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.

General

• Add support for finder file associations for KOffice on Mac OSX.
• Fix: some icons.
• Fix: spelling.

libs

• flake
  • Fix: changing input device should change the current tool.
  • Fix: locking isn’t honored at startup.
• Fix: default template on the open dialog.

KWord

• Fix: crash when printing (194971)

KPlato

• Fix: don’t allow start time to be superior to end time.
• Fix: keep optimistic/pessimistic ratio constant when estimate is changed.
• In duration entry, add copy/paste and unit entry via keyboard.
• Fix: vertical scrollbar in gantt views.
• Increase column height in treeviews a little to give usable room for editors.
• Enable “current item” indication in calendar editor.
• Fix: crash when app is terminated with open dialog.
• Fix: in Task view, Editing commands were not executed.
• Fix: Should not allow me to enter an end date before the start date (188094).
• Fix: Task progress dialog, set percent finished to 100% when task is marked as finished (188095).

Krita

• Fix: the curve widget on dark theme.
• Fix: crash when opening some JPEG (191299).
• Fix: apply effect masks on shape, group layers.
• Fix: crash when using the duplicate op with a perspective correction.
• Fix: correctly save Keywords metadata to IPTC.
• Fix: saving to jpeg/png after merging.
• Fix: painting with the convolution painter.
• Fix: tablet pressure only effective when size is enabled in the option.

KChart

• Fix: crash on activating the chart tool without a shape.

Plugins

• Fix: when changing an image, don’t ignore the old size of the shape (195500)
• Fix: crash when selecting the default tool after background tool (195472)

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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