[websites/rkward-kde-org] /: Update for new release

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

Git commit 277fbc62247e9ffae96afc3b3fb6af6158e147b9 by Thomas Friedrichsmeier.
Committed on 24/04/2026 at 06:54.
Pushed by tfry into branch 'master'.

Update for new release

M  +3    -3    config.yaml
A  +33   -0    content/news/rkward-0.8.3.md

https://invent.kde.org/websites/rkward-kde-org/-/commit/277fbc62247e9ffae96afc3b3fb6af6158e147b9

diff --git a/config.yaml b/config.yaml
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   rssSection: news
   showPatrons: false
   displayTitle: true
-  rkwardVersion: "0.8.2"
-  rkwardVersionDate: "Oct 01, 2025"
-  rkwardWindowsPatchLevel: "-1"
+  rkwardVersion: "0.8.3"
+  rkwardVersionDate: "Apr 24, 2026"
+  rkwardWindowsPatchLevel: ""
 rssLimit: 4
 summaryLength: 15
diff --git a/content/news/rkward-0.8.3.md b/content/news/rkward-0.8.3.md
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+---
+title: RKWard 0.8.3
+date: 2026-04-24
+---
+
+RKWard 0.8.3, has been released, today. Official [downloads](/download) can be found in the usual place.
+Importantly this release addresses some incompatibility issues between RKWard 0.8.2 and the new R 4.6.0.
+RKWard 0.8.3 continues to work with older versions of R, but if you want to use RKWard R 4.6.0 or later,
+you will have to use RKWard version 0.8.3 or later.
+
+Beyond this, the new release does not bring many large user-visible changes. Under the hood, however, we
+now support a different HTML rendering engine for help and output files (QWebView in additino to QWebEngine).
+We hope that this will put an end to recent stability issues that have been reported for certain configurations.
+
+Advanced users may further appreciate the new option to define their own custom script preview modes.
+
+As usual, we're looking forward to your [feedback](/contact) suggestions, and contributions!
+
+#### The changes in detail:
+
+- New features and improvements
+   - Added: Allow to define custom script preview modes (rk.register.script.preview()))
+   - Added: Various small updates to the R highlighting in the R console
+   - Added: Allow translation of strings in the rkward R package
+   - Added: Support HTML rendering with QWebView, which allows to use native renderers on some platforms
+- Bug fixes
+   - Fixed: Remove obsolete dependency on dbus
+   - Fixed: Crash when splitting view on a data.frame editor window
+   - Fixed: Allow compilation with the upcoming R 4.6
+   - Fixed: Horizontal text alignment would be inaccurate for some symbols in RK() device
+   - Fixed: Parts of a command entered interactively could run twice under specific circumstances
+   - Fixed: Output window would fail to open, automatically, for certain plugins
+   - Fixed: Width of "progress" dialogs (showing R output) would exceed screen size depending on configuration