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The latest KDE-CVS-Digest is out. This week read about some new KDE optimizations, Konstruct, Atlantik (screenshot) and Kalzium updates, as well as many bugfixes and various new features.

This week's KDE-CVS-Digest is now available. Subjects discussed include the conclusion of the security audit, KMail merge problems, bugfixes and lots of new features in Kate, Kig, Gwenview, Krdc, kgpg, Konstruct, Kopete, Cervisia, KDevelop, KOffice and Kalzium. And much more.

FOSDEM 2003 will take place February 8 and 9, 2003 in Brussels, Belgium. The two-day summit will bring together leading developers in the Open Source community. As in previous years, FOSDEM attendees will have the opportunity to attend to the talks of the leading developers of major Open Source and Free Software projects. This year David Faure is confirmed for KDE. We have interviewed him as part of a new series for FOSDEM 2003.

A new edition of KDE-CVS-Digest is out. This week we cover updates on the security audit, Kroupware issues, bugfixes and lots of new features in KDevelop, Konqueror, KDEPrint, Kig (a program for exploring geometrical constructions), as well as Proklam updates (see KMouth also) as a further step towards improving accessibility capabilities in KDE. Enjoy!

The KDE Project today released a security advisory affecting all versions of KDE 2 and KDE 3. The advisory is the culmination of the security audit which delayed the release of KDE 3.1 until January. The KDE Project strongly encourages all KDE users to upgrade to KDE 3.0.5a, which was also announced today, or to apply the patches provided for KDE 2.2.2. Due to the year-end Holidays, few binary packages are available at this time. Please check the KDE 3.0.5a information page and your vendor's website periodically for available packages. Note that some vendors are expected to incorporate the security improvements into new builds of KDE 3.0.5.

Trolltech has announced a new beta of Qt Script for Applications. In the words of the blurb: "The QSA toolkit is made up of the following components: QSA library, which the developer of the C++ application uses to make their Qt-based applications scriptable. Qt Script, an easy-to-learn, multiplatform interpreted scripting language. Qt Script is based on the ECMAScript standard (as is JavaScript) . Qt Scripter, a multiplatform IDE which developers can make available to their end-users. Qt Scripter (screenshot) can be used to write and edit code, to visually design forms, and to run and debug scripts." With this release, QSA is now available under the GPL. Very cool stuff and should bring a whole new level of application extensibility to KDE/Qt applications that need it. Update: 12/20 18:09 by N: Looks like we forgot about KDE's own KJSEmbed (README, doc).

In a very thorough review (1.5MB PDF file) by Linux Format (Issue 35, Christmas 2002, p. 36), KDevelop 2.1 beat out six commercial and Open Source contenders to be crowned the Best Linux C++ IDE. In the concluding remarks in a review including competitors from Kylix Open Edition (Delphi) and Studio Gold (KDE) to Anjuta (GNOME) and Code Forge (Motif), Maurice Kelly notes that the current development branch, Gideon, brings with it another major set of improvements which will make KDevelop shine even brighter: "[T]he project is extremely fast moving and a number of new features are being developed in the upcoming 3.0 version which is currently in alpha testing. These include support for languages other than C/C++, qmake support and C++ auto-completion. It is great that an application which is open source is such an amazing contender and manages to put some of the proprietary commercial offerings to shame."

The latest KDE-CVS-Digest is out and ready. This week we cover everything from the security audit, a new release dude for KDE 3.2, bugfixes, and new features in KMail, Kopete, Konqueror, Krita, Konstruct and klaptopdaemon.

The NewsFactor Network has been running a series on "alternative" web browsers. The first installment covered Mozilla and the derived Netscape; the second installment covers "A Night at the Opera" and "the Mighty Konqueror". A short, but well-written, story.

The KDE Project today announced the release of KOffice 1.2.1. KOffice 1.2.1 is a stability and enhancement release, with the principal improvements over KOffice 1.2, released last September, occurring in the spreadsheet program (KSpread). A list of changes and notes about the release are available at the KOffice web site. More binary packages should be available tomorrow. Enjoy!