KDE 4: first beta released

From OSNews:

A first beta of KDE version 4 has been released. Changes since the last alpha:

• Icon/pixmap cache, speeding up loading of icons when starting apps
• Improved Dolphin/Konqueror integration
• New features and usability work in Gwenview, the image viewer
• Improvements to the window manager KWin
• New remote desktop tool, KRDC
• Various improvements to Konsole (terminal) and the document viewer Okular
• Marble, an application showing a rotable and zoomable earth globe, based on Wikipedia data

Source downloads, with build instructions, here. Packages are available for Ubuntu (Feisty backports and Gutsy), OpenSUSE and Mandriva.