[dot] KDE 4.2 Beta2 " Canaria" Testimony to the Bug Fixing Frenzy

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From: Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org>
Dept: ho-ho-ho
Date: Thursday 18/Dec/2008, @07:23

KDE 4.2 Beta2 &quot;Canaria&quot; Testimony to the Bug Fixing Frenzy
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   Two days later than initially scheduled due to yours truly preparing
for coming year's desktop summit on Gran Canaria, KDE's release team has
made availabe KDE 4.1.85, a.k.a. KDE 4.2-Beta2
[http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.2-beta2.php] to testers and
reviewers, codenamed "Canaria". KDE 4.1.85 is not suitable for
production use but meant to invite feedback and bugreports from the
community. The KDE community is in massive bugfixing mode, showing a
focus on stability and feature-completeness in the KDE 4.2 series. But
behold, 4.1.85 is not a boring release. It brings many visible
improvements to KDE 4.1, and will ultimately follow up the KDE 4.1
series as a stable release this coming January. So get your testing gear
ready and help us squash those bugs for a 4.2.0 that makes Redmond see
flying chairs all over. There's a changelog over at TechBase
[http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.2_Changelog], and the brave
and bored can go for the more detailed feature plan
[http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.2_Feature_Plan]. As 4.1.85 is
the last release before Christmas, we strongly recommend using Wade's
Christmas wallpapers
[http://wadejolson.wordpress.com/2008/12/14/enough-holiday-wallpapers-to-gag-on/]
and the KWin compositing snow plugin while testing.