[dot] KDE 4.1 Beta 1 Released

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1211898836/

From: Will Stephenson <wstephenson at kde.org>
Dept: rolling-at-you-like-a-big-rockdept.
Date: Tuesday 27/May/2008, @07:33

KDE 4.1 Beta 1 Released
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   The KDE Project is happy to set the first beta of KDE 4.1
[http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.1-beta1.php], codenamed
Caramel, free today.  KDE 4.1 is intended to meet the needs of a broad
range of users and we therefore respectfully request you to get testing
Beta 1.  Beta 1 is not ready for production use but is in wide use by
KDE developers and is suitable for testing by Linux enthusiasts and KDE
fans.

     Highlights of 4.1 are a much more mature Plasma desktop shell that
returns much of the configurability that was missing in KDE 4.0, many
more applets and look and feel improvements, the return of Kontact and
the rest of the KDE PIM applications, and many improvements and newly
ported applications.  The feature set is now frozen, so the developers
look forward to using June and July to metamorphosing your bug reports
into rock solid code, completing documentation and translating
everything into your language.  A series of Bug Days where users can
contribute quality assurance to the release will continue towards 4.1's
final release on the 29th of July, so watch the Dot for details.

     For more details, see the release announcement
[http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.1-beta1.php] and info page
[http://www.kde.org/info/4.0.80.php] or if you are at LinuxTag, see KDE
4.1 being presented in Berlin this Friday.
 [http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/de/conf/events/vp-freitag.html]