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Two security advisories have been issued by the KDE Security Team which both affect KDE 3.2 up to and including KDE 3.4: kdelibs does not properly perform input validation for image files. Kommander executes without user confirmation data files from possibly untrusted locations. These issues will be fixed in KDE 3.4.1, for older KDE versions patches are available. Read More

NewForge has a side by side comparison of KDevelop and Microsoft Visual Studio .Net. The article compares general application capabilities in the areas of UI, editing, compiling, frameworks, integration, and documentation. The result: "KDevelop is more feature-rich than Microsoft's product... if Visual Studio existed as a native Linux application? I'd still rather use KDevelop." Read More

Last week, Quanta Plus was selected as the Project of the Week on OSDir. In the interview with Eric Laffoon, the project leader of Quanta+ and Kommander, you can read about the past, present and future of the KDE Web Dev module. Read More

Kubuntu, which saw its first release in April of this year, is a highly integrated Linux distribution featuring the KDE desktop. OSDir has declared Kubuntu "project of the week" and is carrying an interview with two of the project's primary contributors, Andreas Müller and Jonathan Riddell. They share insights on Kubuntu's creation, its current state and their plans for the future. Read More

Ripping tracks from a CD into OGG or MP3 is one of the most popular things we do with our home PCs these days. This How-To shows you how you can do this task quickly and easier than ever before, with the help of KDE and Konqueror. Read the complete article at Dave's Desktop - Ep. 21. Read More

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest: digiKam adds two new effects plugins: blowup and photograph inpainting. KMail import filters: Evolution, Thunderbird, Sylpheed Claws and maildir. KChart can export charts as bitmap files. KOffice gets new icons. Read More

On Tuesday at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, KDE founder Matthias Ettrich was awarded the Software Tools User Group award, shared jointly with Miguel de Icaza of GNOME. The award is in recognition of the impressive work of the Unix desktop projects over the last 9 years. Read More

The KDE artist community has been busy recently. The winners of the digiKam contest have been announced, kde-look.org has had a major update and the KDE logo is on a worldwide tour. Coming soon are The First Annual Icon Marathon, a completely new and improved KDE Artist website and introducing Kollaboration, where your art meets their code! Read on for details. Read More

On LinuxPlanet, Kurt Pfeifle explains details about Tenor, a framework that will facilitate new ways to locate and otherwise manage content. Learn about the background of Tenor, what differentiates it from "desktop search tools" and why this new approach is needed in a world of ever growing disk space. Additionally, the article provides some insights from Scott Wheeler, one of Tenor's authors and primary designers. Read More

Trolltech has released the second and final beta version of Qt 4. You can download it from ftp.trolltech.com or from one of its mirrors. The online Qt Reference Documentation has been updated. Qt 4 is currently scheduled for final release in late Q2, 2005, with an intermediate Release Candidate planned for May. Read More