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KDE 3.5.6 Released

The 6th maintenance update to KDE 3.5

By Marius Nestor, Linux Editor

25th of January 2007, 22:00 GMT

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The KDE Project team announced today the availability of KDE 3.5.6, the 6th maintenance update to the KDE 3.5 series. KDE 3.5.6 features translations in 65 languages and some additional improvements in the HTML rendering engine (KHTML):
"January 25, 2007 (The INTERNET). The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.6, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE now supports 65 languages, making it available to more people than most non-free software and can be easily extended to support others by communities who wish to contribute to the open source project."

Significant enhancements of this release include:

■ Bugfixes for KHTML, Kate, the kicker, ksysguard and lots of other applications;
■ Additional support for compiz as a window manager with kicker;
■ Session management browser tabs for Akregator;
■ Templating for KMail messages;
■ New summary menus for Kontact making it easier to work with your appointments and to-do's.

For a more detailed list of improvements since the KDE 3.5.5, which was released on 11th October 2006, please refer to the full KDE 3.5.6 Changelog.

About KDE:

KDE is a powerful Free Software graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix workstations. It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the Unix operating system. KDE is a network transparent contemporary desktop environment for UNIX workstations. KDE seeks to fill the need for an easy to use desktop for Unix workstations, similar to the desktop environments found under the MacOS or Microsoft Windows.

You can download KDE now from Softpedia.


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