KOffice 1.1 Release Plan

The following is the outline for our KOffice 1.1 release schedule.
The 1.1 release will come with major improvements in the following areas:

Many features added to KSpread and KPresenter
Improve speed and usability of Kontour
Rewrite of KWord, now using Qt's richtext engine
Much improved mathematical formula support
Addition of Kivio (Flowcharting program)
Addition of Kugar (Database report creation)
Many new filters: Applixware import, Abiword import/export, Docbook export, LaTeX export, etc.
Improvements to the existing filters, especially the MSOffice import filters

All dates given here are subject to revision, but we will try out best to stick to them if possible.

David Faure is acting as release coordinator for the KOffice 1.1 release

KOffice 1.1 will be released independently from KDE 2.2. The KDE 2.2 release schedule can be found here.

KOffice 1.1 Beta 1

Thursday April 12

KOffice is temporarily frozen : bugfix commits only.

Wednesday April 18

Tarballs are made out of KOffice, for KOffice 1.1 Beta 1
They are made public immediately, and given to packagers for creation of binary packages. KOffice is open for commits again.

Monday April 23

Announce KOffice 1.1 Beta 1.

KOffice 1.1 Beta 2

Thursday May 10

KOffice is temporarily frozen : bugfix commits only.

Wednesday May 16

Tarballs are made out of KOffice, for KOffice 1.1 Beta 2
They are made public immediately, and given to packagers for creation of binary packages. KOffice is open for commits again.

Monday May 21

Announce KOffice 1.1 Beta 2.

KOffice 1.1 Beta 3

Monday June 11

The HEAD branch of KOffice is frozen : no new features, bugfixes commits only, no commit that modifies an application's behaviour, and message freeze. This freeze will last till the release of KOffice 1.1!

Monday June 18

The HEAD branch of CVS is tagged KOFFICE_1_1_BETA3, and tarballs are made. They are made public immediately, and given to packagers for creation of binary packages.

Monday June 25

Announce KOffice 1.1 Beta 3

KOffice 1.1 Release Candidate

Monday July 9

KOffice goes into deep-freeze. All commits should be posted for review first.

Monday July 16

The HEAD branch of CVS is tagged KOFFICE_1_1_RC1, and tarballs are made. They are made public immediately, and given to packagers for creation of binary packages.

Monday July 23

Announce KOffice 1.1 Release Candidate

KOffice 1.1 final

Sunday August 12

Last day for translations, documentation, icons and critical bugfixes commits.

Monday August 13

The HEAD branch of CVS is tagged KOFFICE_1_1_RELEASE and the day is spent testing the release a final time.

Tuesday August 14

The tarballs are made and released to the packagers.

The rest of the week is spent testing the tarballs, packaging and writing the announcement and changelog.

Friday August 24

The source and binary packages are uploaded to ftp.kde.org to give some time for the mirrors to get them.

Monday August 27

Announce KOffice 1.1.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which version of Qt is required ?

Qt 2.2.4 or later

Which version of kdelibs is required ?

kdelibs 2.1.2 will be required by the final KOffice 1.1.

kdelibs 2.1 and 2.1.1 will work too, but lead to bugs when using the font anti-aliasing, and to crashes when splitting views. You've been warned :)

Using kdelibs-2.2-alpha/beta when compiling koffice gives access to a few additional features, such as improved printing support (kdeprint), a scanner plugin, and an improved file selector. This is not required, but recommended.

Last update: 05 August 2001