Following the post about what happened in KDE PIM in November and December by Volker, let’s look into what the KDE PIM community has been up to in the first two months of the new year. In total 23 contributors have made 740 changes.

KMail

A warning is shown when message composer is opened by clicking on a URL that asks for a file to be attached

DKIM validation support is enabled by default now

The email can now be easily exported to PDF

Improved support for rendering markdown in emails

“Important email” icon is now used consistently in KMail

Fixed “Move Message to Folder” dialog not accepting certain characters (#415850)

Fixed large emails not being displayed (#387061)

Fixed attachments being lost when message is saved as draft (#416369)

KOrganizer

Fixed restoring last used calendar in incidence editor (#411191)

Fixed fallback to the default calendar in incidence editor

Fixed a crash in release builds (#417794)

Akregator

Fixed filename extensions being translated (#416983)

KAlarm

Fixed message captions

Added warning when no default alarm calendar is set during archiving

Fixed crashes

Better handling when calendars are added or removed

Common Infrastructure

Laurent has been working on porting our code away from API that has been deprecated in Qt 5.15. Volker has been working on removing KDBusConnectionPool from all of KDE PIM.

For network communication we now use some safer defaults - for example we enabled HSTS by default and we don’t allow redirects to less-safe protocols (i.e. from https:// to http://).

KMail and some other components have begun integrating KUserFeedback to provide some basic telemetry information about usage.

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