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February 6, 2013: Okular 0.16 released

The 0.16 version of Okular has been released together with KDE Applications 4.10 release. This release introduces new features like the ability to zoom to higher levels in PDF documents, an Active based viewer for your tablet devices, more support for PDF movies, viewport follows selection, and annotation editing improvements. Okular 0.16 is a recommended update for everyone using Okular.

October 10, 2012: Okular forums

We now have a subforum inside the KDE Community Forums. You can find it at http://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=251.

August 1, 2012: Okular 0.15 released

The 0.15 version of Okular has been released together with KDE Applications 4.9 release. This release introduces new features like the ability to store annotations with PDF documents, more support for PDF movies, multiple bookmarks per page and some other minor improvements. You can find a non complete list of bugs and features in bugzilla. Okular 0.15 is a recommended update for everyone using Okular.

January 25, 2012: Okular 0.14 released

The 0.14 version of Okular has been released together with KDE Applications 4.8 release. This release introduces new features like improved text selection in documents with columns, table selection tool, LaTex rendering in annotations, improved embedded support (for use in e.g. Kile), better layouting for faced pages, smarter screensaver/powermanagement handling, improved page label support, default zoom configuration, improved Landscape printing, etc. You can find a non complete list of bugs and features in bugzilla. Okular 0.14 is a recommended update for everyone using Okular.

July 27, 2011: Okular 0.13 released

The 0.13 version of Okular has been released together with KDE Applications 4.7 release. This release introduce small fixes and features and is a recommended update for everyone using Okular.

January 26, 2011: Okular 0.12 released

The 0.12 version of Okular has been released together with KDE Applications 4.6 release. This release introduce small fixes and features and is a recommended update for everyone using Okular.

August 10, 2010: Okular 0.11 released

The 0.11 version of Okular has been released together with KDE Applications 4.5 release. This release introduce small fixes and features and is a recommended update for everyone using Okular.

February 9, 2010: Okular 0.10 released

The 0.10 version of Okular has been released together with KDE SC 4.4. Besides general improvements in stability this release sports new/improved support for both inverse search and forward search linking latex source code lines with the corresponding locations in dvi and pdf files.

December 1, 2009: Okular 0.9.4 released

The forth maintenance release of the KDE 4.3 series includes Okular 0.9.4. It includes some crash fixes, and few small bug fixes in the interface. You can read all the fixed issues at http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_3_3to4_3_4.php

June 3, 2009: Okular 0.8.4 released

The forth maintenance release of the KDE 4.2 series includes Okular 0.8.4. It includes some fixes in OpenDocument Text documents, a couple of crash fixes, and few small bugs in the interface. You can read all the fixed issues at http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_2_3to4_2_4.php

May 6, 2009: Okular 0.8.3 released

The third maintenance release of the KDE 4.2 series includes Okular 0.8.3. It does not provide much news for Okular, the only relevant change is about thread more safety when generating page images of XPS document. You can read all the fixed issues at http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_2_2to4_2_3.php

April 2, 2009: Okular 0.8.2 released

The second maintenance release of the KDE 4.2 series includes Okular 0.8.2. It includes better support (hopefully working) for DVI and pdfsync inverse search, and fixes and small improvements in the presentation mode. You can read all the fixed issues at http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_2_1to4_2_2.php

March 4, 2009: Okular 0.8.1 released

The first maintenance release of the KDE 4.2 series includes Okular 0.8.1. It includes some crash fixes in the CHM and DjVu backends, and minor fixes in the user interface. You can read all the fixed issues at http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_2to4_2_1.php

January 27, 2009: Okular 0.8 released

The Okular team is proud to announce a new version of Okular, released as part of KDE 4.2. Some of the new features and improvements include (in random order):
  • Add a Document Archiving possibility
  • Start a search from the current page
  • Preliminar support for videos in PDF documents
  • Presentation mode improvements: screen saver inhibition, and black screen mode
  • More stamp annotations
  • Support for Lilypond's "point-and-click" links
  • Editor configuration for inverse search
  • Export to OpenDocument Text and HTML for ODT, Fictionbook and EPub backends (requires Qt 4.5)
  • New backend for G3/G4 fax documents
  • DjVu backend: memory management improvements
  • OpenDocument Text backend: various improvements
  • ... other small features and fixes
And, of course, many bugs were fixed.

