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24 September, 2008: KOffice 2.0 beta 1 released |
| The KOffice team is happy to announce the release of the first beta release of 2.0. This is the first release where we encourage end users to download and test it. For more details see the release notes. |
28 August, 2008: KOffice 2.0 alpha 10 released |
| The KOffice team is happy to announce the release of the last Alpha for 2.0, which display the progress made during the Google Summer of Code, like the presenter view in KPresenter, or the improvement in painting and drawing for Krita and Karbon. It also show improvements in styles management. For more details see the release notes. |
19 August, 2008: Interview with Krita developers |
| Alexandre Prokoudine did an interview with two Krita developers, Boudewijn Rempt and Cyrille Berger, on the current state and future of Krita, and their impression on this year's Libre Graphics Meeting. |
16 July, 2008: KOffice 2.0 alpha9 released |
| The KOffice team is happy to announce a new alpha version which demonstrates what KOffice 2.0 will offer. Along with bug fixing, some interesting new features were introduced, such as improvements in KSpread printing, or a new paragraph tool for KoText. For more details see: the announcement, the release notes, the changelog or the visual tour. |
6 June, 2008: KOffice 2.0 alpha8 released |
| The KOffice team is proud to announce the 8th 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. Highlights in this release is support for all major platforms (Windows, Mac, Unix), much improved ODF support and start of sound support. |
May 19th, 2008: The First release of KOffice 2.0 alpha for Windows |
| The First release of KOffice 2.0 alpha for Windows is now available for testing. This is one of the most visible steps to bring the KOffice suite to Windows users. The KOffice package can be installed using the KDE Windows Installer. There are still some rough edges in the packaging, since you will have to copy the dll files from kde4/lib to kdek/bin directories which contains the executables. More information about installing KDE applications on Windows can be found in KDE on Windows/Installation Techbase article. |
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. |
2 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. |
12 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. |
