I'm going to Akademy!

And you should too!

Akademy is free to attend however you need to register to reserve your space, so head to https://akademy.kde.org/2019/register and press the buttons.

Akademy is very important to meet people, discuss future plans, learn about new stuff and make friends for life!

Note this year the recommended accomodations are a bit on the expensive side, so you may want to hurry and apply for Travel support. The last round is open until July 1st.

Akademy-es 2019 talks announced!

Akademy-es 2019 will be happening this June 28-30 in Vigo.

The talks were just announced recently.

Check them out at https://www.kde-espana.org/akademy-es-2019/programa-akademy-es-2019 it has lots of interesting talks so if you understand Spanish and are interested in KDE or Free Software in general I'd really recommend to attend!

[Some] KDE Applications 19.04.1 also available in flathub

Thanks to Nick Richards we've been able to convince flathub to momentarily accept our old appdata files as still valid, it's a stopgap workaround, but at least gives us some breathing time. So the updates are coming in as we speak.

No KDE Applications 19.04.1 available in flathub

The flatpak and flathub developers have changed what they consider a valid appdata file, so our appdata files that were valid last month are not valid anymore and thus we can't build the KDE Applications 19.04.1 packages.

[Some] KDE Applications 19.04 also available in flathub

The KDE Applications 19.04 release announcement (read it if you haven't, it's very complete) mentions some of the applications are available at the snap store, but forgets to mention flathub.

Just wanted to bring up that there's also some of the applications available in there https://flathub.org/apps/search/org.kde.

All the ones that are released along KDE Applications 19.04 were updated on release day (except kubrick that has a compilation issue and will be updated for 19.04.1 and kontact which is a best and to be honest i didn't particularly feel like updating it)

If you feel like helping there's more applications that need adding and more automation that needs to happen, so get in touch :)

KDE Applications 19.04 Schedule finalized

It is available at the usual place https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Applications/19.04_Release_Schedule

Dependency freeze is March 14 and Feature Freeze a week after that, make sure you start finishing your stuff!

Okular: PDF Signature + Certificate support has landed

As of a few minutes ago, i merged the code from Chinmoy Ranjan Pradhan's GSOC to support showing PDF Signatures and Certificates in Okular.



Signature handling is a big step for us, but it's also very complex, so i expect it to have bugs and things that can be improved so testers more than welcome.

Compiling is a bit "hard" since it requires poppler 0.73 that was released a few days ago.

But thanks to flatpak, there's no need to compile it, you can run the KDE Okular Nightly on your system to try it

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists kdeapps --from https://distribute.kde.org/kdeapps.flatpakrepo
flatpak install kdeapps org.kde.okular

Note: if you have okular installed from another flatpak repo (for example flathub) this will switch you to the KDE Nightlies, you may want to switch back after testing.

And then you can try the adobe sample pdf
flatpak run --share=network org.kde.okular https://blogs.adobe.com/security/SampleSignedPDFDocument.pdf

And you should get stuff like this