The KDE Project announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.3. Unusually for a maintenance release, new features were implemented due to the long release cycle of the eagerly-awaited KDE 4. Significant enhancements include an improved startup time, speedups in KHTML, over 800 minor issues fixed, small new features and new translations.
KDE 3.5.3 Released
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The Kubuntu packages are already available…
I must admit I didn’t know this one was coming. That’s a nice little surprise!
Cheers.
The Kubuntu sources are already available? I was just thinking I hope Kubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake is delayed until they are running 3.5.3 in the default installation. Personally I’m not a fan of any Ubuntu subdistro for a number of reasons, but do you think 3.5.3 is going to be included in the Dapper Drake release? I hope it’s in the 10.2 Alpha 1 release due out on the 16th.
Personally I’m not a fan of any Ubuntu subdistro for a number of reasons, but do you think 3.5.3 is going to be included in the Dapper Drake release?
Well, it’s too late, but there will be updated packages.
I hope it’s in the 10.2 Alpha 1 release due out on the 16th.
I think you mean OpenSuse there.
Oh damn, just as I’m compiling the 3.5.2 packages on FreeBSD – I’ll wait till the Xorg has been upgraded to Xorg 7.1 and KDE is updated to 3.5.3 before I recompile all the stuff again.
Are you running 6.1, or do you have 6.0 installed? I heard 6.1 is a bit faster with a bit more driver support. I bought the 6.1 DVD from the mall, I’m just waiting for it in the mail.
I doubt it will be included in Dapper, but the packages can easily installed by adding the KDE 3.5.3 Kubuntu repository. Check out http://www.kubuntu.org for details.
By the way, the startup speed increase is quite noticeable! Kudos to the KDE team!
Edited 2006-06-01 06:02
The fc5 packages from kde-redhat are already there in the testing repository, too.
Edited 2006-06-01 06:23
Installing now from the build repository.
http://software.opensuse.org/download/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/SUSE_L…
It’s nice that they softened the feature freeze while they are working on KDE 4. The boot speed improvements should help everybody, and it seems that other apps have been modestly improved as well. From what I read on their mailing lists it seem that the policy is: ‘If it has already received wide testing in a major distro, AND If a couple of devs sign off on it, AND there are no big objections, AND if it is before string/language freeze’ then it can go in to 3.5.x. (Sorry if I fudged the details, I’m working from memory here.) I congratulate the KDE developers on this pragmatic approach because it gives all of us users something to chew on before KDE 4.
So thanks!
_James
[kaiwai@tchaikovsky /usr/home/kaiwai]$ uname -a
FreeBSD tchaikovsky.stpetersburg 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Wed May 31 16:25:12 NZST 2006 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TCHAIKOVSKY i386
[kaiwai@tchaikovsky /usr/home/kaiwai]$
Yeap, 6.1 is quite nice – never had a problem with 6.0 either; for me, I think alot of the time people have problems, its because they’re using insane optimisations and tweaks that are way out of the specifications; for me, in my make.conf file:
CFLAGS=-Os -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
CPUTYPE?=pentium4
I’ve had nothing but stability, reliability and everything seems to ‘just work'(tm) out of the box – if you’re wondering, -Os is the same as -O2 minus the code bloating, most of the time, those optimisations used in O2 and O3 simply expand the code, boat the memory usage, stuff up the code itself, resulting in all sorts of unexpect consequences.
So given that I’ve recompiled the whole system using those settings plus the userland layer ontop (Xorg, KDE etc.), its quite snappy, even under a heavy load.
oh, no, no 3.5.3 in dapper drake. the last release, breezy, had a last-minute upgrade to kde 3.4.3, and they introduced some serious regressions then. not a mistake they will make again. and also, dapper drake was already finished yesterday, so 3.5.3 couldn’t make it anyway…
Why was that a mistake? didn’t have any problems, besides the x.x.3 releases are mostly bug releases, including 3.5.3 would improve Kubuntu in the long run.
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1663
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1664
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1663
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1664
Those are from last year..
Those are from last year..
Yes they are, but those are the patches that got into this release. Remember, they have to be stable and well tested to get into a point release.
Kdelibs and kdebase in Debian unstable have already been upgraded to this latest version, so the rest of the KDE 3.5.3 packages will probably be in Debian soon enough.
By the looks of it quite a few changes (for the better) have been made to KDE. This is awesome. I love bugfixes! 🙂
you still have to test it, add your own patches… would take too much time, the Kubuntu release was almost ready when 3.5.3 came.