Release: KDE 4.3.0 Release Candidate Goes Wild

With KDE 4.3 being scheduled for release later this month, Sebastian Kügler on the behalf of the KDE developers around the world has announced the KDE 4.3.0 release candidate. KDE 4.3 RC1 further polishes and completes the K Desktop Environment 4 with the integration of many new Linux desktop technologies, new KWin effects, improvements across the board, and many bug fixes in KDE4 packages.

The KDE 4.3 RC1 announcement with the extensive change-log is available from KDE.org. The final release of KDE 4.3.0 is expected in late July.

Release: PHP 5.3

“The open source PHP language is seeing its first major update in two years courtesy of today’s release of PHP 5.3, along with a long list of new features designed to expand its capabilities and accelerate performance. The PHP 5.3 release is a bigger release than developers first intended, and takes on some features that were originally intended for PHP 6. The new release also comes as the open source language continues to face competitive challenges from multiple technologies including Ruby, Java and .net.”

Release: Mozilla Firefox 3.5!

The day a new Firefox version comes out is always a fun day for me, because right now I feel like a little kid on Christmas, waiting to get to open his presents. Today is the day that Firefox 3.5 is released to the public!

This year I hesitated to download any of the release candidates, because they always seem to spoil some of the surprise. So, like many of you, I am anxiously awaiting Mozilla’s web site update that says Firefox 3.5 is ready for download.
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Firefox 3.5 to be Released Tomorrow?

The word on the street, and by street I mean various online news sources, is that Firefox 3.5 is set to be released tomorrow, June 30th. Version 3.5, codename “Shiretoko”, does bring a lot of new neat features to the browsing platform.

My personal favorite feature I have seen thus far, that shows the most innovation is the support for embeddable video, without the use of any plugins or third party scripts. This multimedia embedding functionality of HTML 5 may not be widely used yet, however this does give it a proverbial first kick in the pants to take off and become successful.

Of course, I wouldn’t be doing the Firefox 3.5 project justice if I didn’t mention the speed boost too. However, I’m not really sure that is something real users will notice. Maybe it is just me but Firefox 3 for me right now is still pretty darn fast. You can check out a full list of features via Mozilla’s web site:

* Features List for Firefox 3.5

Seems like this time around Firefox’s newest release has either sneaked up on me, or perhaps isn’t getting as much coverage as the last. What do you think? Are you excited yet?

mozillaca, a micro-blog for the Mozilla community

After about a month in closed preview, Mozillaca, a micro-blogging site for the Mozilla community is finally open to the public.

Powered by Laconica, the open source microblogging engine, and setup and operated by a team of volunteers, it is pretty simple to follow and use thanks to its simple interface and functionality.

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