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12th October 2008 - KDE Forum Launched
"KDE Launches Web-based Bulletin Board."

3rd October 2008 - KDE 4.1.2 Released
"KDE Community Ships Second Maintenance Update for KDE 4.1."

3rd September 2008 - KDE 4.1.1 Released
"KDE Community Ships First Maintenance Update for KDE 4.1."

26th August 2008 - KDE 3.5.10 Released
"KDE Community Ships Tenth Maintenance Update for Fourth Major Version for Leading Free Software Desktop."

29th July 2008 - KDE 4.1 Released
"KDE Community Ships Major Update to Leading Free Software Desktop."

15th July 2008 - KDE 4.1 Release Candidate Released
"KDE Community Ships Release Candidate of Major Update to Leading Free Software Desktop."

24th June 2008 - KDE 4.1 Beta 2 Released
"KDE Community Ships Second Beta of Major Update to Leading Free Software Desktop."

4th June May 2008 - KDE 4.0.5 Released
"KDE Community Ships Fourth Maintenance Update for Fifth Major Version for Leading Free Software Desktop."

27th May 2008 - KDE 4.1 Beta 1 Released
"KDE Community Ships First Beta of Major Update to Leading Free Software Desktop."

7th May 2008 - KDE 4.0.4 Released
"KDE Community Ships Fourth Maintenance Update for Fourth Major Version for Leading Free Software Desktop."

29th April 2008 - KDE 4.1 Alpha1 Released
"KDE Community Ships First Preview Version for Next-Gen Leading Free Software Desktop."

4th April 2008 - KDE and Wikimedia Collaborate
"KDE e.V and Wikimedia Deutschland have opened a shared office in Frankfurt, Germany."

2nd April 2008 - KDE 4.0.3 Released
"KDE Community Ships Third Maintenance Update for Fourth Major Version for Leading Free Software Desktop."

5th March 2008 - KDE 4.0.2 Released
"KDE Community Ships Second Maintenance Update for Fourth Major Version for Leading Free Software Desktop."

19th February 2008 - KDE 3.5.9 Released
"KDE Community Ships Ninth Maintenance Update for Fourth Major Version for Leading Free Software Desktop."

5th February 2008 - KDE 4.0.1 Released
"KDE Community Ships First Maintenance Update for Fourth Major Version for Leading Free Software Desktop."

11th January 2008 - KDE 4.0 Released
"KDE Community Ships Fourth Major Version for Leading Free Software Desktop."

11th December 2007 - KDE 4.0 Release Candidate 2 Released
"KDE Project Ships Second Release Candidate for Leading Free Software Desktop."

20th November 2007 - KDE 4.0 Release Candidate 1 Released
"KDE Project Ships First Release Candidate for Leading Free Software Desktop."

30th October 2007 - KDE 4.0 Beta 4 Released
"KDE Project Ships Fourth Beta Release for Leading Free Software Desktop."

30th October 2007 - KDE 4.0 Development Platform Release Candidate 1
"KDE Project Ships Release Candidate for the Development Platform."

17th October 2007 - KDE 4.0 Beta 3 Released
"KDE Project Ships Third Beta Release for Leading Free Software Desktop."

16th October 2007 - KDE 3.5.8 Released
"Project Ships Eighth Translation and Service Release for Leading Free Software Desktop."

6th September 2007 - KDE 4.0 Beta 2 Released
"KDE Project Ships Second Beta Release for Leading Free Software Desktop."

2nd August 2007 - KDE 4.0 Beta 1 Released
"KDE Project Ships First Beta Release for Leading Free Software Desktop."

4th July 2007 - KDE 4.0-alpha2 Released
"KDE Project Ships Second Alpha Release for Leading Free Software Desktop."

22nd May 2007 - KDE 3.5.7 Released
"Project Ships Seventh Translation and Service Release for Leading Free Software Desktop."

