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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.8.1 of KFTPgrabber, a twin-panel FTP client for KDE, has been released. Changes:

• FIX: Rewritten speed limiting code, so limits work much better now
• FIX: Directory entry and path caching
• FIX: Minor file exists dialog problems
• FIX: Some issues related to using multiple transfer threads
• FIX: Local directory scans now honor priority settings
• FIX: Total speed display for multiple running transfers (patch by David Gnedt)
• ADD: Added a quick option to set speed limits and number of threads

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

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From KDE Apps:

Version 2.0.0 of KLatexFormula, a KDE app to quickly get an image from a LaTeX formula or equation, has been released. Changes:

• Rewritten for cleaner API
• New symbols palette
• New facility for searching tagged history items
• Syntax highlighting
• Other new features

Screenshots here, downloads (source, SUSE 10.0/10.1 RPMs) here. Requires KDE 3.1, LaTeX and Ghostscript.

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Riverbank Computing has announced a minor update to PyQt 3, version 3.17.2, which fixes a regression introduced in v3.17.1. The changelog reads "Backed out the recent change to remove the /ReleaseGIL/ from QApplication.postEvent() as it turns out it avoids a potential deadlock". Download here (dual licence applies). There is also now a French translation of the PyQt documentation.

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From KDE Dot News:

The deadline for registration and payment for accommodation at aKademy is this coming Monday for anyone who wants the team to arrange accommodation for them (register here). The Thursday of the event will be spent away from the computers at Loch Lomond.

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Trolltech today announced the release of the final beta version of Qt Jambi, its Java bindings for Qt. Changes include improvements to the Jambi version of Qt Designer and JUIC, feature and stability improvements to the Eclipse integration, support for Qt Linguist and cleanups and usability improvements to the API itself. Downloads are available here. The beta is available under the GPL for open-source developers, and a preview licence for commercial developers. (See the labs blog for some inside details.)

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From KDE Dot News:

Seven KDE PIM developers met at KDAB's Berlin offices for a 2-day hacking session on Akonadi, KDE 4's PIM data storage module. See link above for a report on what went on.

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Trolltech has announced the release of version 4.2.2 of Qtopia, its embedded Qt applications platform. Changes:

• Bluetooth: Bluetooth support is provided in this release only as a technology preview. When building Qtopia, Bluetooth is disabled by default, but may be enabled by specifying the -bluetooth configure switch.
• Clock: The Clock application has been made consistent with other Qtopia applications by using a tabbed window to present the three different screens rather than using entries in the context menu to switch between the three screens.
• Greenphone: The Greenphone now displays information about its progress during startup and shutdown.
• Telephony: The signal strength indicator can now be used to indicate the signal strength of any communications medium, not just GSM signal strength. This is done by writing appropriate values to the Qtopia Valuespace.

This release also contains a substantial number of bug fixes to several of the toolkit's modules (see release notes). Open source downloads (without the Safe Execution Environment, DRM or telephony) are available here

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From KDE Apps:

Version 2.1.4 of KTorrent, the KDE BitTorrent client, has been released. This is a bug-fix release, including fixes for crashes. Screenshots here, downloads (source only at present) here. Requires KDE 3 (which minor version it does not say).

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From KDE Apps:

Version 3.3.0 of Syntext Serna, a WYSIWYG XML content editor, has been released. Changes:

• Fixed a number of stability issues
• Optimized GUI: much faster switching between documents
• Simplified, transparent Save View/Restore View functionality
• When browsing from dialogs, paths to images and resources are relative wherever possible
• DITA enhancements, including localization identical to DITA OT, "metadata" element shown in editing window, "xref" displaying the title of the referred element

Screenshots here, downloads, pricing and licence information here. This is a commercial application; prices start from $89 for a single-user licence for the personal/home version.

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KDE Four Live++ | www.kdedevelopers.org

Stephen Binner (KDE hacker) has released live CDs featuring the development version of KDE 4, which are based on openSUSE. The 477Mb ISO downloads (CDs only, which contain all the KDE modules) can be found here. They were first released last week, but in this one the "last week unmentioned problem with squashfs" has been fixed, making a DVD unncessary. Note, of course, that this is a pre-alpha release.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 3.9.4 3.9.5 of eric3, the Python IDE written with PyQt, has been released. This version contains bug fixes and improved Subversion v1.4 and PyLint compatibility. Screenshots here, downloads (source packages only; it's all Python) here. Requires Qt v3.1 and Python v2.3 (for other requirements, see downloads page).

