Current kst features:

kst 1.7.0 released 2008-06-27

• Fast real-time display and manipulation of streaming data
• Quick zooming and scrolling via mouse and keyboard
• Extensible via plugins
• Built-in high-speed equation interpreter
• Multiple tabs or windows
• Graphical plot layout manager
• Javascript scripting
• Drag and drop
• Cut and paste
• Native power spectrum algorithm and histograms
• Image and matrix support, including waterfall plots
• Support for the most popular data formats including:
  • ASCII, dirfile, CDF, netCDF, piolib, FITS, HEALPix, qimage
  • Plugin design allows additional formats
• Time input
• Built-in ELOG functionality
• Command-line and RPC control mechanisms
• Printing, including to images, postscript, and PDF

Future release roadmap:

(subject to change)

kst 1.8.0 continues support for KDE 3.x.
kst 2.0.0 expected release to coincide with (and require) KDE 4.0.