[Kde-announce-apps] KMyMoney 0.8.4

[Thomas Baumgart]

Name: KMyMoney
Version: 0.8.4
Type: Financial
Depend: KDE 3.2.x
License: GPL
Homepage: http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=10180

Description:
 KMyMoney is the Personal Finance Manager for the
wonderful KDE. It operates similar to MS-Money,
supports different account types, categorisation
of expenses and incomes, reconciliation of bank
accounts and QIF import/export.

In order to stay informed about new releases of
the software, please subscribe to the user mailing
list of the project. To subscribe please visit   
https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/kmymoney2-user
 and follow the instructions presented.

Please report any problems to the developer
mailing list
kmymoney2-developer at lists.sourceforge.net or open
an issue on
https://sourceforge.net/projects/kmymoney2  as we
cannot check this site (kde-apps.org) on a
regular/frequent basis.

Changelog:
 The KMyMoney team is pleased to announce the
availability of Release 0.8.4.
This is an update to our latest stable release,
and contains several bug fixes  and some
improvements to the entry of scheduled
transactions. There are also some new translations
and miscellaneous changes, all of which should
help to make building and using the application
even easier.

The source tarball for this package can be
downloaded from our web site at
http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net. Should you need
any further information or advice, feel free to
contact us on one of our mailing lists:

kmymoney2-user at lists.sourceforge.net – for usage
questions
kmymoney2-developer at lists.sourceforge.net – for
installation problems.

NOTE: Unfortunately, the 0.8.4 tarball has a
problem with the
configure option --enable-final which affects RPM
generation. A patch which fixes this problem can
be found at
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1491558&group_id=4708&atid=304708

* Sourceforge and other bug report fixes
  * Fixed #1398411 (Exchange rate not used when
recording a transaction)
  * Fixed #1434611 (Can't edit account to 'No
Institution')
  * Fixed #1439099 (Balance entry on import messed
up)
  * Fixed #1439701 (Deposits don't book as
deposits)
  * Fixed #1440332 (Crash when Drag'n'Drop-Moving
categories)
  * Fixed #1441071 (Investment transaction Enter
button not enabled)
  * Fixed #1445815 (Hidden category warning when
editing a category)
  * Fixed #1447764 (KMyMoney crashes when loading
file)
  * Fixed #1463167 (Account change in Enter
Schedule Dialog not used)

* Other fixes
  * Fixed speed/lockup issue during startup
(thanks to Markus Draeger
    for providing an anonymized file to duplicate
the problem)
  * Fixed lockup problem with loan transfers

* Internationalization issues
  * New Catalan translation provided by Orestes
Mas
  * German translation update provided by Frank
Schmischke
  * Spanish and Galician translation updates
provided by Mvillarino
  * Added Lithuanian translation as provided by
Donates Glodenis
  * Added updated italian translation as provided
by Vincenzo Reale
  * Fixed pot generation (strings in ui files in
subdirs were not included)
  * Added logic to extract the comment field from
UI string fields
    to support context translation for UI files.
  * Added Netherland Antillian Guilder to currency
list
  * Added feature to create new currency entries

* GUI changes
  * Changed text "Amortization" to "principal" in
the new loan wizard.
  * Clarified text relating to the "payout
transaction" in the new loan wizard.

* Scheduled transaction changes
  * Present information message, that an account
must be specified
    before splits can be defined while creating a
schedule
  * Don't override amount specified if all splits
have been cleared
    and the split edit dialog has been left with
OK back to the schedule dialog
  * Only show asset and liability accounts in
From/To field for schedules
  * Only show income and expense account in
Category field for schedules
  * Added general asset and liability accounts to
be shown as payment
    sources for loan schedules

* Investment changes
  * Added online price factor setting for
investments

* Build changes
  * Updated to KDE revision 526661
  * Fixed missing definition in
mymoneymoneytest.cpp
  * Applied patch to fix undefined operation
warning;
    provided by Dirk Mueller