[Kmymoney-devel] Announcement draft

[Alvaro Soliverez]

Hello,
this is the draft of the announcement that I plan on submitting to the Dot.
Feedback is welcome!

Regards,
Alvaro

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The KMyMoney team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
version 3.95. After 8 months of hard work, this release is the first
version for the KDE Platform 4. We are confident that it is stable
enough for use by early adopters and to get a much needed feedback
from the community in order to make KMyMoney as rock-solid as previous
releases.

For this version, the focus has been on allowing it to run on the
latest KDE platform while maintaining feature-parity. Subsequent
releases will make better use of the new features provided by this new
platform. Also, significant effort has gone into making KMyMoney
available on all operating systems supported by KDE.

One major change which may not be visible is our move to a tighter
integration with KDE. All of the development effort was done in the
KDE SVN, and in coordination with the relevant KDE teams. We believe
this move has been benefitial for both KMyMoney and KDE and will make
it tighter in the future.
As a direct result of this integration, KMyMoney will be available in
26 languages, and its documentation will be available in 2 languages
other than English, plus a lot of fixes have gone into both, to make
this the more locale-friendly version of KMyMoney to date.

Into the future, there is still a significant amount of work to
complete the task and then to leverage all the new features. With the
feedback provided by this version and more to follow, we will adjust
the pace of depelovement to keep KMyMoney as bug-free as possible and
adding new exciting features at the same time.

About KMyMoney
KMyMoney strives to be the easiest open source personal finance
manager to use, especially for the non-technical user. Based on tried
and tested double entry accounting principles KMyMoney ensures that
your finances are kept in correct order. Although many of the features
can be found in other similar applications, KMyMoney strives to
present an individual and unique view of your finances. Following the
KDE's way of "sensible defaults with powerful configuration", KMyMoney
offers a default configuration and templates to start managing your
finances with minimum hassle, with the possibility to customize it to
your liking.