[dot] 4.1 Release Candidate Out For Testing

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From: Sebastian Kuegler <sebas at kde.org>
Dept: talk-is-cheap
Date: Tuesday 15/Jul/2008, @07:41

4.1 Release Candidate Out For Testing
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   Today, we are passing the last milestone
[http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.1-rc1.php] on the way to
KDE 4.1, a release that will be suitable for a larger audience than 4.0
has been. While it is not yet up to the features that people are used to
from KDE 3.5, KDE 4.1 provides a significant amount of improvements over
KDE 4.0, which some said was a bit of a bumpy ride. Sources and
available packages are linked on the release info page
[http://www.kde.org/info/4.0.98.php]. KDE 4.1-rc1 is the only release
candidate for KDE 4.1, which will be released on July 29th.

     The development in trunk/ in Subversion has already been opened for
feature development, which is going into KDE 4.2 (to be released in
January), but developers are strongly encouraged to concentrate on
bugfixing in the 4.1 branch for now. Do give RC1 a spin, file bugreports
and fix things, there is only a week left until 4.1 is being tagged. Do
have your changes in the 4.1 branch reviewed by your peers, though. Note
that some users might still be suffering from performance problems with
NVidia graphics chips. There is a page on Techbase
[http://techbase.kde.org/User:Lemma/GPU-Performance] that gives some
more information about it. Make sure you report bugs via KDE's Bugzilla
[http://bugs.kde.org] so they can be addressed and do not get lost.