Download KDE 3.5.4

The developers behind the K Desktop Environment have released version 3.5.4 of the popular desktop environment for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, among others. KDE comes with a standard desktop including fifteen packages of applications such as a Personal Information Manager, programs for multimedia, administration and network management, games, and so on. In this release, ten new features have been added and about a hundred imperfections have been fixed. The main changes are summarized as follows:

Significant enhancements include:

• Improved removable device support in Linux (users can now mount all devices supported by FreeDesktop’s HAL and control how it will be done)
• Speed ​​optimizations in console and Kate
• Multiple holidays can now start on the same date KOrganizer
• Lots of fixes in Konqueror‘s HTML engine, KHTML
• The dialog for sending client-side SSL certificates is now more usable
• KNetworkConf now supports Fedora Core 5 and handles WEP keys better

Over 10 new features were added and more than 100 bugs were fixed. For a more detailed list of improvements since the KDE 3.5.3 release in May 2006, please refer to the KDE 3.5.4 Changelog.[break]