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You Need a Passport to get to the British Isles | www.kdedevelopers.org

Jonathan Riddell with a timely warning for anyone who wants to attend the conferences which are taking place in the UK this year, among them Debconf, Akademy, Guadec and Python UK: you need a passport or national identity card to enter the UK, and this includes EU citizens. You cannot enter (or leave, if they check) the UK with a photo driving licence, for example, and the UK is not a signatory to the Schengen agreement, which allows passport-free movement within the area.

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Version 7.04 of Kubuntu, the version of the Ubuntu Linux OS based on Debian which has KDE as its desktop, has been released. Significant features:

• KDE 3.5.6
• Restructured system settings (the KDE control centre with a Mac-like menu)
• Special GUI tool for Hewlett-Packard printer configuration
• Improved Guidance power management
• K3b v1.0 (note: version 1.0.1 has just been released)
• New topic-based help system
• Facelift for OEM installer
• Kernel 2.6.20, glibc v2.5, Python v2.5

Screenshots at the announcement page and here; downloads here, available in straight ISO images or as BitTorrent downloads, or upgrade with the distribution's APT front tools. Canonical will ship CDs for you free of charge through their Shipit scheme, or you can buy them and get them quicker. Note that Ubuntu, the GNOME version, has also been released; you can obtain either first and use APT (or Adept/Synaptic) to install the other.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 2 of CrossVC XXL, the proprietary version of the CrossVC client for CVS and Subversion (version control software) formerly called LinCVS, has been released. Changes are listed here. Note that this version appears not to support Subversion v1.4. Screenshots here, downloads (no source as it's proprietary; binaries for Win32, Mac OS X Tiger, Solaris on Sparc and x86, Linux and FreeBSD) here. Downloads are free for non-commercial use. Latest open-source version (CrossVC) is v1.5.1, released last December (same download location). Both versions use Qt 3.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.0.1 of K3b, the CD and DVD ripping and burning application for KDE, has been released. Changelog:

• Fixed crash when using the Device menu without a selected device.
• Fixed DVD copy when reading from a DVD+RW.
• Fixed --without-alsa configure check
• Fixed a crash in Video DVD ripping when the title does not contain an audio stream
• Only use the mkisofs parameters -biblio, -copyright, and -abstract if they have been set. Using them with invalid values (empty) seems to result in broken iso images sometimes.
• Better compatibility with recent transcode development branch
• Fixed Multisession import size handling.
• Fixed Lame quality preset handling.
• Made libk3bdevice really thread-safe. This fixes the disabled DMA bug!
• New configure check --without-cdrecord-suid-root to disable K3b's check for cdrecord permissions. Although not recommended it is requested by many distributors.
• Changed the order of the buttons in the tool dialogs to match the KDE order.
• Added handling of the newly introduced genisoimage parameter -allow-limited-size
• Make the K3b Sox audio encoder plugin work with newer sox versions (Thanks, Stephan.)

Screenshots here, downloads (source, links to various distro binaries) here. Requires KDE 3.2.

A German book on K3b called "K3b kompakt", by Markus Priemer, has also been released. The 130-page book costs €16.80 and is available from Bomots Verlag.

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From KDE Dot News:

The Open Source Press, based in Munich, has published a new book on KDevelop, entitled KDevelop - Einführung in die Entwicklungsumgebung, by Robert Gruber and Jonas Jacobi. The book concentrates on advanced topics, such as "advanced code navigation, documentation with Doxygen or using Valgrind with KDevelop". The books costs €19.90.

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Trolltech today announced a new development contest, involving developing an app for its Qtopia Phone Edition platform. Entries are accepted in five categories (best original app, best improvement to a QPE app, best end to end service, best user interface experience and "Best in the Impossible to Classify Category"). 25 Greenphones are to be given away in phase one; the two winners of phase two are to win US$5,000, professional QPE licences, and air fare to the Munich or LA Trolltech Developer Days. The project website, with rules and application forms, is here. The phase one registration and submission deadline is 29th July this year. Qt desktop developers are reminded that the Qt Centre Programming Contest is still open until the end of May.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.4.7 of RKWard, a GUI environment for the R-project, has been released. The change list is too huge to list here - see the KDE Apps page or home page. Screenshots here, downloads (source, Debian Sid binary) here. Requires KDE 3.2.

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From KDE Apps:

A release candidate of version 3.3 of Syntext Serna, a WYSIWYG XSLT-driven XML content editor, has been released. Changes:

• A number of stability issues fixed
• Optimised GUI, providing for faster document switching
• Simplified, transparent Save View/Restore View functionality
• When browsing from dialogs, paths to images and resources are relative wherever possible
• DITA enhancements, including localization identical to DITA OT, "metadata" element shown in editing window, "xref" displaying the title of the referred element

Screenshots here. This is a commercial application, although a time-limited free trial is available. Which Qt version is used is not stated.

