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The KDE/FreeBSD team hopes this site will be a valuable resource for all who are interested in maintaining the high level of compatibility between FreeBSD and KDE Software (KDE Frameworks 5, KDE Plasma and Applications and Extragear) that has been seen to date. The goal is to facilitate the discussion of patches, finding bugs, suggesting features and hopefully becoming a valuable member of both the KDE and FreeBSD communities.
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KDE 4.2.4 has been committed to ports.
We're happy to announce that KDE 4.2.4 is now available in the FreeBSD ports tree. KDE 4.2.4 is only a bugfix release. A full changelog is available here.
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KDE 4.2.2 has been committed to ports.
We're happy to announce that KDE 4.2.2 is now available in the FreeBSD ports tree. KDE 4.2.2 is only a bugfix release. A full changelog is available here.
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The area51 repository has moved. This has been done to increase performance and reliability. It can now be accessed at http://area51.pcbsd.org. For more information, see area51 instructions.
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KDE 4.2.1 has been committed to ports.
UPDATING:
20090309: AFFECTS: users of multimedia/phonon AUTHOR: kde@FreeBSD.org multimedia/phonon port has been split into phonon itself, phonon-xine and phonon-gstreamer backends. After updating phonon port you have to install at least one backend. phonon-xine backend is recommended for KDE.
The KDE/FreeBSD team is proud to announce the release of KDE 4.2.0 for FreeBSD. The official KDE 4.2.0 (codename: "The Answer") release notes can be found at: http://kde.org/announcements/4.2/index.php.
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A few days ago Max made KDE 4.1.3 ready for FreeBSD. We can't commit it to the ports tree because we are still on ports slush, but I'd like to invite you to test it from area51. Feedback is welcome, of course.
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The KDE team released KDE 4.1.2 two days later than planned. We are in ports slush and can't update KDE until it has ended. If you can't wait to get KDE 4.1.2, you can now download it from our area51 repo. The full KDE changelog can be seen here:
http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_1_1to4_1_2.php.
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Yesterday Qt 4.4.2 was released. area51 is already updated, and I would like some testers before we commit it to the ports tree after the freeze.
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