After last week's update to the KDE 3.5 series, today's KDE release updates the stable KDE 4.1 branch to KDE 4.1.1. It bears the codename "Cebidae" referring to an in-joke often made during Akademy 2008. With only a good month of development time -- and Akademy in between -- the changelog is still impressively long. Pretty much all applications have received the developers' attention, resulting in a long list of bugfixes and improvements.The most significant changes are:


Significant performance, interaction and rendering correctness improvements in KHTML and Konqueror, KDE's webbrowser
User interaction, rendering and stability fixes in Plasma, the KDE4 desktop shell
PDF backend fixes in the document viewer Okular
Fixes in Gwenview, the image viewer's thumbnailing, more robust retrieval and display of images with broken metadata
Stability and interaction fixes in KMail


To find out more about KDE 4.1, please refer to the KDE 4.1.0 and KDE 4.0.0 release notes. KDE 4.1.1 is a recommended update for everyone running KDE 4.1.0. It will be followed up by more x.y.z updates over the next months and ultimately by a new feature release, KDE 4.2.0 this coming January. Enjoy KDE 4.1.1 and let us know your findings.

Posted on Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:53:04 +0000 at http://dot.kde.org/1220442784/