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March 2006

Qt 4.1.2 released

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Trolltech today released Qt 4.1.2, the second maintenance release in the Qt 4.1 series. The changelog lists a large number of bug fixes to various areas of the library and its tools. Open source downloads here. (Update 22:06: the bug in 4.1.1 causing toolbar icons to go black when activated has been fixed.)

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Smb4K v0.6.9 released

Submitted by admin on Thu, 2006-03-30 15:44
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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.6.9 of Smb4K, a Samba (Windows SMB) share browser for KDE, has been released. This version adds French and Czech translation, a bug fix concerning Samba 2.2, and a user-interface correction (see KDE Apps page for details). Screenshots here, downloads (source, SUSE RPMs, Slackware, links to Fedora, Debian Sarge, Ubuntu Breezy) here. A beta of Smb4K 0.7.0 has also been released; a RC is expected in two weeks.

kdesvn 0.8.1 released

Submitted by admin on Thu, 2006-03-30 15:37
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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.8.1 of kdesvn, a KDE Subversion client, has been released. New features include the "revision tree [being] generated using dot", the user being able to set the colour and direction of the tree, and a fix for a compile error. Screenshots here, downloads (source and FC4/FC5 RPM) here.

QSClient 1.2RC4 released

Submitted by admin on Thu, 2006-03-30 15:33
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From KDE Apps:

A fourth release candidate of version 1.2 of QSClient, a multi-protocol internet client for Linux and Windows, has been released. New features include a SSH key export GUI, a Netcat binary and a Linux network menu; for more, see the home page. Downloads (a shell-script installer for Linux and a Windows installer) are also there.

KOffice 1.5 release candidate

Submitted by admin on Wed, 2006-03-29 23:32
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From KDE Dot News:

A first release candidate of KOffice 1.5 has been issued. The main difference in this release is improved OASIS OpenDocument support; the details are in the announcement along with links to source downloads and to binaries for SUSE 9.3 and 10, Ubuntu Breezy and Dapper, and Debian Sid.

DesktopBSD v1.0 released

Submitted by admin on Wed, 2006-03-29 23:25
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The first official release of DesktopBSD, a FreeBSD derivative desktop operating system, has been released. This system has KDE 3.5.1 as its main desktop, and is based on FreeBSD v5.5 pre-release; the full changelog is here. Screenshots here, download (PC DVD, PC CD, AMD64 DVD) here; mirrors are in Canada, France, Germany (two), Greece, Norway and Switzerland, with a BitTorrent option as well.

Scribus: new development version

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2006-03-28 22:09
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From KDE Apps:

A new development release of the Qt-based open-source desktop publishing application Scribus, version 1.3.3, has been released. Improvements include enhancements to the EPS importer and PDF exporter, a new barcode plugin, support for multiple scrapbooks, Word file imports, and a lot more - see the KDE Apps page for details. Screenshots here, downloads (source, SUSE 10 RPM, Windows and OS X binaries) here. Uses Qt 3 (free on Windows under special dispensation from Trolltech). Stable version is 1.2.4.1.

KDE 3.5.2 released

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2006-03-28 21:59
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KDE 3.5.2, the second maintainance update of KDE 3.5, was released today. This is a general maintainance release and most of the changes are bug fixes; changelog here. Source downloads are available here with links to binaries below.

KeePassX 0.2.0 released

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2006-03-28 16:18
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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.2.0 of KeePassX, a Linux port of the Windows app "Keepass Password Safe", has been released. This version is a new port to Qt4 and includes translations and many usability improvements, including faster encryption, and bug-fixes. Screenshots here, downloads (source, various binaries including OS X) here.

Gambas: new development release

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2006-03-28 16:10
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From KDE Apps:

A new development release of Gambas, the open-source BASIC IDE for KDE, has been released. Release 1.9.28 "should compile correctly with gcc 3.x having the '-fvisibility' option, and fixes some bugs in the MDI development environment". Source downloads here. Stable version is 1.0.15.

