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Welcome to the first post in our "This Week in KDE Apps" series! You may have noticed that Nate's "This Week in KDE" blog posts no longer cover updates about KDE applications. KDE has grown significantly over the years, making it increasingly difficult for just one person to keep track of all the changes that happen each week in Plasma, and to cover the rest of KDE as well. Read More

Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14.0 is now available for packaging. This adds features needed for the Plasma 6.2 beta. URL: https://download.kde.org/stable/plasma-wayland-protocols/ SHA256: 1a4385ecfc79f7589f07381cab11c3ff51f6e2fa4b73b78600d6ad096394bf81 Signed by: E0A3EB202F8E57528E13E72FD7574483BB57B18D Jonathan Riddell jr@jriddell.org Full changelog: add a protocol for externally controlled display brightness output device: add support for brightness in SDR mode plasma-window: add client geometry + bump to v18 Add warnings discouraging third party clients using internal desktop environment protocols

The KDE community has charted its course for the coming years, focusing on three interconnected paths that converge on a single point: community. These paths aim to improve user experience, support developers, and foster community growth. Read More

Whoops, it's already been months since I last blogged. I've been actively involved with Plasma and especially its power management service PowerDevil for over a year now. I'm still learning about how everything fits together. Read More

Every two years, the KDE community selects three goals that serve as focal points for the entire community's efforts in the coming years. This cyclical process of goal-setting and community-wide focus is a great example of KDE's Cumulative Culture in action. Read More

A new Craft cache has just been published. The update is already available for KDE's CD, CI will follow in the next hours or days. 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. Read More

The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.1 "Tricks of the Light"! Coming three months after 3.0.0 and two months after the first bugfix release 3.0.1, the main development focus in 3.1 has been getting Qt6 / KDE Frameworks 6 based version closer. We are not quite there yet, but not that far away anymore. And there are some quite nice new features too! Amarok 3.1.0 brings in a refreshed Last.fm integration, which uses more up-to-date account connection mechanisms, and is better at informing users of any Last.fm errors. Similar Artists context applet does a comeback, and there's naturally also a nice bunch of smaller features and bug fixes; this time the oldest fulfilled feature request was filed just under 15 years ago. Read More

Dear fans of music & open source music players, in preparation of the upcoming Amarok 3.1 release, a beta release (3.0.81) has been prepared. As is observable from the ChangeLog, in addition to various bugfixes, there will be some, but not that many, new features included in the upcoming version. However, there has been a lot of Qt6 compatibility preparation work done under the hood, so version number 3.1 reflects the amount of changed code better than 3.0.2 would. 3.1.0 is likely to be released in early August, and all help catching any regressions during this period is highly appreciated. (n.b. one won't be able to compile a Qt6 Amarok with 3.1 yet, but perhaps with the eventual 3.2) Read More

It's been almost two months since the release of Marknote 1.2. Marknote is a rich text editor and note management tool using Markdown. Since the release a lot has changed and many new features have been added thanks to the work of all contributors! Read More

Kommit 1.6.0 is a feature and bugfix release of our Git repo app which now builds with Q 5 or 6. Improvements: build without kdbusaddons on windows Add flatpak support Fix show date (using QLocale for it) Fix mem leak Reactivate open file in external apps in qt6 Add zoom support in Report Chart Widget Replace a QTableWidget by QTreeWidget in report page Fix crash when we didn't open git repository Fix load style/icon on windows (KF >= 6.3) Implement a gravatar cache Fix i18n URL: https://download.kde.org/stable/kommit Source: kommit-1.6.0.tar.xz SHA256: 4091126316ab0cd2d4a131facd3cd8fc8c659f348103b852db8b6d1fd4f164e2 Signed by: E0A3EB202F8E57528E13E72FD7574483BB57B18D Jonathan Esk-Riddell jr@jriddell.org https://jriddell.org/esk-riddell.gpg Read More