| KOffice bug-fix cycle nets v1.5.1 release |
May 22, 2006
Forty days after the release of KOffice 1.5.0, the KOffice team released v1.5.1 of the Linux desktop office suite May 22. The project team described it as "mainly a bugfix release... and translations update."
In addition to "critical fixes" in KWord, KSpread, and Krita, KOffice 1.5.1 also includes improved import/export filters and fixes for KSpread OpenDocument support, the team said in the release announcement.
Users of Kexi -- a data management application that is the KOffice counterpart to MS Access or FileMaker -- are discouraged from installing 1.5.1.
"A critical bug discovered too late in the release process makes forms in Kexi unusable. We plan to release 1.5.2 with a fix within a month," the team said.
Kexi is designed from the ground up as a standard KDE database application, the team said.
Another known issue is that Krita crashes when saving an image containing exif information to .kra twice, the team said.
KOffice v1.5.1 includes the following standard features, the team said:- a frame-based, full-featured word processor (KWord)
- a spreadsheet application (KSpread)
- a presentation application (KPresenter)
- a flowchart application (Kivio)
- an integrated database application (Kexi)
- a new project management application (KPlato)
- a pixel based image editing and paint application (Krita)
- a vector-drawing application (Karbon14)
KOffice v1.5.1 also includes these embeddable objects:- a business-quality reporting software (Kugar)
- full-featured charting engine (KChart)
- mathematical formula handling (KFormula)
- a built-in thesaurus (KThesaurus) and support for many different file formats.
To see a detailed list of improvements, go here.
KOffice and all its components (including KDE) are available for free under open source licenses from the KDE http and ftp mirrors.
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