11th May 2007 - KDE 4.0 Alpha 1 Released
"KDE Project Ships First Alpha Release for Leading Free Software Desktop."

25th January 2007 - KDE 3.5.6 Released
"Project Ships Sixth Translation and Service Release for Leading Free Software Desktop."

11th October 2006 - KDE 3.5.5 Released
"Project Ships Fifth Translation and Service Release for Leading Free Software Desktop."

23 September 2006 - aKademy 2006 kicked off
"Fourth KDE World Summit started at the Trinity College in Dublin / Ireland."

18 September 2006 - aKademy 2006 schedule finalized
"Schedule for aKademy 2006 finalized."

2nd August 2006 - KDE 3.5.4 Released
"Project Ships Fourth Translation and Service Release for Leading Free Software Desktop."

31 May 2006 - KDE 3.5.3 Released
"Project Ships Third Translation and Service Release for Leading Free Software Desktop."

9 May 2006 - KDE e.V. Becomes Associate Member of FSFE
"KDE e.V. and the Free Software Foundation Europe are proud to announce their associate status"

28 March 2006 - KDE 3.5.2 Released
"Project Ships Second Translation and Service Release for Leading Free Software Desktop."

31 January 2006 - KDE 3.5.1 Released
"Project Ships Translation and Service Release for Leading Free Software Desktop."

29 November 2005 - KDE 3.5 Released
"Many new features and refinements make KDE the complete free desktop environment."

13 October 2005 - KDE 3.4.3 Released
"KDE Project Ships Third Translation and Service Release for Free Software Desktop"

28 July 2005 - KDE 3.4.2 Released
"KDE Project Ships Second Translation and Service Release for Free Software Desktop"

31 May 2005 - KDE 3.4.1 Released
"KDE Project Ships Translation and Service Release for Free Software Desktop"

16 March 2005 - KDE 3.4 Released
"KDE Project Ships New Major Release Of Leading Open Source Desktop Environment"

8 December 2004 - KDE 3.3.2 Released
"KDE Project Ships Translation and Service Release for Leading Open Source Desktop"

12 October 2004 - KDE 3.3.1 Released
"KDE Project Ships Translation and Service Release for Leading Open Source Desktop"

19 August 2004 - KDE 3.3 Released
"KDE Project Ships New Major Release Of Leading Open Source Desktop Environment"

09 June 2004 - KDE 3.2.3 Released
"KDE Project Ships Translation and Service Release for Leading Open Source Desktop"

19 April 2004 - KDE 3.2.2 Released
"KDE Project Ships Translation and Service Release for Leading Open Source Desktop"

09 March 2004 - KDE 3.2.1 Released
"KDE Project Ships Translation and Service Release for Leading Open Source Desktop"

03 February 2004 - KDE 3.2 Released
"KDE Project Ships New Major Release Of Leading Open Source Desktop Environment"

14 January 2004 - KDE 3.1.5 Released
"KDE Project Ships Fifth and Final Translation and Service Release for the KDE 3.1 release"

03 November 2003 - KDE 3.2.0 Beta1 Released
"The first beta of the upcoming KDE 3.2 release."

16 September 2003 - KDE 3.1.4 Released
"KDE Project Ships Fourth Translation and Service Release for Leading Open Source Desktop"

29 July 2003 - KDE 3.1.3 Released
"KDE Project Ships Third Translation and Service Release for Leading Open Source Desktop"

19 May 2003 - KDE 3.1.2 Released
"KDE Project Ships Second Translation and Service Release for Leading Open Source Desktop"

20 March 2003 - KDE 3.1.1 Released
"KDE Project Ships Translation and Service Release for Leading Open Source Desktop"

11 March 2003 - See KDE at CeBit 2003
"The KDE Project will present itself at CeBIT, the world's largest computer trade show, taking place in Hannover from March 12th to March 19th."

