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Animation showing 4 Plasma desktops floating on a 3D cube. The awesomeness cannot be properly described in words!!!!
Screenshot showing 4 Plasma desktops floating on a 3D cube. The awesomeness cannot be properly described in words!!!!

The new KDE PIM report is out, bringing news of improved email, calendaring, contacts, and travel apps.

Your favorite email, calendaring, contacts, and travel utilities gained offline AI capabilities, PGP encryption and signing for calendar invitations, an improved looks for Merkuro and much more.

kontact.kde.org/blog/2023/2023

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Screenshot of Itinerary, KDE's travel assistant app, that comes with a new bottom navigation bar, a new journey UI, more options to add and edit entries manually and can now share entire trips or individual entries directly via KDE Connect
Screenshot of KOrganizer's invitation dialogue, showing the checkboxes that allow you to encrypt and sign invitations.
Merkuro contacts showing a spiffy new interface.
Screenshot of Kirigamis' new Date and Time picker which can be used in Merkuro, Itinerary and other Kirigami applications.

We are nearing the halfway mark on our Plasma 6 drive to get 500 Supporting Members

Will you push us over that line?

kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6mem

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Thermometer near the 40º mark.

The alpha versions of Plasma 6, Gear 24.02 and Frameworks 6 are now available.

Note that "Alpha" means NOT ready for production! Use for testing and reporting bugs only. End users: keep clear.

This is a testing version of KDE's 6th Megarelease. The final version is scheduled to be available in February.

Read the full announcement to get more details on how to get this software onto your test machine and contribute feedback to the devs.

kde.org/announcements/kdes-6th

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Animation showing cartoon hands folding a piece of paper into an origami 6, that is then incorporate into the text "Building Plasma 6"

Send us your wallpaper design and make Plasma 6 look awesome!

Submit your art before midnight (UTC) November 14 and you could win a @frameworkcomputer Laptop 13 DIY Edition.

discuss.kde.org/t/wallpaper-co

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Photo of a Framework(TM) computer, with a blank magenta coloured screen and Plasma 6 desktop elements floating around it.

Draw some inspiration for your desktop with the boldly monochromatic Graphite, the second global theme in the Off-Theme series.

quickfix.es/2023/11/off-theme-

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An animation of the Graphite theme on Plasma, showing the light and dark variants.

Google Summer of Code 2023 is over, but our contributors' work lives on!

Discover the new features, like email support in Merkuro, automatic photo tagging in digiKam, moderation options in Tokodon, and more through the stories of our the people who implemented them.

kde.org/announcements/2023-gso

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KDE and Google Summer of Code 2023
The Google Summer of Code and KDE logos together on a green background
A screenshot of Merkuro Mail, showing a new message ready to be written.
A screenshot of digiKam, showing three thumbnails of photos of cute hamsters. Under the name of each photo, are the tags, automatically generated by digiKam, with words that help describe the photo.
Four screenshots of Tokodon showing different options available to Mastodon instance administrators.

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Want to join a KDE mentorship program? Develop new technologies, work in a team and kickstart your future career in IT 🚀!

Season of KDE and GSoC will be back early 2024. Watch this space!

Meanwhile, check out notes and ideas from 2023 for inspiration:

community.kde.org/SoK/Ideas/20

SoK/Ideas/2023 - KDE Community Wiki
One of KDE's mascot: a cute female dragon called Katie.

We are at the Qt World Summit 2023! Come and visit our booth!

Check out our new gadgets, talk to devs and grab some kool Konqi stickers.

qt.io/qt-world-summit-2023

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Qt World Summit 2023 | Berlin, Germany
From left to right, Carl Schwan and Tobias and Nicolas Fella, standing around a tall table with a KDE-powered laptop and the Steam Deck. Behind them you can see a standup banner with the KDE logo, Konqi the dragon and a link to KDE's website https://kde.org.

Give your desktop a strikingly lustrous look with Shades of Purple, the third theme in the Off-Theme series.

quickfix.es/2023/11/off-theme-

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A screenshot of the Plasma desktop using the suave and luscious Shades of Purple theme.

With only 91 days left before launch, today we are releasing the 1st Beta of Plasma 6.

kde.org/announcements/megarele

This is the time when we call on all testers to download and install it, and stress-test all its features.

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KDE''s 6th Megarelease - Beta 1
Screencast of Plasma 6, showing the new animated desktop switching feature. So smart!

WARNING: This is , lots of things are untested and can fail. We strongly recommend you do NOT use it in a production environments. The Beta release should only be used for testing and reporting bugs.

bugs.kde.org

KDE Bugtracking System Main Page
Konqi, KDE's pet dragon, seen here chasing a bug with a net

Neon Unstable Edition is already ready with the updates,

neon.kde.org/download

but other unstable repositories of other distros will soon be available too. Look out for openSUSE, Arch, Kubuntu, Fedora, and more.

KDE Neon's logo.

Remember you can help support KDE by becoming a Supporting Member:

kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6mem

Or by donating to our community:

kde.org/community/donations/

Donate and support KDE
Katie and Konqi, the KDE dragons, stand next to a pot filling up with coins.