"The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of
KDE 3.5.3, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the
most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other
UNIXes. Unusually for a maintenance release, new features were
implemented due to the long release cycle of the eagerly-awaited
KDE 4. Stability and speed were also improved, along with
increasingly complete translations in 65 languages.
"Significant enhancements include:
"KDE startup sequence reordered to improve startup time.
"Over 800 minor issues fixed thanks to Coverity, as part of a
project initiated with funding from the United States
Government..."