KDE Apps

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.

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.

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 smb4k_mount, smb4k_umount, smb4k_kill, smb4k_cat, 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 smb4k_kill in Smb4KMounter::abort() and the command lines for smb4k_mount and smb4k_umount commands were changed.
• Started to address the browsing problems experienced by users in Active Directory environments: If the NT_STATUS_ACCOUNT_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).

From KDE Apps:

Version 0.11.2 of kdesvn, a KDE front-end for the version control software Subversion, has been released. Changes:

• missing KIO::special functions
• implemented (update/add/del)
• fix: since subversion 1.4 kdesvn made an error when making simple diff on commandline ("kdesvn exec diff ")
• fix: kdevelop always gives a file:/// uri for locals, kio_ksvn has to check if this is a working copy uri and transform it to uri without protocoll if yes.
• feature request: Logdialog may display details about items in a changeset (difference and annotate) #30
• feature request: search in blamewindows
• Spanish translation updated; Lithuanian translation added
  • fix: DirWatcher should not have any display leaks any more and should not crash kdesvn on heavy changes.
  • fix: kdesvn could crash when try to open folders where user had no execute/read rights for.
  • fix: kdesvn didn't see replaced items as modified items.
  • fix: kdesvn asks now if on commits locks should released.

Screenshots here, downloads (source, FC6 RPM) here. Requires KDE 3.4.