The third alpha of Maverick Meerkat has been released. This contains a release candidate version of KDE Platform and Plasma 4.5.

Other highlights of Alpha 3 include:

• Dragon continues on as the default video player
• Message Indicator support is enabled by default for Kopete and Quassel
• Qt was updated to the current 4.7 beta release

This release contains a couple of notable bugs. KDM times out when running from a CD. The installer is also not shown on the desktop.

The technical overview has more details.