28 January 2003 - KDE 3.1 Released
"KDE Project Ships Major Feature Upgrade of Third- Generation GNU/Linux - UNIX Desktop, Offering Enterprises and Governments a Compelling Free and Open Desktop Solution"

21 December 2002 - KDE 3.0.5a Released
"KDE 3.0.5a is a security and maintenance update over KDE 3.0.5."

12 December 2002 - KOffice 1.2.1 Released
"KOffice 1.2.1 is a stability release, with the principal improvements over KOffice 1.2 occurring in the spreadsheet program (KSpread)."

18 November 2002 - KDE 3.0.5 Released
"KDE 3.0.5 is a security update over KDE 3.0.4."

9 October 2002 - KDE 3.0.4 Released
"KDE 3.0.4 is a bugfix and security update over KDE 3.0.3."

2 October 2002 - KDE 3.1 Beta2 Released
"The second beta of the upcoming KDE 3.1 release. A lot more stable."

10 September 2002 - KOffice 1.2 Released
"An incredible number of improvements over KOffice 1.1."

21 August 2002 - KDE 3.1 Beta1 Released
"The first beta of the upcoming KDE 3.1 release."

19 August 2002 - KDE 3.0.3 Released
"KDE 3.0.3 is a bugfix and security update over KDE 3.0.2."

11 July 2002 - KDE 3.1 Alpha1 Released
"A first, experimental snapshot of the CVS tree of the upcoming KDE 3.1 release. Many new features, and probably many new bugs as well. Have fun ;-)"

2 July 2002 - KDE 3.0.2 Released
"KDE 3.0.2 is a regular maintenance update for the successful KDE 3.0 release."

22 May 2002 - KDE 3.0.1 Released
"KDE 3.0.1 is a bugfix and translation update for the successful KDE 3.0 release."

3 April 2002 - KDE 3.0 Released
"KDE 3.0 is a major step for the KDE project. A hundred words could be written here, but to stop boring you with details, lets just say: Check it out!"

13 February 2002 - KDE 3.0 Beta2 Released
"Beta2 has come a long way since beta1. At this juncture a lot of user testing would be very beneficial, as a large group of KDE developers are meeting for a week at the end of February in Nürnberg, Germany to ready the KDE 3.0 final release. In addition, this release provides one of the last great opportunities for developers to port KDE 2 applications to KDE 3 prior to the final release."

19 December 2001 - KDE 3.0 Beta1 Released
"After two months of hard work on integrating new features as well as improving the internationalisation support and further working on the stability we're releasing this snapshot of the current development tree to the public, in order to receive more constructive feedback and ease interested developers and users to follow the development."

17 December 2001 - KOffice 1.1.1 Released
"Currently KOffice has functionality well-suited for home and SOHO users, who generally write letters, faxes, memos and similar documents. KOffice 1.1.1 is a minor update release for KOffice 1.1."

21 November 2001 - KDE 2.2.2 Released
KDE 2.2.2 is a security and service release that marks the last scheduled release of the KDE 2 series, although further releases may occur. The KDE Project encourages all users, and strongly encourages all users of KDE in multi-user environments, to upgrade to KDE 2.2.2.

5 October 2001 - KDE 3.0 Alpha1 Released
As a result of our porting efforts we're happy to release 3.0 Alpha1 to the public as the first preview of KDE 3 for interested developers and users. Alpha 1 is the first release based on the excellent toolkit Qt v3.0 and will continue to be improved and evolved in the near future to a first stable release of KDE 3.0, which is planned for February 2002.

19 September 2001 - KDE 2.2.1 Released
"In response to customer demand, we have made KDE the default desktop environment in the latest release of our Turbolinux Workstation product," said Dino Brusco, VP of Marketing at Turbolinux Inc. "Our customers really appreciate the features and stability that KDE provides and we will be offering this latest version of KDE in an upcoming release of our Turbolinux Server product."

