The KDE project developers have announced the availability of version 4.4 of the KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC), code named "Caikaku". The major update to the free open source K Desktop Environment (KDE) addresses a number of bugs and includes several translation updates, stability improvements and new features.

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The KDE Plasma Desktop Workspace

According to KDE's bug-tracking system, 7293 bugs have been fixed and 1433 new feature requests were implemented. The KDE community would like to thank everybody who has helped to make this release possible.We talked before about what is new in KDE 4.4 SC with viedos.

Following several months of development and to celebrate the release of KDE SC 4.4, the KDE web team have also announced the relaunch and redesign of the KDE.org homepage and buzz.kde.org, the project's microblogging lifestream. The new KDE.org pages feature links to the latest news, community blogs and announcements, a new colour scheme and updated site navigation. The web team say that, following several months of work, the "final site is ready, aside from a few tweaks still pending".

More details about the release can be found in the release announcement, 4.4 Release Goals change log and on the KDE 4.4 Info Page. Source packages for self-compilation and binary packages for various Linux distributions are available to download from the project's website.

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KDE community is wonderful

Zayed on Wed, 02/10/2010 - 10:24

I really like the KDE community. It is active and has many way to communicate. It has planetkde, KDE forum, IRC channels, new portal, KDE buzz website and bug reporting system.