A very long awaited milestone has been reached: Today the KMyMoney team announces the availability of the latest stable version of its Personal Finance Manager together with its companion library Alkimia..
Since the last stable release almost 3 years ago, the developers made 3440 changes to the main code base and 800+ changes to the Alkimia library.
Here’s an overview of some major functionality changes and improvements made among all the little bug fixes along the way (with more details on a separate page):
Multi account ledger view
KMyMoney now allows to open the ledger of multiple accounts in tabs side by side in the ledger view.
New and improved transaction editors
The transaction editors have completely rewritten. They now open a widget directly in the ledger area and there is no distinction between form based and register based method anymore. The sometimes confusing tabs showing Deposit/Transfer/Withdrawal have been removed and the amount entry now provides two mutually exclusive widgets for debit and credit. These changes also found their way into the split editor.
Customize tab order for transaction editors
Another feature of the transaction entry is to customize the tab order for data entry. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+T opens the tab order editor and the user can select the order of the widgets that are visited when pressing the TAB key.
Open categories in ledger view
With the new version, it is now possible to open categories in the ledger and enter transactions. This has been a long standing user request.
Customize order of columns in tabular views via drag and drop
The order of the columns of e.g. the ledger, accounts or categories view can now be modified by the user by simply dragging the header column to its new location.
Move accounts in hierarchy via drag and drop
Moving accounts in the hierarchy is now possible using drag and drop.
Load passwords from gpg encrypted password store
Passwords for e.g. the KBanking backend can now be loaded from the standard Unix password store pass with a simple mouse click. Pass uses strong GPG based encryption to store its information. A Qt based GUI frontend for pass is also available.
Improved handling of tags
The support for tags has been overhauled. Especially the reporting section for tags received many improvements.
Link documents to transactions
KMyMoney now provides a feature to link documents stored in the filesystem to transactions. This can be automated to support recurring transactions (e.g. your phone bill) by simple configuration using regular expressions per payee.
Online exchange rate download available for other finance apps
Online currency exchange rate and stock price download has been moved over to the Alkimia library and then re-integrated into KMyMoney. This makes it available for other applications by simply linking to Alkimia.
Updated handbook
The KMyMoney handbook has received many changes to reflect the new functionality.
A big thank you goes out to those who supported us by reporting problems and helping to identify their root cause. In case you have a question about the usage of some new features or even old ones, please post your question on the KDE user forum. If you are sure you found real problem or want to ask for a new feature, please do so on our bugtracker.