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Riverbank Computing has announced that version 4.2 of its PyQt bindings has been released, along with version 4.6 of its dependency SIP. Major features include support for writing Qt Designer plugins in Python and supporting the Qt event loop in the Python binding for DBus (full changelog here); the new version of SIP includes support for universal binaries on the Mac and for some new data types (changelog here). PyQt 3.17.1 is a minor release, intended mainly for SIP v4.6 compatibility (changelog here); both new versions require SIP 4.6. PyQt is under a similar dual-licensing scheme to Qt (i.e. open-source for open-source applications, with a paid commercial licence for proprietary uses); SIP has the same licence as Python.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.6 of KBib, a BibTex management program (BibTeX being a method of representing bibliographic references in LaTeX), has been released. Changes:

• Added ISI Web of Knowkedge search, databases supported: Web of Sciences and Current Content Connect
• Updated reference editing dialog, use different editing widgets for different field types
• Added reference field customisation
• Updated reference type customisation
• Added batch set field content operation
• Added replace string operation
• Added copy field content operation
• Improved reference downloading operation, a new session only starts when no session is running
• Added converting string macros into full string when displaying
• Changed Insert File command to Import File and moved to File menu

Screenshots here, downloads (source, FC6 RPM) here. Requires KDE 3.

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Debian GNU/Linux v4.0 (Etch) has been released. According to the press release, this release contains KDE v3.5.5a, and at the last check of the packages database (currently disabled), it contained Qt v4.2.1 (with some patches). It also contains a new "fully integrated" install system (which is now graphical), an improved and more secure package management system, support for encrypted file systems out of the box, kernel v2.6.18, GCC v4.1.1, GNOME 2.14 and XFCE v4.4. It has support for eleven architectures; Motorola 68K support has been dropped, but there is now a native AMD64 version. You can get it on CD through various means here.

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 New Websites for Qt Software KDE-Apps.org

The people behind KDE Apps have established two new websites, Qt Apps and Qt Prop (corrected), for open-source and proprietary applications using Qt but not KDE. Developers of Qt-based apps featured on KDE Apps are advised to contact the webmasters, with the contact form linked off the news page above, to ask them to move the page over to the new site.

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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.8.1 of Smb4K, the Samba/CIFS browser for KDE, has been released. This release contains a number of security fixes. Changes:

• Rewrote smb4kmount, smb4kumount, smb4kkill, smb4kcat, and smb4k_mv from scratch in order to fix several security weaknesses discovered by Ben Hutchings (should finally close #9631).
• Adjusted Smb4KMounter class to the slightly changed behavior of the utility programs: The SIGTERM signal was removed from the command line of smb4kkill in Smb4KMounter::abort() and the command lines for smb4kmount and smb4k_umount commands were changed.
• Started to address the browsing problems experienced by users in Active Directory environments: If the NTSTATUSACCOUNT_DISABLED error is encountered (which actually seems to be an authentication issue), Smb4K won't error out anymore but ask the user for the user name and password (closes #10280).
• Fixed two bugs in Smb4KFileIO: The search for the lock file directory will not return a directory that is not readable and writeable and if the lock file does not exist when Smb4KFileIO::removeLockFile() wants to delete it, there will no error be shown anymore.
• Fixed a compilation error under SUSE (10.2) und with the upcoming GCC 4.3.
• Smb4K now uses the CIFS file system by default (closes #10804).
• The handbook was updated to reflect the changes made to the utility programs.

Full changelog here (recommended). Screenshots here, downloads (source, links to various Linux distro binaries) here. Requires Qt/KDE 3.2 and Samba 3. Security patches for Smb4K v0.7.5 and v0.6.10a have been released also (changelogs, respectively, here and here; same download location).

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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.2.10 of Tellico, the KDE-based personal collections manager, has been released. Changes:

• Fixed crashing bug when undoing collection import.
• Fixed hanging bug when stopping a z39.50 search.
• Fixed bug that hid some Amazon search results.
• Fixed ONIX export to validate.
• Fixed Alexandria export and cover image import.
• Updated Amazon search for newer API.
• Fixed error handling for ISBN-13 searches.
• Updated ibs.it searching.
• Fixed searching to properly replace all HTML entities.
• Added Blu-ray and HD DVD to video media.
• Improved collection merging.

Screenshots here, downloads (source, various distribution binaries) from left sidebar of home page. Requires KDE 3.3 (see home page for other dependencies).

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