KDE 4.2.4 released

KDE Community Improves Desktop with KDE 4.2.4 

 KDE Community Ships Fourth Translation and Service Release of the 4.2 Free 
Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and 
Translation Updates  
 June 2nd, 2009. The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability 
of KDE 4.2.4, another bugfix and maintenance update for the latest generation 
of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. This is a monthly update to 
KDE 4.2. It ships with desktop workspace and many cross-platform applications 
such as administration programs, network tools, educational applications, 
utilities, multimedia software, games, artwork, development tools and more. 
KDE's award-winning tools and applications are available in more than 50 
languages. 

The KDE 4.2 Desktop 

KDE, including all its libraries and its applications, is available for free 
under Open Source licenses. KDE can be obtained in source and various binary 
formats from http://download.kde.org and can also be obtained on CD-ROM or 
with any of the major GNU/Linux and UNIX systems shipping today. 
Enhancements 
As a service release, the changelog contains a list of bugfixes and 
improvements. Notable improvements include, but are not limited to: 

- Okular (KDE's document viewer) now correctly supports selecting the pages to 
print using the PostScript backend. 
- KMail has received a whole slew of bug fixes 
- So has KHTML and therefore the Konqueror web browser 

Note that the changelog is usually incomplete, for a complete list of changes 
that went into KDE 4.2.4, you can browse the Subversion log. KDE 4.2.4 also 
ships a more complete set of translations. 

To find out more about the KDE 4.2.x desktop and applications, please refer to 
the KDE 4.2.0, KDE 4.1.0 and KDE 4.0.0 release notes. KDE 4.2.4 is a 
recommended update for everyone running KDE 4.2.2 or earlier.

For a complete version of this announcement, visit
http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.2.4.php
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