<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Release on KDE Blogs</title><link>https://blogs.kde.org/categories/release/</link><description>Recent content in Release on KDE Blogs</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:31:09 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://blogs.kde.org/categories/release/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>KIO S3 1.0.1</title><link>https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/24/kio-s3-1.0.1/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>Carl Schwan</author><guid>https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/24/kio-s3-1.0.1/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;KIO S3 1.0.1 is out! KIO S3 is a KIO worker that allows you to browse and manage files stored
in Amazon S3 and S3-compatible storage services (such as Cloudflare R2, DigitalOcean
Spaces, MinIO, and others) directly from Dolphin and other KDE applications.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This release is just a small bug fix release. In particular we fixed renaming S3 profiles and implement &lt;code&gt;mkdir&lt;/code&gt; operations in a more standard way (compatible with other S3 file browsers).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="download"&gt;Download&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can find the package on
&lt;a href="https://download.kde.org/stable/kio-s3/kio-s3-1.0.1.tar.xz.mirrorlist"&gt;download.kde.org&lt;/a&gt;
and it has been signed with Carl Schwan's &lt;a href="https://carlschwan.eu/gpg-02325448204e452a/"&gt;GPG key&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Marknote 1.5.2</title><link>https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/24/marknote-1.5.2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>Hunterx</author><guid>https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/24/marknote-1.5.2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Hello again! Welcome to another bugfix release. This update is highly
recommended, as it tackles a few critical issues to keep the app running
smoothly.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Resolved a crash that occurred when creating your first notebook.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fixed an issue that prevented notebooks from being removed.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Corrected a glitch allowing notes to be drag-and-dropped through quick
sketches.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Note sorting is functioning as intended now.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Restored the undo and redo buttons when a single note is open.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Added the &amp;quot;Clear&amp;quot; button to allow removing content from the quick sketches.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Added several minor background improvements for better overall stability.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="get-marknote"&gt;Get Marknote&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We encourage everyone to update as soon as possible. You can grab the latest
version via &lt;a href="https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.kde.marknote"&gt;Flatpak&lt;/a&gt;, or your
favorite package manager.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="packager-section"&gt;Packager Section&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can find the package on
&lt;a href="https://download.kde.org/stable/marknote/marknote-1.5.2.tar.xz.mirrorlist"&gt;download.kde.org&lt;/a&gt;
and it has been signed with &lt;a href="https://carlschwan.eu/gpg-02325448204e452a/"&gt;Carl Schwan's GPG key&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Marknote 1.5.1</title><link>https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/20/marknote-1.5.1/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>Hunterx</author><guid>https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/20/marknote-1.5.1/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Last week we released version 1.5 of Marknote, a fast and free
alternative to existing slow and pay-walled note-taking apps. Today we announce a release that fixes some issues and improves a few things across the app.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;figure&gt;
 &lt;img class="img-fluid" alt="Marknote v1.5.1" src="https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/20/marknote-1.5.1/Intro.png"
 style="max-width: 100%; height: auto"
 /&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So here is a list of the most notable changes and improvements:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pasting text in Source mode no longer clears document content.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pasting images from clipboard works really well too.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Find and replace text shortcuts are brought back.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Note names are now properly elided.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Markdown syntax highlighter is added to the Source mode.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Code blocks now have their own background.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Items in the Table of Contents will follow active paragraphs.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Edit button is shown in compact mode (for when the format bar is hidden).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fullscreen mode is brought back for those who need full immersion
(Ctrl+Shift+F on Linux or Alt+Enter on Windows).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The KRunner plugin now works pretty well inside Flatpak.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Single note loading is much faster now.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We optimized image loading and reduced video memory usage by almost
50%.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="the-future-is-bright"&gt;The future is bright&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To address some of the questions since the last release:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Yes, code blocks will have proper highlighting in upcoming versions (please
keep in mind that we don't have the staff of a large enterprise company, and
we probably don't need one either ;)).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Yes again, quotes and some embedded content types are planned to be added too.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Yes once more, cross-platform support is set to be improved. We will release
stable versions for all the major platforms once they get through proper
testing.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;And one more thing: the all-new and shiny block editor is a work in progress,
and it will be done when it's done™.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="thank-you-all"&gt;Thank you all&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks to everyone for making Marknote your software of choice. We will make sure to keep Marknote up and running at lightning speed for everyone. As always, you can get the latest version of the app via &lt;a href="https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.kde.marknote"&gt;Flatpak&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://snapcraft.io/marknote"&gt;Snapcraft&lt;/a&gt; or your favorite package manager. Stay tuned!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Marknote 1.5</title><link>https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/13/marknote-1.5/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate><author>Hunterx</author><guid>https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/13/marknote-1.5/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;It’s been a busy few months for the development team! We’ve been focusing
heavily on turning Marknote into a much more robust knowledge base while
keeping the interface as clean and distraction-free as possible. Today,
we're releasing version 1.5, and it’s packed with major additions and
quality-of-life improvements.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;figure&gt;
 &lt;img class="img-fluid" alt="Marknote v1.5" src="https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/13/marknote-1.5/Intro.png"
 style="max-width: 100%; height: auto"
 /&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here is a rundown of what we’ve added to this release.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="source-mode"&gt;Source Mode&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One of the most highly requested features is finally here: Source Mode.
