KDE 4.1.2 released... next new feature release will be Jan 09... F8 implications.

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not running KDE4.1 anymore as I reverted back to F8.  However, it
> is interesting to not that the KDE team released KDE4.1.2 this morning
> and in their release, they say this:
>
> "no new features went into KDE 4.1.2, but some nice bug fixes instead.
> David Faure has fixed a long-standing and annoying performance issue
> when deleting files using KIO, so you can now accidentally delete your
> home directory 32 times faster For the more faint-hearted, it will also
> work well with other files. You can read about all the changes that went
> into Codename in the changelog which offers links to the comprehensive
> SVN log files. KDE 4.1.2 is a recommended upgrade for everybody running
> KDE 4. The next feature release of the KDE workspace and applications
> will be in January 2009 when 4.2.0 will be upon you"
>
> http://dot.kde.org/1223050704/
>
> In other words, F10, when it ships in October, is going to have the same
> KDE functionality that F9 has now, ie it is missing a lot of commonly
> needed desktop functionality.  An increase in KDE4 functionality won't
> occur until the KDE 4.2.0 release in January, if there isn't a schedule
> slip.
>
> Support for F8 is going to cease in December.  I plan to continue to run
> F8 until KDE 4.2.1 is released.


Ok. Nothing wrong with that. I was using FC7 till last month.

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