This version marks the one year anniversary release of the code refactoring. The highlights include major speed improvements due to the Preview Scaling feature, New rating, tagging sorting and filtering of clips in the Project Bin for a great logging experience, Pitch shifting is now possible when using the speed effect, Multicam editing improvements and OpenTimelineIO support. Besides all the shiny new features, this version comes with fixes for 40 critical stability issues as well as a major revamp of the user experience. Kdenlive is now more reliable than ever before.

Full text of announcement: https://kdenlive.org/en/2020/04/kdenlive-20-04-is-out/

Workshop on the running and testing of Plasma Mobile shell on a Desktop session. This workshop covers various methods like

Speaker: Bhushan Shah (https://fosstodon.org/@bshah)

The combined power of #Kdenlive and #Glaxnimate in action. Get the template shared by community member @berndmj from the KDE Store:

https://www.pling.com/p/1973967/

KDE is 24 years old today! Share in the comments your favorite KDE memory, ye olde screenshots, photos from events, tell us about antique merch you have collected over time, or about anything else from your ❤️ story with KDE.

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Find out more about the history of KDE, where we came from and where we are headed:

https://timeline.kde.org/

Song: In Submarines by Tinyfolk is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 International License.

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tinyfolk/Black_Bears/09_In_Submarines

A massive release, containing improvements to dozens of components, widgets, and the desktop behavior in general.

Everyday utilities and tools, such as the Panels, Task Manager, Notifications and System Settings, have all been overhauled to make them more usable, efficient, and friendlier.

Meanwhile, developers are hard at work adapting Plasma and all its bits and pieces to Wayland. Once done, Plasma will not only be readier for the future, but will also work better with touchscreens and multiple screens with different refresh rates and DPIs. Plasma will also offer better support for hardware-accelerated graphics, be more secure, and enjoy many more advantages. Although still work in progress, 5.20 already offers users many of the benefits of Plasma on Wayland.

Check out the full announcement here: https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.20.0

Plasma 5.19 is out! If we gave alliterative names to Plasma releases, this one could be "Polished Plasma". The effort developers have put into squashing bugs and removing annoying papercuts has been immense.

In this release, we have prioritized making Plasma more consistent, correcting and unifying designs of widgets and desktop elements; worked on giving you more control over your desktop by adding configuration options to the System Settings; and improved usability, making Plasma and its components easier to use and an overall more pleasurable experience.

Read the full announcement to discover all the new features and improvements of Plasma 5.19:

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.19.0

Next week KDE will release Applications 19.04, overhauling most of the suite of programs usually packaged with KDE's Plasma desktop. This new version makes KDE's applications more user-friendly, consistent with each other and smoother across the board.

Okular gets, among other improvements, support to show and verify digital signatures on PDFs. This feature is essential to use KDE's document viewer for business or if you need to exchange documents in any official capacity... like when negotiating an international peace treaty. Digital signatures allow you to establish the authenticity of a document, whether it has been tampered with or not, and confirm where it has come from and who sent it.

Attributions:

Ye oldie public domain footage and French Reel Victor Military Band Burchenal music available from:

"Sun Lotion" by Steadman CC By-NC-ND available from:

Peace treaty footage available from:

Many thanks to the content creators that make their work available for free and under generous free licenses. Without your generosity, making videos like this one would not be possible.

Checkpoint restore allows you to safe the state of an application to disk at any given pooint during its execution, and then recover it at that exact point.

In the video we can see applications seamlessly move between Plasma, Gnome, Weston, Hyprland and Sway as part of the wayland robustness project.

This is a video demonstration of a new feature in Qt 6.6 to handle clients surviving a compositor restart.