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August 11, 2010
KDE 4.5 Released
By Michael Marr
Yesterday, KDE released versions 4.5 of its various platforms. These releases include over 16,022 fixed bugs and 1,723 new features. Despite 17,000+ changes, nothing will stand out as surprisingly different from KDE 4.4. The KDE team focused on stability and improvement in this release.

For those who are unfamiliar with KDE, there are three different platform versions offered: Development, Desktop, and Netbook. Each platform is configured and tweaked for optimal use for developers, regular users, and netbooks, respectively. This announcement release also discussed the focus on providing a mobile platform of KDE.

The biggest news on the Development Platform front is the addition of a WebKit library. Konqueror now uses Webkit for various features, providing integration across browsers.

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