The new version KOMA-Script 3 by Markus Kohm et al. has been released today.

Some of the new features are:

• possibility to change almost all settings, even the paper or font size, after loading the class and even after \begin{document},
• arbitrary base font size, not only in pt, also in other units of measure like pica (pc),
• new key=value interface, backward compatible,
• new package tocbasic for generation of table of contents and other lists, supporting the multilingual babel package,
• arbitrary choice where chapters are allowed to start,
• improved documentation.

To download KOMA-Script 3, visit http://developer.berlios.de/projects/koma-script3/.

There are release notes in English and more extensive in German.

edit Nov 11: KOMA-Script 3 is available now also as MiKTeX package. I’ve installed it with TeX Live on Ubuntu Linux by the MiKTeX package manager.