Howdy

KDE 4.2 is more or less ready for testing, but we have
some open tasks before we will officially call for testing.
We would like to know how many people are still using
KDE4 on FreeBSD 6.4? We are considering dropping
support for 6.x.

Let me explain.

First of all it is sad to say, but currently there are
only 2 people who actively work on KDE4. It is _really_
hard work to get KDE4 ready for FreeBSD. Also it is
getting harder to build KDE4 with gcc 3.x. Of couse
if somebody want to support KDE4 on 6.x you are
welcome to our team! Try to compile KDE, make
patches and push them upstream! So, in order to
move forward we may have to drop 6.x support.
We just don't have the manpower to build multiple
versions.

A few private words to the FreeBSD KDE users.

A lot of you want to have the latest KDE4 in the ports tree,
but we haven't had much success getting people to help.
Last year when we called for help, not many responded.
If you want us to release new versions in a timely
manner, please pitch in and help.

Ok, enough for the moment. What do you think about
6.4 support?

Howdy

We are happy to announce that QT 4.4.3 and KDE-4.1.4 is now available in
the FreeBSD ports tree.

Great thanks for those who helped us with testing
4.1.2 and 4.1.3 during long-long ports ice-age.

For lists of bugfixes and improvements please see:
http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_1_1to4_1_2.php
http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_1_2to4_1_3.php
http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_1_3to4_1_4.php

Oh and you have only two weeks to play with it — KDE 4.2.0 is coming

We are happy to announce the first public Call for Testing
with KDE 4.2.

The past weeks we focused on the complex and very time
consuming task to get the KDE4.2 BETA2 ports into a much
better shape so we can now go on to the next step: much wider
public testing.

.. More infos here

First of all I wish a Happy New Year to all readers.
FreeBSD 7.1 was released today and the ports slush
is over. A lot of you are waiting for the QT 4.4 and KDE 4.1.3
update, but I have some bad news, first is my AMD64 Tinderbox
is broken and we are working to find a way to fix this problem.
Another problem is KDE 4.1.4 will be out in few days. We don’t
want to put KDE 4.1.3 in the tree now in and few days later update
to 4.1.4. So our plan is to wait few days. Also, we are more
or less ready with KDE 4.2 Beta 2, which we will call for
testing next weekend.

That’s all for now, but I hope you understand why we are waiting.