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This being my first post on the KDE sphere (or any other sphere), it was supposed to be just a touch of contact with the world of blogging. But since time pass by in a blast, let's just summarize how I lived my third one in-person Akademy 2024. Read More

Welcome to the third post in our “This Week in KDE Apps” series! If you missed it, we just announced this new series two weeks ago, and our goal is to cover as much as possible of what's happening in the KDE world and complete Nate's This Week in Plasma. Read More

The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.1.1, the first bugfix release for Amarok 3.1 "Tricks of the Light"! 3.1.1 features a number of small improvements and bug fixes, including miscellaneous fixes for toolbars and the return of tag dialog autocompletions, a functionality that initially got lost during the Qt5/KF5 port. However, most of the work has again happened under the hood to improve the codebase's Qt6/KF6 compatibility. For the 3.2 version coming up later this year, the KDE frameworks dependency will be raised to 5.108. This should allow replacing the remaining deprecated KF5 functionalities; one of the final barriers preventing Qt6/KF6 based builds from succeeding. Read More

Welcome to the second post in our "This Week in KDE Apps" series! If you missed it we just announced this new series last week and our goal is to cover as much as possible of what's happening in the KDE world and complete Nate's This Week in Plasma. Read More

Ruqola 2.3.0 is a feature and bugfix release of the Rocket.chat app. New features: Implement Rocket.Chat Marketplace. Allow to clean room history. Allow to check new version. Implement moderation (administrator mode). Add welcome page. Implement pending users info (administrator mode). Use cmark-rc (https://github.com/dfaure/cmark-rc) for markdown support. Delete oldest files from some cache directories (file-upload and media) so it doesn't grow forever. Fixed bugs: Read More

This year was my first Akademy, and I was thrilled to be able to attend in person. Even better, some veterans said it was the best Akademy so far. It was great to see some people I had met in April and to meet new people. I arrived on Friday, 6th Sept and left the following Friday. I very much enjoyed staying in the lovely town of Würzburg and doing a day tour of Rothenberg. Now that I've caught up on sleep (the jet lag, it is real), it's time to write about it. Read More

Contrary to popular belief, Akademy 2024 was not my first Akademy. KDE seems to keep tagged faces from Akademy group photos around, so I stumbled over some vintage pictures of me in 2006 (Glasgow) and 2007 (Dublin). At the time, I was an utter greenhorn with big dreams, vague plans, and a fair bit of social anxiety. Read More

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 Read More

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