The KDE team has released KDE 3.5.5, a maintenance release. Main changes: "Version 0.12.3 of Kopete replaces 0.11.3 in KDE 3.5.5, it includes support for Adium themes, performance improvements and better support for the Yahoo! and Jabber protocols; support for sudo in kdesu; support for input shape from XShape1.1 in KWin (KDE window manager); lots of speed improvements and fixes in Konqueror's HTML engine, KHTML; CUPS 1.2 support in KDEPrint; big improvements in the number of translated interface elements in Chinese Traditional, Farsi, Khmer, Low Saxon and Slovak translations."
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maybe a little, but not to a great extend - kde 3 mostly continued where 2.x left off... KDE 4 includes more new stuff, i think. but on the other hand, KDE has much more of an infrastructure to protect it's quality these days, like automated testing and stuff like that. so maybe KDE 4 will be quite mature already.
Member since:2005-07-07
"You bring up an interesting point. KDE 3.5.x is very stable. It will likely take time before 4.x reaches that level of maturity.
I wonder, did this sort of thing occur with KDE 2.x when 3.0 was released?"
Not so much. KDE 1 to 2 was a rough ride if my memory serves. It was a lot like the GNOME 1 to 2 transition. The only difference there was that it was contentious and painful, but with slightly less bitterness. (GNOME 2 was a real departure technology and UI wise, where KDE 2 seemed to be more of a technological departure. That's probably the nub of the difference.)
After KDE 2, and a very long transition time for some KDE 1 apps, the KDE developers opted for far more of a 'straight port' for KDE 3. As a user it was a much less jarring transition for 2-3 than from 1-2.
KDE 4, IMHO, is shaping up to be somewhere between the 1-2 and 2-3 change. I expect the transition to be somewhere in the middle as well. A chance to let out some of that pent up creativity, and break BC.
But these are just my fuzzy recollections 
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2005-10-19
In fact, there may even be KDE 3.x maintenance releases *after* KDE 4 comes out. KDE 3.x is a stable platform that will be in use for years to come, and as long as there is both demand and people willing to put in the work, it will be maintained. This is open source; there's no "end of life" date except the natural one of nobody caring anymore.