[dot] KOffice 1.6 Beta 1 Released

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1157906170/

From: Inge Wallin <inge at lysator.liu.se>
Dept: We're-getting-there
Date: Sunday 10/Sep/2006, @09:36

KOffice 1.6 Beta 1 Released
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   KOffice [http://koffice.kde.org], the KDE office suite, today
released version 1.6 beta1. This release incorporates a number of new
features, mainly from the Google Summer of Code projects, as well as a
great number of bug fixes.  It also signals the start of the feature
freeze that always preceeds a release of a major new version, thus
giving the developers exactly a month to fix outstanding bugs. We urge
everybody that is interested in KOffice to install and test this version
to make sure that the final 1.6 has a high quality.  To see more
details, you can look in the  announcement
[http://www.koffice.org/announcements/announce-1.6-beta1.php] or the
full changelog
[http://www.koffice.org/announcements/changelog-1.6beta1.php].

     KOffice 1.6 is mainly a feature release for the fastest developing
components Kexi [http://www.koffice.org/kexi] and Krita
[http://www.koffice.org/krita], but also incorporates some some new
features and bugfixes in all the other components.  You can look at the
article about the release of KOffice 1.6 Alpha
[http://dot.kde.org/1154424570/] to see some of them.  The new features
in the beta are mainly that some of  the projects from the Google Summer
of Code [http://dot.kde.org/1157452184/] were integrated.

     The projects that were integrated into KOffice 1.6 were:
    * Emanuele Tamponi: A bezier curve tool with stroking using brushes
      and a new outline selection tool for Krita.

     The other SoC projects were integrated into KOffice 2.0, which is
being developed in parallel with 1.6 and will be released later in 2007.
     Other noteworthy but smaller things in 1.6 Beta1 are tools for
perspective drawing in Krita, new filters in Krita, great speed
improvements in KSpread, Kugar Designer works again and countless
improvements in Kexi. To see some of them, look at  Jaroslaw Stanieks
blog [http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2163]