The KDE Release Team has revised the release

schedule for KDE 4.0. The first visible bits of KDE 4.0

will be the KDE Development Platform release on October, 30. This Development Platform release

consists of bits and pieces needed to develop KDE applications. It includes kdesupport, kdelibs, kdepimlibs

and kdebase/runtime. The purpose of the KDE Development Platform release is to make it

easier for third party developers to port their applications to KDE4 technology and to start developing

new applications. The final and long awaited release of the KDE Desktop 4.0 is planned for

December, 11th 2007, well in time to be a Christmas present for everyone who

has been longing for KDE 4.0.

The revised release schedule looks like this:

October, 2nd: KDE 4.0 Beta 3

October, 19th: Total Release Freeze, only critical bugfixes are allowed to get in.

If in doubt, ask the release coordinator.

If in doubt, ask the release coordinator. October, 30th: KDE 4.0 Release Candidate 1

November, 14th: KDE 4.0 Release Candidate 2

December, 11th: KDE 4.0

Tagging of those releases takes place on the Wednesday before the release, so if you are a

developer, make sure to have your code in by the following dates:

September, 26th: Tagging Beta3

October, 19th: Total Release Freeze, critical bugfixes only from this date

October, 24th: Tagging RC1

November, 14th: Tagging RC2

December, 5th: Tagging 4.0

The Release Team would like to stress that developers should be in 'release mode' by now,

concentrating on making KDE4 usable as quickly as possible. Start using the current SVN version and

help us fixing bugs.