The KDE 4.0 Beta 3 release was shifted again - the tagging will be this Monday. If everything works out we will see KDE 4.0 Beta 3 this week.

The announcement from Allen about the delay also has some words about the reasons: the release team decided to have another “Binary Interface Changes” (BIC) day on Friday, 5 October. The BIC was necessary for a specific set of changes in kdelibs:

* the new KConfig
* KIO::JobFlags changes
* kdeprint lib, kprint dialogs changes
* KSSL changes (if there are any)
* bugfixes
* dox

The waiting was worth it:

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