Tagged!

Ladies and gentlemen, let everyone exhale.

Presenting KDE 4.0.0, the KDE 4.0.x branch and trunk is apparently now open for KDE 4.1.x related work.

For those that are unfamiliar with how KDE goes from tagging to an official release, I present some information :)

From the tagged version in SVN, the tarballs for 4.0.0 will be released to the packagers, and will also be mirrored across the wide number of ftp and http mirrors that KDE is connected to, but remain hidden. The official announcement of KDE 4.0.0 is being written as we speak, and should be available a few days early so that the translators get a crack at translating the announcement. The announcement will be released in roughly a week, corresponding to the unhiding of the tarballs on the download servers. The release event (read: party/press event) will be approximately one week later still.

Please remember that 4.0.0 will have bugs, issues, the odd crash that results from a corner case that no developer has encountered as a use case before, and so forth. There will be frequent maintenance releases from the 4.0.x branch in the future that will rapidly shape up the 4.0.x line. In addition, some things, like major improvements to plasma, will likely only happen in trunk. Yeah, we know plasma doesn't do as much as kicker, and you can't create a new folder by right-clicking on the desktop... we aren't done with 4.x though, so hold on to your panties for a few months and use KDE 3.5.x if that really bothers you.

(If you are the type of person that was bothered by Apache 2.0 not being as well tested as 1.x, and you weren't the first to try using kernel 2.6.0 because your uptime was more important, please keep using KDE 3.5.8 for now. Bug and security fixes are still accepted against the 3.5.x branch, and a 3.5.9 release would not be unrealistic development in the future.)

Cheers folks.