Beta3 coming up, this time with guaranteed uploads

[David Nolden]

Am Sonntag 24 Mai 2009 10:59:22 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
> On 22.05.09 21:44:58, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > just a short reminder that we'll be releasing Beta3 this weekend. I just
> > talked to dfaure and it turns out that _everybody_ can upload stuff to
> > the mirrors :)
> >
> > I'll probably do this tomorrow evening, i.e. move qmake+designer to
> > playground as they don't work, tag the modules and create and shortly
> > test tarballs.
> >
> > I'll re-use my template from the not-happened beta2 release for a
> > dot-story as soon as the tarballs are uploaded and will reply to this
> > mail then as well so people can spread the word in blogs and our
> > website.
>
> Tarballs are uploaded, so now I have to wait until the semi-automatic
> upload-system copies them to the mirrors. In the meantime I've preprared
> a release announcement for the dot, please have a look and let me know
> any comments or things missing:
>
> ,----[ beta3_release_announcement ]-
>
> | The KDevelop team is proud to announce the third public beta of
> | KDevelop4. This release includes some major new features, such as a new
> | <a
> | href="http://zwabel.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/really-rapid-c-development-w
> |ith-kdevelop4">code-writing assistant</a>, a new <a
> | href="http://www.proli.net/2009/02/28/kdevelop4s-documentation-integratio
> |n/">documentation plugin</a> showing you the API dox for Qt and KDE apis,
> | a reworked mercurial plugin and a rewrite of the classbrowser plugin. On
> | top of that we've fixed tons of bugs and also did little improvements in
> | all places. Unfortunately we also had to let go two plugins from the
> | kdevelop source, qmake and Qt Designer integration. Both are currently
> | not very usable and thus have been moved to the <a
> | href="http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/devtools/kdevelop4-extra-plu
> |gins/>KDevelop playground area</a>.
> |
> | You can fetch the source packages for KDevPlatform and KDevelop from the
> | <a
> | href="http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=unstable/kdevelop/3.9.93/s
> |rc/">KDE mirrors</a>. Be sure to download both packages.

Maybe the much improved stability should also be mentioned, I've fixed a 
tremendous amount of crashes since the last beta.