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== December 21, 2002: KDE 3.0.5a Released ==<br />
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The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.0.5a. KDE 3 is the third<br />
generation of KDE's free, powerful desktop for Linux and other UNIXes. KDE 3.0.5a is available in 51<br />
languages and ships with the core KDE libraries, the base desktop environment and hundreds of applications<br />
and other desktop enhancements from the other KDE base packages.<br />
<br />
KDE 3.0.5a provides a number of important security improvements, as described in the security<br />
advisory, and some stability enhancements. The KDE Project strongly recommends that all KDE users upgrade to<br />
this release as soon as practicable.<br />
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For more information about the KDE 3 series, please read the<br />
[http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.0.5a.html KDE 3.0.5a announcement] and the<br />
[http://www.kde.org/info/3.0.5a.html KDE 3.0.5a information page].<br />
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== December 11, 2002: Some minor updates on pim.kde.org ==<br />
<br />
Today we updated the development pages of<br />
KArm and<br />
KAlarm and the page of<br />
work in progress. Please report further wishes<br />
or bugfixes for pim.kde.org to<br />
Klaus St&auml;rk.<br />
<br />
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== November 23, 2002: Report bugs and wishes to the KDE team ==<br />
<br />
You want to report a bug to the KDE team? You have a special feature request for a KDE<br />
application? So don't hesitate to inform the KDE team about the bugs and wishes you found. Read<br />
our [http://pim.kde.org//contact.php short introduction on how to report a bug/wish] ...<br />
<br />
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== November 18, 2002: KDE 3.0.5 released ==<br />
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The KDE Project today [http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.0.5.html announced]<br />
the immediate availability of KDE 3.0.5, the third generation of KDE's free, powerful desktop for Linux<br />
and other UNIXes. KDE 3.0.5 is available in 51 languages - including the addition of Basque for the first<br />
time in KDE 3 - and ships with the core KDE libraries, the base desktop environment, an integrated<br />
development environment, and hundreds of applications and other desktop enhancements from the other KDE<br />
base packages (PIM, administration, network, edutainment, development, utilities, multimedia, games, artwork,<br />
and others).<br />
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KDE 3.0.5 provides mainly two important security fixes over KDE 3.0.4, which shipped early October<br />
2002. Besides that, some minor bugfixes have been included as well. For a list of some changes since<br />
KDE 3.0.4, please see the<br />
[http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog3_0_4to3_0_5.html change log],<br />
and for additional information about the security corrections please see the separate security advisories<br />
( [http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20021111-1.txt resLISa / LISa];<br />
[http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20021111-2.txt rlogin protocol] ). Read the<br />
official announcement at [http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.0.5.html www.kde.org].<br />
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== October 9, 2002: KDE 3.0.4 released ==<br />
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The KDE team today announced the immediate availability of<br />
[http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.0.4.html KDE 3.0.4]. KDE 3.0.4 provides various<br />
service enhancements over KDE 3.0.3, which shipped in mid-August 2002, as well as two security corrections<br />
(the personal web server (KPF) may permit a remote user to retrieve any file readable by the local KPF user,<br />
and the PostScript(R) / PDF viewer (KGhostview) may execute arbitrary code placed in a PS or PDF file). For<br />
a list of some changes since KDE 3.0.3, please see the<br />
[http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog3_0_3to3_0_4.html change log].<br />
Read the official announcement at<br />
[http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.0.4.html www.kde.org].<br />
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== September 20, 2002: News on Kroupware page ==<br />
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A new version of the Kroupware concept paper is<br />
available for download. And we added two<br />
links ...<br />
about a study about groupware solutions in mixed Windows and GNU/Linux environments, conducted<br />
by [http://www.erfrakon.de" target="_new Erfrakon].<br />
<br />
Learn more about the Kroupware project on<br />
the KDE-PIM Kroupware page or on the<br />
[http://kroupware.kde.org" target="_new official Kroupware webpage].<br />
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== September 17, 2002: Kroupware project started ==<br />
<br />
[http://www.erfrakon.de" target="_new Erfrakon],<br />
[http://www.intevation.net" target="_new Intevation] and<br />
[http://www.klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se" target="_new Klar&auml;lvdalens Datakonsult AB]<br />
have won a bid to write a Free software groupware server and client for the German &quot;Bundesamt<br />
f&uuml;r Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik&quot; (Federal Agency for IT Security, BSI). It aims to<br />
work in a heterogenous environment and provide email, contacts, appointments and tasks lists.<br />
