The KOffice team is happy to announce the fourth, and last, beta of the upcoming 2.3 release of KOffice. This release only adds bugfixes from the second beta version.
Between 2.3 beta 3 and 2.3 beta 4 there have been 239 commits by 25 different authors.
All applications have received bug fixes and improvements. Krita is the application with the biggest team behind it and therefore also the most active one.
The import filters for Microsoft formats continue to be improved at a furious rate. We are now starting to see cases where the look of a document in KOffice is better than in any other free office suite.

Sources and Binary Packages

The source code to KOffice 2.3 beta 4 can be downloaded from download.kde.org. Binary packages will be available and announced separately as soon as the respective distribution provides them.

The KOffice team is happy to announce the third beta of the upcoming 2.3 release of KOffice. This release only adds bugfixes from the second beta version.
Between 2.3 beta 2 and 2.3 beta 3 there have been 443 commits by 29 different authors.
All applications have received bug fixes and improvements. Krita is the application with the biggest team behind it and therefore also the most active one.
The import filters for Microsoft formats continue to be improved at a furious rate. We are now starting to see cases where the look of a document in KOffice is better than in any other free office suite. However, further betas are still needed to improve the quality of this release.

Sources and Binary Packages

The source code to KOffice 2.3 beta 3 can be downloaded from download.kde.org. Binary packages will be available and announced separately as soon as the respective distribution provides them.

The KOffice team is happy to announce the second beta of the upcoming 2.3 release of KOffice. This release only adds bugfixes from the first beta version.  As you can see in the list of changes, the developers have been far from idle.

Between 2.3 beta 1 and 2.3 beta 2 there have been 597 commits by 28 different authors.

• All applications have received bug fixes and improvements.  Krita is the application with the biggest team behind it and therefore also the most active one.
• Embedded formulas have had a general shapeup and now loads much larger parts of the mathML specification
• The import filters for Microsoft formats continue to be improved at a furious rate.  We are now starting to see cases where the look of a document in KOffice is better than in any other free office suite.

Sources and Binary Packages

The source code to KOffice 2.3 beta 2 can be downloaded from download.kde.org. Binary packages will be available and announced separately as soon as the respective distribution provides them.

The KOffice team is happy to announce the first beta of the upcoming 2.3 release of KOffice. This release brings many small improvements to all the KOffice applications, but not as many large new features. The most important new features being:

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The KOffice team is happy to release KOffice 2.2.2, the second bugfix release in the 2.2 series. This release contains no new features but a few bug fixes for some of the components in KOffice 2.2. More details of the 2.2.2 release can be found in the changelog. This version of KOffice is translated to no less than 27 languages.

Many Linux distributions package KOffice 2.2.2. We know that binary packages are ready for various distributions. If you wish to build KOffice from the sources, you can download them at downloads.kde.org. You can find instructions on how to build them on the KOffice wiki.

The KOffice team is happy to release KOffice 2.2.1, the first bugfix release in the 2.2 series. This release contains no new features but a number of bugfixes for most of the components in KOffice 2.2. More details of the 2.2.1 release can be found in the changelog. This version of KOffice is translated to no less than 27 languages.

Many Linux distributions package KOffice 2.2.1. We know that binary packages are ready for at least Kubuntu (10.04 and Maverick, the upcoming 10.10), Fedora F13, and Debian Unstable. If you wish to build KOffice from the sources, you can download them at downloads.kde.org. You can find instructions on how to build them on the KOffice wiki.

The KOffice team is very happy to announce version 2.2.0, half a year after the release of KOffice 2.1. This release brings an unprecedented number of new features and bugfixes as can be seen in the full list of changes. There are two reasons for this very high development rate: People have started to notice KOffice again and the developer community is growing and the fact that Nokia is sponsoring development of KOffice for their office viewer. Here follows a list of the most important changes in this release.

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The KOffice team is happy to announce the first and hopefully only release candidate of the upcoming 2.2 release of KOffice. This is the final prerelease before the final release of version 2.2, so we urge our users to try it out and test it.

As usual, this release offers many improvements and bug fixes, as can be seen in the list of changes. Most of the reported bugs on the so called “release blocker list” have been fixed. The rest will be fixed before the final release. A release blocker is a bug that is either a crash that prevents the user to use the application or a bug that leads to unacceptable data loss. They are marked with a special keyword in the bug database. A regression within the unit test suite can also be regarded as a release blocker.

A more thorough description of what is new in KOffice 2.2 in relation to version 2.1 can be seen in the announcement for version 2.2 beta 1.

Readiness for End Users and External Developers

As also mentioned in the 2.2 beta 1 announcement, the KOffice team had hoped to have time to make the user interface and available feature set ready for end users as well as make the underlying engine ready for external extension developers in time for 2.2. Unfortunately time and limited developer resources didn’t permit to reach both of these goals. The libraries have been reorganized and improved, but the user interface does still not reach the level of quality that the team wants to achieve.

Notable exceptions to this are Krita, that has seen much work on the user interface and Karbon that was already usable before.

Sources and Binary Packages

The source code to KOffice 2.2 RC can be downloaded from download.kde.org. Binary packages of KOffice 2.2 RC will be available and announced separately as soon as the respective distribution provides them.

The KOffice team is happy to announce the second beta of the upcoming 2.2 release of KOffice. This release offers many improvements and bug fixes, as can be seen in the list of changes.

A more thorough description of what is new in KOffice 2.2 in relation to version 2.1 can be seen in the announcement for version 2.2 beta 1.

Readiness for End Users and External Developers

As also mentioned in the 2.2 beta 1 announcement, the KOffice team had hoped to have time to make the user interface and available feature set ready for end users as well as make the underlying engine ready for external extension developers in time for 2.2. Unfortunately time and limited developer resources didn’t permit to reach both of these goals. The libraries have been reorganized and improved, but the user interface does still not reach the level of quality that the team wants to achieve.

Notable exceptions to this are Krita, that has seen much work on the user interface and Karbon that was already usable before.

Sources and Binary Packages

The source code to KOffice 2.2 beta 2 can be downloaded from download.kde.org. Binary packages of KOffice 2.2beta 2 will be available and announced separately as soon as the respective distribution provides them.

The KOffice team is happy to release KOffice 2.1.2, the second and probably last bugfix release in the 2.1 series. This release contains no new features but a number of bugfixes for most of the components in KOffice 2.1. More details of the 2.1.2 release can be found in the changelog. This version of KOffice is translated to no less than 27 languages.

As was noted in the announcement for 2.1.0, KOffice 2.1.2 is probably still not usable for production work.

Many Linux distributions package KOffice 2.1.2. A Windows version is expected within a month. If you wish to build KOffice from the source, you can download them at downloads.kde.org. You can find instructions on how to build them on the KOffice wiki.