May 22, 2007 (The INTERNET). The
immediate availability of KDE 3.5.7, a maintenance release for the
latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free
desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE now supports
it available to more people than most non-free software and can be
easily extended to support others by communities who wish to contribute
to the open source project.
This release has a renewed focus on
KOrganizer and
attention with bugfixes, while
witnessed new features and improvements with both interface work and
IMAP handling: it can manage IMAP quota and copy and move all folders.
Several other applications saw feature improvements:
In addition to the new features there were many bug fixes across
the board, especially in the Edutainment
and Games packages and
got a major performance improvement on chat rendering.
As KDE users have come to expect, this new release includes
continued work on KHTML and KJS, KDE's HTML and Javascript engines. A
new and interesting usability feature in KHTML makes the mouse pointer
indicate if a link wants to open a new browser window or not.
For a more detailed list of improvements since the
release on the 25th January 2007, please refer to the
3.5.7 Changelog.
KDE 3.5.7 ships with a basic desktop and fifteen
other packages (PIM, administration, network, edutainment, utilities,
multimedia, games, artwork, web development and more). KDE's
award-winning tools and applications are available in 65
languages.
Most of the Linux distributions and UNIX operating
systems do not immediately incorporate new KDE releases, but they will
integrate KDE 3.5.7 packages in their next releases. Check
see which distributions are shipping KDE.
Package Creators. Some operating system
vendors have kindly provided binary packages of KDE 3.5.7 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 download server at
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
Source Code.
The complete source code for KDE 3.5.7 may be
Instructions on compiling and installing KDE 3.5.7 are available from
the KDE 3.5.7 Info Page.
KDE is a Free
Software project 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 its
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
KDE page for further information.
We look forward to hearing from you soon!
KDE is an award-winning,
independent project of hundreds
of developers, translators, artists and other professionals worldwide
collaborating over the Internet to create and freely distribute a
sophisticated, customizable and stable desktop and office environment
employing a flexible, component-based, network-transparent architecture
and offering an outstanding development platform.
KDE provides a stable, mature desktop including a
state-of-the-art browser (Konqueror),
a personal information management suite (Kontact),
a full office suite (KOffice), a
large set of networking application and utilities, and an efficient,
intuitive development environment featuring the excellent IDE
KDE is working proof that the Open Source
"Bazaar-style" software development model can yield first-rate
technologies on par with and superior to even the most complex
commercial software.
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
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