28 August 2001 - KOffice 1.1 Released
"Currently KOffice has functionality well-suited for home and SOHO users, who generally write letters, faxes, memos and similar documents. As the import filters for proprietary document formats continue to improve and the suite's features continue to evolve, we expect that in the near future KOffice will be ready to meet the needs of all but the most demanding areas of the enterprise."

15 August 2001 - KDE 2.2 Released
"Thanks to the high quality of the KDE 2 development framework and the invaluable feedback of our users we are delivering a more polished, better integrated and more feature-rich desktop experience in a relative short time."

4 July 2001 - KDE 2.2 Beta1 Released
KDE 2.2 Beta1 is a user and developer preview of KDE 2.2 incorporating major improvements, enhancements and fixes over KDE 2.1.2. "KDE 2.2beta1 completely integrates the XFree anti-aliased font extensions and can provide a fully anti-aliased font-enabled desktop."

30 April 2001 - KDE libraries 2.1.2 Released
"The KDE Project today announced the release of kdelibs 2.1.2, a security and bugfix release of the core KDE libraries. The other core KDE packages, including kdebase, have not been updated."

27 March 2001 - KDE 2.1.1 Released
"The primary goals of the 2.1.1 release are to improve documentation and provide additional language translations for the user interface, although the release includes a few bugfixes, and improvements to the HTML rendering engine"

26 February 2001 - KDE 2.1 Released
"KDE Ships Leading Desktop with Advanced Web Browser for GNU/Linux and Other UNIXes. [...] This release marks a leap forward in GNU/Linux desktop stability, usability and maturity and is suitable for enterprise deployment."

31 January 2001 - KDE 2.1 Beta2 Released
"New Beta Version of Leading GNU/Linux Desktop Offers New Theme Manager, Image Viewer and IDE"

16 December 2001 - KDE 2.1 Beta1 Released
"KDE 2.1 will be the second major release of the KDE 2 series, the next generation of the award-winning K Desktop Environment."

05 December 2000 - KDE 2.0.1 released
"The KDE Team today announced the release of KDE 2.0.1, KDE's powerful, modular, Internet-enabled desktop. KDE 2.0.1 is a translation, documentation and bug-fix release and follows six weeks after the release of KDE 2.0"

23 October 2000 - KDE 2.0 released
"The KDE Team today announced the release of KDE 2.0, KDE's powerful, modular, Internet-enabled desktop. This highly anticipated release constitutes the next generation of the award-winning KDE 1 series, which culminated in the release of KDE 1.1.2 just over a year ago. KDE 2.0 is the work product of hundreds of dedicated developers originating from over 30 countries. "

02 October 2000 - KDE's first translators and doc writers meeting 7th Linux Congress
"The first meeting of KDE translation and documentation teams has been a success. (...) This success demonstrates that there are strong energies willing to bring Unix Operating Systems and Free Software to the citizen with a documented, easy-to-use graphical interface, in their own language. This is an approach that proprietary operating systems are unable to sustain consistently. Now that computers have come to everyday life, this is putting a threat on cultural independance of many countries with respect to American language. On the contrary, all the people attending the workshop are committed to making computers - even using powerful Operating Systems like GNU/Linux - more easy to use for everyone."

15 September 2000 - KDE Final Beta released
"The KDE Team today announced the release of KDE 1.94, the fifth and final beta preview of KDE 2.0, KDE's next-generation, powerful, modular desktop. Following the release of KDE 1.93 on August 23, 2000, the release, code-named "Kandidat", is based on Trolltech's Qt 2.2.0 and will include the core KDE libraries, the core desktop environment, the KOffice suite, as well as the over 100 applications from the other core KDE packages: Administration, Games, Graphics, Multimedia, Network, Personal Information Management (PIM), Toys and Utilities. The release is targeted at users who would like to help the KDE team make usability, speed and feature enhancements and fix the remaining set of bugs before the release of KDE 2.0, scheduled for early-fourth quarter 2000.

