KDE 1715 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

The success story continues with the 0.9.2-beta2 release including a new light table (compare feature). This beta2 version is rock-solid, don't hesitate to use it for production.

The 0.9.2 final release is on track for mid June publishing.

This is a source code tarball release. In order to compile it you need to compile and install libkexiv2 and libkdcraw first (unless you complied them for beta1 already).

The library tarballs can be downloaded from here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=149779

The digiKam tarball + documentation can be downloaded from here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42641

KDE 1715 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Kst 1.4.0 has been released

The Kst development team is happy to announce the immediate
availability of Kst 1.4.0, a major update of the real-time data viewing and plotting tool with data analysis functionality. Kst 1.4.0 consists of a KDE 3.4 based application and a set of data analysis and manipulation plugins. Kst ships complete with documentation, and is translated to over 25 languages.
Kst, including all its plugins and documentation, is available for free
under Open Source licenses. Kst can be obtained in source and numerous binary formats from http://download.kde.org/stable/apps/KDE3.x/scientific/ .

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KPlayer 0.6.2 has been released:

KPlayer is a KDE multimedia player based on MPlayer. With KPlayer you can easily play a wide variety of video and audio files and streams using a rich and friendly interface that follows KDE standards.

The new 0.6.2 version brings an updated user manual with details on all the new features in the 0.6.x series, many bug fixes and improvements in playlists, multimedia library and throughout KPlayer, and several new and updated translations.

KPlayer is licensed under GPL.

KPlayer 0.6.2 is available for download at http://kplayer.sourceforge.net/#downloads

Source tarball
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kplayer/kplayer-0.6.2.tar.bz2

Read me
http://kplayer.cvs.sourceforge.net/kplayer/kplayer/README?rev=HEAD

Installation
http://kplayer.cvs.sourceforge.net/kplayer/kplayer/INSTALL?rev=HEAD

Online manual
http://kplayer.sourceforge.net/manual/

IRC
#kplayer on FreeNode

KDE 1715 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

KDE 3.5.7 has been released:

The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.7, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE now supports 65 languages, making it available to more people than most non-free software and can be easily extended to support others by communities who wish to contribute to the open source project.

This release has a renewed focus on KDE PIM applications. KAddressBook, KOrganizer and KAlarm received attention with bugfixes, while KMail additionally witnessed new features and improvements with both interface work and IMAP handling: it can manage IMAP quota and copy and move all folders.

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KDE 4.0-alpha1 Released: "Knut" has been released:

The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first alpha release of the KDE Desktop Environment, version 4.0. This release is a basis for the integration of powerful new technologies that will be included in KDE 4. Read on for more details.

KDE 1715 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

The KDE Community and the release team have put together a release plan for the long anticipated version 4.0, which is planned to be released in October 2007. KDE 4.0 will likely contain initial versions of all the major subsystems that have been described in recent Dot articles. These 'Pillars' of KDE set the stage for desktop and application growth and maturity over the life of the KDE 4 series.

KDE 4.0 Release Schedule Finalised

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OpenWengo 2.1 rc1 has been released:

It is with great pleasure that I announce that OpenWengo 2.1 rc1 is available for download at:

http://download.wengo.com/releases/WengoPhone-2.1/RC1/

OpenWengo is a project aimed toward providing the best possible communication over IP program, both easy to use and conforming to industry standards.

KDE 1715 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

The first bug fix release for the 2.1 branch of ktorrent has been released. This release contains mostly bug fixes, but also some significant improvements in the networking and webserver code.

Source and binary packages can be found at our website http://ktorrent.org

Enjoy, and many thanks to everybody who contributed.

KDE 1715 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

KPlayer is a KDE multimedia player based on MPlayer. With KPlayer you can easily play a wide variety of video and audio files and streams using a rich and friendly interface that follows KDE standards.

The new 0.6.1 version adds an option to control volume independently of other programs, mixer device and channel options for ALSA and OSS sound output, and also includes a fix to keep the system audio volume when starting up, a fix for various problems when coming back from full screen, and a few translation updates.

KPlayer is licensed under GPL.

KPlayer 0.6.1 is available for download at
http://kplayer.sourceforge.net/#downloads

KDE 1715 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

The KDE project announces the availability of the third development snapshot of the upcoming KDE 4. This snapshot is meant as a reference for developers who want to play with parts of the new technology KDE 4 will provide, those who want to start porting their applications to the new KDE 4 platform and for those that want to start to develop applications based on KDE 4. This snapshot is not for end users, there is no guarantee that it will be stable, the interfaces are subject to changes at any time.

KDE 1715 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

The KOffice team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the latest
KOffice version : 1.6.2. This release brings a lot of user experience improvement, throught bug fixes or minor features in Krita and Kexi.

More information can be found at KOffice website:
http://www.koffice.org/releases/1.6.2-release.php

KDE 1715 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

The digiKam team approaches another release step with 0.9.1-beta1 (including digikamimageplugins-0.9.1-beta1 and libkexiv2-0.1.0 as separate packages, libkexiv2 is required). The files are online at SF https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42641

This is a bug-fix and useability release with several new features for viewing and slideshows that even display RAW files. Plans are to put -rc1 in a week and -final in two weeks time online.