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==== KOffice release information ====
This page is to be used to collect what's new information, usable for release announcements. We save the info during the alpha's and beta's, and take the best for the final release.

=== alpha 2 release ===
* (not ready)

Thomas' intro proposal:

KOffice2-alpha-2 is a release showing the integration of various 
KOffice-wide technologies with Flake[1] as its centerpoint. KOffice is 
already showing much better integration between applications and a more 
seemless shift from one application to the next.

KWord has received a new text engine for better printing and WYSIWYG 
support and continually increasing support for fonts through work in Qt. 
KWord now can host vector art on its pages as well as bitmaps, it does 
text-runaround for non-square frames and has much improved support for 
right-to-left scripts.

[1] http://wiki.koffice.org/index.php?title=Flake

Based on this and earlier announcements I'd say:

The KOffice team is proud to announce the second 2.0 alpha release of its office suite. This release is mostly showing the integration of various KOffice-wide technologies with Flake[1] as its centerpoint. Thanks to the Flake technology, applications offer a much higher degree of integration. Besides these architectural changes, many features have been developed. With this alpha release, KOffice targets developers and adventurous users for testing and improvement. Download packages for *** or you can try before you install with the KOffice 2.0 live CD(?)

== KWord ==

KWord has received a new text engine for better printing and WYSIWYG support and continually increasing support for fonts through work in Qt. KWord now can host vector art on its pages as well as bitmaps, it does text-runaround for non-square frames and has much improved support for right-to-left scripts.

== Krita ==
Krita's goals for KOffice 2.0 include natural paint simulation, HDR image work, live filter, transformation and transparency masks, clone layers, complete metadatasupport using the exif and xmp standards, action recording, live filter previews on canvas, opengl shader filters, per-layer and global selections, better support for printing and much more.

In this release, initial code for the following features is present:

* Kubelka-Munk spectrum-based paint mixer
* Integrated shape and mask selections
* True image resolution
* Flake shape integration 
* OpenGL shader support for exposure and gradient preview
* LDR-to-HDR bracketing
* Smooth painting
* Filter and duplicate paintops

== KSpread ==
* new storage system:
   better scaling, faster column/row insertions, select all feature
* improved loading code:
   big documents are now loadable
* revised dependency/recalculation handling
* new damage concept (codephrase: 'kay... speed!):
   less painting, less dependency updates, less recalculations
* new functions:
   MINVERSE, MUNIT, TRANSPOSE, BITAND, BITLSHIFT, BITOR, BITRSHIFT, BITXOR,
   IMCOSH, IMLOG10, IMLOG2, IMSINH, IMTAN, IMTANH, DATE2UNIX, DATEDIF,
   NETWORKDAYS, UNIX2DATE, WEEKNUM, WORKDAY, YEARFRAC, CUMIPMT, CUMPRINC,
   NPV, ODDLPRICE, YIELDDISC, YIELDMAT, ERROR.TYPE, NA, HLOOKUP, VLOOKUP,
   FREQUENCY, INTERCEPT, SLOPE, STEYX, ZTEST, YFINANCE, YWEATHER
* object embedding by using flake
* auto-filter

== KDE Beta 1 ==
Text from the KDE beta1 announcement, talking about KOffice:
* (not ready)
KOffice joins the KDE 4 Beta 1 with it's first Alpha, showcasing the great promise the product has. The infrastructural changes are enormous. Besides fixing many longstanding issues, a great deal of innovative features has been added to KOffice in the last few months. Things like [http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2882 text directionality] and [http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2812 layouting] are more than top-of-the-bill now. Meanwhile, entirely new additions made it into KOffice, like the [http://code.google.com/soc/kde/appinfo.html?csaid=9B5F3C70D02AA396 Google-sponsored] [http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/hacking/musicflake1.html Music Notation flake]. As you can see, progress on all fronts, but help is needed. This is an alpha quality release, and while most things compile and start, there are a lot of bugs to fix and things to add.