Thanks to some fantastic work from our Season of KDE (SoK) contributor,
Siddharth Chopra, you can now bypass the rich-text WYSIWYG interface
entirely. If you’re the type of person who prefers looking at the raw
Markdown syntax while structuring your thoughts, you can now seamlessly
toggle into a dedicated source editing view.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;figure&gt;
 &lt;img class="img-fluid" alt="Marknote v1.5" src="https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/13/marknote-1.5/Source-Mode.png"
 style="max-width: 100%; height: auto"
 /&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;
&lt;h3 id="note-links"&gt;Note links&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Notes are rarely isolated thoughts, so we’ve added internal wiki-style links with
cross-notebook lookup. You can now easily link documents to one another,
making it much simpler to build out a connected web of ideas.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;figure&gt;
 &lt;img class="img-fluid" alt="Link your notes" src="https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/13/marknote-1.5/Link-Notes.png"
 style="max-width: 100%; height: auto"
 /&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;
&lt;h3 id="note-management"&gt;Note management&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We made it easier to manage your growing number of notes. Each notebook will now show you how many notes it contains. If you need to move notes between notebooks, it is now easy to do that via drag and drop. And finally, we added a new “Duplicate Note” action to make it simple to create templates and copy existing notes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;figure&gt;
 &lt;img class="img-fluid" alt="Duplicate notes" src="https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/13/marknote-1.5/Duplicate.png"
 style="max-width: 100%; height: auto"
 /&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;
&lt;h3 id="krunner-plugin"&gt;KRunner plugin&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To help you get to those ideas faster, we also added a KRunner plugin.
You don't even need to have Marknote open—just pull up KRunner on your Plasma
desktop, type what you’re looking for, and jump straight into your note.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;figure&gt;
 &lt;img class="img-fluid" alt="KRunner Plugin in action" src="https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/13/marknote-1.5/KRunner-Plugin.png"
 style="max-width: 100%; height: auto"
 /&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;
&lt;h3 id="search-and-replace"&gt;Search and replace&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Full-text search and replace functionality is also here to make your life much easier.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;figure&gt;
 &lt;img class="img-fluid" alt="Search for text" src="https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/13/marknote-1.5/Search.png"
 style="max-width: 100%; height: auto"
 /&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;
&lt;h3 id="ui-polish-and-under-the-hood-work"&gt;UI polish and under-the-hood work&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We added beautiful, all-new animations for note and notebook items, for the search bar, and brought back the smooth sidebar transitions to make navigation feel dynamic.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We added full Undo/Redo functionality to the Quick Sketch dialog.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We added several improvements to table formatting and actions to make managing grids much less frustrating.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On the technical side, we bumped our Kirigami Addons dependency to 1.11.0, fixed an annoying issue where opening a note updated its modification timestamp, and resolved a Flatpak bug that prevented notes from opening via file managers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="try-it-out"&gt;Try it out&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marknote 1.5 is rolling out now! You can grab it on Linux via &lt;a href="https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.kde.marknote"&gt;Flatpak&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://snapcraft.io/marknote"&gt;Snapcraft&lt;/a&gt;. A massive thank you to everyone who contributed code, translations, and bug reports for this cycle. Happy note-taking!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Introducing KIO S3</title><link>https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/13/introducing-kio-s3/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>Carl Schwan</author><guid>https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/13/introducing-kio-s3/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The first release of KIO S3 is out!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;KIO S3 is a KIO worker that allows you to browse and manage files stored
in Amazon S3 and S3-compatible storage services (such as Cloudflare R2, DigitalOcean
Spaces, MinIO, and others) directly from Dolphin and other KDE applications.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With KIO S3, you can:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Browse buckets and folders&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Upload and download files&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Copy, rename, and delete files and folders&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Create folders inside buckets&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Connect to multiple S3-compatible services at the same time using named profiles&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This KIO worker was initially developed by Elvis Angelaccio, and more recently Nekto Oleg took over. Nekto added many features like multiple profiles support, a System Settings page, ported various parts to the newer and more efficient batch and paginated S3 APIs, and fixed many small papercuts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;figure&gt;
 &lt;img class="img-fluid" src="https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/13/introducing-kio-s3/s3-dialog.png"
 style="max-width: 100%; height: auto"
 /&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;
&lt;h2 id="download"&gt;Download&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can find the package on
&lt;a href="https://download.kde.org/stable/kio-s3/kio-s3-1.0.0.tar.xz.mirrorlist"&gt;download.kde.org&lt;/a&gt;
and it has been signed with Carl Schwan's &lt;a href="https://carlschwan.eu/gpg-02325448204e452a/"&gt;GPG key&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Amarok 3.3.2 released</title><link>https://blogs.kde.org/2026/01/18/amarok-3.3.2-released/</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 09:20:00 +0000</pubDate><author>The Amarok Development Squad</author><guid>https://blogs.kde.org/2026/01/18/amarok-3.3.2-released/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.3.2, the second bugfix release for &lt;a href="https://apps.kde.org/amarok/"&gt;Amarok 3.3 &amp;quot;Far Above the Clouds&amp;quot;!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3.3.2 features a number of small improvements, including various small behaviour changes and bugfixes in e.g. user interface, audio backend and saving of playlist files.
Additionally, 'added to collection' date, which previously was available in collection search only, is now displayed in track's details in tag dialog.
KDE Framework depedency is now set at version 6.5, which was released in mid-2024.
