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Version 4.8.0 of KDE

Release Notes: This release adds many new features, improved stability, and increased performance. Highlights for Plasma Workspaces include window manager optimizations, a redesign of power management, and integration with Activities. The first Qt Quick-based Plasma widgets have entered the default installation of Plasma Desktop, with more to follow in future releases. KDE applications released today include Dolphin file manager with its new display engine, and KDE Telepathy, reaching its first beta milestone. New features for Marble virtual globe keep arriving, including Elevation Profile.

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Release Notes: This release adds many bugfixes in the Dolphin file manager, KMail email client, Konqueror Web browser, Konsole terminal emulator, KWin window manager, and KDE libraries, and a couple of bugfixes in other applications. There are also updated translations.

Release Notes: This maintainance release brings XRender support for additional effects in the KWin window manager. KGPG's integration with the file manager now allows encryption of multiple folders at once. There are also many bugfixes and translation updates.

Release Notes: This release adds many new features, improved stability, and increased performance. Highlights for Plasma Workspaces include window manager optimizations, a redesign of power management, and integration with Activities. The first Qt Quick-based Plasma widgets have entered the default installation of Plasma Desktop, with more to follow in future releases. KDE applications released today include Dolphin file manager with its new display engine, and KDE Telepathy, reaching its first beta milestone. New features for Marble virtual globe keep arriving, including Elevation Profile.

Release Notes: Compared to the last development version, this release brings many bugfixes and translation updates.

Release Notes: This release brings KSecretService, which optionally enables a shared password storage, therefore making your saved passwords available to many other applications, leading to a more secure system and better integration of non-KDE apps into the Plasma Workspaces and KDE apps into non-Plasma workspaces. There are also hundreds of bugfixes.

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