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Today we committed an important update to the Calligra Suite, result of thousand of commits which provide new features, polishing of the user interaction and tons of bug fixes.
Also, please welcome Calligra Author as the new member of the suite: it will support a writer in the process of creating an eBook from concept to publication.
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The KDE Community proudly announces the latest releases of Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform. Improved usability and performance, along with many visual refinements, help the Software Compilation make a further leap in quality. Read more on the official announcement.
Please welcome KDE Telepathy 0.6.1 (net-im/kde-telepathy), the new KDE project aiming to integrate real time communication deeply into KDE Workspaces. You can find a comprehensive introduction on dot.kde.org.
The last bugfix release in the 2.5 branch of Calligra was committed to the ports; it brings several improvements and thus we recommend everybody to update.
The KDevelop 4.4 release comes packed with new features, bug fixes and improved performance. Also, new in this release is a shiny welcome screen for improved usability and an easier entry into the KDevelop world. As usual, the official announcement is the best source for information.
The KDE/FreeBSD team presents KDE SC 4.9.5, featuring, among new features and a lot of bug fixes, the new game Pairs, and split ports in the kdemultimedia and kdenetwork modules, allowing you to choose what you really want to install.
Yet another Calligra release hit the ports tree. This new version fixes some serious bugs introduced in the first two 2.5.* releases. More details can be found in the official announcement.
