[dot] KOffice 2.0 Beta 5 Released

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From: Inge Wallin <inge at lysator.liu.se>
Dept: soon, soon
Date: Wednesday 14/Jan/2009, @13:59

 KOffice 2.0 Beta 5 Released
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   Moving towards the 2.0 release with almost monthly beta releases, the
KOffice team has once more honoured its promise to bring out beta
releases of KOffice until the time is right for a release candidate. So
today we bring you this beta with many, many improvements across the
board. Incremental as it is, this beta is an important step towards a
final release. So here it is: full announcement
[http://www.koffice.org/announcements/announce-2.0beta5.php] and
changelog
[http://www.koffice.org/announcements/changelog-2.0-beta5.php].



                  HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 2.0 BETA 5 RELEASE

     The developers have been working very hard fixing bugs and removing
incompatibilities and other misfeatures. This can be seen in the rather
large list of changes
[http://www.koffice.org/announcements/changelog-2.0-beta5.php]. Here are
some of the highlights of this release:


  I. SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS WITH OPENDOCUMENT SAVING AND LOADING

     Much of the work on this beta has been concentrated in making
loading and saving OpenDocument files more complete. A lot of effort has
been put into making KOffice interoperable with OpenOffice.org, since
that is the most important OpenDocument editor today.
   KOffice loading a document from OpenOffice.

 II. ALL REPORTED CRASH BUGS IN KWORD FIXED
 KWord has received extra attention that removed all known crash bugs.
We want to emphasize that at this point it is extremely important for
users to test all components of KOffice and report all bugs, especially
crash bugs.
     Together with the Bugsquad team, a Krush day is going to be
organised on Sunday 25th January 2009, to help find new bugs before the
final release.