February 6, 2008 (The INTERNET). The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.0.1, the first bugfix and maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. KDE 4.0.1 ships with a basic desktop and many other packages like administration, network, education, utilities, multimedia, games, artwork, web development and more. KDE's award-winning tools and applications are available in almost 50 languages.

KDE, including all its libraries and its applications, is available for free under Open Source licenses. KDE can be obtained in source and various binary formats from http://download.kde.org and can also be obtained on CD-ROM or with any of the major GNU/Linux and UNIX systems shipping today.

Enhancements

KDE 4.0.1 is a maintenance release which provides corrections of problems reported using the KDE bug tracking system and enhanced support for existing and new translations. Improvements in this release include, but are not limited to: Konqueror, KDE's webbrowser has seen numerous stability and performance fixes in its HTML rendering engine KHTML, in its Flash plugin loader and in KJS, the JavaScript engine.

Stability problems have been addressed in components that are used all over the KDE codebase. Translations in this release are more complete. KWin, the KDE window manager has improved detection of compositing support, some effects have been fixed. Aside from these fundamentals, work has also been done in many applications like Okular, System Settings and KStars. New translations include Danish, risian, Kazakh and Czech. For a more detailed list of improvements since the KDE 4.0 release in January 2008, please refer to the KDE 4.0.1 Changelog. (http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_0to4_0_1.php )

Additional information about the enhancements of the KDE 4.0.x release series is available in the KDE 4.0 Announcement.