February 6, 2008 (The INTERNET). The KDE Community today
announced the
immediate availability of KDE 4.0.1, the first bugfix and
maintenance release
for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful
free desktop. KDE
4.0.1 ships with a basic desktop and many other packages
like administration,
network, education, utilities, multimedia, games, artwork,
web development
and more. KDE's award-winning tools and applications are
available in almost
50 languages.
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.
Enhancements
KDE 4.0.1 is a maintenance release which provides
corrections of problems
reported using the KDE bug tracking system and enhanced
support for existing
and new translations.
Improvements in this release include, but are not limited
to:
Konqueror, KDE's webbrowser has seen numerous stability and
performance fixes
in its HTML rendering engine KHTML, in its Flash plugin
loader and in KJS,
the JavaScript engine.
Stability problems have been addressed in components that
are used all over
the KDE codebase. Translations in this release are more
complete.
KWin, the KDE window manager has improved detection of
compositing support,
some effects have been fixed.
Aside from these fundamentals, work has also been done in
many applications
like Okular, System Settings and KStars. New translations
include Danish,
Frisian, Kazakh and Czech.
For a more detailed list of improvements since the KDE 4.0
release in January
2008, please refer to the KDE 4.0.1 Changelog. (
http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/c
hangelog4_0to4_0_1.php )
Additional information about the enhancements of the KDE
4.0.x release series
is available in the KDE 4.0 Announcement. (
http://www.kde.
org/announcements/4.0/ )
More information at h
ttp://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.0.1.php
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