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From KDE Apps:

A new development version of Gambas, the Visual Basic-like development environment for X11, has been released. Version 1.9.45 includes a new CGI web applications module with an ASP-like interface, a redesigned "new project" dialog, a Farsi translation, and numerous bug fixes (changes affect configuration, the IDE, the database manager, the Wiki CGI script, the interpreter and compiler, and the Qt, KDE, database, SDL, GTK and Form components; full changelog here). Screenshots here, downloads and instructions (source only) here. Stable version, recommended for any production work, remains 1.0.17 (22nd July 2006) and is available from the same location.

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Version 0.20 of the Qt4-based IDE QDevelop (originally QIde) has been released. Changes include:

• a new C++ highlighter
• experimental CMake build system
• Polish, Spanish, Chinese and Russian translations
• a new bookmark facility, which can be saved in the project settings
• class browser supporting operator overloading
• project templates

Full changelog here, screenshots here, downloads (source, Windows installer, Linux RPM) here. Requires Qt 4.0 or later.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.11.0 of kdesvn, a KDE client for the version control software Subversion, has been released. Changes include:

• fixes in the CMake build system and to a bug affecting building on Solaris
• a fix to a problem with dialogs storing sizes into the wrong config files when using it as a KPart
• coloured annotation with improved display speed

Full changelog here, screenshots here, downloads (source, FC5 and FC6 binaries) here. Requires KDE 3.4 (binaries KDE 3.5) and the provided kdesvn-svnqt package.

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Trolltech has released a third technology preview of Qt Jambi, its Java bindings for Qt (documentation here). This preview is based on Qt 4.2 and supports JavaDoc, SVG, Java enums and type-safe QFlags. They have also announced a developer competition, to produce a demo application which uses the Qt Graphics View and/or the Item Views Framework; the prize is a 2GHz MacBook and the deadline is 15th Dec this year. Downloads from the announcement page linked above (you will need to provide identification details).

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Canonical has announced that version 6.10 (i.e. October 2006) of Ubuntu, and by extension Kubuntu, have been released. This version features KDE 3.5.5 (based on Qt 3.3.6), digital photo manager Digikam by default, a new hardware database client, an improved System Settings application (basically the KDE Control Center behind a Mac-like system preferences window) and Qt 4.2.0. Underneath, it's Linux 2.6.17, GLibc 2.4 and GCC 4.1. Screenshots here with download locations here; installation instructions at the bottom of this page. Available, as usual, for i386, AMD64 and PowerPC (server version may be available on other platforms like SPARC). This is not a long-term support version like Dapper (6.06); it will be supported for the usual 18 months.

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KDE://radio has released a number of recordings made at this year's aKademy conference in Dublin (HT: Aaron Seigo). The recordings are a series of interviews by Wade Olsen and cover topics like KDE 4, KDE artwork and uptake of KDE and open source in general in Asia. At the moment they are the top six recordings at the site and are available in MP3 or OGG format. This is a link to the site's RSS feed.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.8.1 of WebIssues, an issue tracking tool for project groups collaborating over the internet with a KDE client, has been released. Changes:

• "A complete user interface for defining attribute types"
• Now handles links to other issues, comments and attachments in comments and attribute values
• Handles links to external URLs and emails
• Now possible to quickly find any issue, comment or attachment with an ID.
• All basic features of client now complete and ready to use

Screenshots here, downloads (source only) here. Client requires KDE 3.4 or newer.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.6.0 of BasKet Note Pads, a note-taking application allowing various types of objects to be drag-dropped into "baskets", has been released. Changes include support for basket hierarchies and Kontact integration; full changelog here. Screenshots here, downloads (source, packages for Arch, SUSE and Ubuntu Dapper & Edgy) here. This is identical to the last release candidate. Requires KDE 3.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.7.0 of the Dolphin File Manager, a KDE file manager with a navigation bar, has been released. Changes include:

• New French, Polish, Estonian and Hebrew translations
• Updated documentation
• Support for renaming of several items
• Default "System" bookmark replaced by "Storage Media", "Network" and "Trash"
• Various bug fixes and UI improvements

Screenshots here, downloads (source, Ubuntu Dapper, SUSE 10.1 and Mandriva) here along with full changelog. Requires KDE 3.5.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.9.4.1 of SIM Instant Messenger, a multi-protocol instant messenger program, has been released. Changes include a fix to building with X11 on Mac OS X, a fix to deleting contacts with the Del key, the use of ICQ Lite smiles by default, a fix to various crash bugs caused when using proxies and several fixes to the LiveJournal and GPG support. Screenshots at KDE Apps; downloads (source, Windows installer, various Linux distro binaries) here. Supports Oscar, Jabber, LiveJournal, MSN and Yahoo. Requires Qt 3 and several other packages (see here).

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Trolltech has announced that it has released three new versions of Qt (3.3.7, 4.1.5 and 4.2.1) featuring security fixes over their predecessors. The security flaw involves the processing of bitmapped images, which can be triggered by transforming specially prepared bitmaps from untrusted sources. A patch is supposedly available, but I can't find it; the sources can be downloaded from the Qt download page.

