Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 20th Feb 2008 00:08 UTC, submitted by Philipp Esselbach
KDE 3.5.9 has been released. "The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.9, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. The most important changes have been made to the KDE-PIM applications, including the KMail email client, KOrganizer, a planning application and other components."
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Hmmm. First OSNews readers were confused and angry that KDE developers put a internet gun to their head and made them run their distributions' fist (and somewhat buggy (irregardless of the very real KDE 4.0.0 gotchas.) KDE 4.0.0 packages. Now they're confused and angry that there was another KDE 3 release. Oddly enough some of comments with the highest number of '+'s explained this rather well:
- KDE 4.0.0 is a singular release of KDE 4. It is what it is, may eat your children, but isn't the whole of KDE 4. (Think 'one of a subset'.)
- KDE 3.5 will see periodic releases, if for no other reason that there are large institutional installs of KDE 3.5, and distros still shipping KDE 3.5. These folks, along with KDE developers tend to need and produce bug fixes which get rounded up into further point releases.
- The KDE 3.5 series allowed selective introduction of new features (see KDEPIM in 3.5.9) if they were deemed to have already received wide exposure and posed little chance of major regression.
That actual interesting question is: "Now that the first post KDE 4 release of the KDE 3.5 series is out how deeply frozen is the KDE 3.5 series?" Personally I suspect (and hope) its way deep in the icebox, and that 3.5.10 will be months off and a roundup of critical distro produced fixes and security fixes and that's it...
On the KDE 4 front it looks like the worst sins of the KDE 4 panel have been fixed, and will be available for KDE 4.0.2.
See:
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/4.0.2_Backporting_Session
(Thank goodness.)