November 26, 2008.
The KDE
Community today announced the immediate availability of "Caterpillar",
(a.k.a KDE 4.2 Beta 1), the first testing release of the new KDE 4.2 desktop. Caterpillar is aimed at testers and reviewers. It should provide a solid ground to report bugs
that need to be tackled before KDE 4.2.0 is released. Reviewers can use
this beta to get a first look at the upcoming KDE 4.2 desktop which
provides significant improvements all over the desktop and applications.
With 885 bugs closed in the past week, the KDE community is now in
bugfixing mode in order to provide a smooth KDE 4.2.0 to end users in
January.
A KDE 4.2 Beta 1 Desktop
Significant refinements of Plasma and KWin, the KDE workspace
For the 4.2 release, the KDE team has fixed literally thousands of
bugs and has implemented dozens of features that were missing until now
in KDE 4. 2 fixes your issues. This beta release gives you the
opportunity to assist in ironing out the remaining wrinkles. The KDE
release team has put together a list with the most significant
improvements in 4.2 Beta 1:
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