KDE 2.2.2 binaries now available for download

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Nov. 25, 2001

(press release excerpt) -- The KDE Project has announced the immediate release of KDE 2.2.2, a powerful and easy-to-use Internet-enabled desktop for Linux.KDE 2.2.2 is available in 42 languages and ships with the core KDE libraries, the core desktop environment, and over 100 applications from the other base KDE packages (administration, multimedia, network, PIM, development, etc.). The KDE Project encourages all users of the award-winning KDE, and strongly encourages all users of KDE in multi-user environments, to upgrade to KDE 2.2.2.

KDE 2.2.2 is a security and service release. It marks the last scheduled release of the KDE 2 series, though further releases may occur. Code development is currently focused on KDE 3.0, scheduled for its first beta release next month and for final release in the first quarter of 2002.

The principal improvements over KDE 2.2.1, released two months ago, include:

security-related
- SSL certificate loading
- symlink vulnerability in .wmrc access by KDM introduced in 2.2
- security problem with eFax (used by klprfax)
- potential problem in PAM invocation by KDM
- potential harmful side-effect of failed KDM session starts
new features
- added support for CodeWeavers' CrossOver plug-in (provides support for QuickTime, etc.) (screenshot)
- added support for the wheel mouse for scrolling through the KGhostview PS/PDF viewer component
- ability to search for multiple patterns at a time in the file search dialog
- debugging multi-threaded applications with KDevelop
improvements/fixes
- handling of HTTP links that redirect to FTP
- POST using SSL through a proxy and sending headers through proxies
- saving of recently-selected files in the file dialog
- handling of non-ASCII characters over SMB
- toolbar button captions with certain styles
- selecting items with the mouse in Konqueror
- sorting in Konqueror's textview
- saving current settings as a theme in the theme manager
- crashes in KMail with certain mails
- crash on invoking the KDM chooser
- non-Latin languages with KDevelop
performance
- icon loading optimized
- file dialog speedups
- stop spinning SMB client processes
- handling of large files in Kate

A more complete list of changes and a FAQ about the release are available at the KDE web site .

KDE 2.2.2 complements the release of KOffice 1.1 in August, 2001. KOffice is a comprehensive, modular, component-based suite of office productivity applications. KDE is the only Open Source project to provide a complete desktop and productivity environment for Linux/UNIX.

KDE and all its components (including KOffice) are available for free under Open Source licenses from the KDE server and its mirrors and can also be obtained on CD-ROM .

All major Linux distributors and some Unix distributors have provided binary packages of KDE 2.2.2 for recent versions of their distribution. Some of these binary packages are available for free download under http://download.kde.org/stable/2.2.2/ or under the equivalent directory at one of the many KDE ftp server mirrors , and additional binary packages, as well as updates to the packages now available, will become available over the next few week.

The library requirements for a particular binary package vary with the system on which the package was compiled. Please bear in mind that some binary packages may require a newer version of Qt and other libraries than was included with the applicable distribution (e.g., Linux Distro 8.0 may have shipped with Qt-2.2.3 but the packages may require may require Qt-2.3.x.

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