Today Nokia announced the start of the open governance model for Qt, known as the Qt Project. The Qt Project allows both companies and individuals to contribute to the development of Qt. KDE supports this move and is excited about the possibilities it brings. We have been waiting for opportunities to take a more active role in Qt's future for a long time and open governance will make this easier.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• New features in KMail: renaming attachments, disabling filters
• Telepathy gets KWallet support for passwords, integration of global presence into kded-modue
• Rewritten array classes in Okteta
• Improved reliability of session closing in Konsole
• Fix of broken root certificates in KDELibs KSSL
• First version of a QML screen locker using KGreeter
• Bug fixes in KTorrent, digiKam, BlueDevil, and Calligra

Read the rest of the Digest here.

ownCloud 2 has just been released. ownCloud is a web-based storage application similar to Google Docs, Dropbox or Ubuntu One with a big difference—your data is under your control. With version 2, the ownCloud team has improved the basic service and added valuable features:

• Access your files on the web or integrate ownCloud with desktop file managers.
• Share files securely.
• Access music and personal information directly or connect through applications.

Today marks a major milestone for KDE Plasma Workspaces. Plasma Active One has been released, primarily for tablet computers. It is the latest expression of the Plasma concept, following Plasma Desktop and Plasma Netbook. In the KDE tradition, Plasma Active One is designed for the best User Experience—for people on the move and engaged in many activities.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

The results of the Desktop Summit 2011 survey have been published at the Summit website. The overall feedback was positive, and there were suggestions for improving future Desktop Summits.

Desktop Summit 2011 Berlin promoted collaboration between open desktop projects with attendance dominated by the GNOME and KDE communities. There were several requests to make a stronger appeal for people from other desktop projects to attend.

On October 14, 1996, Matthias Ettrich posted a message to Usenet (comp.os.linux.misc), announcing "Programmers wanted!" for a "New Project: Kool Desktop Environment (KDE)". Now, 15 years later, Matthias’s dream of a "GUI for an ENDUSER" has been fully realized. And more. Sometime in the next 2 weeks, Plasma Active One will be released, extending Matthias's plan for a "modern interface" with a "common look & feel" to a range of enduser devices from desktop to mobile. KDE has grown beyond a Linux Desktop GUI to a global community of people. But it still has the same innovative spirit and a commitment to serving users of Free and Open Source Software.

Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. These updates are the second in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.7 series. 4.7.2 updates bring many bugfixes and translation updates on top of the latest edition in the 4.7 series and are recommended updates for everyone running 4.7.0 or earlier versions. As the release only contains bugfixes and translation updates, it will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• New sorting options in KDEBase
• Work on screen locking as an effect
• Optimization of message list update in KMail
• VPN status overlay icon reworked in Network Management
• Optimization of QVector usage in Undo manager in KDElibs
• Optimization of item addition and deletion to a project in K3B

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• New render plugin in Marble: GpsInfo
• A new service for powermanagement tasks such as suspension and shutdown
• Dragon Player now uses Phonon instead of xine-lib for DVD menus
• Overburn tolerance is increased in K3b from 10% to 25%