Release AnnouncementsApplications 18.12

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December 13, 2018.

KDE Applications 18.12 are now released.

We continuously work on improving the software included in our KDE Application series, and we hope you will find all the new enhancements and bug fixes useful!

What's new in KDE Applications 18.12

More than 140 bugs have been resolved in applications including the Kontact Suite, Ark, Cantor, Dolphin, Gwenview, Kate, KmPlot, Konsole, Lokalize, Okular, Spectacle, Umbrello and more!

If you would like to read more about the changes in this release, head over to the complete changelog. Although a bit intimidating due to its breadth, the changelog can be an excellent way to learn about KDE's internal workings and discover apps and features you never knew you had.

File Management

New MTP implementation that makes it fully usable for production

Huge performance improvement for reading files over the SFTP protocol

For thumbnail previews, frames and shadows are now only drawn for image files with no transparency, improving the display for icons

New thumbnail previews for LibreOffice documents and AppImage apps

Video files larger than 5 MB in size are now displayed on directory thumbnails when directory thumbnailing is enabled

When reading audio CDs, Dolphin is now able to change CBR bitrate for the MP3 encoder and fixes timestamps for FLAC

Dolphin’s 'Control' menu now shows the 'Create New…' items and has a new 'Show Hidden Places' menu item

Dolphin now quits when there is only one tab open and the standard 'close tab' keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+w) is pressed

After unmounting a volume from the Places panel, it is now possible to mount it again

The Recent Documents view (available by browsing to recentdocuments:/ in Dolphin) now only shows actual documents, and automatically filters out web URLs

Dolphin now shows a warning before allowing you to rename file or directory in such a manner that would cause it to immediately become hidden

It is no longer possible to try to unmount the disks for your active operating system or home directory from the Places Panel

Office

KMail can now display a unified inbox

New plugin: Generate HTML mail from Markdown Language

Using Purpose for Sharing Text (as email)

HTML emails are now readable no matter what color scheme is in use

New 'Typewriter' annotation tool that can be used to write text anywhere

The hierarchical table of contents view now has the ability to expand and collapse everything, or just a specific section

Improved word-wrap behavior in inline annotations

When hovering the mouse over a link, the URL is now shown anytime it could be clicked on, instead of only when in Browse mode

ePub files containing resources with spaces in their URLs now display correctly

Development

When using the embedded terminal, it now automatically synchronizes the current directory with the active document's on-disk location

Kate's embedded terminal can now be focused and de-focused using the F4 keyboard shortcut

Kate’s built-in tab switcher now shows full paths for similarly-named files

Line numbers are now on by default

The incredibly useful and powerful Text Filter plugin is now enabled by default and is more discoverable

Opening an already-open document using the Quick Open feature now switches back to that document

The Quick Open feature no longer shows duplicate entries

When using multiple Activities, files are now opened in the correct Activity

Kate now displays all the correct icons when run on GNOME using the GNOME icon theme

Konsole now fully supports emoji characters

Inactive tabs' icons are now highlighted when they receive a bell signal

Trailing colons are no longer considered parts of a word for the purposes of double-click selection, making it easier to select paths and 'grep' output

When a mouse with back and forward buttons is plugged in, Konsole can now use those buttons for switching between tabs

Konsole now has a menu item to reset the font size to the profile default, if it has been enlarged or reduced in size

Tabs are now harder to accidentally detach, and faster to accurately re-order

Improved shift-click selection behavior

Fixed double-clicking on a text line that exceeds the window width

The search bar once again closes when you hit the Escape key

Hide translated files on the Project tab

Added basic support of pology, the syntax and glossary checking system

Simplified navigation with tab ordering and multi-tab opening

Fixed segfaults due to concurrent access to database objects

Fixed inconsistent drag and drop

Fixed a bug on shortcuts which were different between editors

Improved search behavior (search will find and display plural forms)

Restore Windows compatibility thanks to the craft building system

Utilities

The 'Reduce Red Eye' tool received a variety of nice usability improvements

Gwenview now displays a warning dialog when you hide the menubar that tells you how to get it back

Spectacle now has the ability to sequentially number screenshot files, and defaults to this naming scheme if you clear the filename text field

Fixed saving images in a format other than .png, when using Save As…

When using Spectacle to open a screenshot in an external app, it is now possible to modify and save the image after you are done with it

Spectacle now opens the correct folder when you click Tools > Open Screenshots Folder

Screenshot timestamps now reflect when the image was created, not when it was saved

All of the save options are now located on the “Save” page

Added support for the Zstandard format (tar.zst archives)

Fixed Ark previewing certain files (e.g. Open Document) as archives instead of opening them in the appropriate application

Mathematics

KCalc, KDE's simple calculator, now has a setting to repeat the last calculation multiple times.

Add Markdown entry type

Animated highlighting of the currently calculated command entry

Visualization of pending command entries (queued, but not being calculated yet)

Allow to format command entries (background color, foreground color, font properties)

Allow to insert new command entries at arbitrary places in the worksheet by placing the cursor at the desired position and by start typing

For expressions having multiple commands, show the results as independent result objects in the worksheet

Add support for opening worksheets by relative paths from console

Add support for opening multiple files in one Cantor shell

Change the color and the font for when asking for additional information in order to better discriminate from the usual input in the command entry

Added shortcuts for the navigation across the worksheets (Ctrl+PageUp, Ctrl+PageDown)

Add action in 'View' submenu for zoom reset

Enable downloading of Cantor projects from store.kde.org (at the moment upload works only from the website)

Open the worksheet in read-only mode if the backend is not available on the system

Fixed wrong names of the plots for derivatives and integral in the conventional notation

SVG export in Kmplot now works properly

First derivative feature has no prime-notation

Unticking unfocused function now hides its graph:

Solved Kmplot crash when opening 'Edit Constants' from function editor recursively

Solved KmPlot crash after deleting a function the mouse pointer follows in the plot

You can now export drawn data as any picture format

Package Downloads Distributions have created, or are in the process of creating, packages listed on our wiki page. Package download wiki page Source Downloads The complete source code for KDE Applications 18.12 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Applications 18.12 Info Page.

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