In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Partial port of kdelibs to Qt5
• RSS feed handling in Plasma
• Fix drag and drop issues with non-local URLs
• KStars FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) improved to work well in Ekos

Thinking of starting a free and open source project? Looking for inspiration on an existing project? Lydia Pintscher has pulled together useful wisdom from free and open community leaders in a new book—Open Advice.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Marble gains support for bicycle and pedestrian routing, and a data model to manage offline routing and offline search data
• Development of Ekos begins: a new tool for KStars to utilize INDI-based (Instrument-Neutral-Distributed-Interface) devices in astrophotography

During a recent 5 day sprint, four KDE contributors planned and produced a handbook for beginning KDE developers. We had assistance from several generous organizations, worked hard, and learned a lot.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Work on lambda expressions and handling of the override token in c++11, C# import, new features in list generator for Python in KDevelop
• Solid APIs are now used for DPMS (VESA Display Power Management Signaling) service jobs in kde-workspace

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Network Management now uses QtNetworkManager to activate connections
• Non-QML TabBox removed in kde-workspace
• Fix of high cpu usage in Kwin fade effect
• Widget text color change possible in Umbrello

Akademy—the annual world summit of the KDE Community—will take place from 30 June to 6 July in Tallinn, Estonia. This 10th edition of the KDE community conference will celebrate 15 years of KDE!

Registration for the conference is now open, and the Call for Papers has been published.

ownCloud allows full control of cloud data storage. Version 3 of this open source File, Sync & Share Project has just been announced. Now users can do more than ever with their own private file-sharing cloud. In addition, its open, modular structure makes ownCloud the only cloud technology to offer several important and useful functions. Visit ownCloud for the full announcement and download instructions.

The KDE Telepathy team has made the first beta release of the new KDE Instant Messaging suite. This 0.3 release coincides with the release of KDE Workspaces, Applications and Platform 4.8.

KDE Telepathy (click for larger)

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Aurorae goes QML, ClientGroup becomes scriptable in KDE base
• Calligra sees work on footnotes, all interactive painting tools are threading-friendly; Kexi introduces Simple User Feedback Agent
• Rekonq adds about:tabs, an easy method to manage rekonq tabs