KOffice 1.6.1 Release Announcement

November 29, 2006 (The INTERNET). The KDE Project today announced the release of KOffice version 1.6.1, the first bugfix version of KOffice 1.6.

Highlights

Since this is a maintenance release, only two of the components, Krita and Kexi, added new features.

New Krita Feature and Many Bugfixes

Krita, the image editing application of KOffice has gotten a new Color Level filter. Among the bugfixes can be mentioned the wrong warning telling the user that unsharp mask filter didn't work even though it did.

New Kexi Features and Many Bugfixes

Kexi, the desktop database application competing with MS Access, is the other application in KOffice that got new features in this release. Among them can be mentioned a new combo box taking advantage of the database relationships, and parameter queries. These features developed as an answer to user's demand, will make programming database solutions much easier.

Security Fix in Powerpoint Import Filter

There is a security issue in the import filter for Powerpoint .ppt files that is fixed with this release.

Bugfixes For Most Other Components

Almost all of the other components got some bugs fixed. See the complete changelog for the complete information.

About KOffice

KOffice is an integrated office suite, today mostly for KDE, which utilizes free and open standards like OpenDocument for its document formats, component communication and component embedding.

This release includes:

• a frame-based, full-featured word processor (KWord);
• a spreadsheet application (KSpread);
• a presentation application (KPresenter);
• a flowchart application (Kivio);
• an integrated database application (Kexi);
• a new project management application (KPlato).
• a pixel based image editing and paint application (Krita);
• a vector-drawing application (Karbon14).

Additionally, KOffice includes robust embeddable objects:

• business quality reporting software (Kugar)
• full-featured charting engine (KChart)
• mathematical formula handling (KFormula)

as well as a built-in thesaurus (KThesaurus) and support for many different file formats.

KOffice and all its components (including KDE) are available for free under Open Source licenses from the KDE http and ftp mirrors.

Corporate KOffice Sponsors

Besides the valuable and excellent efforts by the KOffice developers themselves, significant support for KOffice development has been provided by Mandriva (which sponsors KOffice developer Laurent Montel), Trolltech (which sponsors KOffice developer David Faure), theKompany.com (which has contributed Kivio and Kugar to KOffice), Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB (which has contributed KDChart to KOffice), OpenOffice Polska which employs Kexi developer Jarosław Staniek and sponsored the KDElibs for win32 project which enabled the porting of KOffice applications to MS Windows, Google which through the "Summer of Code" program supports Alfredo Beaumont to work on OpenDocument and MathML support for KFormula and Emmanuele Tamponi to work on a framework for curves in Krita. In addition, individual sponsors (donate), provide significant support for KDE and KOffice. Thanks!

Press Release: Written by Inge Wallin

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