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Valgrind, a GPL'd tool to debug applications' memory allocation, is one of the most exciting profiling tools in the free software world. Think Purify, but free, easier and available for Linux. Now Josef Weidendorfer makes Valgrind even more attractive with the first unofficial release of KCachegrind, a KDE front-end for Valgrind's profiling tool. (Click for screenshots of basic use and a call tree graph.) Now all x86 Linux developers can benefit from a professional grade profiling tool!

"Linux Journal's Editor's Choice Awards are well-known as the premiere forum recognizing outstanding product developments and achievements in the Linux market. A panel of more than 50 distinguished Linux experts was assembled to nominate products for the awards, which were then sent to the Linux Journal editors who chose the final winners." KDE 3.0 wins the honour of best Consumer Software. Konqueror obtained an honorable mention as Web Client but was beaten up by Mozilla and Galeon. KDevelop also received an honorable mention as Development Tool alongst with Borland Kylix, both being beaten by Emacs -- but had they tried KVim? The Sharp Zaurus was also selected as best Mobile Device and Product of the Year -- good news for QtE.

KC KDE issue #43 is out featuring everything from KDE 3.1's new look, the future of multimedia in KDE, a refitted Konqi, math app news, mouse news, and much more. Get it here.

The KDE Project is pleased to announce the availability of KDE 3.1 Beta 1 for your testing enjoyment. This release, which marks the second testing release of the KDE 3.1 branch, offers many improvements and bug fixes over KDE 3.0.x. New features include improved OpenPGP handling in KMail, handy tooltips that provide details of files in Konqueror quickly, and even new ways to be less productive thanks to four new games.

Open for Business interviews long-time KDE contributor Andreas Pour. "You need only look around APPS.KDE.com to see how already there is a great variety of applications, both works in progress and with stable releases. Contrary to speculation to the contrary, the site's statistics show that third-party KDE development is at an all-time high, and the number of applications available for KDE 3 is far greater than what was available for KDE 2 one year following its release." This interesting, rather lengthy, interview touches politics, KDE development, the future of desktop Linux and more.

The KDE Project is happy to announce the release of KDE 3.0.3, an update for KDE 3.0 with further bugfixes and an important security fix. Read more in the announcement and on the KDE 3.0.3 Info Page. Credits go to Dirk Mueller for his tireless work as release coordinator. Thank you Dirk.

A problem has been discovered in the way in which the KDE webbrowser Konqueror handles SSL certificates. SSL certificates are used by websites to prove that they are indeed the website the user thinks they are. The following advisory has been released to bring this issue under the attention of all KDE users.

In the past, the KDE infrastructure has several times suffered from extended downtime of our websites and mailinglists. That was due to the fact that master.kde.org ailed from old and failing hardware. Forget the past, and welcome our new master: ktown.kde.org!

In a recent interview conducted by freehackers.org, the hard working people behind the KDevelop IDE talk about the history of the project and their contributions. Light is also shed on the somewhat confusing set of branches that exist for KDevelop and the exciting features of the upcoming Gideon (a.k.a. KDevelop 3). The second part of this interview is due next week.

The KOffice team yesterday announced the release of KOffice 1.2 rc1. It marks the last test release before KOffice 1.2, scheduled for early next month, hits the Net. Highlights since last month's beta2 release include a substantial number of fixes and stability and performance enhancements, including important corrections to the KWord and KPresenter WYSIWYG display, It also features new read-only Konqueror plugins for each KOffice component, a new WordPerfect export filter for KWord, and improvements to the KWord RTF import filter. You can view a more detailed list of changes at the KOffice website, head straight to the download directory, or read the release announcement below.