Introduced the December 20.12 application rollout update developed by the KDE project. In total, as part of the December update published 224 releases of programs, libraries and plugins. Information about the availability of Live-assemblies with new releases of applications can be obtained on this page .
Notable innovations:
- Proposed the first release of the travel assistant KItinerary, which helps you get to your destination using metadata from various sources and provides the information you need on the road. Including data on the timetable for various types of transport, the location of stations and stops, the location of hotels, weather forecast and ongoing events are provided. Supports automatic extraction of ticket parameters from emails to compose and adjust the travel schedule.
- Added KPublicTransport library, intended for access to information bases with public transport timetables.
- The number of applications, the formation of new releases of which is synchronized with the set of KDE Apps, includes the Partition Manager editor, the Konversation IRC client and the KTorrent torrent client. li>
- Notable improvements have been made to the Kontact personal information manager covering applications such as email client, calendar planner, certificate manager and The address book. Improved synchronization with Google services, which are no longer accessed by the built-in browser, but by the user’s default browser. Added a plugin for changing settings for several mail folders at once. Kleopatra Certificate Manager simplifies switching between view modes and expands the types of supported smart cards – in addition to cards with OpenPGP and NetKey, PIV cards are now also supported.
Added support for LZMA compression to Akonadi storage, which can save up to 30% disk space. Added support for the QRESYNC extension ( RFC 5162 ) to the KIMAP library used to retrieve emails over the IMAP protocol to speed up email synchronization and reduce traffic. Support for the EteSync service has been implemented to securely synchronize address book, tasks, calendars and notes using end-to-end encryption.
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