January, 5th, 2010. KDE has made available a second release candidate for the impending new version of its workspace, applications and development platform. The release serves as final test-candidate before 4.6.0 is being made available on January, 26th.

To find out more about the KDE Plasma desktop and applications, please also refer to the 4.5.0, 4.4.0, 4.3.0, 4.2.0, 4.1.0 and 4.0.0 release notes.

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