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=KMyMoney announces release candidate for KDE4 platform=
=KMyMoney announces release candidate for KDE4 platform=
After a year of hard work on a version for the KDE4 platform, the
After a year of hard work on a version for the KDE4 platform, the
KMyMoney team is happy to announce the immediate available of the
KMyMoney team is happy to announce the immediate availability of the
first release candidate. Unlike previous versions, this one is
first release candidate. Unlike previous versions, this one is
recommended for general use. The feedback provided by previous beta
recommended for general use. The feedback provided by previous beta
releases make us confident that it is as stable and rock-solid as
releases makes us confident that it is as stable and rock-solid as
previous stable versions.
previous stable versions.


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Over the last 5 months, 4 beta versions were released, putting our
Over the last 5 months, 4 beta versions were released, putting our
developers, packagers, and those of you brave enough to test it, under
developers, packagers, and those of you brave enough to test it, under
a big stress. That has payed off, allowing us to uncover much of the
a big stress. This has payed off, allowing us to uncover much of the
strength and weakness of this new platform, and even finding bugs on
strength and weakness of this new platform, and even finding bugs in
the current stable version.
the current stable version.


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try it and let us know if you find errors, a missing feature or even
try it and let us know if you find errors, a missing feature or even
just annoyances.
just annoyances.
Feel free to open reports on https://bugs.kde.org and attach them to the
project called 'kmymoney4'.
At the same time, we provide a maintenance release for the stable KDE3 code.
Version 1.0.5 includes fixes to bugs we found during the development of the
KDE4 version and which we simply backported


Thank you!
Thank you!

Revision as of 10:21, 13 May 2010

KMyMoney announces release candidate for KDE4 platform

After a year of hard work on a version for the KDE4 platform, the KMyMoney team is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first release candidate. Unlike previous versions, this one is recommended for general use. The feedback provided by previous beta releases makes us confident that it is as stable and rock-solid as previous stable versions.

Throughout this effort, our focus has been to maintain feature-parity compared to the KDE3 stable version. We know that many of you keep using KDE3 for the sole purpose of running KMyMoney, so we devised a plan to produce a version for KDE4 as fast as possible and at the same time keep the high level of quality that your financial data deserves. Over the last 5 months, 4 beta versions were released, putting our developers, packagers, and those of you brave enough to test it, under a big stress. This has payed off, allowing us to uncover much of the strength and weakness of this new platform, and even finding bugs in the current stable version.

This release candidate is not the end, but an important milestone in that plan. The final milestone will be the release of a final stable version together with KDE SC 4.5 in August.

We did manage to add some new features along the way:

  • Better documentation
  • Works with the latest version of AqBanking
  • Runs in all operating systems supported by KDE
  • Runs natively on the KDE4 platform

A lot of effort has gone into finding and fixing bugs. However, we need your feedback to make the stable release the best ever. Please try it and let us know if you find errors, a missing feature or even just annoyances.

Feel free to open reports on https://bugs.kde.org and attach them to the project called 'kmymoney4'.

At the same time, we provide a maintenance release for the stable KDE3 code. Version 1.0.5 includes fixes to bugs we found during the development of the KDE4 version and which we simply backported

Thank you!