KDE Official News

Announcing KDE 3.3 Beta 1 "Klassroom"

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The KDE Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of KDE 3.3 Beta 1. As another step towards the aKademy in late August, this release is named Klassroom. This beta release shows astonishing stability, so the KDE team asks everyone to try the version and give feedback through the bug tracking system.


KDE 3.3 Release Cycle Starts with KDE 3.3 Alpha 1 "Kindergarten"

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That's one small step for KDE, one giant leap for Free Software - the KDE 3.3 Alpha 1 has been released to the FTP servers this morning. There won't be any binary packages for this release, everyone using Kindergarten is asked to compile it with --enable-debug, so that we can get valuable feedback.


KDE Security Advisory: URI Handler Vulnerabilities

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iDEFENSE

identified a vulnerability

in the Opera Web Browser
that could allow remote attackers to create or truncate
arbitrary files. The KDE team has found that similar
vulnerabilities exists in KDE.

The telnet, rlogin, ssh and mailto URI handlers in KDE do not
check for '-' at the beginning of the hostname passed, which
makes it possible to pass an option to the programs started
by the handlers.


KDE Community World Summit 2004 "aKademy"

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The KDE Project is proud to announce its plans for the "KDE Community World Summit 2004", code-named "aKademy". The first edition of this new international event will be held in Ludwigsburg, Germany, near Stuttgart. Taking place from August 21st to 29th 2004, the Summit will include an exciting program of talks, presentations, tutorials and joint development, bug-fixing, design and polishing work on the leading Linux and Unix desktop environment.


KDE 3.2.1 is Released

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The KDE project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.2.1, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE 3.2.1 ships with lot of bug fixes since KDE 3.2 and is available in 49 languages (now including Bengali, Icelandic, Japanese, Lithuanian, Low Saxon, Latin Serbian and Tajik).