News and announcements
KDE Ships Release Candidate of Applications and Platform 4.12
Written for KDE SC by yurikoles on 2013-12-02
November 28, 2013. KDE released the release candidate of the new versions of
Applications and Development Platform.
This release does not include Plasma Workspaces since it was frozen for new
features in 4.11.x. The Development Platform has been virtually frozen for a
number of releases, so this release is mainly about improving and polishing
Applications.
A non complete list of improvements can be found in the 4.12 Feature Plan
http://
With the large number of changes, the 4.12 releases need a thorough testing in
order to maintain and improve the quality and user experience. Actual users
are critical to maintaining high KDE quality, because developers simply cannot
test every possible configuration. We're counting on you to help find bugs
early so they can be squashed before the final release. Please consider
joining the 4.12 team by installing the release candidate and reporting any
bugs https:/
KDE Ships November Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform
Written for KDE SC by yurikoles on 2013-11-05
Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications and Development
Platform. These updates are the third in a series of monthly stabilization
updates to the 4.11 series. As was announced on the release, the workspaces
will continue to receive updates for the next two years. This release only
contains bugfixes and translation updates and will be a safe and pleasant
update for everyone.
At least 120 recorded bugfixes include improvements to the Window Manager KWin,
the file manager Dolphin, the personal information management suite Kontact,
the UML tool Umbrello, and others. There are many stability fixes and the usual
additions of translations.
A more complete list of changes can be found in KDE's issue tracker. For a
detailed list of changes that went into 4.11.3, you can also browse the Git
logs.
To download source code or packages to install go to the 4.11.3 Info Page. If
you want to find out more about the 4.11 versions of KDE Workspaces,
Applications and Development Platform, please refer to the 4.11 release notes.
KDE Ships September Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform
Written for KDE SC by yurikoles on 2013-09-04
Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications and Development
Platform. These updates are the first in a series of monthly stabilization
updates to the 4.11 series. As was announced on the release, the workspaces
will continue to receive updates for the next two years. This release only
contains bugfixes and translation updates and will be a safe and pleasant
update for everyone.
More than 70 recorded bugfixes include improvements to the Window Manager KWin,
the file manager Dolphin, and others. Users can expect Plasma Desktop to start
up faster, Dolphin to scroll smoother, and various applications and tools will
use less memory. Improvements include the return of drag-and-drop from taskbar
to pager, highlighting and color fixes in Kate and MANY little bugs squashed in
the Kmahjongg game. There are many stability fixes and the usual additions of
translations.
A more complete list of changes can be found in KDE's issue tracker. For a
detailed list of changes that went into 4.11.1, you can also browse the Git
logs.
To find out more about the 4.11 versions of KDE Workspaces, Applications and
Development Platform, please refer to the 4.11 release notes.
KDE Ships July Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform
Written for KDE SC by yurikoles on 2013-07-02
Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications and Development
Platform. These updates continue the series of monthly stabilization updates
to the 4.10 series. 4.10.5 updates bring many bugfixes and translation updates
on top of the 4.10 release and are recommended updates for everyone running
the 4.10 release series. As this release only contains bugfixes and
translation updates, it will be a safe and pleasant update for everyonee.
The over 30 recorded bugfixes include improvements to the Personal Information
Management suite Kontact, the File Manager Dolphin, and others. The changes
are listed on KDE's issue tracker. For a detailed list of changes that went
into 4.10.5, you can browse the Subversion and Git logs.
To download source code or packages to install go to the 4.10.5 Info Page. If
you want to find out more about the 4.10 versions of KDE Workspaces,
Applications and Development Platform, please refer to the 4.10 release notes.
KDE Ships Second Beta of Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform 4.11
Written for KDE SC by yurikoles on 2013-07-02
June 27, 2013. Today KDE released the second beta of the new versions of
Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. With API, dependency and
feature freezes in place, the KDE team's focus is now on fixing bugs and
further polishing.
The 4.11 releases include the following highlights and more:
Qt Quick in Plasma Workspaces—Qt Quick is continuing to make its way into
the Plasma Workspaces. Plasma Quick, KDE"s extensions on top of Qt Quick,
allow deeper integration and more powerful apps and Plasma components. One of
the central Plasma widgets, the task manager, was completely rewritten in
Plasma Quick. It got quite a few bug fixes on its way to the new QML version.
The Battery widget was overhauled. It now shows information about all the
batteries (e.g. mouse, keyboard) in a system. And the battery icons can now
show a finer-grained load-status.
Faster Nepomuk indexing—The Nepomuk semantic engine received massive
performance optimizations (e.g., reading data is 6 or more times faster).
Indexing happens in two stages: the first stage retrieves general information
(such as file type and name) immediately; additional information like MP3
tags, author information and similar is extracted in a second, somehow slower
stage. Metadata display is now much faster. In addition, the Nepomuk backup
and restore system was improved. The system also got new indexers for
documents like odt or docx.
Kontact improvements—
improvements to Nepomuk, and a new theme editor for email headers. The way it
handles email images now allows it to resize pictures on the fly. The whole
KDE PIM suite got a lot of bug fixes, such as the way it deals with Google
Calender resources. The PIM Import Wizard allows users to import settings and
data for Trojita (the Qt IMAP email client) and all other importers were
improved as well.
KWin and Path to Wayland—Intial experimental support for Wayland was added
to KWin. KWin also got many OpenGL improvements including support being added
for creating an OpenGL 3.1 core context and robustness from using the new
functionality provided by the GL_ARB_robustness extension. Numerous KWin
optimizations are aimed at reducing CPU and memory overhead in the OpenGL
backend. Some desktop effects have been re-written in JavaScript to ease
maintenance.
