The following changes, improvements, and fixes were made to QuickBooks Desktop Pro 2017, QuickBooks Desktop Premier 2017 and QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise 17.0. Later releases (ones with higher numbers) include all changes in earlier releases.
QuickBooks File Manager Password Reset
Users must now use license information instead of challenge questions to reset file passwords.
Journal Entry Warning Message
QuickBooks will display a warning message if a User attempts to include either an Accounts Receivable or an Accounts Payable account in a Journal Entry and either such account is not on the first line of the Journal Entry, or if the first line of a Journal Entry is left blank.
Inventory Adjustment
QuickBooks will display a warning message if an incorrect inventory adjustment account is selected (such as the actual inventory account) when a User attempts to make an Inventory Adjustment.
Discount Accounts
When applying discounts, users can no longer select asset, liability, equity or credit card accounts.
Credit Memo issue
Resolved the issue that was causing the Balance Sheet to be out-of-balance when using an 'expense account' in a line item of a Credit Memo.
Opening Company File
You can now open converted QuickBooks for Mac 2016 files without QuickBooks crashing
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue where the Inventory Valuation Summary Report was showing twice the Quantity-on-hand when the User selected "All sites."
Should you update?
The release is available for 'manual download' from the QuickBooks Downloads and Updates website. It will start being pushed out over the 'automatic updates' downloads shortly. If you don't want the update then you need to make certain you have 'turned-off' auto-updates, otherwise you are going to be looking at that message advising you an update is ready for installation every time you log-in.
For the most part, these are 'fixes' to problems that have been identified. If you have experienced any of these issues, you may wish to update to this newest release version. If you haven't experienced any of these issues, you may wish to hold-off to see if there are any issues that arise out of this maintenance update.