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Kroupware is the current project title for the project named above. After finishing the Kroupware project,<br />
it will be further integrated in the K Desktop Environment and in the KDE-PIM family.<br />
<br />
Learn more about the Kroupware project on<br />
the KDE-PIM Kroupware page or on the<br />
[http://kroupware.kde.org" target="_new official Kroupware webpage].<br />
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== August 20, 2002: New work in progress ==<br />
<br />
Work is under way to implement an Microsoft Exchange 2000 server plugin for KOrganizer. This plugin<br />
lets you access an Exchange server: import appointments into your KOrganizer calendar and export<br />
appointments from KOrganizer to the Exchange server. Read more on our<br />
work in progress-page.<br />
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== August 19, 2002: KDE 3.0.3 released ==<br />
<br />
The KDE team today announced the immediate availability of<br />
[http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.0.3.html KDE 3.0.3],<br />
which includes the KDE-PIM-suite in version 3.0.3. The new version of KDE contains some<br />
important bug fixes, especially covering a SSL security issue and some further enhancements<br />
concerning the stability of KDE. Detailed changes from<br />
KDE 3.0.2 to KDE 3.0.3, also describing changes in the kdepim-module, can be found in the<br />
[http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog3_0_2to3_0_3.html Changelog].<br />
Read the official announcement at<br />
[http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.0.3.html www.kde.org].<br />
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== June 5, 2002: KOrganizer Workshops ==<br />
<br />
As already announced earlier this year, the [http://korganizer.kde.org KOrganizer] team<br />
started a [http://korganizer.kde.org/workshops.html workshop series] covering an overview<br />
over KOrganizer, the KOrganizer setup, KOrganizer group scheduling and more. The first issue is about<br />
KOrganizer's brand new feature: [http://korganizer.kde.org/workshops.html group scheduling with KOrganizer].<br />
Thanks a lot to G&uuml;nter Schwann who<br />
contributed this workshop. The workshop can directly be<br />
[http://korganizer.kde.org/workshops.html opened in your browser window] but is also<br />
available as tar-ball for [http://korganizer.kde.org/workshops.html download]. At the<br />
moment, the KOrganizer group scheduling workshop is available in English<br />
only, but the KOrganizer team is already working on a German translation for it. Other translations are<br />
very welcome !<br />
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== May, 23 2002: KDE 3.0.1 released ==<br />
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Following the<br />
[http://dot.kde.org/1017860068/ last major release] of the K Desktop Environment, the<br />
KDE team announced today the [http://dot.kde.org/1022133733/ availibility of KDE 3.0.1.]<br />
While it is primarily a translation release, it also squashes some bugs in KDE. Also some bugs<br />
in the applications of the kdepim family were fixed, so in<br />
[http://pim.kde.org//components/kpilot.php KPilot] and<br />
[http://pim.kde.org/components/korganizer.php KOrganizer]. Read more<br />
about the new KDE release on [http://dot.kde.org/1022133733/ dot.kde.org]. The<br />
changelog is available [http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelog3_0to3_0_1.html here].<br />
Check out the official announcement at<br />
[http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.0.1.html www.kde.org]<br />
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== April, 3 2002: KDE 3.0 released ==<br />
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We are very proud to announce the release of KDE 3.0 which contains the kdepim3 package, the pim application suite<br />
of your choice. Read more about KDE 3.0 at [http://www.kde.org kde.org].<br />
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== March, 10 2002: Docs Website Added ==<br />
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There's a new webpage in the KDE-webpage-family, [http://docs.kde.org docs.kde.org],<br />
that offers documentation about many KDE applications. There's also a category &quot;kdepim&quot; where<br />
you can learn more about KDE-PIM applications. We added docs.kde.org it to our navigation bar.<br />
<br />
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== January, 27 2002: KAlarm Page Added ==<br />
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We have now a new page in the development area: the [http://pim.kde.org//components/kalarm.php KAlarm page].<br />
Thanks to David Jarvie for the contribution to<br />
pim.kde.org.<br />
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== January, 13 2002: Glossary Added ==<br />
<br />
pim.kde.org offers a new feature: the [http://pim.kde.org//glossary/glossary.php KDE-PIM glossary]. This<br />
glossary explains KDE-PIM-related words as e.g. [http://pim.kde.org//glossary/glossary.php#conduit Conduit],<br />
[http://pim.kde.org//glossary/glossary.php#hotsync Hotsync] or<br />
[http://pim.kde.org//glossary/glossary.php#pda PDA]. You're very welcome to contribute to our glossary<br />
by [http://pim.kde.org//glossary/glossary.php#missing posting proposals for new entries] and help us to<br />
complete our list.<br />
<br />
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== January, 12 2002: RFC ==<br />
<br />
Nick Papadonis posted a new RFC &quot;KPIM-1&quot; covering<br />
the KDE PIM Data Access. The RFC is available for download as gzipped HTML-file.</div>Mahoutsukai