5 September 2000 - Official Response to Stallman Editorial
"KDE Response to Stallman Editorial In a recent editorial on Linux Today, Richard Stallman claimed that KDE is still in violation of the GPL even though Qt is now covered under the GPL and all KDE code is compatible with the GPL. His rather absurd reasoning is that since KDE once violated the GPL, it will always be in violation unless the individual copyright holders "grant forgiveness."

31 August 2000 - KDE Response to GNOME Foundation
"The recent announcements regarding the formation of a GNOME Foundation coupled with the Sun/Hewlett Packard decision to use GNOME as their standard desktop has resulted in a deluge of requests to the KDE Core Team asking what our "position" is. Well, this is it. We offer this position paper in the hope that we can put this behind us and get back to coding"

22 August 2000 - KDE Desktop Is Show Favorite at LinuxWorld Expo
"August 22, 2000 (The INTERNET). KDE, the most advanced and user-friendly desktop for GNU/Linux - UNIX operating systems, was honored as Show Favorite in the Desktop category at the LinuxWorld Expo, held in San Jose, California last week."

29 July 2000 - KDE-2, the Launch Pad
"In a modest attempt to assist new users as well as devoted supporters, the developers of KDE Team prepared a series of documents presenting the most interesting technologies and the most important improvements that the KDE code acquired."

10 Febraury 2000 - SourceForge hosts KDE CVS
"KDE and VA Linux announced at the recent Linux World Expo that the KDE development system (our CVS) will be hosted by VA Linux with their SourceForge setup. SourceForge is a Open Source project hosting site located at http://www.sourceforge.net"

14 September 1999 - Meet the KDE Team at CeBIT Show
"This year's CeBIT appearance of the KDE Project will be hosted by SuSE on their main booth in hall 3, booth E045. SuSE staff as well as members of the KDE Core Team will be demonstrating KDE 1.1.2 including the new SuSE Desktop. The highlight will be a preview of the upcoming KDE 2.0 release including KOffice, the KDE Office Suite."

6 September 1999 - KDE-1.1.2 versus KDE-1.1.1
"This page tries to present as much as possible of the problem corrections and feature additions occurred in KDE between version 1.1.1 and the current, 1.1.2. The changes descriptions were kept brief. The main characteristic of the present release is stability, rock solid stability, as well as improved visual appearance. Thanks to all involved. Thanks to the users for their great moral support. Special thanks to the artists team!"

4 May 1999 - KDE-1.1.1 versus KDE-1.1
"This page tries to present as much as possible of the very nummerous problem corrections and feature additions occurred in KDE between version 1.1 and the current, 1.1.1. The changes descriptions were kept brief. The main characteristic of the present release is stability, rock solid stability. Thanks to all involved. Thanks to the users for their great moral support"

19 March 1999 - Innovation of the Year 1998/99
"(Hanover, Germany) The K Desktop Environment(KDE), an advanced and user-friendly desktop for the increasingly popular GNU/Linux - Unix operating system, was awarded top honors at CeBIT, the worlds largest computer trade fair, as "Innovation of the Year 1998/99" in the category "Software"."

4 March 1999 - KDE-1.1 versus KDE-1.0 - Most important differences
"ATTENTION: this Change Log is nowhere near complete. The changes descriptions were kept brief. There are many applications for which the authors didn't have the time (or found it less essential than coding) to submit a list of changes"

25 November 1998 - Corel Computer and KDE Announce Technology Relationship
"Corel Computer and the K Desktop Environment (KDE) Project today announced a technology relationship that will bring the KDE graphical user interface (GUI) to desktop versions of the NetWinder Linux-based thin-client and thin-server computers."

12 July 1998 - KDE 1.0 Announcement
"An integrated Desktop Environment for the Unix Operating System. We are pleased to announce the availability of release 1.0 of the KDesktop Environment"