November 4, 2008: Okular 0.7.3 released

The third maintenance release of the KDE 4.1 series includes Okular 0.7.3. It includes some minor fixes in the user interface and in the text search. You can read all the fixed issues at http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_1_2to4_1_3.php

October 3, 2008: Okular 0.7.2 released

The second maintenance release of the KDE 4.1 series includes Okular 0.7.2. It includes some minor fixes in the TIFF and Comicbook backends and the change to "Fit Width" as default zoom level. You can read all the fixed issues at http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_1_1to4_1_2.php

September 3, 2008: Okular 0.7.1 released

The first maintenance release of the KDE 4.1 series includes Okular 0.7.1. It includes some crash fixes among other minor fixes. You can read all the fixed issues at http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_1to4_1_1.php

July 29, 2008: Okular 0.7 released

The Okular team is proud to announce a new version of Okular, released as part of KDE 4.1. Some of the new features and improvements include (in random order):
  • Possibility to save a PDF document with the changes to the form fields
  • Presentation mode: support for more than one screen, and possibility to disable transitions
  • The zoom level is stored per-document now
  • Enhanced text-to-speech support, that can be used to read the whole document, a specific page or the text selection
  • Backward direction for text search
  • Improved support for forms
  • Preliminary (really basic and most probably incomplete) support for JavaScript in PDF documents
  • Support for file attachment annotations
  • Possibility to remove the white border of pages when viewing pages
  • New backend for EPub documents
  • OpenDocument Text backend: support for encrypted documents, list and tables improvements
  • XPS backend: various loading and rendering improvements, should be much more usable now
  • PS backend: various improvements, mainly due to the newer libspectre required
  • ... other small features
And, of course, many bugs were fixed.

April 2, 2008: Okular 0.6.3 released

The third maintenance release of the KDE 4.0 series includes Okular 0.6.3. It includes few bug fixes, i.e. a better way to get the text position in a PDF document, and a couple of fixes for the annotation system, and the table of contents. You can read all the fixed issues at http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_0_2to4_0_3.php

March 5, 2008: Okular 0.6.2 released

The second maintenance release of the KDE 4.0 series includes Okular 0.6.2. It includes quite a few bug fixes, including more stability when closing a document, and small fixes for the bookmark system. You can read all the fixed issues at http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_0_1to4_0_2.php

February 5, 2008: Okular 0.6.1 released

The first maintenance release of the KDE 4.0 series includes Okular 0.6.1. It includes quite a few bug fixes, including better not redownloading files when saving, usability improvements, etc. You can read all the fixed issues at http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_0to4_0_1.php

Jul 10, 2007: aKademy 2007 Okular presentation material online

The Okular talk given by Pino Toscano at aKademy 2007 is now online. There are both slides and video available.

Apr 4, 2007: Okular in kdegraphics

The Okular team is proud to announce Okular is now part of the kdegraphics module. The next version of Okular will be shipped with KDE 4.0.

Jan 31, 2007: Okular joins The Season of Usability project

The Okular team is proud to announce Okular has been one of the applications selected to participate in the Season of Usability project, run by usability experts at OpenUsability. From here we want to welcome Sharad Baliyan to the team and thank Florian Graessle and Pino Toscano for their continued work on improving Okular.

Nov 2, 2006: Okular 0.5.81 unstable snapshot released

The Okular team is proud to announce the release of a snapshot of Okular that compiles against the Second KDE 4 Developers Snapshot. This snapshot is not completely functional, yet, as we have lots of things to polish and finish, but you are free to test it and provide as much feedback as you want. You can find the snapshot package at ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/KDE4.x/graphics/okular-0.5.81.tar.bz2. Have a look at the download page to be sure you have all the necessary libraries.

Aug 27, 2006: Okular 0.5 unstable snapshot released

The Okular team is proud to announce the release of a snapshot of Okular that compiles against the KDE 4 'Krash' snapshot. This snapshot is still not completely functional as we have lots of things to polish and finish but you are free to test it and provide as much feedback as you want. You can find the snapshot package at ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/KDE4.x/graphics/okular-0.5.tar.bz2. Have a look at the download page to be sure you have all the necessary libraries.

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