Download KDE 4.2.3

Version 4.2.3 of K Desktop Environment was released on Wednesday, the third service release before the version 4.2.0 that was released at the end of January. KDE is a popular desktop environment developed primarily for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, but there are versions for it as well Windows and Mac OS X. It comes with a standard desktop, including fifteen packages of applications including a personal information manager, multimedia, administrative and network management programs, and games. Below are release notes of version 4.2.3:

Enhancements

As a service release, the changelog contains a list of bug fixes and improvements. The most user-visible improvements are:

• Online IMAP filtering in KMail has been fixed.
• KMail’s system tray icon now reacts to changes to folder properties and updates the number of emails shown there automatically
• Bug fixes, performance improvements and optimization in KHTML – Painting and interoperability with web standards has been further improved

Note that the changelog is usually incomplete, for a complete list of changes that went into KDE 4.2.3, you can browse the Subversion log. KDE 4.2.3 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 4.2.3 is a recommended update for everyone running KDE 4.2.2 or earlier.