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May 7th, 2008: KOffice 2.0 alpha7 released |
| The KOffice team is proud to announce the 7th alpha of the KOffice2 platform. This release shows the ongoing committment of the KOffice developers to create a great version 2 with lots of bugfixes and new features; For more details see: the announcement or the release notes. |
18 April, 2008: Logos and more help for KOffice |
| While KOffice has been working on integrating look and feel between applications for the 2.0 release, the logos and artwork for the individual KOffice applications has been unchanged for a long time. This has finally changed with the introduction of a set of KOffice logos. Read more on the dot, the KDE newssite. |
20 March, 2008: SpaceNavigators for KOffice |
| The KOffice developers team have received three 3D SpaceNavigators from 3DConnexion. Read all about it at 3DConnexion Donates SpaceNavigators to KOffice. |
20 Feb, 2008: KOffice 2.0 alpha6 released |
| The KOffice team is proud to announce the sixth alpha of the KOffice2 platform. This release contains improved shared infrastructure including new functionality in the ODF library, enhancements in all the applications, many improvements in especially KPlato and Karbon. Krita also have many improvements as usual. For more details see: the announcement or the release notes. |
22 Nov, 2007: KOffice 2.0 alpha5 released |
| The KOffice team is proud to announce the fifth alpha of the KOffice2 platform together with the KDE 4.0RC1 release. This release contains improved shared infrastructure including a new ODF library, enhancements in all the applications, new brushes and a path tool in Krita and a new simplified word processor, the so called Kids Office. For more details see: the announcement or the release notes. |
17 Oct, 2007: KOffice 2.0 alpha4 released |
| The KOffice team is proud to announce the fourth alpha of the KOffice2 platform together with the KDE 4.0beta3 release. This release contains the first embryo of a chart shape, many new formula functions in kspread, and the first runnable version of Krita and KWord for Windows. For more details see: the announcement or the release notes. |
11 October, 2007: User wiki for KOffice |
| Terry North has started a wiki for KOffice users at Friends of KOffice. Meant to be a clearing house for information on KOffice for and by users, Terry calls on all KOffice users to join in the fun and start contributing. All languages welcome! |
9 October, 2007: KOffice in the news: LinuxWorld.au |
| In KDE's Windows weapon: KOffice 2.0 Rodney Gedda interviews KDE e.V.'s Sebastian Kügler about KOffice 2.0, which is planned to be released on Unix, Linux, OS X and Windows early 2008, although a final release date has not been set yet. Gedda notes that "KOffice 2.0 has the potential to challenge [OpenOffice's] dominance with innovative features and a leaner code base. We couldn't agree more!" |
16 Sept, 2007: First running version of KWord on Windows |
| The KOffice team has been hinting at the power of a true cross-platform for the upcoming KOffice2.0 release, but the Windows version has proven to be harder to make working. So while the Macintosh fans have been running KOffice alpha version for some time now, Windows users will be delighted to find out that KWord has been made running on Windows for the first time this weekend. For more info see this blog. |
Aug, 2007: KOffice 2.0 alpha released |
| The KOffice team has been working hard on the KOffice2 platform and makes a public release to allow people to look at the direction it is going in the form of something to play with. For more details see; 2.0alpha2-release.php. |
July, 2007: Praise for Krita in Linux Journal |
| Dan Sawyer writes in his article on Deep Images about Krita, noting among other things that "Krita's 32-bit color management system is flanked by well-built, sophisticated tools for accessing it... making it suitable for a broad range of professional graphics demands...This workflow streaming is great...The number of drawing tools is rivaled only by Photoshop and there a few nifty enhancements in this area where Krita outdoes the venerated veteran from Adobe." (Dan Sawyer, "Deep Images", Linux Journal 159, July 2007) |
June 7, 2007: KOffice 1.6.3 released |
| The KOffice team presents the third maintenance release of the 1.6 series. This release was focused on bugfixing and includes two new translations. For more information, See the announcement, the release notes and the complete list of changes. |
May 27, 2007: Krita Graphics Tablet Donation Drive |
| The Krita team really needs advanced Wacom Intuos tablets to develop painting tools that use stylus tilt and the new 6D art pen rotation feature. Please help us by donating -- see the Dot story or donate immediately: |
February 21, 2007: KOffice 1.6.2 released |
| Three months after the release of KOffice 1.6.1, the KOffice team presents the second maintenance 1.6.2. This is mainly a bugfix release, but with some new features in Kexi and Krita and 4 new translations. For more information, See the announcement, the release notes and the complete list of changes. |