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Packages of Qt 4.2.0 for Fedora Core 5 (and possibly earlier versions) are available from several Fedora mirrors; they are listed here at the pbone RPM search site. You need to copy the links to any of the mirrors, remove the filename at the end, and pick the packages out of the resulting listing.

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From KDE Dot News:

The next aKademy conference for KDE contributors will be held next June and July at the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. It will be organised by a local team headed by Kenny Duffus; the schedule is as follows:

• 29th June (Fri): Arrival
• 30th June & 1st July: Contributors' conference
• 2nd July: KDE e.V. Membership Meeting (for members only)
• 3rd - 7th July: Hacking sessions & workshops
• 8th July: departure

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From KDE Apps:

A first beta of version 0.8.0 of KFTPGrabber, a graphical FTP client for KDE which supports SSL and FXP, has been released. Changes:

• Rewritten browser view to support folders with a lot of files
• Added "move to top/bottom" options to the queue
• Added option to toggle use of primary connection for transfers
• Added "open in Konqueror" shortcut
• Fixed crash which occurred when aborting in SFTP
• Properly filter selections when using the as-you-type filter

Screenshots here, downloads (source only) here. Requires KDE 3.3 (and Qt 3.3.2 or later) and OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.7.3 of Smb4K, a KDE Samba share browser, has been released. Changes include:

• Rewritten help texts for the utility programs
• Updated handbook (to v1.0.0) and README
• Fixed two File I/O issues including the writing of /etc/sudoers in Ubuntu
• Reintroduced Chinese Traditional translation and updated several others

Screenshots here, downloads (source, with links to contrib distro binaries) here. Requires KDE 3.2 and Samba 3.

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The KOffice Project today announced the release of version 1.6 of their software. According to the announcement the most important new features are in Krita, which "steps up and becomes usable for professional image editing", and the database client Kexi, which gains Kross scripting, automatic data type recognition and the ability to handle images and compact the database. Technical release notes here, changelog here, source downloads with instructions here. Requires KDE 3.3.

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From KDE Apps:

A release candidate of version 0.6.0 of BasKet Note Pads, an all-purpose note taker allowing various objects to be drag-dropped into "baskets", has been released. This version has been declared stable, and numerous bugs and crashes have been fixed (full list here). Source download here. Outgoing stable version is 0.5.0; screenshots here, downloads (source, various distro binaries) here. Requires KDE 3.

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From KDE Apps:

Verson 1.2 of Reveal, an EXIF metadata viewer which uses Qt 4, has been released. Changes:

• Read support for ten new file formats, including PNG, TIFF and several RAW formats
• Embedded thumbnail images in the details pane
• Photo descriptions editable in the Summary pane
• Smoother zooming of thumbnails in the summary pane
• New app icon and about window
• Now uses Qt 4.2 and eviv2 v0.11

Screenshots at KDE Apps; downloads (source, Mac and Windows installers) here along with two of this project's other applications.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.4.2 of KScope, a source browsing and editing environment for large C projects, has been released. Changes:

• New: Tool-tips for the project's file list
• New: "Find Definition" entry in the query-results popup menu
• Improved: Added '*.S' (kernel assembly files) to the list of standard file types
• Improved: Some code clean-ups in the query-results popup menu
• Bug fix: All query results following a global definition were omitted

Screenshots here, downloads (source only) here. Requires KDE 3.3; other requirements here.

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From KDE Dot News:

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical (which produces Ubuntu) has become the first patron of KDE under a new scheme to honour major financial contributors to the KDE project. This new scheme was announced by KDE e.V.'s new Supporting Members scheme at the recent KDE 10th anniversary celebrations.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.2.4 of Tellico, a personal collections manager for KDE, has been released. This version features improved collection file loading performance, three bug fixes and an update to Nintendo collection support and to the allocine.fr script. Screenshots here, downloads (source, links to various distro binaries) on home page. Requires KDE 3.3 (and other packages, see homepage).

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The KDE project has released version 3.5.5 of their Qt-based desktop environment. Major enhancements include an upgrade to Kopete with improved Yahoo and Jabber support and Adium theme support, sudo support in kdesu, support for input shape from XShape 1.1 in the window manager, bug-fixes and speed improvements in the HTML rendering engine KHTML, CUPS 1.2 support in KDEPrint, and improvements to the traditional Chinese, Farsi, Khmer, Low Saxon and Slovak translations. Full changelog here. More information, including source downloads and instructions (the project does not issue binaries), here. However, binaries have been released by Kubuntu and OpenSUSE.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.12 of Piklab, an IDE for applications based on PIC and dsPIC microcontrollers, has been released. Changes include pinout schematic for some devices, a fast feedback system, detailed I/O and combined registers in the watch view, register write in watch view, register read/write and breakpoints in the command-line programmer, and numerous bug fixes. Screenshots here, downloads (source, Mandriva 2006, links for Fedora 5 & 6) here. Requires KDE 3.4.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 2.0.3 of KTorrent, a BitTorrent client for KDE, has been released. This is a bug fix release which addresses some download speed issues. Screenshots here, downloads (source, Kubuntu Dapper DEB) here.

