[dot] KDE 4.0 Release Candidate 1 Hits the Streets, Codename " Calamity"

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1195581531/

From: Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org>
Dept: make-me-beautiful
Date: Tuesday 20/Nov/2007, @09:58

KDE 4.0 Release Candidate 1 Hits the Streets, Codename &quot;Calamity&quot;
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   The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of
the first release candidate for KDE 4.0
[http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.0-rc1.php].  This release
candidate marks that  the majority of the components of KDE 4.0 are now
approaching release quality.

     While the final bits of Plasma [http://plasma.kde.org], the brand
new desktop shell and panel in KDE 4, are falling into place, the KDE
community decided to publish the first release candidate for the KDE 4.0
 Desktop.  Release Candidate 1 is the first preview of KDE 4.0 which is 
suitable for general use and discovering the improvements that have
taken  place over the entire KDE code base. The KDE Development
Platform, the basis for developing KDE applications, is frozen and is
now of release quality. The source code for the KDE Development Platform
can be found in the under the "stable/3.96" subdirectory, on KDE's FTP
server and mirrors.

     Building on this, the majority of applications included in KDE 4.0
are now  usable for day to day use. The KDE Release Team has recently
underlined this by calling  on the community
[http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-release-team&m=119521408516846&w=2] to
participate in reporting bugs during the time  remaining before the
release of KDE 4.0 in December.

     Meanwhile, preparations for the KDE 4.0 release events are ongoing,
with the main event taking place January 2008 in Mountain View,
California USA. Make sure you don't miss it!