All in all, Amarok 3.3.2 should bring improved usability and stability, ensuring you can keep enjoying your music in 2026.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="changes-since-331"&gt;Changes since 3.3.1&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h5 id="features"&gt;FEATURES:&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Show 'added to collection' time in tag dialog when available (&lt;a href="https://bugs.kde.org/508899"&gt;BR 508899&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5 id="changes"&gt;CHANGES:&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Make single click open items and double click add to playlist in collection browser.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Amarok now depends on KDE Frameworks 6.5.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5 id="bugfixes"&gt;BUGFIXES:&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fixes to Magnatune collection update and playback (&lt;a href="https://bugs.kde.org/508052"&gt;BR 508052&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix some issues in playlist layout editor UI&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix disabling of notifications when using system notifications&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix getting stuck in a loop if mute state was altered repeatedly&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix podcast sort order for some channels (&lt;a href="https://bugs.kde.org/511036"&gt;BR 511036&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix saving stream URLs in playlist (&lt;a href="https://bugs.kde.org/509204"&gt;BR 509204&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="getting-amarok"&gt;Getting Amarok&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In addition to &lt;a href="https://community.kde.org/Amarok/GettingStarted/Download/Source"&gt;source code&lt;/a&gt;, Amarok is available for installation from many distributions' package
repositories, which are likely to get updated to 3.3.2 soon, as well as
the flatpak available on &lt;a href="https://flathub.org/apps/org.kde.amarok"&gt;flathub&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="packager-section"&gt;Packager section&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can find the tarball package on
&lt;a href="https://download.kde.org/stable/amarok/3.3.2/amarok-3.3.2.tar.xz.mirrorlist"&gt;download.kde.org&lt;/a&gt;
and it has been signed with &lt;a href="https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/release-keyring/-/blob/ea9dd9344eec1a443903fedd7229174c6ff3d9fb/keys/nurmi@key1.asc"&gt;Tuomas Nurmi's GPG key&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Amarok 3.3.1 released</title><link>https://blogs.kde.org/2025/08/09/amarok-3.3.1-released/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>The Amarok Development Squad</author><guid>https://blogs.kde.org/2025/08/09/amarok-3.3.1-released/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.3.1, the first bugfix release for &lt;a href="https://apps.kde.org/amarok/"&gt;Amarok 3.3 &amp;quot;Far Above the Clouds&amp;quot;!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3.3.1 features a number of minor bugfixes and code and build system cleanups. Some occasional crashes related to the new audio backend have also been fixed, and the remaining non-theme icons in user interface have been replaced.
The new release also features improvements to the scripting support. Although current scripting functionality is not yet on a par with that of 2.x series in the '10's, especially the script console improvements should help anyone willing to explore
the current capabilities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="changes-since-330"&gt;Changes since 3.3.0&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h5 id="features"&gt;FEATURES:&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Enable saving and loading script console items, autocompletion in script console, and re-enable some more scripting functionality&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5 id="changes"&gt;CHANGES:&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Convert the remaining main UI toolbuttons to use icons from theme&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Clear out remnants of the now-discontinued MusicDNS service&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5 id="bugfixes"&gt;BUGFIXES:&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix example permission grant command in database settings (&lt;a href="https://bugs.kde.org/386004"&gt;BR 386004&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix equalizer gains not updating when selecting some presets (&lt;a href="https://bugs.kde.org/463908"&gt;BR 463908&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix continuing playback after timecoded tracks (cue files etc, (&lt;a href="https://bugs.kde.org/270003"&gt;BR 270003&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix MusicBrainz search&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Properly start CD playback if Amarok is not already running (&lt;a href="https://bugs.kde.org/503310"&gt;BR 503310&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Also transmit embedded cover art through MPRIS (&lt;a href="https://bugs.kde.org/357620"&gt;BR 357620&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Don't show transcoding dialog after canceling download (&lt;a href="https://bugs.kde.org/275840"&gt;BR 275840&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Load network information earlier to avoid crashes on startup (&lt;a href="https://bugs.kde.org/507497"&gt;BR 507497&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Try to export as-compatible-as-possible playlist files (&lt;a href="https://bugs.kde.org/507329"&gt;BR 507329&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix some random crashes during playback&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="getting-amarok"&gt;Getting Amarok&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In addition to &lt;a href="https://community.kde.org/Amarok/GettingStarted/Download/Source"&gt;source code&lt;/a&gt;, Amarok is available for installation from many distributions' package
repositories, which are likely to get updated to 3.3.1 soon, as well as
the flatpak available on &lt;a href="https://flathub.org/apps/org.kde.amarok"&gt;flathub&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="packager-section"&gt;Packager section&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can find the tarball package on
&lt;a href="https://download.kde.org/stable/amarok/3.3.1/amarok-3.3.1.tar.xz.mirrorlist"&gt;download.kde.org&lt;/a&gt;
and it has been signed with &lt;a href="https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/release-keyring/-/blob/ea9dd9344eec1a443903fedd7229174c6ff3d9fb/keys/nurmi@key1.asc"&gt;Tuomas Nurmi's GPG key&lt;/a&gt;.
One should also observe that Amarok 3.3.1 drops the previous optional build-time dependency to ffmpeg.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Amarok 3.3 "Far Above the Clouds" released!</title><link>https://blogs.kde.org/2025/07/08/amarok-3.3-far-above-the-clouds-released/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>The Amarok Development Squad</author><guid>https://blogs.kde.org/2025/07/08/amarok-3.3-far-above-the-clouds-released/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of &lt;a href="https://apps.kde.org/amarok/"&gt;Amarok 3.3 &amp;quot;Far Above the Clouds&amp;quot;!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;figure&gt;
 &lt;img class="img-fluid" alt="Amarok 3.3 screenshot" src="https://cdn.kde.org/screenshots/amarok/amarok33.png"
 style="max-width: 100%; height: auto"
 /&gt;
&lt;/figure&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Amarok 3.3.0 is the first version based on Qt6/KF6, corresponding to a decade-sized update of the technological foundations.
