14 DAY TRIAL // The Calligra development team, through Cyrille Berger, has announced earlier today, March 15, the immediate availability for download and testing of the first maintenance release of the Calligra 2.9 office suite for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
According to the release notes, Calligra 2.9.1 is a bugfix release that addresses some of the issues discovered in the previous version, Calligra 2.9.0, and reported by users. It appears that most of the changes have been implemented in the Kexi and Krita components.
“The Calligra team has released version 2.9.1, the first of the bugfix releases of the Calligra Suite in the 2.9 series. This release contains a few important bug fixes to 2.9.0 and we recommend everybody to update,” says Cyrille Berger in the release announcement for Calligra 2.9.1.
Numerous bugs have been fixed in the Krita and Kexi applications
The Krita digital painting application has been updated as part of the brand-new Calligra 2.9.1 office suite. The outline cursor issue on the CentOS 6.5 operating system, G’Mic has been updated to the latest version, the layout of the filter selector in the filter layer/mask dialog has been improved, the QtUiTools dependency has been removed, a new option has been added to allow users to disable the on-canvas notification messages, and over ten bugs have been squashed.
On the other hand, the Kexi visual database applications creator, which is considered by many a Microsoft Access alternative on Linux, received numerous improvements in various areas, including database handling, tables, queries, and reports. Download Calligra 2.9.1 right now from Softpedia. All users are urged to update to the new Calligra release as soon as the software arrives on the official software repositories of their Linux distributions.