[dot] KDE 4.0 Beta 4 and Development Plaform RC Released

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From: Jos Poortvliet <jos at mijnkamer.nl>
Dept: release-day
Date: Tuesday 30/Oct/2007, @14:48

KDE 4.0 Beta 4 and Development Plaform RC Released
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   The KDE Community is happy to release the fourth Beta for KDE 4.0
[http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.0-beta4.php]. This Beta
aimed at further polishing of the KDE codebase and we would love to
start receiving feedback from testers. At the same time, a Release
Candidate for the KDE 4.0 Development Platform is released
[http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.0-platform-rc1.php]. This
Development Platform contains the bits and pieces needed to run and
build applications using KDE 4 technology. The purpose of this
Development Platform is to make it easier for third parties to port
their applications to KDE 4, without having to wait until the full
desktop is polished enough for the final 4.0 release.

     As KDE has largely has been in bugfix mode, this last beta aims to
encourage testers to have a look at KDE 4 to help us find and solve the
remaining problems and bugs. Besides the stabilization of the codebase,
some minor features have been added, including but not limited to much
work on Plasma [http://plasma.kde.org]. Sebastian Kügler notes: "The
improvements have been huge, and plasma is much closer to what it needs
to be before the release. I am confident we will be able to finish it
and present a very usable plasma to the users with KDE 4.0".

     KDE 4 is the next generation of the popular KDE Desktop Environment
which seeks to fulfill the need for a powerful yet easy to use desktop
for both personal and enterprise computing. The aim of the KDE project
for the 4.0 release is to put the foundations in place for future
innovations on the Free Desktop. The many newly introduced technologies
incorporated in the KDE libraries will make it easier for developers to
add rich functionality to their applications, combining and connecting
different components in any way they want.

     The announcement page
[http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.0-beta4.php] has more
information and download links for packages for several distributions.