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Version 4.9 Release Candidate 2 of KDE Software Compilation

Release Notes: This is the first release candidate of 4.9. The KDE team's focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing new and old functionality. Highlights of 4.9 will include more and improved Qt Quick in Plasma Workspaces, many improvements to the Dolphin file manager, deeper integration of Activities, and many other performance improvements and bugfixes.

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Release Notes: Over 75 bugs were fixed and improvements were made to the personal information management suite Kontact, the Window Manager KWin, and others.

Release Notes: The over 100 recorded bugfixes include improvements to the Personal Information Management suite Kontact, the Window Manager KWin, and others. KDE's Development Platform has received a number of updates that affect multiple applications.

Release Notes: Over 100 recorded bugfixes include improvements to the Personal Information Management suite Kontact, the Window Manager KWin, and others. KDE's Development Platform has received a number of updates which affect multiple applications.

Release Notes: This release adds incremental improvements and offers several new technologies. Several components of Plasma Workspaces have been ported to the Qt Quick/QML framework, and stability and usability have been improved. There's also an imnproved print manager and Color Management support. KDE Applications gained feature enhancements to Kate, KMail, and Konsole. This release also makes it easier to contribute to KDE with a Plasma SDK, the ability to write Plasma widgets and widget collections in QML, changes in the libKDEGames library, and new scripting capabilities in KWin.

Release Notes: The list of 36 recorded bugfixes in this release includes improvements in the Dolphin file manager. KDE's development platform has received a number of updates that affect multiple applications. There are also translation updates.

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