KDE News: KDE Almost Has New Release (4.13), Qt 5.3 in Beta

Almost Final Release

KDE Ships Release Candidate of Applications and Platform 4.13
KDE has announced the Release Candidate of the 4.13 versions of Applications and Development Platform. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing. We kindly request your assistance with finding and fixing issues.

KDE Ships 4.13 Beta 3
Offering up more bug-fixes and translation updates is KDE 4.13 Beta 3. KDE 4.13 offers several application and platform improvements for KDE4 users until the Plasma Next and KDE Frameworks 5 experience is stable later in 2014.

Kubuntu

Kubuntu 14.04 LTS Beta 2 (Trusty Tahr) Is Out and Based on KDE 4.13 Beta 1
Kubuntu14.04 LTS Beta 1 (Trusty Tahr) is based on KDE Plasma 4.13 Beta 1, and this means that the final version will likely be based on the final build of KDE 4.13. This is actually very good news because the KDE 4.13 branch has a ton of new features that will be very well received by the community.

KDE 4.13 Makes It Into Kubuntu 14.04 LTS
KDE 4.13 is making it into next month's release of Kubuntu 14.04 LTS, the KDE version of Ubuntu Linux.

Going back to January this year has been planning about shipping KDE SC 4.13 in the next (K)ubuntu release. As of today, there's been mass package updates pushing all of the KDE components up to their latest 4.13 development versions; KDE 4.13 Beta 2 was released a few days ago.

Applications

KDE Telepathy 0.8 is out
Sooooo after a brief period of testing the public beta we bring you the final stable release of KDE Telepathy 0.8.

Buy digiKam Recipes, Get Raspberry Pi for Photographers
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Meet Milou, the alternative of Krunner
The search functionality of KDE software is going through massive transition with Baloo replacing Nepomuk. We have written extensively about it here.

Misc.

KDE to Attend Freedesktop Summit 2014
The summit is a joint technical meeting of developers working on 'desktop infrastructure' on the major Free Desktop projects. The event aims to support collaboration between projects by discussing specifications and the sharing of platform-level components. David Faure will be KDE's primary representative at this year's summit.

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