Kexi 0.1 beta 3 Announcement

DATELINE MAY 1, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 1, 2004 (The INTERNET). The Kexi Team today announced the immediate availability of Kexi 0.1 beta 3, codenamed "United Europe", new preview release of the integrated data management environment aimed at developers and experienced users.

Kexi and its libraries are available for free under flexible Open Source license (LGPL). It can be obtained in Linux source and 32-bit MS Windows binary from download.kde.org. To learn how to compile Kexi, see this document.
Note: FTP servers' mirroring may take even one day.

Changes since beta 2 version

• Improved Table Designer
• Much improved general-purpose Data Table View
• Properties window added (now used for table designer, more to come)
• Consistent window closing, data saving, removing, editing, consistent questions
• Table designs (and other design types, in the future) are now saved only when needed, on demand
• Renewed Query Designer

Additional functions

Following, not yet stable functions are provided for your information. These are disabled by default after Kexi installation.

• Form designer. To enable this function, select "Settings->Other->Enable Forms" menu. There is also available external form designer in formeditor/test/ subdirectory.

Kexi Sponsorship

Kexi is developed by Kexi Team - an international group of independent developers, with additional assinstance and support from the OpenOffice Polska company.

About Kexi

Kexi is a integrated environment for managing data. It helps in creating database schema, inserting, querying and processing data. As Kexi is a real member of the KDE and KOffice projects, it integrates fluently into both. It is designed to be fully usable also without KDE on Unix, MS Windows and Mac OS X platforms.

Trademark Notices. 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.