KMess 1.4 has just been released.
KMess is a MSN Messenger client for Linux. It enables Linux users to chat with friends online who are using MSN Messenger in Windows or Mac OS. The strength of KMess is it's integration with the KDE desktop environment, focus
on MSN Messenger specific features and an easy-to-use interface.
More information about KMess can be found at:
The main website:
http://kmess.sourceforge.net/Screenshots:
http://kmess.sourceforge.net/screenshots/Downloads for various distributions:
http://kmess.sourceforge.net/download/
digiKam and DigikamImagePlugins 0.8.0-beta1 has been released:
The digiKam team is pleased to bring to you the next generation of the user-friendly digital photo management software and its image plugins. The primary focus for this release is new ways of photo organization and searching. This release is the result of 4 months of development and we hope it will be as much fun for you to use it as we had developing it.
kallcenter is a Voice over IP Callcenter software for outbound Callcenters. It is based on kphone and uses a mySQL database backend. It was developed and tested on SuSE Linux 9.2.
Documentation is currently available in german only.
Changelog:
- Aug 08 2005: fixing two bugs: kcupdate (release 1+2) searches pixmaps and translations in /usr/local/share instead of /opt/kde3/share; kallcenter client sometime destroys its config file if microphone volume is increased manually while at the same time decreased automatically because it is too high
Links:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kallcenter/ http://fourier.mylinuxproject.de/kallcenter/ (German)
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=27276
Gambas is a free development environment based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions, like Visual Basic (but it is NOT a clone !).
With Gambas, you can quickly design your program GUI, access MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite databases, pilot KDE applications with DCOP, translate your program into many languages, create network applications easily, browse the Web with KHTML, and so on..
Changelog:
see
http://gambas.sourceforge.net/changelog.htmlLinks:
http://gambas.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=10158
Basically, this is a tool to let you type an expression (including trig, exponential, or logarithmic) functions and get an answer, including a history pane, support for Radians and Degrees, and a very compact mode. Note on the recent RPN mode addition: abakus as of now doesn't have an persistent RPN mode value stack, so every expression you enter at this time has to result in exactly one value on the operand stack (e.g You can't do '2+' after entering an expression, you need 'ans 2 +').
The "KDE Disk archiver" (KDar) is a disk-based archiving and backup utility. It is built around the "disk archive library" by Denis Corbin, and is analogous to the tape archiver shell command "tar", but is more suited for backups onto disk-based media, such as CD-R, DVD, Jazz, Zip, other hard-drives, etc.
KDar can perform full and differential backups with or without compression. Archives can be split to fit various media types.
A filtering mechanism allows you to select which files and directories to backup or restore, and which files to compress.
Kat is a framework designed to allow KDE applications to index and retrieve files. Metadata, fulltext and thumbnails are extracted from documents, images, mp3 and other media allowing quick and accurate information retrieval. Kat is similar to the Windows applications WhereIsIt and Google Desktop Search, the Gnome program Beagle and the OS X utility Spotlight. It is completely written in C++, using Qt3, KDE and KIO libraries. The application is based on the extensible kfile plugin architecture of KDE in order to facilitate the creation of new media managers for emerging file formats. Kat is the first KDE application using the new fulltext kfile plugins. Information retrieval relies on the powerful SQLite3 embedded database engine.
MateEdit is a multi-user editor which allows concurrent editing of files. It currently features change highlighting, different text colours for each user and a communication window. MateEdit can be used for idea exchanges, programming, role playing and any other task where people share their thoughts and collaborate.
Changelog:
- Added undo
- Merge zeroconf and non-zeroconf branch
- Better integration of zeroconf and non-zeroconf clients
- Use real username for user details
Links:
http://mateedit.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=19830
KCheckGmail is a system tray application to notify you about how many email messages you have in your Gmail account.
Requirements:
KCheckGmail requires KDE 3.2 or later.
Changelog:
o Fixed mail checking bug
o DCOP interface hack added
Links:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=14927 http://kcheckgmail.sourceforge.net/
This wizard will allow you to create a DVD from one or more DVD compatible MPEG-2 files. All you need to do is add one or multiple files to the playlist and answer the questions that follow. You can add a menu that will contain animated thumbnails of the files in the playlist. Creating a menu is optional.
The amaroK team announces version 1.3 'Airborne' of the amaroK audio player
The amaroK Development Team is very proud to clear version 1.3 of the popular audio player for takeoff. After four months of focused work, we feel that this release has again substantially improved on amaroK. We hope you enjoy amaroK 1.3's greater usability, exciting new features and many bugfixes.
KDE Security Advisory: langen2kvtml tempfile vulnerability
Original Release Date: 2008-08-15
URL:
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050815-1.txt0. References
CAN-2005-2101
1. Systems affected:
All KDE releases starting from KDE 3.0 up to including
KDE 3.4.2.
