After two months of work, Michał Małek has announced the first beta release of K3b. It is the last testing version before stable 2.0. If everything goes fine, the stable version will be ready in the end of February.

Although this version brings mostly bug fixes (29 bugs has been fixed) it also contains some new features :
    * Added Blu-ray support
    * Added “Options” button to file browser toolbar with view options menu (e.g. “Show Hidden Files”)
    * Image and project files can be opened directly from K3b file browser
    * Using Oxygen icons (many thanks to Oxygen Team!)
I am looking forward to see my favorite program goes stable version in the end of February.