KDE Applications 16.08.0 is available

Version 16.08 of the KDE Applications collection has been released. Several additional applications have been ported to KDE Frameworks 5; the Kontact Suite has undergone a significant clean-up effort and now offers improved VCard 4 support, and Marble 2.0 has been added, featuring experimental support for locally rendering vector map tiles.

August 18, 2016.

Today, KDE introduces KDE Applications 16.08, with an impressive array of 
upgrades when it comes to better ease of access, the introduction of highly 
useful functionalities and getting rid of some minor issues, bringing KDE 
Applications one step closer to offering you the perfect setup for your 
device.

Kolourpaint, Cervisia and KDiskFree have now been ported to KDE Frameworks 5 
and we look forward to your feedback and insight into the newest features 
introduced with this release.

In the continued effort to split Kontact Suite libraries to make them easier 
to use for third parties, the kdepimlibs tarball has been split into akonadi-
contacts, akonadi-mime and akonadi-notes.

We have discontinued the following packages: kdegraphics-strigi-analyzer, 
kdenetwork-strigi-analyzers, kdesdk-strigi-analyzers, libkdeedu and 
mplayerthumbs. This will help us focus in the rest of the code.

The Kontact Suite has got the usual round of cleanups, bug fixes and 
optimizations in this release. Notable is the use of QtWebEngine in various 
compontents, which allows for a more modern HTML rendering engine to be used. 
We have also improved VCard4 support as well as added new plugins that can 
warn if some conditions are met when sending an email, e.g. verifying that you 
want to allow sending emails with a given identity, or checking if you are 
sending email as plaintext, etc.

Marble 2.0 is part of KDE Applications 16.08 and includes more than 450 code 
changes including improvements in navigation, rendering and an experimental 
vector rendering of OpenStreetMap data.

Ark can now extract AppImage and .xar files as well as testing the integrity 
of zip, 7z and rar archives. It can also add/edit comments in rar archives

Konsole has had improvements regarding font rendering options and accessbility 
support.

Kate got movable tabs.

KGeography, has added provinces and regions maps of Burkina Faso.

More than 120 bugs have been resolved in applications including the Kontact 
Suite, Ark, Cantor, Dolphin, KCalc, Kdenlive and more!

Full Changelog

Announcement:

https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-1...

Full list of changes:

https://www.kde.org/announcements/fulllog_applications.ph...