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Recently the KDE team has released KDE Software Compilation 4.4.



So, KDE 4.4, code name Caikaku, is now available from KDE official website. The project has also decked out the KDE Website with a fresh new design.

This new version, based on version 4.6 of the Qt library, brings some improvements, bugs fixes and introduces new technologies:

The KDE Plasma Workspaces has a new interface and introduces the Plasma Netbook workspace, an interface specifically optimized for mobile devices with smaller screens. It offers a widgets explorer to make easier their management and allows to share widgets with other users... For more click here.



Nepomuk, the semantic search framework which helps the user in locating and organizing his data, has been improved.



It is more stable and a timeline appears to show recently used files organized chronologically.



KAuth, a new authentication framework, is introduced.It provides secure authentication and related user interface elements to developers who want to run tasks with elevated privileges.

There are also new applications added such as Blogilo, Cantor or Rocs



Etc. (for more, click here or there

If you want more information about the release of KDE 4.4 and download it, you can visit this page. You can also watch different video about KDE 4.4 new features.