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# Chapter 1. Introduction

KPilot 4.0.0 is the latest version of the Desktop HotSync software for UNIX®. After several releases and many contributions from users KPilot, along with Korganizer, has evolved into a rather complete replacement for the Windows® Desktop provided by 3Com®. KPilot offers a few internal tools for viewing and manipulating data, and a convenient API for developing ways of sharing data with other applications. KPilot supports the 3Com® PalmPilot™ and similar devices, like the Handspring Visor.

There is a web page for KPilot: the Official KPilot Home Page. There is also a mailing list. Send mail to `<majordomo@slac.com>` with the following subject: `subscribe kpilot-list`. (To unsubscribe from the list again, send mail to `<majordomo@slac.com>` with the following subject: `unsubscribe kpilot-list`. Do not send subscribe or unsubscribe requests to the list itself.) You may also wish to use `<kde-pim@kde.org>` for more general questions about the integration between your PalmPilot™ and KDE.

A word about version numbers: KPilot 3.x versions are for KDE 1. With the release of KDE 2 KPilot 3.x is obsolete and KPilot 4.x has become current.

# 1.1. KPilot Revision History

- New in 4.0.0 - KPilot is now a KDE 2 application. A lot of work has gone into making the main KPilot application compatible with the new KDE 2 standards. The stability of the program as a whole has improved as well, with lots of bugfixes under the hood. The most important visible new features are:

  - There is a new KNotes conduit that synchronizes the memo pad with KNotes.

  - More intuitive conduit installation and setup.

  - The documentation has been brought mostly up-to-date.

- New in 3.2.1 - more bugfixes. KPilot 3.2.1 is also the last version of KPilot for KDE 1. Development on the 3.x series has stopped.

- New in 3.2.0 - KPilot has been polished sufficiently for a new public release. The infamous application-category bug has been squashed along with other bugs.

- New in 3.1.14 - New configuration options Backup Only and Skip have been added to avoid database corruption for some Handbase databases -- and possibly other products as well. The documentation for KPilot -- in english only -- has been vastly expanded.

- New in 3.1.13 - You can now HotSync - experimentally - with UNIX® style mailboxes. The popmail conduit will read a standard mailbox and copy it to the PalmPilot™. The GUI has been improved and some issues with various OS distributions have been dealt with. See the buglist for more information.

- New in 3.1.12 - This release of KPilot has only been tested with KDE 1.0, 1.1 and 1.1.1. Previous versions of KDE are no longer supported. KPilot 3.1.12 has a number of new features compared to 3.1b9. It also includes a large number of bug fixes.

  The most important new features are:

  - Now supports debugging output, just start KPilot by hand from the command line with `kpilot `--debug 1023`` and you will get loads of debugging output. Useful for reporting bugs. See the FAQ for information on the parameter to `--debug`.

  - Addresses can be sorted by company, name or by lastname, firstname.

  - A new (demonstration) conduit has been added that does nothing. For programmers, mostly.

  - The GUI has been cleaned up.

  The most important bugs that have been fixed are:

  - SMTP support

  - Daemon startup

  Note that the debugging code hasn't spread to the whole of KPilot yet. The daemon and conduits do have some debugging output, which may also be useful if KPilot doesn't work perfectly on your system.

- New in 3.1.9 - This is the fourth release of KPilot. The major change in this release is conduit support. There are currently two included conduits, a Korganizer conduit (vcal syncing) and a PopMail conduit (this fixes the email bug with KPilot 2.1). Also fixed in this release is the Address/Memo "off by one" bug. This release requires KDE Beta 4 or better.

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