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The much-anticipated release of KDE 3.1, originally scheduled for this week, has been delayed, most likely until early next month. On the positive side, the delay could not have been for a better reason. Dirk Mueller, the KDE 3.1 Release Coordinator, explained that the delay was caused by a security audit of the 3.1 CVS tree. The audit was prompted by the identification of a class of vulnerabilities by FozZy from the "Hackademy Audit Project" (thanks to FozZy and all others who help identify security issues in KDE, and a big thanks to Dirk Mueller, Waldo Bastian, George Staikos, Lubos Lunak and the others who are leading or helping in the current security audit). After discussing the issues with the packaging engineers and KDE developers, and in light of the upcoming year-end Holidays, the decision was virtually unanimous to wait until early January for the official 3.1 release.

The latest issue of KDE-CVS-Digest is done and ready. Read about everything from the latest CVS updates of KMail to new Konqueror, Konsole and Kate features, and much more.

The dutch KDE team armed with Konqi, a laptop, some flyers, and a lot of enthusiam, was present at the HCC Dagen computer event in Netherlands November 22-24. We managed to garner a fair amount of attention for our favorite desktop as you can see from this photo report (click on the images for comments).

I have started doing a weekly review of the kde-cvs updates. Check out the latest issue and please comment. Any ideas that would make the information more useful is welcome. My purpose is to give links into the code, and some pertinent discussion. This hopefully will add to the body of discussion and information available to users and developers of kde. Please be easy on the server...

After several weeks of technical problems, Accessibility.kde.org is on-line again with a completely renewed and enhanced version of the web site. You can now find a new section with Accessibility Reports, and detailed information on the KDE Accessibility Project's first IRC meeting.

From the 24th to 28th of August 2002, members of KDE e.V. were invited to meet at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg, Germany, to discuss various matters relating to KDE e.V. and KDE in general. A full report (with annotated group photo) from this meeting is now available on the KDE e.V. web site.

After a rather long break Kernel Cousin KDE is back, and KC KDE #46 is out. This edition discusses everything from KOffice news, a new Kopete plugin, a JavaScript debugger, improving tabs in Konqueror, i18n kudos for the Swedish team, and much more.

The KDevelop team would like to announce the availability of KDevelop 3.0 Alpha 2, codenamed Gideon (screenshot). This release fixes many bugs since Alpha 1 was released over a month ago and adds a few minor features to the mix. Users of KDevelop 2.x will notice substantial improvements and are encouraged to begin upgrading so that new bugs can be identified and squashed. Both 2.x and 3.0 should work along side each other. See the KDevelop web site or the previous dot article for more information.

Boson, the real-time 3D strategy game for KDE has been freshly ported to OpenGL in its 0.7 incarnation (screenshots). There is no AI yet, so a minimum of 2 players is required. From UnixReview.com: "Do you miss the nice, slick GUI CD burning programs under Windows and Mac OS X? Or just want to stop using command-line tools to burn your CDs? K3b might just be what the doctor ordered." Check out the full review of K3b including screenshots. Finally, a couple of people wrote in to point out the launch of the KDE-Forum.de web forums for German speakers. English web forums should be available soon.

Craig Drummond has released a new theme and "engine" for GTK programs that provides something many people have been looking for: a common look and feel for KDE and GNOME applications. While Red Hat's Blue Curve attempts to do something similar, Mr. Drummond's Geramik is the first theme implementation to provide smooth integration between environments. Read the full story at OfB.biz.