Submitted by The KDE team has announced the release of KDE 3.5.2, a maintenance release of the 3.5 series which provides corrections of problems reported using the KDE bug tracking system and greatly enhanced support for existing translations and new translations. For more details, check the changelog.
Binary packages for some distributions are available, and the sources are too, obviously.
…it’s been out for at least two days, if not three. I was able to install it over the weekend. It’s kind of weird that the Kubuntu packages were available before the official announcement from KDE… 🙂
…it’s been out for at least two days, if not three. I was able to install it over the weekend. It’s kind of weird that the Kubuntu packages were available before the official announcement from KDE… 🙂
I know, but those packages might just be an RC or something, so I didn’t report on it. Now people know they have the real meat.
That’s what I thought at first, but the “about KDE” doesn’t mention a RC number…anyway, the important thing is that they’re out, and they work great! 🙂
Kudos to the KDE team, which I must say seems to be a very dynamic environment to developers – the rate at which these updates keep coming is impressive!
Well, the tarballs are created before the release and as some KDE developers are also Kubuntu packagers they’ve done them already. Releases aren’t usually announced before the release tarballs have hit the mirrors, so meanwhile package guys can probably have the packages already.
Hope this clears up the situation a bit.
Actually packages are ready a few days before the official announcement so that distributors have time to prepare binaries for their distros.
Actually packages are ready a few days before the official announcement so that distributors have time to prepare binaries for their distros.
Thom should know that better than anyone *cough fedora releases http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=14024 *
Nice of him to extend the courtesy of waiting for the announcement to KDE. Actually, he probably just isn’t interested enough in KDE to refresh mirrors until the next release appears
And it’s not quite the same thing of course, couple days notice to make binaries vs a couple days notice for all the mirrors to come up.
Edited 2006-03-29 06:47
KDE 3.5.2 was tagged on March 17th, as per the KDE 3.5 Release Plans: http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-3.5-release-plan….
“Tagging” means that the KDE release coordinator takes a snapshot of the KDE 3.5 branch (which has been in freeze for a while at that point) and declares it KDE 3.5.x. Now, a larger circle of people (distributors, notably) begin testing this snapshot, and the tag is adjusted (i.e. changes are added to the snapshot) as necessary. Eventually, a few days later, tarballs are released to distribution packagers for a final round of testing and creation of the distribution packages. Once a number of distributions have reported back success, the KDE release is officially announced to the wider public.
Thanks (and to antonis00, too) for the info, I suspected as much but it’s nice to know!
I’m just upgrading from 3.5.1 to 3.5.2 on Dapper.
That’s the sheer power of any linux system with the debian apt package manager i would say.
Actually i have this kde version since last week. Not only apt is easy package management tool. I need just uncomment testing in my pacman.conf and do pacman -Sy kde. And i will have latest kde
Edited 2006-03-28 19:08
Actually i have this kde version since last week. Not only apt is easy package management tool.
I have heard good things about the pacman package-manager though:-)
c’mon, not many package managers these day’s can’t upgrade KDE properly… not that i don’t like apt, but THAT is NOT its greatest strength… (no idea what is, btw – but if it is ‘upgrading KDE’ that would be a sad thing)
Glad to have the update!! Updating was easy and the desktop seems a bit nicer.
Found one bug though, the display panel in the Desktop-KConfig is gone. Can’t change desktop(s) resolutions that way until the panel is restored.
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=150849&page=4
And page 2 of the same thread.