Additionally, audio engine has been reworked to use GStreamer for playback. Previously, the availability of various features, e.g. ReplayGain and visualiser,
was dependent on the Phonon backend in use, an issue that became even more evident with Qt6 Phonon backends.
This has now been remedied: The reworked audio engine provides unified feature set for all users and should provide a solid and future-proof sonic experience for years to come.
Notable improvements have also landed to the database system: improved character set support helps with e.g. emojis in podcast descriptions and other very exotic symbols,
date handling has been improved ('year 2038 problem'), and various other potential and actual database-related issues have been fixed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Amarok 3.3 arrives approximately 15 months after the initial Qt5/KF5 version 3.0 and 5 months after the final Qt5/KF5 version 3.2.2.
Although there have been a number of major changes, they are mostly technical, and their effect on the user experience is relatively minor.
Therefore, the version released now is 3.3.0, with some 3.3.x bugfix releases to be expected in near future.
A new major version ('Amarok 4') will be released later, after more extensive work on the user interface and other aspects of the software has been carried out.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="changes-since-322"&gt;Changes since 3.2.2&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h5 id="features"&gt;FEATURES:&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Audio engine has been reworked to use GStreamer instead of Phonon&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5 id="changes"&gt;CHANGES:&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Qt5/KF5 support has been dropped&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Update database character set to allow full utf-8 values (&lt;a href="https://bugs.kde.org/462268"&gt;BR 462268&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Apply default pre-gain when ReplayGain is active and use fallback value if no ReplayGain data is available for a track&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Clear out some of the now-discontinued Last.fm radio functionalities and partially replace by opening relevant Last.fm pages&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Remove TagLib extras support (RealMedia and Audible files)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5 id="bugfixes"&gt;BUGFIXES:&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Handle volume better and avoid resets on track changes (&lt;a href="https://bugs.kde.org/506427"&gt;BR 506427&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix year 2038 problem for various dates saved in database (&lt;a href="https://bugs.kde.org/426807"&gt;BR 426807&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Default to not allow compiling without embedded database (&lt;a href="https://bugs.kde.org/502777"&gt;BR 502777&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Prevent concurrent scan result processings from taking place to avoid potential database issues&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Partially re-enable cue file support&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The git repository statistics between 3.2.0 and 3.3.0 are as follows:&lt;br&gt;
Tuomas Nurmi: 113 commits, +3681, -3101&lt;br&gt;
l10n daemon script: 92 commits, +85094, -89109&lt;br&gt;
Kunda Ki: 1 commit, +4, -11&lt;br&gt;
Carl Schwan: 1 commit, +1, -1&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="getting-amarok"&gt;Getting Amarok&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In addition to &lt;a href="https://community.kde.org/Amarok/GettingStarted/Download/Source"&gt;source code&lt;/a&gt;, Amarok is available for installation from many distributions' package
repositories, which are likely to get updated to 3.3.0 soon, as well as
the flatpak available on &lt;a href="https://flathub.org/apps/org.kde.amarok"&gt;flathub&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="packager-section"&gt;Packager section&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can find the tarball package on
&lt;a href="https://download.kde.org/stable/amarok/3.3.0/amarok-3.3.0.tar.xz.mirrorlist"&gt;download.kde.org&lt;/a&gt;
and it has been signed with &lt;a href="https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/release-keyring/-/blob/ea9dd9344eec1a443903fedd7229174c6ff3d9fb/keys/nurmi@key1.asc"&gt;Tuomas Nurmi's GPG key&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Second beta for Amarok 3.3 available</title><link>https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/25/second-beta-for-amarok-3.3-available/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>The Amarok Development Squad</author><guid>https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/25/second-beta-for-amarok-3.3-available/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Dear fans of music &amp;amp; open source music players,&lt;br&gt;
in preparation of the upcoming Amarok 3.3 release, a second beta release (3.2.82) has been prepared.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This time, the most important change is the new GStreamer-based audio backend. This enables a number of features that weren't available on Qt6 Phonon
backends, and likely also provides a more reliable audio experience in general.
In addition to audio system work, e.g. more safeguards have been set up around collection scanning code to prevent some potential database issues.
More details on changes are listed in the &lt;a href="https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/amarok/-/blob/6be70a349b2ae9cb65f82806fe477e8714723403/ChangeLog"&gt;ChangeLog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These come in addition to the previous beta 1 changes (Qt6 only, database update).
Please note that due to the database update in beta 1, downgrading from 3.3 betas is not directly possible, and returning to pre-3.3 versions
requires the database (at ~/.local/share/amarok/mysqle/) to be manually backed up beforehand.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Additionally, there isn't an official release with Qt6 support of liblastfm available yet
(needed for last.fm support). To enable last.fm functionalities, one needs to use a library
version built from e.g. sources at &lt;a href="https://github.com/Mazhoon/liblastfm/tree/81e8f9dc16a0a18fe9a066d51c2071086326670b"&gt;https://github.com/Mazhoon/liblastfm/tree/81e8f9dc16a0a18fe9a066d51c2071086326670b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Amarok 3.3 beta 2 source tarball is available on
&lt;a href="https://download.kde.org/unstable/amarok/3.2.82/amarok-3.2.82.tar.xz.mirrorlist"&gt;download.kde.org&lt;/a&gt;
and it has been signed with &lt;a href="https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/release-keyring/-/blob/ea9dd9344eec1a443903fedd7229174c6ff3d9fb/keys/nurmi@key1.asc"&gt;Tuomas Nurmi's GPG key&lt;/a&gt;.
