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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• RDF support is back in Calligra
• Compilation manager for Sphinx added in Simon
• Conquirere ported to Nepomuk-Core
• Work on group import in KDE-PIM
• Support for network zones added in Network Management
• Work on a new dialout application in KDE Telepathy
• General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) support added to Public Transport
• Work on rendering in Gluon
• GSoC work in KDevelop, KStars, Calligra, Cantor, Marble
• Bugs statistics: 336 opened, 332 closed.

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Today KDE released the second release candidate for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the KDE team's focus is now on fixing bugs and other polishing. Highlights of 4.9 will include:

KDE at SouthEast (US) LinuxFest

KDE was represented at the SouthEast LinuxFest again this year with a booth showing off our latest software. The Calligra Suite, Kontact, Telepathy, and Plasma Workspaces were featured. Krita particularly intrigued many people. As a result, many copies of the Comics with Krita training DVD were handed out along with the accompanying comic book, Wasted Mutants and Wisdom Mountain.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Face detection condition plugin and vision library added to Simon
• Improved lesson management in KTouch
• ASCII source file access optimization in Kst
• Better keyboard navigation in Kickoff
• New templates and better project management in KDevelop
• Enable threaded Python support in Kate's Python plugins
• System-wide monitor profile can be overridden by users in Calligra
• Tabbed view available and cache added in conquirere
• In Akonadi, support added for Facebook posts and notification collections
• Plasma Media Center has a redesigned home screen
• The Telepathy Nepomuk service ported to Nepomuk2
• GSoC work on KStars and Cantor
• Bugs status: 354 opened and 897 closed.

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The KDE community is one of the largest and most influential Free Software communities world-wide with thousands of volunteer contributors and countless users. Most of the software written by KDE is based on the Qt toolkit. With the recent strategy changes within Nokia—the largest contributor to Qt, there is uncertainty about the future of Qt that concerns KDE. This is the position of the KDE community regarding the future of Qt:

The date for the release of the next milestone in KDE's 4.x series is quickly approaching. Developers, testers and bug chasers have been busy putting the final touches on the latest version of our software, so it is once again time to get together and celebrate our community's accomplishment.

Almost all communication between KDE community members happens online, and includes people from all around the world. At Akademy, KDE people meet each other and work together in person. Virtual communication is necessary and valuable for day-to-day work; working face-to-face is much more effective. And Akademy provides much more than that.

Will Schroeder Keynote

Will Schroeder is the CEO of Kitware Inc., a company that builds open source scientific software that also depends on open source. He suggested that open source is the most effective way to get things done through agile, collaborative innovation.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Multiple new features in Calligra: better support for paragraph merging in Words, hover buttons for quick actions in Stage Slide Sorter, unlimited dragging of objects from outside supported in Stage and Flow, better monitor profile update of canvas, more options for styles in charts, most of the CPU-based OCIO implemented
• Improved last commits history dialog in KDevelop
• Work started on OpenGL rendering in RasterImageView in Gwenview
• Added support for Like, Comment and Application objects in KDE-PIM
• Support for many types of graphs in analitza
• Changed the Note tab in the sidebar widget in conquirere
• Formatting plugin added to Ktp
• GSoC work on Cantor

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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Multiple new features for a non-editable view of animations in Calligra; contour data is created and removed using image analysis from UI and a ClipCommand, a page/slide navigator control for the statusbar is used in Stage and Flow; Kexi gets an option for setting default length limit of text values and Kexi forms get Date Picker widget
• Pate plugin (plugins in Python) can add configuration pages to Kate's settings; initial version of Script IDE submitted
• Public Transport gains new KDevelop-like TimetableMate GUI, update accessor file format and fixes in a single commit
• Faster computation of the shortest path in Rocs
• Season of KDE and Google Summer of Code work in several projects, including Plasma, Marble and Cantor
• Bugfixes in Calligra, Amarok, Konversation, Muon and other programs
• Amarok developers start giving bug fixes as birthday presents
• Bugs status: 438 opened, 419 closed.

Read the rest of the Digest here.