We are happy to announce Kdenlive 24.12. This release focuses on bug fixes, improved stability, and usability enhancements across the board. Numerous crashes and glitches have been addressed, including issues with audio capture, effect zones, high DPI display rendering, and subtitle editing. Proxies, rotoscoping, and project management workflows have been significantly refined, resolving lags, incorrect EXIF orientation handling, and archiving problems. We’ve managed to sneak in some little nifty features as well like the ability to resize multiple timeline items, Shift + Del shortcut to extract clips from the timeline, added actions to quickly add Marker/Guides in a specific category and mixes (same track transitions) can be 1 frame long.

Under the hood, we’ve dropped support for Qt5 and now require Qt6, alongside updated dependencies (MLT 7.28 and KF 6.3). This release comes with a lot of code cleanups and refactored Whisper settings. Optimized threading and memory management. Additionally, fail-safe measures have been taken to prevent invalid project profiles and script names. Subtitles

We’ve added support for Advanced SubStation Alpha (ASS) subtitles, a widely used text-based format renowned for its flexibility in creating highly styled and customizable subtitles. ASS subtitles support advanced features such as font family, size, and color; text outlines and shadows; alignment and positioning; scaling and rotation; margins and spacing; and effects, including masking and other enhancements. This feature was developed by Chengkun Chen as part of Google Summer of Code (GSOC).

Subtitles

Subtitle Manager

The new subtitle manager is now integrated with style management and has been divided into four sections: Files, Layers and Content, Style, and Info, which correspond to the four main components of ASS subtitles.

Files – create, import and export subtitles

Layers and Content – create/remove subtitle tracks and apply styling

Styles – create and manage styles

Info – displays information about subtitles

Subtitle Style Editor

The new and powerful Subtitle Style Editor allows you to control all the styling capabilities of the ASS format.

Animated Subtitles

The ASS format supports three types of effects: Banner, where the text scrolls sideways across the screen; Scroll, where the text moves vertically; and Karaoke, where each word is highlighted in sync with the audio.

Currently, only the Banner and Scroll effects are accessible through the user interface, but additional styling, including Karaoke effects, can be applied using ASS tags.

Speech-to-Text

We’ve polished the Speech to Text features ensuring a smoother and more reliable experience. Seamless installation, GPU translation and threading issues have fixed. We’ve also resolved issues with the display of Vosk, Whisper and Seamless model folder sizes on Windows. Added the ability to update all virtual environment packages have updated to the latest version of Whisper. Lastly, the Whisper settings interface has been refactored.

Effects

With this version, we complete the final task of our fundraiser: builtin effects and a redesigned effects interface. Rendering of keyframe types like Bounce, Circular, and Exponential has been improved, alongside fixes for zone-based effects, rotoscoping lag, shape filter rendering, improved precision for time remapping, motion tracker models and prev/next seeking in monitor. It is also now possible to have single-frame mixes (same track transitions).

Interface redesign

The new Effect Stack redesign enhances usability with clearer organization of keyframeable and non-keyframeable parameters, improved layout consistency, more compact and clean. We’ve also added info buttons in effect headers for quick access to documentation.

Built-in Effects

To make your workflow much more fluid, the new effects panel gives direct access to effect parameters, allowing to quickly and easily adjust them. Currently built-in effects are Transform and Flip for video clips and Volume for audio clips. Built-in effects can be enabled/disabled in the settings.

New Effects

As usual there is always room for some eye candy, so we’ve added two color correction effects, HSL Primaries and HSL Range as well as GPS Effects (Images below displaying Distance, Altitude and Speed among many other values).

Other Highlights

• Fix audio capture issues
• Added Shift + Del shortcut to extract clip from timeline
• Fix clip monitor history menu not showing up on audio clips
• Fix spacer tool leaving a few frames after last clip
• Implement resizing multiple timeline items
• Fix Pexels Videos provider
• Fix Alt+click to loop between clips using an effect in project monitor
• Titler: ensure only plain text can be pasted
• Titler: added support for tabulations
• Add Actions to quickly add Marker/Guides in a specific category

Together with Intel, we have been working a new plugin for Krita: the fast sketch plugin, or maybe, better, a fast inking plugin. This is an experimental plugin that makes it (sometimes) possible to automatically ink a sketch, using neural networks.