In addition to the source code, it is likely that some distributions will provide beta packages.
The various nightly git builds provided by various splendid packagers should also provide a way of using the beta changes
and participating in the testing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Happy listening!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Ruqola 2.5.0</title><link>https://blogs.kde.org/2025/04/27/ruqola-2.5.0/</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>Laurent Montel</author><guid>https://blogs.kde.org/2025/04/27/ruqola-2.5.0/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Ruqola 2.5.0 is a feature and bugfix release of the Rocket.chat messenger app.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="ruqola-250"&gt;Ruqola 2.5.0&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Add support for tools plugins&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Implement invite RC url support&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Implement verify if a new Ruqola version exist&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Show images from attachment dialog box&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Implement Rocket.Chat application support&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Implement command preview&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Implement plugin UI support&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix download languages apps&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Bug: Search in encrypted room is not possible&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Bug: A command start with '/' and not /* or //&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;URL:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://download.kde.org/stable/ruqola/"&gt;https://download.kde.org/stable/ruqola/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Source:&lt;/strong&gt; ruqola-2.5.0.tar.xz&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Beta for Amarok 3.3 available</title><link>https://blogs.kde.org/2025/04/13/beta-for-amarok-3.3-available/</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2025 08:30:00 +0000</pubDate><author>The Amarok Development Squad</author><guid>https://blogs.kde.org/2025/04/13/beta-for-amarok-3.3-available/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Dear fans of music &amp;amp; open source music players,&lt;br&gt;
in preparation of the upcoming Amarok 3.3 release, a beta release (3.2.81) has been prepared.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As shown in the &lt;a href="https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/amarok/-/blob/b5803283b399cc1aa4d6be39cc1750b0545ec7ca/ChangeLog"&gt;ChangeLog&lt;/a&gt;,
the changes are mostly technical: Qt5 support is removed, and Amarok 3.3 beta is compatible with Qt6/KF6 only.
Additionally, a database scheme update (first such since 2012) fixes encoding and date related bugs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please note that due to the database update, downgrading from 3.3 beta is not directly possible, and returning to pre-3.3 versions
requires the database (at ~/.local/share/amarok/mysqle/) to be manually backed up beforehand.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Aligning with current major KDE Frameworks version should simplify various direct and indirect software dependencies.
However, phonon-vlc is the only supported backend on Qt6 Phonon, which Amarok 3.3 beta is still using for audio playback.
This imposes some constraints e.g. on equalizer and analyzer functionalities.
A more comprehensive overview of audio backend status is available on &lt;a href="https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/amarok/-/issues/11"&gt;an invent.kde.org issue&lt;/a&gt; and
a related &lt;a href="https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/amarok/-/merge_requests/143"&gt;work-in-progress merge request&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Additionally, there isn't official releases with Qt6 support of liblastfm available yet
(needed for last.fm support). To enable the functionality, one needs to use library
version built from e.g. sources at &lt;a href="https://github.com/Mazhoon/liblastfm/tree/81e8f9dc16a0a18fe9a066d51c2071086326670b"&gt;https://github.com/Mazhoon/liblastfm/tree/81e8f9dc16a0a18fe9a066d51c2071086326670b&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Amarok 3.3 beta source tarball is available on
&lt;a href="https://download.kde.org/unstable/amarok/3.2.81/amarok-3.2.81.tar.xz.mirrorlist"&gt;download.kde.org&lt;/a&gt;
and it has been signed with &lt;a href="https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/release-keyring/-/blob/ea9dd9344eec1a443903fedd7229174c6ff3d9fb/keys/nurmi@key1.asc"&gt;Tuomas Nurmi's GPG key&lt;/a&gt;.
In addition to the source code, it is likely that some distributions will provide beta packages.
The various nightly git builds provided by various splendid packagers should also provide a way of using the beta changes
and participating in the testing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Happy listening!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Amarok 3.2.2 released</title><link>https://blogs.kde.org/2025/02/15/amarok-3.2.2-released/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2025 11:20:00 +0000</pubDate><author>The Amarok Development Squad</author><guid>https://blogs.kde.org/2025/02/15/amarok-3.2.2-released/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.2.2, the second bugfix release for &lt;a href="https://apps.kde.org/amarok/"&gt;Amarok 3.2 &amp;quot;Punkadiddle&amp;quot;!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3.2.2 features some minor bugfixes, and improvements for building Amarok on non-UNIX systems and without X11 support. Additionally, a 16-year-old feature request has been fulfilled.
Concluding years of Qt5 porting and polishing work, Amarok 3.2.2 is likely to be the last version with Qt5/KF5 support, and
it should provide a nice and stable music player experience for users on various systems and distributions.
