Hi all,

the first beta of the new KDE 4.8 major release has been released and is ready in the [kde-unstable] repository.

The kdeaccessibility and kdeutils modules have been split, but this time users will not see any changes

See the KDE announcement for the new features and upstream changes.

Arch Linux Changes:

- new kdeplasma-addons-applets-icontasks package

- new kactivities package, split from kdelibs

- new kdeedu-analitza package, split from kdeedu-kalgebra

- kdeedu-kalzium has libfacile support

- Open GL ES is enabled in kdebase-workspace

Please read the wiki page about [kde-unstable] if you want to use these packages. Also remember that [testing] could be needed, so follow arch-dev-public.

Also, the first beta of the Calligra Suite is in [kde-unstable] since May 19th and the packages have been built to replace the KOffice suite. Please use the thread about Calligra or our bug tracker to report the packaging bugs.

Please report any packaging bug to https://bugs.archlinux.org.

KDE bugs to https://bugs.kde.org.