This plugin uses models to figure out how to ink a sketch: the included models were trained on openly available data: there was no scraping or stealing involved! The plugin comes with a manual that explains how to get the scripts you can use to create a model trained on your own data: what you need are before and after images of your sketch and your uncolored inked drawing, and the training software can run on your own hardware (it will take a lot of time, though).

Throughout the development process we've been discussing this plugin with artists on the Krita Artists forum.

The plugin can be downloaded and extracted in a Windows Krita 5.2.6 folder and should then be enabled in the plugin manager in Krita's settings dialog.

There is also a download of Krita 5.3.0 pre-alpha available that includes the plugin for Windows and Linux. Currently, we don't have a working MacOS version ready, and since the plugin is implemented in Python, there will be no Android packages.

Download

Windows

• Plugin: Fast Sketch Plugin 1.0.2 FastSketchPlugin1.0.2.zip
• Portable zip file: Krita 5.3.0 pre-alpha krita-x64-5.3.0-prealpha-cdac9c31.zip

Linux

• 64 bits Linux: krita-x64-5.3.0-prealpha-cdac9c31.zip

Today, we bring you a report on the brand-new release of the Maui Project.

MauiKit 4 Frameworks & Apps

With the previous version released, MauiKit Frameworks and Maui Apps were ported over to Qt6, however, some regressions were introduced and those bugs have now been fixed with this new revision version.

Currently, there are over 10 frameworks, with two new ones recently introduced. They all, for the most part, have been fully documented, and although, the KDE doxygen agent has some minor issues when publishing some parts, you can find the documentation online at https://api.kde.org/mauikit/ (and if you find missing parts, confusing bits, or overall sections to improve – you can open a ticket at any of the framework repos and it shall be fixed shortly after)

A brief list of changes and fixes introduced to the frameworks are the following:

For MauiKit Controls

• MauiKit is now no longer dependent on MauiKit-Style, so any other QQC2 style can be used with Maui Apps (other styles are not supported).
• MauiKit documentation has been updated with notes on the new attached controls properties – https://api.kde.org/mauikit/mauikit/html/classControls.html
• MauiKit fixes the toast area notifications. The toast notifications can now take multiple contextual actions.
• MauiKit Demo app has been updated to showcase all the new control properties
• New controls: TextField, Popup, DropDownIndicator,
• MauiKit fixes the template delegates and the IconItem control
• MauiKit fixes to the Page autohide toolbars
• Update style and custom controls to use MauiKit Controls’ attached properties for level, status, title, etc.
• Display keyboard shortcut info in the MenuItems
• Update MauiKit Handy properties for isMobile, isTouch, and hasTransientTouchInput and fixes to the lasso selection on touch displays
• Added more resize areas to the BaseWindow type
• Check for system color scheme style changes and update accordingly. This works on other systems besides Plasma or Maui, such as Gnome or Android
• The type AppsView has been renamed to SwipeView, and AppViewLoader to SwipeViewLoader
• Update MauiKit-Style to support MauiKit Controls attached properties and respect the flat properties in buttons
• Fixes to the MauiKit bug in the GridBrowser scrollbars policy
• Fixes to the action buttons layout in Dialog and PopupPage controls
• Refresh the icon when a system icon-theme change is detected – a workaround for Plasma is used and for other systems the default Qt API

For the MauiKit Frameworks

• FileBrowsing fixes bugs with the Tagging components
• Fixes to the models using dates. Due to a bug in Qt getting a file date time is too slow unless the UTC timezone is specified
• Update FileBrowsing controls to use the latest Mauikit changes
• Added a new control: FavButton, to mark files as favorites using the Tagging component quickly
• Update and fixes to the regressions in the other frameworks
• ImageTools fixes the OCR page
• TextEditor fixes the line numbers implementation.

