KDE 4.0 beta 3 released
A third beta of KDE 4.0 has been released (release announcement here). For most components this release contains bug fixes and polishing and bug reports are being accepted; these include Konsole, Dolphin and Okular. Plasma, the desktop interface, has received a lot of new features, and now includes "a basic set of working components such as taskbars, panels, desktop wallpapers, etc". A fourth alpha of KOffice 2 has also been released. Downloads, with compile information, here. See here for packages for OpenSUSE and here for Kubuntu downloads.