Several bugs in encoding and refreshing in Konsole have been fixed
A couple of crashes in Okular's PDF viewer have been fixed
Alarms have received some fixes in KDE PIM
The changelog lists more, if not all improvements since KDE SC 4.4.4.
* gpglib/list.c: Handle GnuPG 2 --with-colons output format changes.
* gpglib/mimegpgfork.c: GnuPG 2 wants --batch when specifying passphrase-fd.
* tcpd/configure.in: Check if explicit linking with libgpg-error is required.
* tcpd/libcouriergnutls.c (tls_connect): Fix bad call to
gnutls_server_name_set(). Affects Courier compiled with GnuTLS support.
* maildrop/mailbot.c (main): Set close-on-exec bit on opened files.
* courier/doc/courier.sgml: Move the SPF section to a separate refsect2
to work around misformatting by the manpage stylesheet.
* rfc2045/rfc2045reply.c (mkreply): Fix sender's name in the reply salutation.
* html/en-us/newmsg.html: Ditto.
* rfc2045/reformime.sgml: Document the -c option to reformime.
* imapd.c (main): Fix typo in alert message.
* Big quota patch (with some changes).
(See the Changelog(s) for previous releases)
Based on patch(es) from PR pkg/42989 by Brian Candler.
* Several bugs in filename sorting in the Dolphin file manager have been
fixed
* Issues with encoded filenames in ZIP archives have been fixed
* A number of bugs in games, such as KMines, KNetwalk and LSkat and
KSpaceDuel have been fixed
The changelog lists more
New Libraries:
* Functional/factory: Function objects for dynamic and by-value construction.
* Functional/forward: Function object adapters to address the forwarding
problem.
Major Updates:
* Range: Boost.Range has undergone extensive updates that it include all of the
features from the recently reviewed Boost.RangeEx.
* Range-based version of the full STL iterator based algorithms.
* Range adaptors which can be combined with range-based algorithms for
unpresedented expressiveness and efficiency.
* New functions: irange, istream_range, join, combine.
Updated Libraries
Build System:
* When cross-compiling to GNU targets, static libraries are properly created.
Previously, using such libraries resulted in Archive has no index error.
* The naming of DLL and import libraries with gcc compiler on Windows, both
mingw and cygwin, now matches default conventions of those environments.
Previously, the naming scheme was the same as for other Windows compilers.
Updated Tools:
* Quickbook: Unicode escape characters.
* Support the UTF-8 byte order mark.
* Disallow [ in simple markup. Fixes some errors with mismatched punctuation.
* Add a command line flag (-D) to define macros at the command line.
* Improved post-processor output.
* Check that [section] and [endsect] tags are balanced in templates.
Numerous fixes in Konsole, KDE's terminal emulator, among them two possible
crashers in session management
Flash plugin support in KHTML has been enhanced to work with newest Youtube
skins
Case-sensitivity in renaming fixes in KIO, KDE's network-transparent I/O
library
Hiding the mouse cursor in some special cases in presentation mode and two
possible crashers have been fixed
For 4.4.0 major new technologies have been introduced, including social
networking and online collaboration features, a new netbook-oriented
interface and infrastructural innovations such as the KAuth authentication
framework. According to KDE's bug-tracking system, 7293 bugs have been
fixed and 1433 new feature requests were implemented.
KDE SC 4.4.1 has a number of improvements:
A performance problem in KMail when sending emails has been fixed
Various fixes in Plasma widgets and other addons, such as the analog clock
and the picture frame
A number of fixes in Konsole, KDE's powerful terminal application
KDE SC 4.4.2 has a number of improvements:
Possible crashes in Plasma, Dolphin and Okular have been fixed
The Microblog applet now shows the correct time in the timeline
The audioplayer KRunner plugin has been fixed to not freeze the KRunner UI
anymore
* A number of bugs in KIO have been squashed, making updating of shown
directories work again and solving some other stability issues
* A crash when creating an avatar from the webcam in Kopete has been fixed
* kded taking 100% CPU time in certain situations has been cured
KDE SC 4.3.4 has a number of improvements:
* A bugfix in Plasma's pixmap cache makes the workspace more responsive
* Okular, the document viewer improved stability in certain situations
* Marble, the desktop globe has seen some polish
* Passphrases with non-ASCII characters have been fixed in the KGpg
encryption tool
* New Libraries
Property Tree: A tree data structure especially suited to storing
configuration data, from Marcin Kalicinski and Sebastian Redl.
* Updated Libraries
* Build System
A bug preventing "fat" 32-bit + 64-bit builds on OSX has been fixed.
KDE 4.3.2 brings a nice number of bugfixes, some critical, some just
fixing small annoyances:
* Many crashers have been fixed in KDE's core libraries, bringing more
stability to all applications
* KWin's window compositing effects have been further stabilized by fixing
a number of bugs in effect plugins such as the famous coverswitch window
switcher
* The biggest number of bugs for this release has been fixed in KMail,
KDE's email client, making it more reliable and usable by correcting a
number of display issues
* Saving files over themselves works again in Okular, KDE's document viewer
