KDE 4.1.2 Released

The KDE Community has announced the immediate availability of "Codename", (a.k.a KDE 4.1.2), another bugfix and maintenance update for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. Codename is a monthly update to KDE 4.1. It ships with a basic desktop and many other packages; like administration programs, network tools, educational applications, utilities, multimedia software, games, artwork, web development tools and more. KDE's award-winning tools and applications are available in more than 50 languages.

Desktop Effects in the KDE 4.1 workspace

KDE, including all its libraries and its applications, is available for free under Open Source licenses. KDE can be obtained in source and various binary formats from http://download.kde.org and can also be obtained on CD-ROM or with any of the major GNU/Linux and UNIX systems shipping today.

Enhancements

As a service release, the changelog contains a list of bugfixes and improvements. Note that the changelog is usually incomplete, for a complete list of changes that went into KDE 4.1.2, you can browse the Subversion log. The most significant changes are:

• Deleting files got a nice 32 times speedup.
• Many bugfixes and improvements in KHTML and its new JavaScript bytecode interpreter, Frostbyte. "Stop animations" is back in Konqueror.
• The Kopete Instant Messenger team fixed crashes in the ICQ, Yahoo and Gadu-Gadu protocols.
• Comicbook backend fixes in the document viewer Okular
• Fixes in Gwenview's thumbnailing,
• Various crash fixes in KGpg, the PGP security utility.

KDE 4.1.2 is a recommended update for everyone running KDE 4.1.1 or earlier. This release will be followed up by more x.y.z updates over the next months and ultimately by a new feature release, KDE 4.2.0 this coming January.