diff --git a/3rdparty/ext_boost/CMakeLists.txt b/3rdparty/ext_boost/CMakeLists.txt
index f8182fdce..1c38eb829 100644
--- a/3rdparty/ext_boost/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/3rdparty/ext_boost/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
 set(PREFIX_ext_boost "${EXTPREFIX}")
 
 # don't bump boost version without checking it with mysql
 # mysql e.g. needs exactly 1.67 and won't work with 1.68
 ExternalProject_Add(
   ext_boost
   DOWNLOAD_DIR ${EXTERNALS_DOWNLOAD_DIR}
-  URL https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/release/1.67.0/source/boost_1_67_0.tar.bz2
-  URL_MD5 ced776cb19428ab8488774e1415535ab
+  URL https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/release/1.68.0/source/boost_1_68_0.tar.bz2
+  URL_MD5 7fbd1890f571051f2a209681d57d486a
 
   CONFIGURE_COMMAND <SOURCE_DIR>/bootstrap.sh --prefix=${PREFIX_ext_boost} --with-libraries=system
   BUILD_COMMAND <SOURCE_DIR>/b2 -j${SUBMAKE_JOBS} install
   INSTALL_COMMAND ""
   INSTALL_DIR ${PREFIX_ext_boost}
 
   UPDATE_COMMAND ""
   BUILD_IN_SOURCE 1
 )
diff --git a/packaging/linux/appimage/build-deps.sh b/packaging/linux/appimage/build-deps.sh
index 4dcf362b5..bf15c3448 100755
--- a/packaging/linux/appimage/build-deps.sh
+++ b/packaging/linux/appimage/build-deps.sh
@@ -1,91 +1,91 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 #
 # Build all KMyMoney's dependencies on Ubuntu 14.04.
 #
 # Prerequisites: cmake git build-essential libxcb-keysyms1-dev plus all deps for Qt5
 #
 
 # Halt on errors and be verbose about what we are doing
 set -e
 set -x
 
 # Read in our parameters
 export BUILD_PREFIX=$1
 export KMYMONEY_SOURCES=$2
 
 # qjsonparser, used to add metadata to the plugins needs to work in a en_US.UTF-8 environment.
 # That's not always the case, so make sure it is
 export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
 export LANG=en_us.UTF-8
 
 # We want to use $prefix/deps/usr/ for all our dependencies
 export DEPS_INSTALL_PREFIX=$BUILD_PREFIX/deps/usr
 export DOWNLOADS_DIR=$BUILD_PREFIX/downloads
 
 # Setup variables needed to help everything find what we build
 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DEPS_INSTALL_PREFIX/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 export PATH=$DEPS_INSTALL_PREFIX/bin:$PATH
 export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$DEPS_INSTALL_PREFIX/share/pkgconfig:$DEPS_INSTALL_PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
 export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$DEPS_INSTALL_PREFIX:$CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
 
 # A kmymoney build layout looks like this:
 # kmymoney/ -- the source directory
 # downloads/ -- downloads of the dependencies from files.kde.org
 # deps-build/ -- build directory for the dependencies
 # deps/ -- the location for the built dependencies
 # build/ -- build directory for kmymoney itself
 # kmymoney.appdir/ -- install directory for kmymoney and the dependencies
 
 # Make sure our downloads directory exists
 if [ ! -d $DOWNLOADS_DIR ] ; then
     mkdir -p $DOWNLOADS_DIR
 fi
 
 # Make sure our build directory exists
 if [ ! -d $BUILD_PREFIX/deps-build/ ] ; then
     mkdir -p $BUILD_PREFIX/deps-build/
 fi
 
 # The 3rdparty dependency handling in KMyMoney also requires the install directory to be pre-created
 if [ ! -d $DEPS_INSTALL_PREFIX ] ; then
     mkdir -p $DEPS_INSTALL_PREFIX
 fi
 
 # Switch to our build directory as we're basically ready to start building...
 cd $BUILD_PREFIX/deps-build/
 
 # Configure the dependencies for building
 cmake $KMYMONEY_SOURCES/3rdparty -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$DEPS_INSTALL_PREFIX -DINSTALL_ROOT=$DEPS_INSTALL_PREFIX -DEXTERNALS_DOWNLOAD_DIR=$DOWNLOADS_DIR
 
 # Now start building everything we need, in the appropriate order
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_iconv
 # cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_lzma
 # cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_icu
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_xml # must be before gettext
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_gettext
-cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_jpeg
-cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_png
+# cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_jpeg
+# cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_png
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_boost
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_xslt # for ext_xmlsec1
 # cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_fontconfig
 # cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_freetype
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_sqlite
 # cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_mysql
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_qt
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_knotifications
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_kio
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_kcmutils
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_kwallet
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_kactivities
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_kitemmodels
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_kholidays
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_kidentitymanagement
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_kcontacts
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_akonadi
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_alkimia
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_kdiagram
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_aqbanking
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_gpgme
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_sqlcipher
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_ofx
 cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo --target ext_ical