# 1.2. History of KIllustrator

From the official KIllustrator home page:

" I have started this project because I am tired of switching to Windows in order to design illustrations for papers or slides with a modern drawing tool. Now, for the Linux operating system and of course for other Unixes the Qt toolkit and the KDE project provide a perfect foundation for this kind of application. "

Revision history:

- 25/03/1998 first preview version released

- 21/04/1998 second preview version released

- 23/04/1998 snapshot 0.2.1 (bug fixes only)

- 02/06/1998 snapshot 0.3 released

- 10/08/1998 snapshot 0.4 released

- 28/08/1998 snapshot 0.4.1 released

- 06/11/1998 snapshot 0.5 released

- 05/01/1999 snapshot 0.6 released

- 29/01/1999 snapshot 0.6.1 (bug fixes only)

- 09/02/1999 snapshot 0.6.2 released

- 24/02/1999 snapshot 0.6.3 released

- 06/04/1999 snapshot 0.6.4 released (bug fixes only)

- 09/04/1999 snapshot 0.6.5 released (bug fixes only)

- 07/15/1999 snapshot 0.7 released

- 10/19/1999 snapshot 0.7.1 released