November 14th, 2011: KDE SC 4.7.3 available in ports

The KDE/FreeBSD team is pleased to announce the release of KDE Software Compilation 4.7.3 for FreeBSD. We invite you to read the original announcement.

Differently from the last update (from 4.6.5 to 4.7.2), this is an incremental, minor version update which should not require big interventions or cause big changes for users.

October 16th, 2011: KDE SC 4.7.2 available in ports

The KDE/FreeBSD team is pleased to announce the release of KDE Software Compilation 4.7.2 for FreeBSD. We invite you to read the original announcement.

A lot of effort was put into this and previous 4.7 releases both by the KDE and FreeBSD teams. Here's a list of some of the improvements:

• some modules were split in smaller chunks, letting you install what you really want;
• startup time was reduced of approximately 15 seconds;
• KWin is now much lighter (on some systems almost doubled performance was registered);
• auto-login via KDM is now supported;
• Phonon-GStreamer will stop notifying you with annoying messages;
• Kopete finally supports GoogleTalk;
• Kalzium now installs with its molecular editor;
• Zeitgeist support was added.

Along with this update, also Qt and PyQt4 were updated, respectively to 4.7.4 and 4.8.5.

More than ever, we'd like to say thanks to all testers and contributors, who were very helpful during this long porting process.

September 15th, 2011: CFT: KDE SC 4.7.1

We're happy to let you know that KDE SC 4.7.1 is ready for a public test.

You can get it via SVN checkout:

$ svn co http://area51.pcbsd.org/trunk/area51
# sh Tools/scripts/kdemerge -a /usr/ports

If you want to also test KDE PIM 4.7.1, run (at this exact point):

# sh Tools/scripts/kdemerge -m /usr/ports

Alternatively, if you're on amd64, you can use precompiled packages:

# PACKAGEROOT=http://packages.FreeBSD.kde.org portmaster -P x11/kde4

Warning: if you’re using a recent -CURRENT (after libraries soversion bump), you'll need to adjust your libmap.conf to use those packages.

Please read carefully the UPDATING-area51 notes.

We'd like to say thanks to Li-Wen Hsu (lwhsu@) for hosting and syncing the packages.

August 26th, 2011: KDE SC 4.7 roadmap

What’s keeping KDE 4.7 still out of FreeBSD? Well, the high number of tarballs (and thus ports) in which it was split for this release. Actually they’re not too much, but they require a deep scan to update dependencies. We’ll probably be ready for a Call for tests in few days, and we would even like to provide test packages to make the process easier and get more feedback!
KDE PIM 4.7 will also be available, but it probably won’t be ready to be committed along with other ports.

July 7th, 2011: KDE SC 4.6.5 in ports

The KDE/FreeBSD team is pleased to announce KDE Software Compilation 4.6.5. Read the original announcement and the changelog.

June 14th, 2011: KDE SC 4.6.4 releasd

The KDE/FreeBSD team is pleased to announce KDE SC 4.6.4. Read the full announcement here.

May 16th, 2011: KDE SC 4.6.3 in ports

We're pleased to announce the update to KDE Software Compilation 4.6.3. Read the full announcement here.

Special thanks to Raphael Kubo da Costa for his work on this update.

April 7th, 2011: KDE SC 4.6.2 in ports

The KDE/FreeBSD team is pleased to announce April updates for KDE Software Compilation: 4.6.2, codename "Congrats". Read the full announcement here:
http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.6.2.php.

Special thanks to Raphael Kubo da Costa who ported the release.

March 25th, 2011: KDE SC 4.6.1, Qt 4.7.2...

What a big set of updates the one committed today by kde@! We are pleased to announce:

• Qt 4.7.2;
• PyQt4 4.8.3;
• KDE SC 4.6.1, featuring an improved ksysguardd on its own (sysutils/ksysguardd, with no dependencies) that can be used for remote monitoring of systems;
• KOffice 2.3.1 (yes, further upgrade of this is planned);
• KDevelop 4.2.0;
• a few other ports you’re probably not interested in, but that you really want to upgrade.

Official KDE release announcement can be found here.

As always, we’d like to say thanks to all helpers and submitters. Writing a list would probably leave someone out, so drop an eye on our mailing list if you want their names.

March 6th, 2011: PC-BSD sponsors KDE/FreeBSD with a build machine

The KDE/FreeBSD team is receiving assistance from PC-BSD again. During last months things have gone a bit slowly: the main problem was we missed a package build system. Luckily, miwi@ managed to find a solution with Kris Moore’s help, and now we’re back on full speed.

We’d like to say thanks to Kris Moore, Josh Paetzel, Dru Lavigne, the PC-BSD project and of course iXsystems for their generous donation of a test machine for KDE.