On Wednesday 24 October 2007, Maksim Orlovich said:
> > On Sunday 21 October 2007, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> >> 24 October (Wed): KDE 4.0 Release Freeze
>
> Could someone please explain to me the point of doing it? There will be
> bugs fixed in kdelibs between now and the KDE4.0 release.

http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2007/10/24/kde-development-platform-appears

I'm not saying this is the right means to communicate release schedule 
decisions to our developers, but I hope it answers your questions :).

Will