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Plasma Wayland Protocls 1.13.0 is now available for packaging. This adds features needed for the Plasma 6.1 beta. URL: https://download.kde.org/stable/plasma-wayland-protocols/ SHA256: dd477e352f5ff6e6ac686286c4b22b19bf5a4921b85ee5a7da02bb7aa115d57e Signed by: E0A3EB202F8E57528E13E72FD7574483BB57B18D Jonathan Esk-Riddell jr@jriddell.org Full changelog: plasma-window-management: add a stacking order object output device, output management: add brightness setting outputdevice,outputconfiguration: add a way to use the EDID-provided color profile Enforce passing tests output device, management: change the descriptions for sdr gamut wideness

A few weeks ago (Time flies!) I attended the KDE Goals Sprint in Berlin. I didn't have concrete plans, but I intended to look into accessibility. Quite some time ago I had improved the accessibility of Kleopatra and at Akademy 2023 in Thessaloniki I gave a talk about it. Back then I had taken the easy route fixing everything directly in Kleopatra and working around several issues in Qt instead of fixing the issues in Qt itself so that all apps could profit. Time to do something about it. Read More

KGraphViewer 2.5.0 has been just released! The main focus of this release is the port to Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6 as well as general code modernisation, but of course some bugs have been squashed too. The full changelog can be found below. Read More

Massif Visualizer 0.8.0 has been just released! The main focus of this release is the port to Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6 as well as general code modernisation, but of course some bugs have been squashed too. The full changelog can be found below. Read More

I'm happy to have been able to attend my first in-person KDE event, the Automation & Systematization Sprint in Berlin. Previously, my contributions to KDE have consisted of submitting and triaging bug reports. During this weekend, I was able to meet some of the KDE team in person, and become more involved. I've started working with the Bugzilla Bot code, and plan to start digging into the automated test code. Read More

The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.0 "Castaway"! The new 3.0 is the first stable Qt5/KDE Frameworks 5 based version of Amarok, and first stable release since 2018, when the final Qt4 based version 2.9.0 was released. Read More

Hi, I'm Jakob and this is my new KDE blog. Let's see how this goes as I haven't blogged for literally decades. I started working on Plasma code sometime last year and hope to play a tiny part in setting the stage for world domination improving user experiences like so many other awesome and dedicated contributors do every week. My Plasma contributions started out with a few rounds of build improvements and bug fixes initially. Before long though, I decided to realize my lifelong dream of a friendly and usable Energy Saving settings page. Thus started a journey into the code of Plasma's power management service, internally known as PowerDevil. Read More

Marknote, KDE's WYSIWYG note-taking application, is finally ready for it's first release. Marknote lets you create rich text notes and easily organise them into notebooks. You can personalise your notebooks by choosing an icon and accent color for each one, making it easy to distinguish between them and keep your notes at your fingertips. Your notes are saved as Markdown files in your Documents folder, making it easy to use your notes outside of Marknote as well as inside the app. Read More

KTextAddons 1.5.4 is a bugfix release of our text display and handling library It fixes two notable bugs and updates translations Fix bug 484328: Kmail config dialog takes about 40 seconds to show up Use QListView::clicked (in emoji popup menu) URL: https://download.kde.org/stable/ktextaddons/ Source: ktextaddons-1.5.4.tar.xz SHA256: 64b80602e84b25e9164620af3f6341fa865b85e826ab8f5e02061ae24a277b20 Signed by: E0A3EB202F8E57528E13E72FD7574483BB57B18D Jonathan Esk-Riddell jr@jriddell.org https://jriddell.org/esk-riddell.gpg Read More

This blog will be used by the Release Team for communally maintained projects which need a release announcement. KDE Frameworks, Plasma and KDE Gear will remain on kde.org. But individual releases of apps and libraries which get their own releases can be announced here. Read More