KDE Security Advisory: kpdf temp file writing DoS vulnerability
Original Release Date: 2005-08-09
URL:
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050809-1.txt0. References
CAN-2005-2097
1. Systems affected:
KDE 3.3.1 up to including KDE 3.4.1.
2. Overview:
kpdf, the KDE pdf viewer, shares code with xpdf. xpdf contains
a vulnerability that causes it to write a file in $TMPDIR with
almost infinite size, which can severly impact system performance.
3. Impact:
Remotely supplied pdf files can be used to fill up all available
disk space when opened with kpdf.
kdesvn is a native subversion client for KDE. It tries to give subversion users a view like on a normal filesystem to a repository and a working copy. Instead of simple parsing the output of the standard subversion commandline it uses the c-api and wants to get a real subversion client with all of the goodies KDE has.
Changes in 0.4:
* Lock/Unlock items
* Ignore/Unignore files
* fix buildproblems with gcc 4
* some basic settings implemented
* fixed some wrong actions activating/deactivating
* SSL dialogs
homepage:
http://www.alwins-world.de/programs/kdesvn.You may download the sources from here
http://www.alwins-world.de/programs/download/kdesvn/kdesvn-0.4.tar.gzComments, bugrepors and feature wishes are welcome. You may use the bugtracker at
http://www.alwins-world.de/programs/mantis/
amaroK 1.3-beta2 has been released:
HIGHLIGHTS
* 17 Equalizer Presets
* Cover image shadows for extra drooling
* Crash persistent settings
* Podcast support
* Revamped xine engine, including crossfading!
Kalva 0.7.0 has been released
What's new in Version 0.7.0:
You can store your hardware profile and share it via www.kde-files.org. By providing your hardware profile you can help others who are new to recording with MEncoder. You can store your quality profile and share it via www.kde-files.org. This allows apart from other benefits to have more than one profile and per recording choose which MEncoder options will give the best results (f.i. if you want to record a 16/9 movie you need other options than for a 4/3 five minute toon for children). What was said about the hardware profile about sharing via www.kde-files.org applies even more on quality profiles. You can allready find some at www.kde-files.org You can configure if the preview window shall start in fullscreen or not. The play button now gives some valuable information on using the preview window which in fact is an external MPlayer. Apart from these outstanding changes there have been a lot of improvements and bugfixes concerning tooltips and geometry flaws.
The scantv plugin was redesigned to make sure that a failing scantv does not freeze Kalva anymore. The save dialog for the channellist was fixed to fill in the values of the active channellist and to make sure that the channellist is set in the preferences when it gets a new name.
kdesvn 0.3 has been released
kdesvn is a native subversion client for KDE. It tries to give subversion users a view like on a normal filesystem to a repository and a working copy. Instead of simple parsing the output of the standard subversion commandline it uses the c-api and wants to get a real subversion client with all of the goodies KDE has.
Changes in 0.3:
* most of subversion operations are implemented, some in a more basic form.
* interacting with konqueror eg. importing/adding stuff via drag and drop works
* gui mostly finished as wanted and some fixes and other stuff.
homepage is
http://www.alwins-world.de/programs/kdesvn/You may download the sources from here
http://www.alwins-world.de/programs/download/kdesvn/kdesvn-0.3.tar.gzComments, bugrepors and feature wishes are welcome. You may use the bugtracker at
http://www.alwins-world.de/programs/mantis/
The KOffice team today announced the first bugfix release of the 1.4 series. Among various bugfixes and translation improvements, the KOffice 1.4.1 release further improves support for the OASIS OpenDocument file format. Binary packages for Kubuntu, Mandriva and SUSE have been contributed and the KOffice Live-CD has been updated.
Announcement:
http://www.koffice.org/announcements/announce-1.4.1.phpDot article:
http://dot.kde.org/1122323356Release notes:
http://www.koffice.org/releases/1.4.1-release.phpComplete list of changes:
http://www.koffice.org/announcements/changelog-1.4.1.php
KDE Security Advisory: Kate backup file permission leak
Original Release Date: 2005-07-18
URL:
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050718-1.txt0. References
CVE CAN-2005-1920
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1033311. Systems affected:
All maintained versions of Kate and Kwrite as shipped with
KDE 3.2.x up to including 3.4.0. KDE 3.1.x and older and
KDE 3.4.1 and newer are not affected.
KDE Security Advisory: libgadu vulnerabilities
Original Release Date: 2005-07-21
URL:
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050721-1.txt0. References
CVE CAN-2005-1852
1. Systems affected:
All versions of Kopete as included in
KDE 3.3.x up to including 3.4.1. KDE 3.2.x and older
are not affected.
