kde 3.1 will be out next week

Bytal · Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2002 4:22 am Post subject: kde 3.1 will be out next week

Since I'm sure there's lots of people that are as impatient as I am...

Theres has been some discussion on dot.kde.org about the aparent lateness of the 3.1 final release. It seems there were some major bugs (konqueror not printing through cups) that had to be fixed in RC4. RC5 has been sent out to packagers per this email http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=103824444618699&w=2. It should be packaged as 3.1 final and released sometime early next week barring some new major bugs.

:lol:

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vod · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Posts: 90

is it out yet? is it out yet? is it out yet? is it out yet?

Oh, by your avatar I see that you should check out www.cityofheroes.com

puddpunk · l33t Joined: 20 Jul 2002 Posts: 681 Location: New Zealand

ooh yes, can't wait...

*dry-washes hands*

Skowen · n00b Joined: 12 Nov 2002 Posts: 35

Any update on this? I have been scouring the KDE lists for more updates-- but nothing. I'm getting antsy here, I need some KDE lovin.

Lovechild · Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 5:26 pm Post subject:

and Dan Armak suspended KDE CVS ebuilding for a while to work on KDE3.1, and as you can see in the changelog he has been a busy little bee. Lots of patches and goodies for the yet unreleased KDE3.1.. It's now seems we will have working ebuilds on the day of the release.

GO GO DAN.... Thx for the hard work.

Herodot · Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 7:47 pm Post subject:

Is it out yet?

How are things going with prelinking? Lovechild, you were working on this, right?

I wouldn't want to compile 3.1, and then having to do it all over the next day because of this nice +1% speed possibility.

cthulu · n00b Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 30

I saw this on www.pclinuxonline.com

There is some talk of POSSABLY a delay in the release of kde 3.1. Apprently there is some security issues they are worried about. If there is a delay .. looks like it wont be out before x-mas.

Lovechild · Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 8:32 pm Post subject:

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DarkAurora · n00b Joined: 05 Dec 2002 Posts: 15 Location: Orlando, FL

I hate to ruin everyone's day, but It' looks like KDE 3.1 is going to be delayed until after the new year due to security concerns.

here is the relevant URL. It seems that the actual conversation has dissapeared misteriously, though. These security problems must be widespread from what the conversation said. The developers have also instituted a automatic security review system for CVS commits as seen in recent logs of CVS activity lists.kde.org. The original email was from the 3.1 release coordinator (Can't remember his name, sorry) so it's not just random FUD.

I guess we'll all have to wait and see how this turns out.

Loke · Apprentice Joined: 25 May 2002 Posts: 274 Location: Norway

There was some talk about relabeling and releasing the packages which was marked KDE 3.1 final as KDE 3.1 RC5 instead, and publish a security warning along side the RC5 release. Hope they do this, because I'll probably end up using it none the less.

The reason they have to delay the final release until after xmas, is NOT the difficulties they'll encounter when fixing bugs - like most people seem to think. Bugfixing is the trivial part. Apparantly, many of the different distribution packagers have already left for xmas holidays, and thus cannot build binary packages of KDE 3.1 for their distribution. And because the KDE group have run into trouble before when releasing the sourcecode before the binary distributions have packed it, they wont do it again. Sad, especially when using Gentoo :-)

And yes, im not trolling - I did indeed read the thread on the kde-packager list, which now "mysteriously" have disappeared.

Herodot · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 1:46 am Post subject:

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Bytal · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 4:17 am Post subject:

Really funny I was just about to post to the thread about the expected delay and I see everyone knows already

. Myself, I was very much hoping to be able to run 3.1 already but I guess not for a while

. I'd be happy if anyone else who has better information would keep posting to this thread just to keep everyone updated.
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Lovechild · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 9:14 am Post subject:

Oh... that's not good, I hope they fix the problems ASAP and go for the 12th of Dec. tag date.

synonymousca · n00b Joined: 15 Jun 2002 Posts: 62

Any particular reason that Gentoo didn't bump its KDE3 version to 3.0.5, which came out around three weeks ago?

Lovechild · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 2:41 pm Post subject:

mlybarger · Guru Joined: 04 Sep 2002 Posts: 475

i've done a little quick reading that prelinking improves preformance a LOT. i can't seem to find the much needed docs describing how to implement prelinking, and how to be sure the binaries are prelinked.. can anyone help a guy out?

psharp · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 2:57 pm Post subject:

I pointed this out at the time...

The thing to note if that the security updates in the KDE Changelog had already been fixed in the 3.0.4 ebuild according to the GLSAs so I guess there wasn't any point.

Lovechild · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 3:02 pm Post subject: Re: prelink

noff · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 5:59 pm Post subject:

Hopefully they go with Dec. 12th. Even if the want to release it in January if the have it done maybe they can mark the cvs final so we can get it early. Looks like it is time to move up to the RC if the final won't be out for awhile. I would voice my opinion on the KDE lists, but it is generally a bad idea if you aren't really familiar with a list to jump in. Maybe someone else wih better KDE ties could let them know Gentoo wants it early.
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Bytal · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 4:41 am Post subject:

here's the http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=103922988724102&w=2 link for the email that shows that Dirk Mueller, the release manager for 3.1 decided to wait till January to release the final 3.1 packages. He was saying something about January 8th it goes out to packagers and a week later it's announced. In the meantime they'll release 3.0.5 update and tag the current source as RC5. The problem was some code found throughout the entire tree that would allow a malicious user to execute commands using someone elses account..or so I understood

My question is about the Gentoo packages, since most of the talk on the KDE mailing list is about binary packages, when can Gentoo ebuilds be made? Do they have to coincide with the actual release or can we grab the source as soon as its on the kde ftp site? Also will there be builds for RC5 since that is basically 3.1 final minus some security fixes?
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noff · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 6:18 am Post subject:

I can't wait that long I'm just going to install the RC3.
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maor · Guru Joined: 28 Aug 2002 Posts: 323

i'ts look like it's going take awhile till the final release kde team released kde3.1 rc5

DarkAurora · n00b Joined: 05 Dec 2002 Posts: 15 Location: Orlando, FL

Well, us KDE addicts can get a quick fix before 3.1 is actually released.

3.1 RC5 was released. How hard would it to be to modify the current emerges to accomidate RC5?

http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4006