December 01, 2006: University Students to Enhance KPlato |
| A group of students at the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse will be collaborating on the KDE projects KPlato and Umbrello as part of their Institut Universitaire Professionalisé en Ingénierie des Systèmes Informatiques (Professional Institute of Computer Software Engineering) course of study. Full story |
December 01, 2006: OpenDocument is Now a Real ISO Standard |
| Yesterday ISO, the International Standards Organization, finally made the OpenDocument Format (ODF) specification into a real ISO standard by pushing the specification into stage 60/60. This means that every government on earth could -- and indeed should -- specify ODF as the preferred format for storing office files. This is relevant for KOffice since KOffice is the first office suite that used ODF as the default file format and is now only superseded by OpenOffice.org in the support of it. For more details, see the ISO website |
November 29, 2006: KOffice 1.6.1 released |
| One and a half month after the release of KOffice 1.6.0, the KOffice team presents 1.6.1. This is mainly a bugfix release, but with some new features in Kexi and Krita and translations update. For more information, See the announcement, the release notes and the complete list of changes. |
Oct 31, 2006: Krita review |
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The KOffice raster image editor Krita reached version 1.6 along with the rest of the office suite earlier this month. Krita is a fully-loaded raster graphics workhorse that stands on its own. Read the full review |
Oct 16, 2006: KOffice 1.6.0 Released |
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The KOffice team is proud to announce the 1.6.0 release of its office
suite. This release is mostly a feature release of Krita and Kexi,
but does also contain major enhancements to the OpenDocument and
MathML support of KFormula and new scripting functionality. This
version also contains a much better version of KPlato, the K Planning
Tool, our project planning application.
For more information, see the announcement , the technical release notes, and the complete list of changes. |
Sept 27, 2006: Release Candidate of KOffice 1.6 |
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In the middle of the yearly KDE conference aKademy, the KOffice team
has released the first release candidate of version 1.6. This release
follows the earlier beta fully according to the plan. This version
does not contain any new features, but comprises a number of bug fixes
that were the result of user comments made about the beta1 version.
The team hopes to continue it's great dialog with the users, and is
looking forward to the final release on Oct 15th.
As usual, you are invited to test it in depth and to report any bugs
via KDE bug website. |
Sept 10, 2006: Testers needed! KOffice release beta for 1.6 Version |
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Today the KOffice team releases the first beta of the next coming 1.6
version. Among other new features, it includes some of the Soc works in Krita and KFormula. You
are invited to test it in depth and to report any bugs via KDE bug website. For more information, see the press release, the announcement and the complete list of changes. |
Aug 1, 2006: KOffice release first technical preview of its upcoming 1.6 version |
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More than 2 months before the final release, the KOffice team is happy to
present you the first preview of the newest 1.6 version. This release includes mostly new features in Kexi
and Krita, scripting support in KSpread and OpenDocument support in KFormula. For more information, see the press release, the announcement and the complete list of changes. |
Jul 14, 2006: KOffice releases bugfix version 1.5.2 of its office suite |
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Almost 2 months after the last stable release, the KOffice team is proud to
present the latest release in the 1.5 series with fixes in all applications.
Various critical bugs were fixed in KWord, KSpread, Kexi and Krita. Karbon,
the vector drawing application has closed quite a lot of bugs in its user
interface part. For more information, See the press release, the announcement and the complete list of changes. |
Jul 09, 2006: Sebastian Sauer talks about scripting with Kross - KOffice scripting technology |
| KOffice 1.5 saw the addition of Kross, a framework to allow for scripting plugins in a number of languages. Krita and Kexi come with a number of plugins with more available for download at KDE-Files.org. To find out more about this intriguing technology and how it came about KDE Dot News interviewed the author Sebastian Sauer. Read on to discover how you can use Kross. |
Jun 05, 2006: KOffice releases a "Vision statement for KOffice 2.0" |
| KOffice is working on its future, one based on KDE4. KOffice is starting new initiatives with libraries like Flake and Pigment that are going to be used for all KOffice applications. Read the vision on dot.kde.org |
