Posts Tagged ‘announcement’
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
The KOffice team is happy to release KOffice 2.1.1, the first 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 2.1.1 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 2.1.1 is probably still not usable for production work.
Many Linux distributions package KOffice 2.1.1. 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..
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
The KOffice team is very happy to announce version 2.1.0 of KOffice, 6 months after the platform release 2.0.0. This release brings a number of new features as well as general improvements in the maturity of the individual applications. Importing of documents have also been given an overhaul.
The advantages of the clean and well-structured codebase have started to show. Despite a relatively limited developer group, there are a large number of improvements over 2.0. During the development of 2.1, it was also announced that KOffice is going to be used in the Nokia n900 smartphones based on Maemo Linux.
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Posted in KPlato, KPresenter, KSpread, KWord, Karbon, Krita, News | Tags: announcement, release | 32 Comments »
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
The KOffice team is happy to announce the first release candidate of KOffice 2.1. As usual, the team has worked diligently and has now been able to remove all the release blocker bugs. See the full changelog for the details.
The application that has received the most bugfixes is once again Krita. Also KWord has seen numerous improvements in many places, and the Microsoft Word filter has once again been improved. The same goes for KPresenter and its Powerpoint import filter and KSpread.
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Posted in KPlato, KPresenter, KSpread, KWord, Karbon, Krita, News | Tags: announcement, Karbon, KChart, KPlato, KPresenter, Krita, News, release | 16 Comments »
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
KOffice2 is still a fresh set of office tools. We released the 2.0, called platform release, just 3 months ago and work continues to make the suite more stable and to add the minimum set of features people should be able to expect.
All KOffice community members are continuing to do an awesome job with many bugs being closed and lots of love going into all the applications. This means that the 2.1 release will already be much closer to being ready for the big crowds.
We got a little help now too. Nokia has packaged KOffice for Maemo 5 environment with a new UI for Maemo 5!, This means that KOffice can run in the new Maemo device(N900) . Just to clarify, this is not a commercial product of Maemo but is a contribution by Nokia to Open Source. The developed application will be made available for download in a typical release-early release-often. Bugs will likely exist in this version.
This is exciting news as KOffice will be available to a huge audience and Nokia has been helping to fix bugs and make MS-Office document support more robust.
Nokia has created a document viewer for the Maemo 5 platform (Fremantle) based on KOffice and uses the KWord and KPresenter applications to load and display word processor and presentation documents. The application uses a custom user interface specifically designed to fit in with the Maemo 5 style.
Part of the projects goals is to help KOffice mature its loading and rendering of MSOffice documents.
It is important to point out that all contributions to KOffice have been made directly inside the KOffice subversion repository. The KOffice document viewer for Maemo 5 will be shown for the first time at Maemo Summit in Amsterdam between October the 9th and 11th. This release is a bit unfortunately timed as the official KOffice2.1 release will likely be one or two weeks later making the Fremantle office use the release candidate at first.
I think its very exciting to have the hard work of all the KOffice community members be rewarded by having the document reader be based on our hard work. I’m very thankful to be working on the project and I’m looking forward to continued cooperation between Nokia and the KOffice community.
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Saturday, August 29th, 2009
The KOffice team is happy to announce the first Beta of the upcoming second release that implement the KOffice 2 vision. This release brings many improvements to the user experience, with bug fixes, improved file support handling, as well as new features.
Coloured Cells in KOffice
This release brings support for viewing tables created in other applications, it also offers editing of cell content.
This release also features the come back of a formula shape, support for filters on shape, and many new painting operation in Krita.
Read the full Changelog.
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
The KOffice team is happy to release KOffice 2.0.2, the second bugfix release in the 2.0 series. This release contains no new features but a number of bugfixes for almost all of the components in KOffice 2.0. This is likely the last bugfix release of 2.0 before starting the 2.1 series in October this year.
More details of the 2.0.2 release can be found in the changelog. This version of KOffice is translated to no less than 27 languages.
You can find source and binary packages for 2.0.2 here.
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Sunday, June 28th, 2009
Today, exactly one month since the release of KOffice 2.0.0, the KOffice team releases the first bugfix release in the 2.0 series. This release contains no new features but lots of bugfixes for almost all of the components in KOffice 2.0. We are planning at least two more bugfix releases of 2.0 before starting the 2.1 series in October this year.
More details of the 2.0.1 release can be found in the changelog. This version of KOffice is translated to no less than 27 languages, one more than 2.0.0. The new language for this release is Norwegian Bokmål, one of the two written forms of Norwegian.
You can find source and binary packages for 2.0.1 here.
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
The KOffice team is extremely pleased to finally announce version 2.0.0 of KOffice. This release marks the end of more than 3 years of work to port KOffice to Qt 4 and the KDE 4 libraries and, in some cases, totally rewrite the engine of the KOffice applications.
Sunrise on the Boardwalk by Arturo Donate
Over the last few years, the KOffice team has reworked the framework into an agile and flexible codebase. Our intention was to increase integration between the components of KOffice, decrease duplication of functionality and ease maintenance and development of new features. Furthermore, new approaches to UI design and interacting with the user have been implemented to support the new capabilities.
Targeted Audience
Our goal for now is to release a first preview of what we have accomplished. This release is mainly aimed at developers, testers and early adopters. It is not aimed at end users, and we do not recommend Linux distributions to package it as the default office suite yet.
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