All of the frameworks are now at version 4.0.1

All of the apps have been reviewed for the regressions previously introduced in the porting to Qt6; those issues have been solved and a few new features have been added, such as:

• Station, now allows opening selected links externally
• Index fixes to the file previewer and support for quickly tagging files from the previewer
• Vvave fixes to the minimode window closing
• Update the apps to remove usage of the Qt5Compat effects module
• Fix issues in Fiery, Strike, and Agenda
• Fix the issue of selecting multiple items in the apps not working
• Clip fixes to the video thumbnail previews and the opening file dialog
• Implement the floating viewer for Pix, Vvave, Shelf, and Clip for consistency
• Correctly open the Station terminal at the current working directory when invoked externally
• Among many few other details

** Index, Vvave, Pix, Nota, Buho, Station, Shelf, Clip, and Communicator versions have been bumped to 4.0.1

*** Strike and Fiery browser versions have been bumped to 2.0.1

**** Agenda and Arca versions have been bumped to 1.0.1

And as for Bonsai, Era, and other applications still under development, there is still not a ported version to Qt6 as of now

Maui Shell

Although Maui Shell has been ported over to Qt6 and is working with the latest MauiKit4, a lot of pending issues are still present and being worked on. The next release will be dedicated fully on Maui Shell and all of its subprojects, such as Maui Settings, Maui Core, CaskServer, etc.

That’s it for now. Until the next blog post, that will be a bit closer to the 4.0.1 stable release.

Release schedule

The post Maui Release Briefing #7 appeared first on MauiKit — #UIFramework.

Ruqola 2.4.0 is a feature and bugfix release of the Rocket.chat messenger app.

Some of the new features in this release of Ruqola include:

• Allow to clean up room history when room was not opened for a long time.
• Add restore button in administrator server settings dialog.
• Improve changing password (show validation info).
• Improve register new account (Add reason support).
• Implement mute/unmute user.
• Add color to the text in the account tab.
• Allow to show private installed applications.

Some bug fixing:

• Fix editing message.
• Show permissions in Rocket.Chat Marketplace.
• Fix reconnect server.
• Fix single application on Windows/MacOs
• Fix select created room/discussion/teams
• Fix filter discussion in administrator mode
• Fix message video support
• Fix highlight text in quoted message
• Fix open discussion channel
• Allow to show application market settings

URL: https://download.kde.org/stable/ruqola/
Source: ruqola-2.4.0.tar.xz
SHA256: f532e421ae731dfc2e88b78ab61de01e0e367a31a4fe34497664a66fc737225c
Signed by: E0A3EB202F8E57528E13E72FD7574483BB57B18D Jonathan Riddell jr@jriddell.org
https://jriddell.org/jriddell.pgp

I recently saw one of my old branded “stripes” wallpapers in a screenshot of FreeBSD by someone on X, and that triggered me to make a new wallpaper in a similar style.

There was a call for artwork for the next Debian release – Trixie, and I made a modified version of one of my old wallpapers for it. As it was not chosen to be the default in Trixie, I decided to post it here for people who might like it.

It is, like all my wallpapers, a calm non-distracting one. (it is much prettier full-4k-size than in the thumbnail below)

If you like it, you can download it from Debian’s Wiki – in 1920x1080 and 4k versions. There is also a version with the Debian logo there for inspiration if you want to create a custom distribution-branded one.

Welcome to the @Krita-promo team's November 2024 development and community update.

Development Report

Community Bug Hunt Ended

The Community Bug Hunt has ended, with dozens of bugs fixed and over a hundred bug more reports closed. Huge thanks to everyone who participated, and if you missed it, the plan is to make this a regular occurrence.

Can't wait for the next bug hunt to be scheduled? Neither will the bug reports! Help in investigating them is appreciated anytime!

Community Report

November 2024 Monthly Art Challenge Results

For the "Fluffy" theme, 22 members submitted 26 original artworks. And the winner is… Most "Fluffy" by @steve.improvthis, featuring three different fluffy submissions. Be sure to check out the other two as well!

The December Art Challenge is Open Now

For the December Art Challenge, @steve.improvthis has chosen "Tropical" as the theme, with the optional challenge of using new or unfamiliar brushes. See the full brief for more details, and find yourself a place in the sun!

Featured Artwork

Best of Krita-Artists - October/November 2024

Seven images were submitted to the Best of Krita-Artists Nominations thread, which was open from October 15th to November 11th. When the poll closed on November 14th, these five wonderful works made their way onto the Krita-Artists featured artwork banner:

Ocean | Krita by @Gurkirat_Singh

Winter palace by @Sad_Tea

Order by @Valery_Sazonov

Curly, 10-24 by @Celes

Afternoon Magic by @zeki

Ways to Help Krita

Krita is Free and Open Source Software developed by an international team of sponsored developers and volunteer contributors.