Protoeditor 0.9 released

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2006-03-28 16:05
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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.9 of Protoeditor, a KDE app for interactively debugging PHP scripts, has been released. New features include an argument toolbar to quickly set script arguments, and various user-interface improvements and bug fixes. Screenshots here; downloads here at SourceForge (source tarball only). Requires KDE 3.3.

KPowersave RC

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2006-03-28 00:29
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From KDE Apps:

A fifth release candidate of KPowersave, a KDE front-end for the Powersave daemon, providing "battery monitoring, suspend/ standby triggers and many more features for KDE (and GNOME)", has been released. This is the last RC before the stable 0.6 is released next week - new feature list on the page linked above, along with source and binary download links (SUSE 10, FC4, Ubuntu, Debian and Mandriva).

KBlogger v0.5 out

Submitted by admin on Mon, 2006-03-27 05:24
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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.5 of KBlogger, a KDE Kicker applet for posting to weblogs using the Blogger and MetaWeblog APIs, has been released. This release restores support for the Blogger API v1.0, adds support for categories, "a new backend from the kdepim/blogging resource", adds a new icon and new documentation, and various fixes including to the configuration dialog. Downloads (source and Ubuntu Breezy DEB) at the homepage; screenshots at the KDE Apps page.

NetFilterStatsBuilder v1.5.1 released

Submitted by admin on Sun, 2006-03-26 05:47
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From KDE Apps:

Version 1.5.1 of NetFilterStatsBuilder, a Qt-based app for analysing log files (like /var/log/messages) to provide info on such things as how many times the host has been scanned and from which IP addresses, has been released. This is described as a bug-fix release ("because of serious bug found, update is really advisable"). Downloads (source, Slackware and Fedora) and three screenshots at the KDE Apps page (no link to a homepage).

Bibble v4.6d released

Submitted by admin on Sat, 2006-03-25 19:09
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From KDE Apps:

Version 4.6d of Bibble, a commercial Qt-based "Professinal Workflow and RAW Conversion" app for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, has been released. This release includes the NoiseNinja library, removing the necessity for a separate download, and an "updated BPTLens plugin". It also contains various bug fixes and stability improvements. The pro version costs $129, the lite version $69; feature list, with differences, here. A free download is available; see the home page.

Gambas: new stable and development versions

Submitted by admin on Sat, 2006-03-25 17:09
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From KDE Apps ([1] and [2]):

Stable version 1.0.15 and development version 1.9.27 of Gambas, an open-source BASIC development system for X11, have been released. The stable version has fixes for endianness problems, the Picture.Flush() method which previously crashed, and large database tables (full changelog here); the development version adds an experimental (and probably temporary) MDI interface, a better pseudo-random number algorithm, and improved FreeBSD support necessitating a new executable file format (full changelog here). All downloads, and links to various sources for binaries, here; screenshots of stable version here.

PyQt and SIP updates

Submitted by admin on Sat, 2006-03-25 17:05
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Riverbank Computing reports that it has released version 3.16 of PyQt and version 4.4 of SIP on which it depends. PyQt 3.16 can now be installed alongside PyQt 4, which is in development; it "also includes better QString interoperability with Python strings and some bug fixes". Source downloads for PyQt here and for SIP here.

kdesvn 0.8.0 released

Submitted by admin on Thu, 2006-03-23 05:15
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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.8.0 of kdesvn, a KDE client for Subversion, has been released. New features include the use of SVN 1.2 API with the option for 1.3, the reduction of the binary by making the SVN wrapper a shared library, "display in working copy view when there are newer files in repository", and some bug fixes. Screenshots here, download (source, FC4 and FC5 RPM) here.

Protoeditor v0.8 released

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2006-03-21 15:29
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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.8 of Protoeditor, a KDE app for debugging PHP scripts, has been released. This version adds support for Gubed and various bug fixes and user-interface improvements. Screenshots here, source download here.

kdradview v0.6.1 released

Submitted by admin on Tue, 2006-03-21 15:26
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From KDE Apps:

Version 0.6.1 of kradview, a KDE app for viewing the DICOM images used in medicine, has been released. This features "minor code cleanups" since version 0.6. Source download here, with installation instructions and a few screenshots on the home page.