It's been over 3 years since the last feature release is out on the street. During that time, many new features were added and many bugs were fixed. The team has decided it's time to get on the path to another stable release.

KMyMoney 4.7.0 is now available for download. It is KMyMoney 4.8 Beta 1, only suitable for advanced users willing to help us stabilize and iron out the upcoming stable version. Your help is important. Please download it, use it, and help us find issues to make a great release. Keep in mind that this version will still bark your dog away. Make extensive backups before using it.

Our plan is to have a stable version ready in December.
Some of the highlights since the latest feature version are:

• Revamped CSV import plugin
• New Tags feature
• Oxygen is now the default icon set
• For OFX imports, application ID can be entered manually now
• Many fixes in the import and online banking modules
• Performance improvements
• Many fixes for multi-platform issues

The KMyMoney Development Team

Hi Cristian

Congratulations to the team on this milestone. I have two questions please:

1. I am confused by the text "KMyMoney 4.7.0 is now available for download. It is KMyMoney 4.8 Beta 1" ... how can a version# = a different version# ? Though i don't understand that at all, i assume from your "this version will still bark your dog away" that i probably need to keep waiting longer, til December, for the stable version [i don't wish to accept the risk of losing / corrupting my data]. Whereas i'm very happy to use alpha & beta browser versions, for me it's a step too far to use a non-stable version of my favourite finance package.

2. Am i correct in deducing that my old bookmarked sites http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html & http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmymoney2/files/ are now superseded by http://www.kmymoney.org/ & http://download.kde.org/stable/kmymoney ... mirrorlist ?

Thanks. Steffie.

Thanks, here are my answers:

1. I can understand your confusion, I guess the precautious release notes are a kind of a leftover from back in the days when major changes were happening between two feature versions. In my opinion this is not the case when comparing 4.6 with 4.7. Although, one could say that, 4.7 is planned as an intermediate release between 4.6 and 4.8 which will be the last version released based on KDE4 it does not mean that it is in anyway worst then 4.6. Let's say it's a preview of 4.8 but in a really stable way. A lot of bugs were fixed since 4.6 and those of us currently using this version didn't find any major problems with it.

2. Yes the old site is not maintained anymore http://www.kmymoney.org/ should be your starting place for all KMyMoney related information from now on. http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/ (without index-home.html) already redirects you to http://www.kmymoney.org/.

As a side note: one could always switch back to an older version if he would find the newer one unstable al I can say that it's unlikely to happen in this case

Thank you Cristian

Encouraged by your advice, i have tried all the following, but so far have failed to solve the errors. Consequently now, sadly, there is NO KMM at all in my Linux Mint 17 Qiana KDE boot. I hate to do this to you, but pls could you read the following to see what i've done wrong?

1- downloaded kmymoney-4.7.0.tar.xz
2- verified its sha256sum ok
3- extracted to my "Extraction Folder"
4- read file README.cmake in folder /home/steffie/Downloads/Extraction Folder/kmymoney-4.7.0
5- uninstalled kmymoney v4.6.4 via Synaptic package manager
6- ran this in bash Konsole as root:

steffie-XPS-L501X Extraction Folder # cd kmymoney-4.7.0/
steffie-XPS-L501X kmymoney-4.7.0 # apt-get build-dep kmymoney
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for kmymoney

7- i don't understand that error msg; i ran that command FROM WITHIN the kmymoney source folder !!!???

8- Regarding the README's "Go to the top level of the git working directory. To build KMyMoney in the subdirectory ./build/ type" ... i do not understand what "git working directory" means [as a Linux newbie i'm still struggling with some jargon & concepts]. Therefore i tried running the three bash commands [$ mkdir build ; $ cd build ; $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr] in each of these directories, one by one in this order, hoping that one of them would not give me an error msg: Downloads/ ; Downloads/Extraction Folder/ ; Root [ie, "/"] ; Root/opt

9- However each time i got this error msg; "CMake Error: The source directory "/" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt." [In each msg, "/" was replaced with whatever directory i was working in at that time].

10- Next i ran those three cmds in Downloads/Extraction Folder/kmymoney-4.7.0/ ... but this happened:

-- The CXX compiler identification is unknown
CMake Error: your CXX compiler: "CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER-NOTFOUND" was not found. Please set CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER to a valid compiler path or name.
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindKDE4.cmake:98 (message):
ERROR: cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake not found in
/root/.kde/share/apps;/usr/share/mintkde-default-settings/kde4-profile/default/share/apps;/usr/share/kde4/apps
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:59 (find_package)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/steffie/Downloads/Extraction Folder/kmymoney-4.7.0/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
See also "/home/steffie/Downloads/Extraction Folder/kmymoney-4.7.0/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".

11- This is the contents of that CMakeError.log:

Compiling the CXX compiler identification source file "CMakeCXXCompilerId.cpp" failed.
Compiler: CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER-NOTFOUND
Build flags:
Id flags:

The output was:
No such file or directory


Compiling the CXX compiler identification source file "CMakeCXXCompilerId.cpp" failed.
Compiler: CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER-NOTFOUND
Build flags:
Id flags: -c

The output was:
No such file or directory


Checking whether the CXX compiler is IAR using "" did not match "IAR .+ Compiler":
Compiling the CXX compiler identification source file "CMakeCXXCompilerId.cpp" failed.
Compiler: CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER-NOTFOUND
Build flags:
Id flags:

The output was:
No such file or directory


Compiling the CXX compiler identification source file "CMakeCXXCompilerId.cpp" failed.
Compiler: CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER-NOTFOUND
Build flags:
Id flags: -c

The output was:
No such file or directory


Checking whether the CXX compiler is IAR using "" did not match "IAR .+ Compiler":



12- I do not know what to do now.


Thanks in hope. Steffie.

Building KMyMoney for a particular distribution is really not a task for the end user, you should wait until your distribution provides a package for the new version (maybe you could ask them to do it).

In order to build KMyMoney yourself you need a lot of developer tools compiler, library headers so I would suggest to use the package your distribution provides.

Oh rats !!! Oh well, now i need to reinstall 4.6.4... what a pity. Thanks for a fast reply Cristian.

Hi,

seeing that there will be new stuff for importers.

I hope using import scripts with the QIF-importer still works? Because I greatly rely on them to import my financial data from my bank...

thanks.

salzrat wrote:seeing that there will be new stuff for importers.

I hope using import scripts with the QIF-importer still works? Because I greatly rely on them to import my financial data from my bank...

Yes it should still work. If you unsure you could install 4.7.0 in a temporary location, try it, if it suits your needs then use it, otherwise report any issues you find.