The release of KDE 3.5.6 [LWN.net]

The K Desktop Environment team has announced the release of version 3.5.6 of KDE:

The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.6, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE now supports 65 languages, making it available to more people than most non-free software and can be easily extended to support others by communities who wish to contribute to the open source project. This release includes a number of bugfixes for KHTML, Kate, the kicker, ksysguard and lots of other applications. Significant features include additional support for compiz as a window manager with kicker, session management browser tabs for Akregator, templating for KMail messages, and new summary menus for Kontact making it easier to work with your appointments and to-do's.

The majority of changes documented in the KDE 3.5.6 Change Log are bug fixes, feature additions that address other problems and general code cleanup. Some of the new features introduced in this release include:

KHTML improves case-insensitively for its style matching.
Kate adds actionscript highlighting, a new session chooser panel applet and a KMenu extension.
Akgregator now has session management for browser tabs.
KAlarm has a cleaned up preferences dialog.
KMail adds templates, anti spam wizard support, filter enhancements and composer address completion capabilities.
Kontact adds some new menus for faster access to edit and delete functions.
KOrganizer has new command line options for better user control.
KPilot has more granular backup options.
Umbrello adds a stereotype selection list.
klaptopdaemon adds a new battery level display.

If you want to try KDE out, it has been integrated into this list of Linux distributions, the more adventurous may want to look at the KDE 3.5.6 Info Page for download and build instructions. New KDE users should delve into the Getting Answers to Your Questions document for background information.

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