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<chapter id="whatsnew">
<chapterinfo>
  <date>2011-07-21</date>
  <releaseinfo>4.6</releaseinfo>
</chapterinfo>

<title>What's new in this release</title>

<para>
  As with every release, the &kappname; development team has been working hard
  to make this release better and easier to use in every way. We have also made
  quite a few improvements. We are confident you will like what you see.
</para>

<para>
  This is the second full release of &kappname; for KDE4.  Many of the
  performance issues noticed with the 4.5 release have been resolved.  The user
  interface has been further improved, and over 100 bugs have been eliminated.
</para>

<para>
  Here are some of the new features found in this release:
</para>

<itemizedlist>
  <listitem>
    <para>
      <link linkend="firsttime.mainwindow">Runs natively on KDE4</link> and on
      all operating systems supported by KDE, with many improvements especially
      for the &MacOS; X and &Windows; platforms.
    </para>
  </listitem> 

  <listitem>
    <para>
      Better performance of the user interface.  Performance in general has been
      improved, addressing the degradation that was introduced with the
      migration to KDE4.
    </para>
  </listitem>
  
  <listitem>
    <para>
      Documentation and translations have been further improved.
    </para>
  </listitem> 
  
  <listitem>
    <para>
      Many improvements in the importing and online banking modules, including:
    </para>
  </listitem> 

  <listitem>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
	<para>
	  There is a new plugin to import csv files
	</para>
      </listitem> 

      <listitem>
	<para>
	  The payee name can now be based on either the PAYEEID, NAME, or MEMO
	  field when importing a transaction via OFX direct connect
	</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </listitem>

  <listitem>
    <para>
      Improvements have been made to the database back end.
    </para>
  </listitem>
</itemizedlist>

</chapter>
