The Kubuntu 5.04 Release Candidate is now available. This is the last testing release before our first full release next week.

The Kubuntu Release Candidate was announced at the same time as the Ubuntu Release Candidate, please see the Ubuntu Announcement for details.

http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2005-March/000022.html

The Kubuntu Release Candidate is available as Live and Install CDs for x86, AMD64 and PowerPC. You can download the CD images from:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/hoary/rc/

Please download using bittorrent if possible to stop the server being overloaded. We welcome feedback for this release, either on the mailing list or on our wiki page:

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/KubuntuReleaseCandidateComments

If you find a problem please check

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/KubuntuReleaseCandidateKnownProblems and report it to http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com.

If you need help or have a question try asking on our mailing list http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users or on our IRC channel #kubuntu on freenode.

The Kile developers are pleased to announce the availability of the first beta release of Kile 1.8. Kile is a LaTeX editor for the KDE desktop.

The most important changes are:

• QuickPreview: Compile and view a selection of your document. Very convenient if you want to preview a section, formula or paragraph of your document.
• UserHelp: Add help documents of your choice to the Help menu.
• 3 new wizards: Float, Math and Postscript Tools.
• Several bugfixes and cleanups.

You can download the source here: http://kile.sourceforge.net/download.php

Please test and report back to: kile-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

We're getting you into the right mood for spring. Have a party, spin some music with the new amaroK release, and relax. Enjoy the good life.

ChangeLog relative to amaroK 1.2.2:

FEATURES:

• Graphequalizer script can now enable and disable the equalizer.
• New DCOP call "player: equalizerEnabled" returns whether or not the equalizer is enabled.
• OSD notification for mute.
• Mute global shortcut, Win+M.
• Add %comment token for comment display in OSD. (BR 100944)
• View/Edit track entry into context menus of ContextBrowser and CollectionBrowser.
• You can mark/unmark albums as compilations via CollectionBrowser's right-click contextmenu.
• New DCOP call "collection: query(const QString& sql)". Allows to make arbitrary queries on the Collection database.
• New DCOP call "playlist: removeCurrentTrack()". (BR 92973)

CHANGES:

• Show "Artist - Title" for compilation discs in CollectionBrowser and ContextBrowser.
• Upgraded internal SQLite database to 3.2.0.
• DCOP call saveCurrentPlaylist() now returns the path to current.xml.

BUGFIXES:

• Appropriate context menu entry for changing queue status for multiple playlist items.
• Fix regression preventing dequeuing multiple selected tracks.
• 'Show Toolbar' remembers its settings between sessions. (BR 98662)
• When doing Musicbrainz lookup from the Context browser, search for the real track, not the whole album.
• Memleak when a radio stream stalled. (BR 102047)
• The Collection Scan finally checks for the right file modification time.
• Adding a compilation disc from ContextBrowser was broken.
• GStreamer-engine: Reduced the gap when switching to next track without crossfading.
• GStreamer-engine: amaroK was swallowing the beginning of a track when Fade-in was set to zero. (BR 94472)
• Use a better highlight color in the "Configure Collection" dialog. (BR 102059)
• "Remove Duplicates / Missing" fixed. Removes dead entries correctly.
• Fix units for samplerate. (BR 101528)
• amaroK using 100% CPU on some systems. (BR 101524) (a KHTML bug which got exposed by code in amaroK 1.2.2)

The amaroK team
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amaroK is a soundsystem-independent audio-player for *nix. Its interface uses a powerful "browser" metaphor that allows you to create playlists that make the most of your music collection. We have a fast development-cycle and super-happy users. We also provide pensions and other employment-benefits.

"Easily the best media-player for Linux at the moment. Install it now!"
- Linux Format Magazine