KOffice 1.6.3 Release Announcement

June 7, 2007 (The INTERNET). The KDE Project today announced the release of KOffice version 1.6.3, the second maintenance release of KOffice 1.6.

Highlights

This is the last maintenance release of the 1.6 series, containing mainly bug fixes.

Improvements For Most Components

There are bug fixes for almost all of the components. See the complete changelog for the complete information.

Three New Translations

This release introduces three new translations: Low Saxon, Nepali and Bulgarian, making KOffice available in 39 languages.

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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