The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the

second release candidate for KDE 4.0. This release candidate marks the last

mile on the road to KDE 4.0. This release sees increasing participation from distributions, you can download packages for Debian, Kubuntu, Mandriva, openSUSE & Fedora or grab the live CDs from Kubuntu & openSUSE.



KDE's webbrowser Konqueror KDE's webbrowser Konqueror

KOffice has also put out a sixth alpha release, released separately.

While progress on the quality and completeness of what is to become the KDE 4.0 desktop

has been great, the KDE Community decided to have another release candidate before releasing

KDE 4.0 on January 11th. The codebase is now feature-complete. Some work is still being done

to put the icing on the KDE 4.0 cake. This includes fixing bugs,

finishing off artwork and smoothing out the user experience.