Fresh back from my summer holidays, I've had a real treat on my Debian Squeeze box. KDE 4.2 has upgraded to version 4.3.

Debian decided not to release Lenny with KDE4 and some people complained that Debian was being "old fashioned" and too conservative again. However I think time has shown that Debian was right, KDE 4.0 and 4.1 were okay for developers to play with but they were not usable for end-users.

KDE 4.2 arrived in testing a while ago and I thought it was fantastic but it still clearly wasn't ready for the "big time", with lots of visual artefacts and on my system all the fancy stuff didn't work at all with my old Nvidia FX graphics card. KDE 4.3 turned up last night - wow ! - what a change. It's faster than 4.2, it's more stable than 4.2 and lots of features now work properly. Many thanks to the KDE and Debian/KDE teams.

I owe someone a pint of decent ale or cider. Well probably quite a few people actually...