[dot] KDE 4.0.3 Released With Extragear Applications

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1207154042/

From: Sebastian Kuegler <sebas at kde.org>
Dept: bugsquashing
Date: Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @09:34

KDE 4.0.3 Released With Extragear Applications
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   The third bugfix release of the KDE 4.0 series
[http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.0.3.php] is available. KDE 4.0
is mainly targeted at users who live on the bleeding edge. As a dot-oh
release it might have its rough edges. The KDE Community releases a
service update for this series once a month to make those bleeding edge
users' lives easier. The changelog for KDE 4.0.3
[http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_0_2to4_0_3.php]
is, although not complete, quite impressive. Especially KHTML and with
it the Konqueror webbrowser have seen great improvements in both,
stability and performance.

     Since KDE 4.0, some Extragear applications form part of the
release. Extragear applications can choose to follow their own release
cycle, which is what for example Amarok and K3b do. There is also the
option to have extragear applications released with KDE. Applications
such as RSIBreak [http://www.rsibreak.org] (a program to save your
health), KGrab
[http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KGrab?content=74086] (an
advanced screenshot-taking tool), KPovModeler
[http://www.kpovmodeler.org/] (a 3D modelling application). Tom Albers,
responsible for the release of the Extragear package says, "The new item
in this release is kio_gopher. It's really great that this protocol is
still not dead and we now have support for it in KDE4. New technology
meets ancient protocol ;-)".

     The KDE Team also uses this release to highlight some gems of the
KDE package. This time, a closer look is being taken at the KDE
Educational [http://edu.kde.org] software. The KDE Edu project has also
recently done some work on their website, which is surely worth a visit.
We hope you enjoy this release and notice our commitment to making
progress in stability and usability of the KDE 4.0 series while
development of KDE 4.1
[http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Schedules/KDE4/4.1_Feature_Plan]
is going on at more than full speed.