Michal Malek - I think today we should call him the new K3b core developer - did amazing work on K3b 2.0 which was never this close to a final release.

If you want to know more about Michal read his introducing blog entry on the planet.

Changelog since K3b 1.68 (2.0-alpha3)

New features

• Added close buttons on project tabs (159751)
• Added support for new libmpcdec API (214149)

Bugfixes

• Crash at the beginning of burning (204333)
• Crash during DVD ripping (207958)
• Crash right after burn (195436)
• Crash during Audio CD ripping (198015)
• Crash at the beginning of ripping Audio CD with data tracks (186555)
• Crash at the beginning of burning cue/bin image (190775)
• Fixed various typos in UI (208401, 209512)
• Fixed potential aliasing issues (210890)
• Show only one entry on the task list even when dialog window is opened (211680)
• Show correct size when project contains invalid links (212609)
• Show correct elapsed time when burning over midnight (211604)
• Added timeout when checking version number and features of executable (212582)
• Fixed visually endless busy status when opening an empty folder (113649)
• Burning double-layer DVDs should be possible again (214115)

Sources from now on available from the K3b download page...

Thanks to Michał Małek K3b has seen a lot of fixes and port work. It is time to get a new alpha version out there.

This is still not intended for production work but is already rather stable.

Sources from now on available from the K3b download page...

Well, 1.65.0 will not be the basis for the bug crush week. 1.66.0 comes with a bunch of bug fixes to the internal job classes and some small GUi fixes.

There are still many open issues with the GUI which needs fixing. So this is only a testing release, not intended for production work.

Sources from now on available from the K3b download page...

It has been a long time since the last K3b release. But development has not stopped, it just slowed down a lot during the last two years.

Now with KDE 4 being really stable it is time to finally get K3b out there, too. This is not it yet.

This is a testing release not intended for production work!

Soon K3b bug crushing week will start and this release will be the basis.

Sources from now on available from the K3b download page...