KMyMoney 0.8.4 Notes

The KMyMoney team is pleased to announce the availability of Release 0.8.4.

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 the KMyMoney sourceforge page. Should you need any further information or advice, feel free to contact us on one of our mailing lists:

kmymoney2-user@lists.sourceforge.net -for usage questions
kmymoney2-developer@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

    • We would like to thank the many people who have contributed to making this release what it is today including those who have submitted code and the many users who have given valuable input and feedback.

    We invite you to try KMyMoney 0.8.4. We are sure you will love it.
    Enjoy!

    The KMyMoney Development Team