Software Update: KDE 4.2.4

Version 4.2.4 of K Desktop Environment was released on Tuesday, the fourth service release before the version 4.2.0 released at the end of January. KDE is a popular desktop environment developed primarily for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, but there are versions for it as well Windows and Mac OS X. It comes with a standard desktop, including fifteen packages of applications including a personal information manager, multimedia, administration and network management programs, and games. Below are release notes of version 4.2.4:

Enhancements

As a service release, the changelog contains a list of bug fixes and improvements. Notable improvements include, but are not limited to:

• Okular (KDE’s document viewer) now correctly supports selecting the pages to print using the PostScript backend.
• KMail has received a whole slew of bug fixes
• So has KHTML and therefore the Konqueror web browser

Note that the changelog is usually incomplete, for a complete list of changes that went into KDE 4.2.4, you can browse the Subversion log. KDE 4.2.4 also ships a more complete set of translations.

To find out more about the KDE 4.2.x desktop and applications, please refer to the KDE 4.2.0, KDE 4.1.0 and KDE 4.0.0 release notes. KDE 4.2.4 is a recommended update for everyone running KDE 4.2.2 or earlier.