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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Kickoff shows new applications for 3 days in a separate submenu "Recently Installed"
• KWin adds a helper effect for KScreen integration
• Skrooge allows changing operation date through "Search & Process"
• In Amarok, TrackLoader and PlaylistController support for treating remote playlists as streams, OpenGL analyzers appear, analyzers are configurable now
• Network Management allows configuring band/channel for ad hoc wifi mode
• KDE Telepathy supports persistent chats in the plasmoid
• Bug fixes in Umbrello, Dolphin, KMail.

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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Amarok harmonizes playlist-related actions (double-clicking, pressing Enter, middle clicking...); optimization: removing tens of thousands of tracks from a playlist is now much faster
• Nepomuk simplifies storage code with big performance gains; user data needs to be migrated to the new format
• Calligra updates author profile actions when configuration changes
• Krita adds Clipboard brush, Isolated Mode for nodes, can convert a paint layer to any mask and back using a menu
• libkface introduces new face recognition API.

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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• In KDE Workspace, Battery Monitor improves the way multiple batteries are displayed; KWin introduces cross-fading with previous pixmap and adds Wayland seat and backend support; a new"Configure" button for notifications that opens KNotify settings for the app that emitted the notification
• KStars gets a new Data menu and sees multiple menu reorganizations
• Solid add support for the Power Supply property
• Akonadi introduces NotificationMessageV2 that supports batch operations on set of entities
• Calligra adds resource categorizing with tags
• Amarok gains an audio analyzer visualization applet, fixes playing of tracks passed on command line; pressing enter when searching collections now adds found tracks to the playlist and clears the search bar
• NetworkManagement adds initial Wimax support
• Kopete gains a new history plugin based on sqlite
• Print manager can filter the jobs again.

Read the rest of the Digest here.