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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Important improvements in simon. The first working speech recognition implementation based on stock Julius (continuous speech recognition system) Text To Speech (TTS) to RSS and email
• Konsole gains a Clone Tab action, DBus objects for each Konsole window
• Work on annotation view in Kst: items can now move with data
• Digikam can now be compiled with lcms2 (Little CMS, a color management library)
• LightDM adds support for guest session
• In KIPI, JPEG lossless plugin now uses actionthreadbase class based on ThreadWeaver to use multiple CPUs
• Change in Amarok's mass storage management: does not show unmounted USB devices and makes it clear when a device is not activated.

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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
• Support for embedded album cover reading and writing, more natural drag-and-drop behaviour in collection browser in Amarok
• Maintenance action in Tools menu of Digikam to maintain collections etc. while scanning for new data
• Refactoring in KisNodeModel, improved support for Excel and MSOffice in Calligra; start of Krita optimized for touch.

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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
• Digikam gets a progress manager and Notably—a note information widget
• A timeline and a tag widget are added to Plasma Active, as well as filtering and zooming capabilities
• A number of improvements in Calligra: slideshow feature, paragraph padding, new toolbar system, improved undo of style changes and updated MSOffice file format support
• Conquirere's Zotero synchronization capabilities continue to advance
• Bug fixes and improvements in Kwin
• Improvements to Oxygen's GTK engine, icons, and fonts
• Many small improvements to the KDE development tools and Nepomuk
• Numerous bug fixes for Dolphin and KDE PIM
• Various bugs squashed across all areas of KDE:KPhotoAlbum, Amarok, Network Management, Plasma addons, Plasma Active, Konqueror, Konsole, Kajongg, Rekonq, and many others.

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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
• Initial prototype of support for view profiles in Okteta
• Threading support, global search bar and tree of folders for bookmarks in Marble
• Initial implementation of Google Reader API in Akonadi
• Calligra introduces a GTL (Graphics Transformation Language) giant lock to avoid threading issues; tripleclick implementation.

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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 Calligra, basic GUI for the character styles in the style manager, first version of the Lindenmayer brush, new OpenFormula functions: CELL, SHEET and SHEETS; introduction of Page Layout tool
• Unified album artist handling in Amarok; albums with same name but different album artists are now correctly separated in USB mass storage, iPod and various online service collections
• Support extended mouse coordinates in Konsole
• Closer integration of KSudoku and the new generator/solver.

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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!