KDevelop 3.5/announcement draft

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The KDevelop developers are proud to announce the release of KDevelop 3.5. This version of KDevelop offers many
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fixes around 500 bugs</a>.
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"A small team of 27 developers contributed over a timespan of fifteen months to this release. The userbase has been growing steadily, the average download of 25 times per hour is a prof of it, and that gave us lots of inputs on how to improve the program." noted Amilcar do Carmo Lucas, release co-coordinator.
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<p>About KDevelop</p>
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KDevelop supports a number of programming languages, version control systems, debuggers, documentation formats and build tools. Kate is used as the preferred editor, but any editor supporting the KTextEditor interfaces can be used as native KDevelop editor. Build tools like automake and qmake are supported natively, meaning that KDevelop does not maintain its own object repository. Changes in the native project files will be reflected in KDevelop and vice-versa. 
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KDevelop also offers a class view showing all the symbols either in a flat view or hierarchical view by namespaces and allows easy code-navigation. A background parser updates the symbols on the fly and also shows syntactical errors in the source code. The code completion even deals with external libraries and Qt signals and slots. 
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With its open architecture, KDevelop can be customized and extended in every respect. The user interface features a code-centric approach with on-demand tool-views.
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KDevelop features extensive support for navigating the source code. Symbols and filenames can be accessed by just typing part of the name, recently modified files can be reached with a simple keystroke. 
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KDevelop offers documentation generators, code debugging, memory checking, code refactoring, bookmark management, and dozens of tools to make development easy and convenient.
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Binary packages for all major Linux distributions can be found at
<a href="http://www.kdevelop.org/index.html?filename=<?php echo $k_base_version; ?>/download.html">http://www.kdevelop.org/index.html?filename=<?php echo $k_base_version; ?>/download.html</a>.
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The complete source code of KDevelop <?php echo $k_base_version; ?> can be freely downloaded from
<a href="http://www.kdevelop.org/">http://www.kdevelop.org</a>.
Detailed build information can be found at
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<p>About KDevelop</p>
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KDevelop is an independent project to create a powerful and easy to use integrated development environment (IDE). As a part of the KDE project, KDevelop shares the same open development model and modular framework. The result is a highly customizable, language independent IDE under the GPL license driven by dozens of developers and professionals worldwide. More about KDevelop can be found at
<a href="http://www.kdevelop.org/">http://www.kdevelop.org</a>.
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<p>About KDE</p>

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KDE is an independent project of hundreds of developers, translators, artists and other professionals worldwide collaborating over the Internet to create and freely distribute a sophisticated, customizable and stable desktop and office environment employing a flexible, component-based, network-transparent architecture and offering an outstanding development platform. KDE provides a stable, mature desktop, a full, component-based office suite (KOffice), a large set of networking and administration tools and utilities, and an efficient, intuitive development environment featuring the excellent IDE KDevelop. KDE is working proof that the Open Source "Bazaar-style" software development model can yield first-rate technologies on par with and superior to even the most complex commercial software.
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<em>Press Release:</em> Written by Harald Fernengel, with the invaluable assistance of numerous generous volunteers from the KDE Project.<br>
<em>Release Coordinators:</em> Thanks to Alexander Dymo and Amilcar do Carmo Lucas for their services as release coordinators.<br>
<em>Trademarks Notices:</em>
KDE and K Desktop Environment are trademarks of KDE e.V. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to in this announcement are the property of their respective owners.
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[edit] Notes

A few of the KDE trademarks are now registered trademarks in places like the US and EU. We will need to update our trademark notices to reflect that. I would have done it myself, but I can't remember the exact text that should be used. --Mattr