The development in git, on the other hand, will soon switch the default configuration to Qt6/KF6, and focus for the next 3.3 series will be to ensure that everything functions nicely with the new Qt version.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="changes-since-321"&gt;Changes since 3.2.1&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h5 id="features"&gt;FEATURES:&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Try to preserve collection browser order when adding tracks to playlist (&lt;a href="https://bugs.kde.org/180404"&gt;BR 180404&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5 id="changes"&gt;CHANGES:&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Allow building without X11 support&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Various build fixes for non-UNIX systems&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5 id="bugfixes"&gt;BUGFIXES:&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix DAAP collection connections, browsing and playing (&lt;a href="https://bugs.kde.org/498654"&gt;BR 498654&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix first line of lyrics.ovh lyrics missing (&lt;a href="https://bugs.kde.org/493882"&gt;BR 493882&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="getting-amarok"&gt;Getting Amarok&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In addition to &lt;a href="https://community.kde.org/Amarok/GettingStarted/Download/Source"&gt;source code&lt;/a&gt;, Amarok is available for installation from many distributions' package
repositories, which are likely to get updated to 3.2.2 soon, as well as
the flatpak available on &lt;a href="https://flathub.org/apps/org.kde.amarok"&gt;flathub&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="packager-section"&gt;Packager section&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can find the tarball package on
&lt;a href="https://download.kde.org/stable/amarok/3.2.2/amarok-3.2.2.tar.xz.mirrorlist"&gt;download.kde.org&lt;/a&gt;
and it has been signed with &lt;a href="https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/release-keyring/-/blob/ea9dd9344eec1a443903fedd7229174c6ff3d9fb/keys/nurmi@key1.asc"&gt;Tuomas Nurmi's GPG key&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>New Craft cache 25.01 published</title><link>https://blogs.kde.org/2025/02/02/new-craft-cache-25.01-published/</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>Julius Künzel, and Hannah von Reth</author><guid>https://blogs.kde.org/2025/02/02/new-craft-cache-25.01-published/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A new Craft cache has just been published. The update is already available for KDE's CD, CI (Windows/Android) will follow in the next days.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please note that this only applies to the Qt6 cache. The Qt5 cache is in LTS mode since April 2024 and does not recieve major updates anymore. We highly recommend to port your Qt5 app packaged by Craft to Qt6 as soon as possible!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="changes-highlights"&gt;Changes (highlights)&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h3 id="general"&gt;General&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We added CI for flake8, isort and black with the help of tox (which makes it easy to run them locally too) to all Craft repositories. To be able to do so we did a lot of best pratice cleanup beforehand like eg. removing star imports.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="craft-core"&gt;Craft Core&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Drop support for MSVC 2017&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Introduced a &lt;code&gt;CraftBool&lt;/code&gt; helper. This allows handy things like &lt;code&gt;self.subinfo.options.dynamic.withMyLib.asOnOff&lt;/code&gt; instead of &lt;code&gt;'ON' if self.subinfo.options.dynamic.withMyLib else 'OFF'&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix: let the Meson build system respect the &lt;code&gt;buildStatic&lt;/code&gt; option&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Handle &lt;code&gt;--enable-static --enable-shared&lt;/code&gt; in AutoToolsPackageBase instead of in every single blueprint&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Python packages (Linux and Windows MSVC; macOS is work in progress):
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Build them ourself instead of using the pre-build binaries from pypi.org&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Use proper staging&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Allow to deploy/package them&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Properly set Craft env when branch is switched (eg. with Craft Master in CI)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="blueprints"&gt;Blueprints&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;libjpeg-turbo 3.0.3&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Multiple fixes for build of shared vs. static libs&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;libvpx 1.15.0&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Add minGW 14.2 (not the default yet!)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;7z 24.09&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;KShimgen 0.6.1&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;linuxdeploy-plugin-qt 2.0.0-alpha-1-20250119&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;qtkeychain 0.15.0&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="about-kde-craft"&gt;About KDE Craft&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;KDE Craft is an open source meta-build system and package manager. It manages dependencies and builds libraries and applications from source on Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD and Android.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Learn more on &lt;a href="https://community.kde.org/Craft"&gt;https://community.kde.org/Craft&lt;/a&gt; or join the Matrix room &lt;a href="https://go.kde.org/matrix/#/%23kde-craft:kde.org"&gt;#kde-craft:kde.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Ruqola 2.4.1</title><link>https://blogs.kde.org/2025/01/23/ruqola-2.4.1/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>Release-Team</author><guid>https://blogs.kde.org/2025/01/23/ruqola-2.4.1/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Ruqola 2.4.1 is a feature and bugfix release of the Rocket.chat messenger app.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="ruqola-241"&gt;Ruqola 2.4.1&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix typing support (new API)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Exclude string starting with /* or // as Rocket chat command (avoid error)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Don't copy text when preview is hidden&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix Market apps support&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix search user (Allow to use '@') when inviting users in Room&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Inform when we don't have database history for a specific Room&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix clicking in url in text in preview url&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Don't allow to create two tokens with same name&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Don't show clear button in lineedit when it's readonly&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;URL:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://download.kde.org/stable/ruqola/"&gt;https://download.kde.org/stable/ruqola/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Source:&lt;/strong&gt; ruqola-2.4.1.tar.xz&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;SHA256:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;e5adb0806e12b4ce44b55434256139656546db9f5b8d78ccafae07db0ce70570&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Signed by:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;E0A3EB202F8E57528E13E72FD7574483BB57B18D&lt;/code&gt; Jonathan Riddell &lt;a href="mailto:jr@jriddell.org"&gt;jr@jriddell.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://jriddell.org/jriddell.pgp"&gt;https://jriddell.org/jriddell.pgp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Amarok 3.2.1 released</title><link>https://blogs.kde.org/2025/01/11/amarok-3.2.1-released/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2025 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>The Amarok Development Squad</author><guid>https://blogs.kde.org/2025/01/11/amarok-3.2.1-released/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.2.1, the first bugfix release for &lt;a href="https://apps.kde.org/amarok/"&gt;Amarok 3.2 &amp;quot;Punkadiddle&amp;quot;!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3.2.1 features fixes for some small UI bugs, improvements for file transfers to MTP devices, and some compilation fixes for different combinations of Qt6 versions and compilers, enabling easier testing of Qt6 builds.
