TORONTO, Canada - May 20, 2005 - Staikos Computing Services Inc. and The Kst development team today announced the immediate availability of Kst 1.1.0, a real-time data viewing and plotting tool with basic data analysis functionality. Kst 1.1.0 consists of a KDE based application and a set of data analysis and manipulation plugins. Kst ships complete with documentation, and is translated to over 25 languages.

Kst, including all its plugins and documentation, is available for free under Open Source licenses. Kst can be obtained in source and numerous binary formats from http://download.kde.org/stable/apps/KDE3.x/scientific/.

Release Highlights

• New data file reader: NetCDF
• Numerous new plugins
• Various performance enhancements
• Additional configuration options for ASCII files
• Enhanced time support
• Additional documentation
• More verbose error reporting
• Various additional UI features
• Tighter KDE integration
• General bugfixes and smaller improvements

Installing Kst 1.1.0

Packaging Policies. Kst is distributed by the developers in source form only. Several individuals have provided third party binary packages for various Linux and UNIX operating systems and KDE combinations. These packages are available for free download from KDE's download servers at http://download.kde.org/stable/apps/KDE3.x/scientific/. These packages are provided for your convenience only, and are not supported by the Kst developers.

Source Code

The complete source code for Kst 1.1.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing Kst 1.1.0 are available from the Kst homepage at http://kst.kde.org/.