KDE 4.0.0 release schedule

Howdy,

We, The Release Team, hereby announce that we are accelerating the
KDE 4.0.0 schedule [1]  2 weeks by removing 1 Beta and slightly
extending the Release Candidate cycle.

Additionally, we are introducing a new "KDE Development Platform" 
release to occur in late October.  These release will contain all the bits
and pieces necessary to develop KDE4 applications; meaning it will
include kdesupport, kdelibs, kdepimlibs and kdebase/runtime.
NOTE the earlier freeze date for these modules and make sure you
don't miss the deadline (3 Oct) to get your fixes in.

The schedules look like this:

KDE 4.0.0 Development Platform
=========================
For modules: kdesupport, kdelibs, kdepimlibs, kdebase/runtime
3 October (Wed): Freeze -- Only critical bugfixes allowed after this date
24 October (Wed): Tagging
30 October (Tue): Release KDE Development Platform 4.0.0

KDE 4.0.0 Desktop Release
========================
All main modules, plus extragear
26 September (Wed): Tagging KDE 4.0.0 Beta 3
2  October (Tue): Release KDE 4.0.0 Beta 3

19 October (Fri): Total Release Freeze, bugfixes only

24 October (Wed): Tagging KDE 4.0.0 RC1
30 October (Tue): Release RC1

14 November (Wed): Tagging RC2
20 November (Tue): Release RC2

5  December (Wed): Tagging RC-final
11 December (Tue): Release KDE 4.0.0 Desktop

See The Dot article [3] for more info.
As usual, the dates are estimates and are subject to change.

-Allen, KDEPIM Release Dude

[1] http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.0_Release_Schedule
[2] http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.0_Release_Roadmap
[3] http://dot.kde.org/1189160442/