KDE Community Ships
First Translation and Service Release of the 4.1
Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements
and
Translation Updates
September 3, 2008. The KDE
Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE
4.1.1, the first
bugfix and maintenance update for the latest generation of the most
advanced and powerful
free desktop. KDE 4.1.1 is a monthly update to KDE 4.1.
It
ships with a basic desktop and many other packages; like administration
programs, network tools,
educational applications, utilities, multimedia software, games,
artwork,
web development tools and more. KDE's award-winning tools and
applications are
available in more than 50 languages.
The KDE 4.1 desktop
KDE, including all its libraries and
its applications, is available for free
under Open Source licenses. KDE can be obtained in source and various
binary
formats from http://download.kde.org
and can
also be obtained on CD-ROM
or with any of the major
GNU/Linux and UNIX systems shipping today.
Pretty much all applications have received the developers' attention,
resulting in a
long list of bugfixes and improvements. The most significant
changes are:
- Significant performance, interaction and rendering
correctness improvements in KHTML and Konqueror, KDE's webbrowser
- User interaction, rendering and stability fixes in Plasma,
the KDE4 desktop shell
- PDF backend fixes in the document viewer Okular
- Fixes in Gwenview, the image viewer's thumbnailing, more
robust retrieval and display of images with broken metadata
- Stability and interaction fixes in KMail
To find out more about KDE 4.1, please refer to the
KDE 4.1.0
and
KDE 4.0.0
release
notes. KDE 4.1.1 is a recommended update for everyone running KDE
4.1.0.
It will be followed up by more x.y.z updates over the next months and
ultimately by a new feature release, KDE 4.2.0 this coming January.
Extragear
Since KDE 4.0.0, Extragear
applications
are also part of regular KDE releases.
Extragear applications are KDE applications that are mature, but not
part
of one of the other KDE packages.
Installing KDE 4.1.1 Binary Packages
Packagers. Some
Linux/UNIX OS vendors have kindly provided binary packages of KDE 4.1.1
for some versions of their distribution, and in other cases community
volunteers
have done so. Some of these binary packages are available for free
download from KDE's http://download.kde.org.
Additional binary packages, as well as updates to the packages now
available,
may become available over the coming weeks.
Package
Locations. For a current list of available binary
packages of which the KDE Project has
been informed, please visit the KDE 4.1.1 Info
Page.
Compiling KDE 4.1.1
The complete source code for KDE 4.1.1 may be freely
downloaded.
Instructions on compiling and installing KDE 4.1.1 are available from
the KDE
4.1.1 Info
Page.
Supporting KDE
KDE is a Free
Software
community that exists and grows only because of the help of many
volunteers that
donate their time and effort. KDE is always looking for new volunteers
and
contributions, whether it is help with coding, bug fixing or reporting,
writing
documentation, translations, promotion, money, etc. All contributions
are
gratefully appreciated and eagerly accepted. Please read through the Supporting KDE page
for further information.
About KDE
KDE is an international technology team that creates free and open
source software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE's
products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms,
comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of
software titles in many categories including Internet and web
applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and
software development. KDE software is translated into more than 60
languages and is built with ease of use and modern accessibility
principles in mind. KDE4's full-featured applications run natively on
Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X.
Trademark
Notices. KDE? and the K Desktop
Environment? logo are registered trademarks of
KDE e.V. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. UNIX is a
registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other
countries. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to in this
announcement are the property of their respective owners.
Source: KDE.org
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