ANNOUNCE: KDevelop 2.1 out now!

Falk Brettschneider gigafalk at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 4 11:31:02 UTC 2002


Hi,

(This is an announcement for all who are not
subscribed to the other KDE 
 mailing-lists:)

The KDevelop team is proud to present KDevelop 2.1.
This version has been released as part of the KDE 3.0
release!

KDE 3.0 announcement and press release
=============================================
http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.0.html


Licence
=======
See
http://www.kdevelop.org/index.html?filename=license.html


screenshots
===========
See
http://www.kdevelop.org/index.html?filename=kdev2prev.html


download
========
Binary packages:
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0/Red%20Hat/i386/
http://download.at.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0/Mandrake
http://download.at.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0/Slackware
http://download.at.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0/SuSE/
http://download.at.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0/True64
Source (tar.bz2):
from cvs, only
Ftp mirrors:
http://www.kde.org/ftpmirrors.html


Compiling from CVS sources
==========================
See
http://www.kdevelop.org/index.html?filename=download.html


Changes from 2.0.2 to 2.1
=========================
- heaps of bugfixes (2.1 is as stable as a 2.0.3 ;-)
- added code completion (automatic or Ctrl+Space)
  and text expansion (Ctrl+J)
- added cross-compiling support, with the ability to
  specify different compilers, compiler flags, target
  architecture, etc.; and support for Qt/Embedded
  projects (such as the Zaurus and iPAQ);
- port to KDE 3 by keeping the source code compatible
  for KDE 2 compiling

Changes from 2.1 Beta 2 to 2.1
==============================
New feature!:
-------------
- code completion (automatic or Ctrl+Space) and text
  expansion (Ctrl+J)

Bugfixes:
---------
- removed flickering in output-view, highlight error
  messages and fix memory leak
- using of external debugger and calling "debug app
  with arguments"
- show open bracket after char insert
- duplicated combobox entries in "Add new translation"
- strange effects when switching on single views and
  output windows
- kthml view saving/loading to/from session works
  again
- set mainframe caption also when switching to the
  documentation views
- Accelerator-Keys fixes
- KTheme now treated as a KDE 2 project, crash on
  KThemes (only on KDE 3)
- in creation of API-documentation
- now using QextMDI-2.0.1 (fixes KDevelop crash on
  closing files and KDevelop itself (mainly TabPage
  mode) and MDI mode switching)
- gcc3 compiling issues
- configuration dialogs for documentation browser 
  works again
- don't ask for reload of files during the closing of
  files (happened when they were changed outside of
  KDevelop)
- a new chapter for the KDevelop manual (8.8 Building
  Distributions)
- updated kdevelop.kdevprj
- implementing additional project options (which are
  set inside configure.in(.in)), exceptions enabling,
  noopt-flag activation, misc tests for c/c++ terminal
  apps, enabling (f)lex and yacc/bison tests for
  configure, kde/qt version selection
- coloured output also for the KDE 3 version
- Removed hardwired (3) from manpages so user can
  select appropriate page


Notes
=====
1) Used cvs branch for this release is KDE_2_2_BRANCH
2) If you like to join the KDevelop developers, don't
hesitate to contact us at kdevelop-devel at kdevelop.org!

Current CVS version
===================
KDE_2_2_BRANCH is closed now.
Now we are heading towards KDE-3-only version KDevelop
2.2, try cvs branch KDEVELOP_2_BRANCH to see what's
going on there.

Have fun,
F at lk Brettschneider (on behalf of the whole KDevelop
team)


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