Many bugfixes and functionality enhancements including:
General
New default widget style: Keramik
New default icon theme: Crystal
Created and enhanced framework to effectively disable certain features of
the GUI, like for example shell access, disallowing to select custom wall
papers. "Kiosk mode"
Usability improvements:
Kicker: Context menu, applet menus, wording and panel feature consistency
improved
Kicker: Redesigned control module.
KCalc: Usability Improvements.
KSnapshot: Usability Improvements.
KsCD: User Interface Improvements in configuration and information dialogs
kdelibs
Extended the DCOP commandline client to
enable nonGUI applications (such as shell scripts) to use DCOP
send DCOP messages to multiple users and/or sessions concurrently
Added to notification dialog to allow applications to configure their
notifications with a common GUI.
Added "Open File", "Open Destination" and "Keep window open" to download
progress dialog.
KDatePicker has now week number display and selection.
Added KLocale support for setting/retrieving the first day of a week
Support for "Multimedia keys" on your keyboard.
Added on-demand icon loading support to improve startup performance of
applications.
KHTML:
Improvements to printing support.
Page Info and Frame info dialog.
Auto-Scroll support of webpages using Shift combined with arrow keys.
Many, many Bugfixes and improvements.
Small codebase merges with Safari. The main merge is planned for a future
release however, as it requires more testing.
KIO:
Modified thumbnail ioslave that can extract a thumbnail from the file
directly if it contains one, rather than generating one itself.
Added fish:// protocol slave, which can access remote filesystems via
SSH and SCP
Cleanups and Corrections in smtp:// protocol slave.
Activated rtsp:// protocol slave.
Added support for Public Key Authentication and interopability with newer
versions of OpenSSH to sftp:// protocol slave.
KSSL:
SSL certificate policies can now be configured based on the host name
arts
* Compile fix for IRIX64
kdelibs
* KHTML : Fixed progress bar.
* KHTML : Fixed several crashes and misrenderings.
* KHTML : Fixed "HTML source displayed in text viewer" after viewing
text.
* KHTML : Only ask "download plugins?" once per requested mimetype in
the same page.
* Javascript : several fixes (row.cells(), tablecaption.*, heading.*,
event.x/y) .
* libkscreensaver : Fixed bug that in rare cases prevented the
screensaver from showing anything.
* kio_file : Proper "disk full" error message in mkdir
* KIO : Dropping links to webpages onto the desktop works in all cases
now
* Drag-and-drop of URLs : Improved compatibility with non-KDE apps
* KToolBar : fix for oversized comboboxes in toolbars, e.g. in KOffice
kdebase
* NSPlugins : Compatibility with gcc-3.x
* Konqueror configuration : fixed default font size value
* KDesktop : better determination of icon heights, for "lineup Icons"
* KDesktop : Don't rearrange all icons when changing the font size
* KControl : Fixed proxy configuration dialog layout
* Fix a lot of mem leak
* Kaddressbook : fix crash when we export CSV list
* KDM
* Security: proper temp dir creation for QT and disabled
crash dialog
* Made chooser work at all
* Fixed compilation with older glibc
* Fixed bad lilo interaction wrt. warnings
kdegraphics
* Kamera: Fixed crash when we didn't select camera in kcmkamera
* KGhostview: Security related fixes
kdemultimedia
* KMix : Fixed compilation on Solaris
* Kaboodle : fixed when it was embedded in konqueror
* Fix a lot of memory leak
kdenetwork
* kpf: Security related fixes
kdepim
* KAlarm: Fix right-to-left character sets not being displayed in
message edit control
* KAlarm: Make "Help -> Report Bug" use the KDE bug system (bug
#43250)
* KNotes: Fixed session management (bug #22844)
* KNotes: Fixed mouse behaviour to be like kwin's (raise and lower
already on mouse press)
* KNotes: Fixed (in)famous bug that caused the big black windows
and lost data (bugs #22062, #44870, #45084, #45386, #45451,
#46570, #47352)
* KNotes: Fixed drag'n drop of links and plain text
kdesdk
* Disabled kbugbuster compilation because bug system changed. Use CVS
version if you need it.