Release: KOffice 2.1 Released!

The KOffice team is very happy to announce version 2.1.0 of KOffice, 6 months after the platform release 2.0.0. This release brings a number of new features as well as general improvements in the maturity of the individual applications. Importing of documents have also been given an overhaul.

The advantages of the clean and well-structured codebase have started to show. Despite a relatively limited developer group, there are a large number of improvements over 2.0. During the development of 2.1, it was also announced that KOffice is going to be used in the Nokia n900 smartphones based on Maemo Linux.

More details available at kdenews.org

News: KOffice 2.1 Release Candidate

The KOffice team is happy to the release candidate of KOffice 2.1. As usual, the team worked diligently to remove all release blocker bugs leading up to this candidate. See the full changelog for the details. This is the last chance to test before the final release of KOffice 2.1. We ask that all of our users who wish to help us make KOffice 2.1 the best it can be try out this pre-release and report any remaining bugs.

News: Search this site: KOffice 2.1 Beta 3 Released

The KOffice team is happy to announce the third beta of the upcoming KOffice 2.1. This extra beta has been added to ensure the highest quality for the final 2.1 release. The KOffice team has worked overtime and can show a longer list of fixed bugs than ever. See the full changelog for the impressive details. You can grab the source or install packages available for your distribution.

News: KOffice To Be Used In Next Generation Smart Phone

Today Nokia employee Thomas Zander announced in his blog that Nokia will be using KOffice as a base for the office file viewer in Maemo 5. He also sent an email to the KOffice mailing list giving some more details about how this came to be.

“This shows that KOffice has one of the best technical foundations”, says Jan Hambrecht, one of the core developers of KOffice. “It is both lightweight, flexible and very fast, which makes it perfect in embedded environments like a smart phone”.

Nokia has created a customized GUI based on the Maemo 5 touch screen interface on top of the KOffice core. It has also worked on making the support for MS Office documents more mature. Thomas Zander of Qt Development Framework and KO GmbH worked on fixing bugs and enhancing support for MS Office formats.

The first presentation of this work will be at the Maemo Summit in Amsterdam from October 9th to 11th

News: KOffice 2.1 Beta 2 Released

The KOffice team today announced the second beta of the upcoming 2.1 release. The KOffice community has now switched from adding new features to only fix the remaining bugs, and that is obvious from this release. The first beta of 2.1 was released without any fanfares, but it marked the transition into the bugfixing stage. We now think it’s time to let the users start to participate in the process. You can see the progress in the full changelog.

Something that is not obvious from the changelog is that there has been much activity in the MS office import filters, especially for MS Word and Powerpoint. Many new formatting features have been implemented in both these filters. We expect KOffice 2.1 to be better at reading MS file formats than any previous KOffice version. Continue Reading »