KDE 3.0.5a was released on December 21th, 2002. Read the official announcement.

This page is no longer maintained. Currently, only KDE 4.2.0 and newer are maintained. Please have a look at the KDE 4.4.0 Info Page instead.

FAQ

See the KDE FAQ for any specific questions you may have. Questions about Konqueror should be directed to the Konqueror FAQ and sound related questions are answered in the FAQ of the aRts Project

Download and Installation

Source code

Location	Size	MD5 Sum
arts-1.0.5a	1001KB	`0ad59b514e63abac237d833229e371f0`
kde-i18n-3.0.5	93MB	`fc9d041f9c7eb23bfdb6e3ab928d8230`
kdeaddons-3.0.5a	913KB	`bdda94e132c9bf035856108a06737a45`
kdeadmin-3.0.5a	1.3MB	`06e38ab1b219789c4782d9fa1edb7a22`
kdeartwork-3.0.5a	11MB	`15f1bee3d6d258615a275fa609a549f5`
kdebase-3.0.5a	13MB	`16c53e754e866f112797f695ba84c3a4`
kdebindings-3.0.5a	4.8MB	`70d084a1ad42456b33871bf0ef9e8887`
kdeedu-3.0.5a	8.7MB	`005d5c3d6098e5593fdadabf94c7718a`
kdegames-3.0.5a	7.0MB	`11b1b5b0634b793f95ac6afe44e32cc0`
kdegraphics-3.0.5a	2.6MB	`cba91964c5fcebfbe1942b58d2b1d059`
kdelibs-3.0.5a	7.4MB	`a3c714c7727ddc70e7c9ea6acf5e42dc`
kdemultimedia-3.0.5a	5.6MB	`641d30ecca821afc74ba47e7276b654a`
kdenetwork-3.0.5a	3.7MB	`527973059f0b880e714f8a4eae0d18e5`
kdepim-3.0.5a	3.1MB	`a76899888e956ab89b11ded260860b52`
kdesdk-3.0.5a	1.8MB	`506ae3e344ed70fc56f372ca3e8e8550`
kdetoys-3.0.5a	1.4MB	`004e9dc893dfd2c7f526409b50ae9293`
kdeutils-3.0.5a	1.5MB	`68ee0f1259bf7173273a0e19ae06f700`

These source packages have been digitally signed with GnuPG using the KDE Archives PGP Key (available from the KDE Signature page or public key servers).

The translation package has been split into individual language packages so you can download only the translations you need.

Binary packages

Binary packages can be found under http://download.kde.org/stable/3.0.5a/ or in the equivalent directory at one of the KDE FTP mirrors.

The current list of available binary packages:

Debian:
- Debian stable (woody): Intel i386
Red Hat:
- 8.0: Intel i386, Language packages
- 7.3: Intel i386, Language packages
SGI IRIX (README):
- 6.5: IRIX
Slackware (Unofficial contribution):
- 8.1: Intel i386
SUN Solaris (Unofficial contribution):
- 9.0: SPARC64
- 8.0: Intel x86 / SPARC64
- 7.0: SPARC64
SuSE Linux (README):
- 8.1: Intel i386
- 8.0: Intel i386
- 7.3: Intel i386 and IBM PowerPC
Turbolinux (README):
- Language packages (all versions and architectures)
- 8.0: Intel i586
- 7.0: Intel i586

Several users have contributed packages for this release. You can find them in the contrib subdir of the KDE 3.0.5a download area.

Additional binary packages might become available in the coming weeks, as well as updates to the current packages.

Updates

Security Issues

Please report possible problems to security@kde.org.

Several problems with KDE's use of Ghostscript where discovered that allow the execution of arbitrary commands contained in PostScript (PS) or PDF files with the privileges of the victim. Read the detailed advisory. KDE 3.0.5b has been released to address this problem. It is strongly recommended to update at least kdelibs, kdebase and kdegraphics to KDE 3.0.5b
A HTTP authentication credentials leak via the a "Referrer" was discovered by George Staikos in Konqueror. If the HTTP authentication credentials were part of the URL they would be possibly sent in the referer header to a 3rd party web site. Read the detailed advisory. KDE 3.1.3 and newer are not vulnerable.

Bugs

This is a list of grave bugs and common pitfalls surfacing after the release date:

currently none known.

Developer Info

If you need help porting your application to KDE 3.x see the porting guide or subscribe to the KDE Devel Mailinglist to ask specific questions about porting your applications.

There is also info on the architecture and the programming interface of KDE 3.0.