March 2009

From KDE Apps:

Version 4.1.0 of Syntext Serna, an XSL-based WYSIWYG XML content editor, has been released. Changes:

• Drag & drop from Microsoft® Office Word and web browsers.
• Drag & drop between opened documents.
• API for extending drag & drop from external applications and within Serna.
• Hot keys for Zoom commands, for switching between documents, and for operations with attributes.
• Fixed a number of stability issues.

Screenshots here, downloads (Windows, Mac, Linux RPM/Deb and Solaris) here. Note that this is proprietary software and licence costs start from $559 for one to three users (a limited time 25% reduction), although there is a free version. Uses Qt 4 (the website doesn't mention a dependency, so presumably it's static).

From digiKam website:

Version 0.9.5 of digiKam, a digital photo download and collection manager for KDE, has been released. Major changes:

• General : libkdcraw dependency updated to 0.1.6.
• General : TIFF/PNG/JPEG2000 metadata can be edited or added (require Exiv2 >= 0.18).
• General : Internal CImg library updated to 1.3.0.
• Image Editor : All image plugin tool settings provide default buttons to reset values.
• Image Editor : New Raw import tool to handle Raw pictures with customized decoding settings.
• Image Editor : All image plugin dialogs are removed. All tools are embedded in editor window.
• Image Editor : New composition guide based on Diagonal Rules.
• 60 bug fixes, including 8 crashes

For full changelog, see the announcement. Screenshots here, source download here. Requires KDE 3.5.

First Qt Solutions available under LGPL — Qt -- A cross-platform application and UI framework

Qt Software has released some of its Qt Solutions, a selection of add-on classes for Qt most of which were previously only available under commercial licences, under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL). These include libraries for SOAP, a pie-chart-like menu widget, a mathematical formula representation widget, an animation framework and a Window menu to display the windows currently open in an MDI workspace. For a full list of Solutions, including the non-free ones, see here.

From Qt Apps:

Version 0.9.7.5 of QtiPlot, a data analysis and scientific plotting application similar to Origin, has been released. Changes:

• Improved export options for 2D and 3D plots: now you can specify a custom resolution and print size using either the user interface or the Python scripting API.
• Implemented the possibility to add user defined menus.
• Fixed issues when exporting to SVG format. Now QtiPlot uses Qwt version 5.2 from SVN (shipped with the QtiPlot sources in order to simplify the compilation process).
• Added engineering notation to 2D plot scales (thanks to Bartosz Mindur).
• Implemented stem-and-leaf plots (inspired by Python code written by Knut Franke).
• Improved the Python scripting interface (thanks to Michael Roemer):
• • added function to adjust decimal separators of imported ascii files
• • added function to delete a colum of a table
• • fixed compilation issues with Python 2.6
• • fixed compilation with Python scripting support disabled
• Improved import of Origin 7.5 projects (thanks to Alex Kargovsky): added import of contour plots and fixed import of matrix color maps
• Improved table statistics: fixed column type settings and added calculation of median value.
• Improved the behavior of 2D plot tools.
• Improved the preferences dialog: now it is possible to specify which axes will be displayed in new 2D plot layers.
• Fixed preview curve in fit wizard.
• Fixed error values reported for built-in exponential fits.
• Fixed platform specific issues on Mac OS X affecting 3D plots.
• Fixed a few other minor bugs.
• Added a Romanian translation.

For screenshots see feature list on home page; downloads (source, binaries for Linux, Mac and Windows in return for support contract) here. Requires Qt 4.4; for other dependencies, see home page.