The Kontact2 release train rolls on. Today we fixed the last of the release blocking bugs and tagged the release candidate.

It seems that many people around the Internet are as excited about the new release as we are. The message that this is not a bug-free release seems to be getting through. There will be bugs to annoy users, but the applications are usable and useful and they work without crashing and without losing data. The reports on my last post (which will of course be forgotten without non-duplicate bug reports :)) indicate normal-to-low severity bugs which would be expected in any Free Software, much less a release of a platform re-architecture and multi-application port and rewrite.

This version will have regressions compared to KDE PIM 4.4. There was never a goal to create a Kontact2 with zero regressions. The only goal was to create a working release. After that the work on making it perfect can begin. Division of resources between maintaining the 4.4 series and attempts to perfect the Kontact2 release was causing demotivation in the community. Making the release is the act that allows us to cross the starting line towards fixing the smaller issues.

So, onwards and onwards. The tagging of the release is due to happen on June 2nd before a release alongside with the 4.6.4 KDE SC, so all fixes and translations which are in the source tree get in :).

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