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In this week's KDE CVS-Digest:

KDevelop adds a security problem detector plugin. digiKam adds a white balance plugin. KHTML implements JavaScript window.atob/btoa. Cervisia implements folding/unfolding selected folder. Request for comments on the new KDE multimedia framework.

KDE Ireland, the committees of the Irish Linux Users' Group and the Irish Free Software Organisation, on behalf of their members, have sent a briefing document to all Irish MEPs to explain the issues surrounding Software Patentability & EU Directive COD/2002/0047 as we see them and to impress upon the MEPs the importance of voting against this directive in its current form.

The Kubuntu team is pleased to announce the preview of their first release. Kubuntu is a new distribution using the solid base of Ubuntu and the stunning KDE 3.4 desktop, released yesterday. This preview release includes both install CDs and bootable Live CDs for three architectures available for download now.

Tuxmachines.org has one of the first reviews of KDE 3.4 (coral cache). From the article: "KDE 3.4 is a reflection of the many years of development invested into the project with more shine and polish than ever experienced with any desktop environment in existance today." Screenshots are also available (coral cache).

KDE 3.4 has been released today. "After more than a half year of development the KDE Project is happy to be able to announce a new major release of the award-winning K Desktop Environment. Among the many new features that have been incorporated, the improvements in accessibility are most remarkable." Read the full announcement for an overview of the many changes. You can download source and binary packages from download.kde.org or use the Konstruct automatic build tool.

Three KDE security advisories have been released today that address minor problems that were brought to the attention of the KDE security team over the last few months. All these issues have been fixed in KDE 3.4, for older KDE versions patches are available.

In this week's episode of LugRadio KDE developer Aaron Seigo discusses usability, freedesktop.org, groupware and Get Hot New Stuff. Start 28 minutes in to hear him debate with England's most famous non-KDE users.

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest (all in one page):

KTTSD adds support for Kiswahili, Zulu, and Ibibio Festival languages. digiKam adds undo/redo operation for its image editor. KChart can now flip row and column data. Kexi scripting can now pass signals, slots and Q_PROPERTY's between C++ and scripting languages. Periodic table viewer Kalzium adds a family view.

There has been some recent buzz around KDE's Get Hot New Stuff framework. As the first in a series looking into KDE technologies, KDE Dot News interviewed author Josef Spillner to find out what all this "stuff" was about... read on for the interview. You may also be interested in recent blog entries about KNewStuff: Kate, desktop backgrounds, Quanta, KNewStuffSecure, its user interface design and the HotStuff server setup.

The amaroK development team has teamed up with the Creative Commons sponsored Wired CD, published last year by Wired Magazine, to create a really cool Live CD called amaroK Live. It is an interesting extension of the project started by Wired using the Creative Commons licensing technique, which includes many of the principles embodied in free software.