push notification for a few alerts.
  • FIXED - Fixed a number of issues throughout the product.

5.8.1 Improvements

  • NEW - Added a new menu item under Help to access Quicken on the Web. Enter transactions, assign categories, view spending, track budgets and more from anywhere now using Quicken Web. Check it out at {+}https://app.quicken.com+. Sign in using your Quicken ID.
  • IMPROVED - Improved the performance of exporting or copying a report. Removed the 5000 transaction limit.
  • FIXED-  Fixed an issue where the Net Worth Over Time report and Calendar View misreported the market value of option trades in an investment account. Thanks to RichC who brought this to our attention and helped us track down the issue.
  • FIXED - Fixed an issue where reports copied to the clipboard wouldn't paste into Apple Numbers correctly.
  • FIXED - Fixed an issue where newly added columns were removed after customizing a report.
  • FIXED - Fixed an issue where sometimes a date change in the customize report dialog didn't stick.
  • FIXED - Fixed an issue where quotes for bonds or any other security downloaded only with investment transactions weren't getting stored properly in price history.
  • FIXED - Fixed a number of sync issues with the reviewed flag, balance adjustments, and transfers.
  • FIXED - Fixed an issue where Quicken would try to connect to the Quicken Cloud at launch, sometimes requiring a sign-in.
  • FIXED - Fixed an issue where Quicken would try to connect to the Quicken Cloud when importing a Web Connect file. Won't do this if the customer has the auto-categorization preference turned off and they don't have any Quicken Connect accounts. Thanks to MarkJ for bringing this to our attention.
  • FIXED - Fixed an issue where the preference for the number of files automatically backed up was ignored.
  • FIXED - Fixed a couple of issues with wallet checks. First, fixed an issue where only the first two lines of an address printed. Second, fixed an issue in the bold text feature where the written dollar amount wasn't bolded.
  • FIXED - Fixed a crash that could occur when viewing the account income or spending tabs while using macOS Mojave.

5.8.2 Fix

  • FIXED - Fixed a crash that could occur when closing a window or quitting Quicken.
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