KDE has announced the release of KDE 3.5.7 today. KDE 3.5.7 features translations in 65 languages, improvements to KDE PIM suite and other applications.
This release has a renewed focus on KDE PIM applications. KAddressBook, KOrganizer and KAlarm received attention with bugfixes, while KMail additionally witnessed new features and improvements with both interface work and IMAP handling: it can manage IMAP quota and copy and move all folders.
KPDF shows tooltips for links when hovering on them, displays correctly more complex PDF files and reacts to the commands for opening the Table of Contents pane.
Umbrello now can generate and export C# Code and has added Java 5 generics support.
KDevelop got a major version upgrade to version 3.4.1. New features include much improved Code Completion and Navigation, a more reliable debugger interface, Qt4 support and better Ruby and KDE4 development support.
In addition to the new features there were many bug fixes across the board, especially in the Edutainment and Games packages and Kopete. Besides bugfixes Kopete also got a major performance improvement on chat rendering.
For more detailed list, refer KDE 3.5.7 changelog.
Source: KDE.
Update: If you want to upgrade your Kubuntu Feisty to 3.5.7, follow the steps below:
- Right click here and save the file to your local disk
- Launch Adept Manager from K-Menu->System
- Choose from the menu Adept->Manage Repositories
- Click the Authentication tab
- Click Import Key File… and select the file you saved above
- Click the Third Party Software tab
- Add one of the deb lines from the list below
- deb http://kubuntu.org/packages/kde-357 feisty main
- deb ftp://bolugftp.uni-bonn.de/pub/kde/stable/3.5.7/kubuntu feisty main
- deb http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.5.7/kubuntu feisty main
- deb http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/software/kde/stable/3.5.7/kubuntu feisty main
- Close and click Reload
- From the Adept toolbar click Full Upgrade then Apply Changes
- Log out of KDE and back in again once the new version is installed
Source: Kubuntu.
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