KDE 3.5.3 Released

The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.3, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. Unusually for a maintenance release, new features were implemented due to the long release cycle of the eagerly-awaited KDE 4. Stability and speed were also improved, along with increasingly complete translations in 65 languages. The complete release announcement is available from the KDE website. Significant enhancements include an improved startup time, over 800 minor issues fixed thanks to code checking by Coverity and small new features in Akregator, KMail and KAlarm. Finally, new translations have been added for Vietnamese and Kazakh. Packages are available for Archlinux, Kubuntu, Fedora and SUSE Linux or compile with Konstruct.

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by cm (not verified)

I guess he'd like to create a *copy* under a new name.

by KDE User (not verified)

"Ark Linux 2006.1-rc2 and Ark Linux Live 2006.1-rc2 released"
"Highlights include KDE 3.5.3"

by sundher (not verified)

It's worth mentioning that 3.5.3 hit Debian unstable today and 3.5.2 is now in testing. w00t! The Debian KDE packagers have always been rather good about keeping up-to-date though.

by Alistair John S... (not verified)

Thank God the Debian maintainers haven't abandoned KDE like the Corporates.

by Mariano Guezuraga (not verified)

Is auto-indenting working ok for php files (like java, c++ does)?

by me (not verified)

Managed to upgrade 3.5.2 -> 3.5.3, using packages from opensuse
repository (http://ftp-1.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/KDE:).
Have to say I'm surprised that the upgrade increases KDE's space
usage by 150-200MB :).

This is on an old laptop with 20GB HDD; space is premium and
I allocated only 3GB for my root partition (tmp and var are
on the same partition). Before the upgrade, I had >300MB free
space. Now, I have about 150MB.

Too bad I can't downgrad to 3.5.2, the rpms has been removed
from suse's supplementary.

by me (not verified)

I wonder what're the size taken by similar installed
packages? Mine takes about 690MB (25 packages). This
is on Suse 10.0.

cd /opt/kde3; du -shc *
=======================
59M bin
12K env
440K include
477M lib
156M share
8.0K shutdown
692M total

rpm -qa '*kde*' | sort
======================
kdeaddons3-konqueror-3.5.3-6.1
kdebase3-3.5.3-3.5
kdebase3-SuSE-10.0-21.3
kdebase3-kdm-3.5.3-3.5
kdebase3-ksysguardd-3.5.3-3.5
kdebase3-nsplugin-3.5.3-3.5
kdebase3-samba-3.5.3-3.5
kdebase3-session-3.5.3-3.5
kdegraphics3-3.5.3-6.2
kdegraphics3-extra-3.5.3-6.2
kdegraphics3-pdf-3.5.3-6.2
kdegraphics3-postscript-3.5.3-6.2
kdegraphics3-tex-3.5.3-6.2
kdelibs3-3.5.3-7.3
kdelibs3-arts-3.5.3-7.3
kdemultimedia3-3.5.3-14.3
kdemultimedia3-CD-3.5.3-14.3
kdemultimedia3-mixer-3.5.3-14.3
kdenetwork3-3.5.3-4.5
kdenetwork3-InstantMessenger-3.5.3-4.5
kdenetwork3-query-3.5.3-4.5
kdepim3-3.5.3-8.1
kdepim3-networkstatus-3.5.3-8.1
kdepim3-sync-3.5.3-8.1
kdeutils3-3.5.3-3.6

by me (again) (not verified)

I found rpms for 3.5.2 from ftp.kde.org.

ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.5.2/SuSE/ix86/10.0
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.5.3/SuSE/SUSE_Linux_10.0/i586

From a quick glance, each 3.5.3 package is at least twice
than its 3.5.2 counterpart. Examples:
arts-1.5.2-2 = 1MB --- vs --- arts-1.5.3-2.6 = 3.2MB
kdebase3-3.5.2-2 = 24.7MB --- vs --- kdebase3-3.5.3-3.5 = 52.2MB
kdepim3-3.5.2-2 = 12.9MB --- vs --- kdepim3-3.5.3-8.1 = 60.9 MB

I wouldn't expect a minor release to double space usage. Is
this merely a compilation problem, or indeed from KDE itself?

I attach two screenshots, one for suse rpms and the other for
Kubuntu drapper. I understand that comparing across distribution
is not the most appropriate way, but I hope this give some
indication.

by me (again) (not verified)

Here's the screenshot for kubuntu packages.

by Anonymous (not verified)

> From a quick glance, each 3.5.3 package is at least twice than its 3.5.2 counterpart.

First revisions were built with debug information and not stripped. Later not anymore, reload.

by Anonymous (not verified)

Update to stripped rpms once they are uploaded.

by me (not verified)

This did the trick.

by gf (not verified)

Perfect programme