Amarok 2 beta 2 officially released

Amarok 2 beta 2 has been released. The new version comes with a new internal storage system that uses an embedded MySQL database as the backend.

October 08, 2008 - 06:07PM CT - by Ryan Paul

First look: Amarok 2 alpha 1 looking strong

Amarok 2 alpha 1 was released last week. Ars conducted extensive testing with the prerelease to give you an early look at the highly-anticipated update of the popular open-source audio player.

July 14, 2008 - 10:45PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Canary Islands to host 2009 KDE-GNOME joint desktop meeting

KDE and GNOME have teamed up for a combined desktop meeting in 2009. The event, which will draw a significant number of open source software community members, will be held at Gran Canaria.

July 14, 2008 - 03:05PM CT - by Troy Unrau

The critics are wrong: KDE 4 doesn't need a fork

Critics of KDE 4 have recently called for a fork to address what they perceive as weaknesses in the environment. Ars takes a look at some of the features in the upcoming 4.1 release and explains why the strengths of the new version make a fork unnecessary.

July 02, 2008 - 06:20AM CT - by Ryan Paul

First look: KDE 4.1 alpha 1 very promising

KDE 4.1 alpha 1 was released yesterday. The adoption of Qt 4.4 will bring some significant new features to the Plasma desktop shell, but the bumpy transition has made this release very fragile. Ars looks at alpha 1 and the impressive feature set that is being developed for the final 4.1 release, scheduled for July.

April 30, 2008 - 08:54AM CT - by Ryan Paul

KDE 4.0.3 released

KDE 4.0.3, the third monthly bugfix release in the KDE 4 series, was officially released today.

April 02, 2008 - 08:40PM CT - by Ryan Paul

KDE 4.1 to bring back Konqueror tree view, other goodies

KDE developers are finalizing the feature plan for KDE 4.1, which is scheduled for release in July. The release will add some impressive new features and bring back an assortment of old features that got lost during the transition to KDE 4.

March 17, 2008 - 02:32PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Amarok 2 feature freeze planned for later this month

The developers say that Amarok 2 feature freeze is planned for later this month along with a first alpha release.

March 09, 2008 - 10:48PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Plasma improvements: KDE 4.0.2 and beyond

Ars looks at KDE 4.0.2 and some recent improvements to KDE's Plasma desktop system, including support for Mac OS X dashboard widgets.

March 09, 2008 - 05:35PM CT - by Ryan Paul

KDE 4.0.1 released with numerous bugfixes

The KDE development community has announced the official release of KDE 4.0.1, which includes numerous improvements and bug fixes.

February 05, 2008 - 03:03PM CT - by Ryan Paul

KDE goes cross-platform with Windows, Mac OS X support

The KDE development community is working on porting the open-source desktop environment to Windows and Mac OS X. The ports aren't quite finished yet, but early versions are now available for testing.

January 23, 2008 - 09:49AM CT - by Ryan Paul

KDE kosplay: here there be dragons

A pair of KDE enthusiasts attended last week's KDE release event dressed as dragons.

January 22, 2008 - 12:49PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Ars at the KDE 4 release event

Ars attended the KDE 4.0 release event in Mountain View, California, where developers reflected on the release and discussed plans for the future of the open-source desktop environment.

January 21, 2008 - 01:19AM CT - by Ryan Paul

KDE 4.0 released: rough, but ready for action

KDE 4.0 has officially been released, with intriguing new features like the Plasma desktop shell and the Dolphin file manager.

January 11, 2008 - 08:14AM CT - by Ryan Paul

Unofficial KDE DEB packages released for Nokia Internet Tablets

New unofficial DEB packages of the KDE Maemo port finally make it easy to install the desktop environment on Nokia Internet Tablet devices.

January 09, 2008 - 03:49PM CT - by Ryan Paul

KDE 4.0.0 tagged in preparation for release

KDE 4.0 has been tagged in preparation for the official release. The source code is ready for packaging. Ars will be at the release event later this month to get you the inside scoop.

January 04, 2008 - 06:50PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Trolltech contributes new Phonon backends to KDE

Trolltech has released new backends for the Phonon media abstraction layer, bringing cross-platform multimedia support to KDE and Qt.

December 13, 2007 - 03:04PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Apple makes WebKit more open to outside contributors

Apple has changed its WebKit committer policy to make the project more inclusive and accessible to outside contributors and the KDE community.

December 05, 2007 - 12:09PM CT - by Ryan Paul

KDE 4.0 beta 4 released, extensive end user testing to begin

Following the release of the fourth beta of KDE 4, the developers are calling for end-user testing.

November 08, 2007 - 03:08PM CT - by Will Stephenson

KDE development platform appears

The KDE 4 release freeze starts today and the final release is anticipated for December. Core runtime components and libraries are being frozen ahead of the desktop to give third-party developers time to prepare.

October 24, 2007 - 06:48AM CT - by Will Stephenson