Additionally, it is now theoretically possible to enable last.fm and gpodder.net support in a Qt6 build. However, this requires Qt6 support in liblastfm and libmygpo-qt; a functionality that
is not yet included in the most recent released versions of the libraries.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="changes-since-320"&gt;Changes since 3.2.0&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h5 id="changes"&gt;CHANGES:&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Support gpodder and lastfm on Qt6 builds&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Limit maximum current track font size more when context view is narrow&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5 id="bugfixes"&gt;BUGFIXES:&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix displaying settings button for Internet services&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Enable Wikipedia context applet on Qt6 builds&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Don't crash when copying multiple files to MTP device (&lt;a href="https://bugs.kde.org/467616"&gt;BR 467616&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Avoid unnecessarily flooding MTP devices with storage capacity queries&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Compilation fixes for various compiler + Qt6 version combinations&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h3 id="getting-amarok"&gt;Getting Amarok&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In addition to &lt;a href="https://community.kde.org/Amarok/GettingStarted/Download/Source"&gt;source code&lt;/a&gt;, Amarok is available for installation from many distributions' package
repositories, which are likely to get updated to 3.2.1 soon, as well as
the flatpak available on &lt;a href="https://flathub.org/apps/org.kde.amarok"&gt;flathub&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="packager-section"&gt;Packager section&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can find the tarball package on
&lt;a href="https://download.kde.org/stable/amarok/3.2.1/amarok-3.2.1.tar.xz.mirrorlist"&gt;download.kde.org&lt;/a&gt;
and it has been signed with &lt;a href="https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/release-keyring/-/blob/ea9dd9344eec1a443903fedd7229174c6ff3d9fb/keys/nurmi@key1.asc"&gt;Tuomas Nurmi's GPG key&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.16.0</title><link>https://blogs.kde.org/2025/01/09/plasma-wayland-protocols-1.16.0/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>Release-Team</author><guid>https://blogs.kde.org/2025/01/09/plasma-wayland-protocols-1.16.0/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.16.0 is now available for packaging. It is needed for the forthcoming Plasma 6.3.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;URL:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://download.kde.org/stable/plasma-wayland-protocols/"&gt;https://download.kde.org/stable/plasma-wayland-protocols/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;SHA256:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;da3fbbe3fa5603f9dc9aabe948a6fc8c3b451edd1958138628e96c83649c1f16&lt;/code&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Signed by:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;E0A3EB202F8E57528E13E72FD7574483BB57B18D&lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href="https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/release-keyring/-/raw/master/keys/jriddell@key1.asc?ref_type=heads"&gt;Jonathan Riddell &lt;a href="mailto:jr@jriddell.org"&gt;jr@jriddell.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Full changelog:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;external-brightness: Allow the client to specify observed brightness&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;output management: add a failure reason event&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;output device,-management: add a dimming multiplier&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;output device/management: add power/performance vs. color accuracy preference&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description></item><item><title>Amarok 3.2 "Punkadiddle" released!</title><link>https://blogs.kde.org/2024/12/29/amarok-3.2-punkadiddle-released/</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 Dec 2024 19:30:00 +0000</pubDate><author>The Amarok Development Squad</author><guid>https://blogs.kde.org/2024/12/29/amarok-3.2-punkadiddle-released/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of &lt;a href="https://apps.kde.org/amarok/"&gt;Amarok 3.2 &amp;quot;Punkadiddle&amp;quot;!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2024 was the year that finally introduced a Qt5/KF5 based Amarok 3 release in April, and it was followed by a number of 3.x bugfix and feature releases.
Now, to conclude 2024, it is time for Amarok 3.2.0. The most interesting change is probably the ability to build the same codebase on both Qt5 and Qt6.
Qt5/KF5 is still the recommended, tested configuration, for now. Qt6 version should be usable, but in addition to any unknown issues, there are a number
of known issues documented in README.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Additionally, 3.2.0 includes e.g. collection filtering and Ampache related features and fixes, oldest resolved feature request being from 2013.
Multiple long-standing crash bug reports have been closed lately, and probable fixes for various issues observed in crash report data have been introduced.
Amarok 3.2.0 should thus feature slightly improved stability.
