Wednesday 1 July 2009

KDE 4.3 Release Candidate (RC) 1 Out

The KDE project put out today (July 1, 2009) the first release candidate of the upcoming version of KDE4 desktop, 4.3. According to the announcement on the official website, the highlights of this release are:

- a new tree mode in System Settings
- integration of technologies like PolicyKit (an application for controlling privileges) or Geolocation services
- crash dialogue UI remake
- many Plasma improvements
- Plasma add-ons
- several additions to the kdegames package
- many bug fixes and other improvements

Coming up soon a tutorial for installing this release candidate on Kubuntu 9.04.

Update: Here is the tutorial.

2 comments:

KDE4.DE said...

the packages for kubuntu are out see http://www.kubuntu.org for instructions.

greets from http://www.kde4.de

Craciun Dan said...

Thanks for the update. I'll make sure to make a tutorial as soon as I get the time on installing these packages on Kubuntu Jaunty.