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Life of a Developer: Cross Platform Qt 4 IDEs

Johan Thelin does a round-up of the various Qt 4 IDE projects out there, including Edyuk (QDev), QDevelop (qide), Cobras and MonkeyStudio (Qt4DS). The conclusion is that QDevelop is the most mature.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.02 of Cobras, a Qt4-based IDE (for Qt 3 and 4) developed by Piotr Pszczolkowski of Beesoft Commander fame, has been released. This version adds the ability to manipulate Qt .pro files from within the application and now runs make before running the program under development. Screenshots on home page; downloads (source, TGZ binary developed on a Pentium D running FC5) here. Requires Qt 4.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.5.5 of I Hear U, a Qt-based VoIP telephony app, has been released. This version fixes two bugs, namely "now with 0% threshold TX always on" and "communication sometimes didn't close on Peer side"; also the maximum ADR delay is increased to 150ms. Screenshots here, downloads (source, static binary, Slackware, Debian and SUSE packages) here. Requires Qt 3 (it does not say which minor version).

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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.0.1 of Konversation, an IRC client for KDE, has been released. This version includes many bug fixes, right-to-left text handling improvements, a refined "edit network" dialog, improved media player support, auto-replace list sorting and code quality improvements. Screenshots here, downloads (sources with links to various distro binaries) on home page. Requires KDE 3.4.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.3.1 of QFaxViewer, a viewer for TIFFs and faxes, has been released. This version adds PostScript level 2 and 3 generation, the ability to print colour TIFFs, and minor bug fixes. Screenshots here, downloads (source, FC5 RPM, Gentoo ebuild and link to SUSE RPM) here. Requires Qt 3.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.9.44 of Gambas, a Visual Basic-like development environment for X11, has been released. Changes include optimisations which, among other things, make the interpreter 5% faster, fixes to the image selector and image editor, and a GTK SVG component (for full changelog see here). Screenshots here, downloads (source only) here. Stable version is 1.0.17 (same download location).

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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.10.0 of kdesvn, the KDE client for Subversion, has been released. New features include a Russian translation, the ability to open more than one main window, the ability to use external diff programs rather than Subversion's own, various user-interface improvements, a fix to a bug which crashed the app during fresh checkouts, and an updated user manual. Screenshots here, downloads (source, FC5 RPM) here. Requires KDE 3.4 (binaries built for 3.5).

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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.3.3.4 of Scribus, the open-source desktop publishing application, has been released. This is a bug fix release to 1.3.3; changes include fixes to SVG import and rendering and better SVG gradient support, fixes to the Story Editor and undo/redo, and UI translation updates. Now requires libtiff and littlecms libraries. Screenshots here, downloads (source, Windows and Mac binaries, SUSE 10 RPM and Debian binaries) linked off home page. Uses Qt 3 (not sure which minor version).

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Trolltech today announced that it had released version 4.2 of the Qt GUI toolkit. The main features are CSS-like desktop stylesheets, a new graphics view class, Qt/Mac look-and-feel improvements including the ability to host Carbon widgets inside Qt widgets, and tighter GNOME integration including a GNOME-like Cleanlooks widget style and GLib event loop support (detailed list here). The Qt source can be downloaded (for use under the GPL) here: [Unix version], [Windows version], [Mac version]. (Note: at the time of writing, the tarballs had not been posted to the mirrors, but they should appear in the next few hours; the announcement is dated 4th October.)

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From KDE Apps:

Version 3.0.0 of Syntext Serna, a commercial XML content editor, has been released. New features include the ability to localise the Serna GUI, a ContentMap feature, in place of a table of contents pane, allowing "easy and precise navigation in the document, direct element manipulation, profiled views, drag&drop, and more", drag and drop editing with on-the-fly validation, and more (see full list here). A Russian localisation is provided, and a free licence is available to whoever provides a localisation they accept. Screenshots here. Prices start from $89 for a personal edition, the professional version starting at $199 and the enterprise version at $395 (the last for a three-user licence); free trials are available.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.8.8 of QtiPlot, a Free clone of the data analysis and plotting app Origin, has been released. New features include support for colour map files, 3D plot animation, the possibility to attach the grid and the 2D plot curves to different axes and an upgrade to Qwt 5.0.0rc0 (for full changelog, see KDE Apps). Screenshots linked off home page; downloads (source, with binaries for various platforms in return for a donation) here. Requires Qt 3.2.1 or later.

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Torsten Rahn writes that he committed a mapping widget called Marble to the KDE Subversion repository at the aKademy conference in Dublin. Implementation for such a widget is currently duplicated across the system (in the Control Center, EDU, PIM, Games and several other areas). It uses a minimal free dataset which can be used offline, although minimal support for Google Earth KML files is included. It requires (only) Qt 4.1; instructions for obtaining and compiling are included.

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