Some 3.2.x bugfix releases are to be expected in 2025, before the focus shifts to preparations for an &amp;quot;Amarok 4&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4 id="changes-since-311"&gt;Changes since 3.1.1&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;h5 id="changes"&gt;CHANGES:&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Building an experimental Qt6/KF6 Amarok version is now possible&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Allow filtering collection by lack of tag / empty tag (&lt;a href="https://bugs.kde.org/325317"&gt;BR 325317&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5 id="changes-1"&gt;CHANGES:&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Amarok now depends on KDE Frameworks 5.108&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Show current track context applet by default&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h5 id="bugfixes"&gt;BUGFIXES:&lt;/h5&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Probably fix occasional crashes when filtering collection (&lt;a href="https://bugs.kde.org/492406"&gt;BR 492406&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Probably fix occasional crashes when clearing CompondProgressBars&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix context view applets on Qt6/KF6&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix Ampache login on server version 5.0.0 and later (&lt;a href="https://bugs.kde.org/496581"&gt;BR 496581&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix crash if Ampache login is redirected (&lt;a href="https://bugs.kde.org/396590"&gt;BR 396590&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The git repository statistics between 3.1.0 and 3.2.0 are as follows:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;l10n daemon script: 68 commits, +41987, -35275&lt;br&gt;
Tuomas Nurmi: 46 commits, +723, -4854&lt;br&gt;
Raresh Rus: 3 commits, +41, -53&lt;br&gt;
Ian Abbott: 1 commit, +17, -3&lt;br&gt;
Heiko Becker: 1 commit, +0, -3&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="getting-amarok"&gt;Getting Amarok&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In addition to &lt;a href="https://community.kde.org/Amarok/GettingStarted/Download/Source"&gt;source code&lt;/a&gt;, Amarok is available for installation from many distributions' package
repositories, which are likely to get updated to 3.2.0 soon, as well as
the flatpak available on &lt;a href="https://flathub.org/apps/org.kde.amarok"&gt;flathub&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 id="packager-section"&gt;Packager section&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can find the tarball package on
&lt;a href="https://download.kde.org/stable/amarok/3.2.0/amarok-3.2.0.tar.xz.mirrorlist"&gt;download.kde.org&lt;/a&gt;
and it has been signed with &lt;a href="https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/release-keyring/-/blob/ea9dd9344eec1a443903fedd7229174c6ff3d9fb/keys/nurmi@key1.asc"&gt;Tuomas Nurmi's GPG key&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Ruqola 2.4.0</title><link>https://blogs.kde.org/2024/12/18/ruqola-2.4.0/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>Release-Team</author><guid>https://blogs.kde.org/2024/12/18/ruqola-2.4.0/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Ruqola 2.4.0 is a feature and bugfix release of the Rocket.chat messenger app.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some of the new features in this release of Ruqola include:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Allow to clean up room history when room was not opened for a long time.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Add restore button in administrator server settings dialog.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Improve changing password (show validation info).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Improve register new account (Add reason support).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Implement mute/unmute user.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Add color to the text in the account tab.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Allow to show private installed applications.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some bug fixing:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix editing message.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Show permissions in Rocket.Chat Marketplace.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix reconnect server.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix single application on Windows/MacOs&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix select created room/discussion/teams&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix filter discussion in administrator mode&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix message video support&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix highlight text in quoted message&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix open discussion channel&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Allow to show application market settings&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;URL:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://download.kde.org/stable/ruqola/"&gt;https://download.kde.org/stable/ruqola/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Source:&lt;/strong&gt; ruqola-2.4.0.tar.xz&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;SHA256:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;f532e421ae731dfc2e88b78ab61de01e0e367a31a4fe34497664a66fc737225c&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Signed by:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;E0A3EB202F8E57528E13E72FD7574483BB57B18D&lt;/code&gt; Jonathan Riddell &lt;a href="mailto:jr@jriddell.org"&gt;jr@jriddell.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://jriddell.org/jriddell.pgp"&gt;https://jriddell.org/jriddell.pgp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.15.0</title><link>https://blogs.kde.org/2024/12/07/plasma-wayland-protocols-1.15.0/</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>Release-Team</author><guid>https://blogs.kde.org/2024/12/07/plasma-wayland-protocols-1.15.0/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.15.0 is now available for packaging. It is needed for the forthcoming KDE Frameworks.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;URL:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://download.kde.org/stable/plasma-wayland-protocols/"&gt;https://download.kde.org/stable/plasma-wayland-protocols/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;SHA256:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;e5aedfe7c0b2443aa67882b4792d08814570e00dd82f719a35c922a0993f621e&lt;/code&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Signed by:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;E0A3EB202F8E57528E13E72FD7574483BB57B18D&lt;/code&gt; &lt;a href="https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/release-keyring/-/raw/master/keys/jriddell@key1.asc?ref_type=heads"&gt;Jonathan Riddell &lt;a href="mailto:jr@jriddell.org"&gt;jr@jriddell.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Full changelog:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Add a request to create a virtual output stream with description&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Add alpine CI&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Add modifier information to keystate&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;gitignore: use same as KWin&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Add a destructor to appmenu manager&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Add protocol tests&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Add CI for static builds on Linux&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description></item><item><title>Ruqola 2.3.2</title><link>https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/26/ruqola-2.3.2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>Release-Team</author><guid>https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/26/ruqola-2.3.2/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Ruqola 2.3.2 is a feature and bugfix release of the Rocket.chat app.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It includes many fixes for RocketChat 7.0.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;New features:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix administrator refresh user list&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix menu when we select video conference message&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix RocketChat 7.0 server support&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix create video message&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix update cache when we change video/attachment description&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix export message job&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix show userOffline when we have a group&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix enable/disable ok button when search room in team dialog&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix crash when we remove room in team dialog&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix update channel selection when we reconnect server&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;URL:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://download.kde.org/stable/ruqola/"&gt;https://download.kde.org/stable/ruqola/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Source:&lt;/strong&gt; ruqola-2.3.2.tar.xz&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;SHA256:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;57c8ff6fdeb4aba286425a1bc915db98ff786544a3ada9dec39056ca4b587837&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Signed by:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;code&gt;E0A3EB202F8E57528E13E72FD7574483BB57B18D&lt;/code&gt; Jonathan Riddell &lt;a href="mailto:jr@jriddell.org"&gt;jr@jriddell.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://jriddell.org/jriddell.pgp"&gt;https://jriddell.org/jriddell.pgp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>