KDE Community Improves Desktop with KDE 4.2.3

KDE Community Ships Third Translation and Service Release of the 4.2 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates

The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.2.3, another bugfix and maintenance update for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. This is a monthly update to KDE 4.2. It ships with desktop workspace and many cross-platform applications such as administration programs, network tools, educational applications, utilities, multimedia software, games, artwork, development tools and more. KDE’s award-winning tools and applications are available in more than 50 languages.

KDE, including all its libraries and its applications, is available for free under Open Source licenses. KDE can be obtained in source and various binary formats from http://download.kde.org and can also be obtained on CD-ROM or with any of the major GNU/Linux and UNIX systems shipping today.

Enhancements

As a service release, the changelog contains a list of bugfixes and improvements. The most user-visible improvements are:
Online IMAP filtering in KMail has been fixed.
KMail’s system tray icon now reacts to changes to folder properties and updates the number of emails shown there automatically
Bugfixes, performance improvements and optimization in KHTML – Painting and interoperability with web standards has been further improved
Note that the changelog is usually incomplete, for a complete list of changes that went into KDE 4.2.3, you can browse the Subversion log. KDE 4.2.3 also ships a more complete set of translations.

To find out more about the KDE 4.2.x desktop and applications, please refer to the KDE 4.2.0, KDE 4.1.0 and KDE 4.0.0 release notes. KDE 4.2.3 is a recommended update for everyone running KDE 4.2.2 or earlier.

Installing KDE 4.2.3 Binary Packages

Packagers. Some Linux/UNIX OS vendors have kindly provided binary packages of KDE 4.2.3 for some versions of their distribution, and in other cases community volunteers have done so. Some of these binary packages are available for free download from KDE’s http://download.kde.org. Additional binary packages, as well as updates to the packages now available, may become available over the coming weeks.

Package Locations. For a current list of available binary packages of which the KDE Project has been informed, please visit the KDE 4.2.3 Info Page.

Compiling KDE 4.2.3

The complete source code for KDE 4.2.3 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing KDE 4.2.3 are available from the KDE 4.2.3 Info Page.

Supporting KDE

KDE is a Free Software community that exists and grows only because of the help of many volunteers that donate their time and effort. KDE is always looking for new volunteers and contributions, whether it is help with coding, bug fixing or reporting, writing documentation, translations, promotion, money, etc. All contributions are gratefully appreciated and eagerly accepted. Please read through the Supporting KDE page for further information.

About KDE

KDE is an international technology team that creates free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE’s products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development. KDE software is translated into more than 60 languages and is built with ease of use and modern accessibility principles in mind. KDE4’s full-featured applications run natively on Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X.

Press ContactsAfrica
AJ Venter
Unit 7B Beauvallon Village
13 Sandown Road
West Beach
Cape Town
7441
South-Africa
Phone: +27 83 455 9978
info-africa {at} kde(.)org Asia
Pradeepto Bhattacharya
A-4 Sonal Coop. Hsg. Society
Plot-4, Sector-3,
New Panvel,
Maharashtra.
India 410206
Phone : +91-9821033168
info-asia {at} kde(.)org Europe
Sebastian Kügler
Wolfstraat 154
6531 LR Nijmegen
The Netherlands
Phone: +31-6-48370928
info-europe {at} kde(.)org
North America
Wade Olson
2422 Johnson St NE
Minneapolis, MN 55418
U.S.A
Phone: (612)805-5678
info-northamerica {at} kde(.)org Oceania
Hamish Rodda
11 Eucalyptus Road
Eltham VIC 3095
Australia
Phone: (+61)402 346684
info-oceania {at} kde(.)org South America
Helio Chissini de Castro
R. José de Alencar 120, apto 1906
Curitiba, PR 80050-240
Brazil
Phone: +55(41)262-0782 / +55(41)8808-1519
info-southamerica {at} kde(.)org