Visit Krita's funding page to see how user donations keep development going, and explore a one-time or monthly contribution. Or check out more ways to Get Involved, from testing, coding, translating, and documentation writing, to just sharing your artwork made with Krita.

The Krita-promo team has put out a call for volunteers, come join us and help keep these monthly updates going.

Notable Changes

Notable changes in Krita's development builds from Nov. 12 - Dec. 11, 2024.

Stable branch (5.2.9-prealpha):

• General: Fix rounding errors in opacity conversion, which prevented layered 50% brushstrokes from adding up to 100%. (bug report) (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
• General: Fix snapping to grid at the edge of the canvas. (bug report) (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
• General: Disable snapping to image center by default, as it can cause confusion. (bug report) (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
• Calligraphy Tool: Fix following existing shape in the Calligraphy Tool. (bug report) (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
• Layers: Fix "Copy into new Layer" to copy vector data when a vector shape is active. (bug report) (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
• Selections: Fix the vector selection mode to not create 0px selections, and to select the canvas beforing subtracting if there is no existing selection. (bug report, CCbug report) (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
• General: Add Unify Layers Color Space action. (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
• Layers: Don't allow moving a mask onto a locked layer. (Change, by Maciej Jesionowski)
• Linux: Capitalize the .AppImage file extension to match the convention expected by launchers. (bug report) (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)

Unstable branch (5.3.0-prealpha):

Bug fixes:

• Color Management: Update display rendering when blackpoint compensation or LCMS optimizations are toggled, not just when the display color profile is changed. (bug report) (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)

Features:

• Text: Implement Convert to Shape for bitmap fonts. (Change, by Wolthera van Hövell)
• Filters: Add Fast Color Overlay filter, which overlays a solid color using a configurable blending mode. (Change, by Maciej Jesionowski)
• Brush Engines: Add Pattern option to "Auto Invert For Eraser" mode. (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
• Wide Gamut Color Selector Docker: Add option to hide the Minimal Shade Selector rows. (Change, by Wolthera van Hövell)
• Wide Gamut Color Selector Docker: Show the Gamut Mask toolbar when the selector layout supports it. (Change, by Wolthera van Hövell)
• Layers: Add a warning icon for layers with a different color space than the image. (Change 1, by Dmitry Kazakov, and Change 2, by Timothée Giet)
• Pop-Up Palette: Add an option to sort the color history ring by last-used instead of by color. (bug report) (Change, by Dmitry Kazakov)
• Export Layers Plugin: Add option to use incrementing prefix on exported layers. (wishbug report) (Change, by Ross Rosales)

Nightly Builds

Pre-release versions of Krita are built every day for testing new changes.

Get the latest bugfixes in Stable "Krita Plus" (5.2.9-prealpha): Linux - Windows - macOS (unsigned) - Android arm64-v8a - Android arm32-v7a - Android x86_64

Or test out the latest Experimental features in "Krita Next" (5.3.0-prealpha). Feedback and bug reports are appreciated!: Linux - Windows - macOS (unsigned) - Android arm64-v8a - Android arm32-v7a - Android x86_64

The open source project I work on for the longest time is KDE and there more specific Kate.

This means I look at user bug reports for over 20 years now.

The statistics tell me our team got more than 9000 bugs since around 2001 (just for Kate, this excludes the libraries like KTextEditor that we maintain, too).

That is a bit more than one bug per day for over two decades.

And as the statistics show, especially in the last years we were able to keep the open bug count down, that means we fixed a lot of them.

Given we are a small team, I think that is a nice achievement.

We not just survived over 20 years, we are still alive and kicking and not just a still compiling zombie project.

Thanks a lot to all people that are contributing to this success!

Let’s keep this up in the next year and the ones following.

Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in KDE Apps"! Every week we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps.

This week aside of releasing KDE Gear 24.12.0 and Kaidan 0.10.0, we added an overview of all your data in Itinerary and polished many other apps. Some of us also meet in Berlin and organized a small KDE sprint where aside of eating some Crêpes Bretonnes, we had discussion around Itinerary, Kirigami, Powerplant and more.

KDE Itinerary Digital travel assistant

Itinerary has a new "My Data" page containing your program membership, health certificates, saved locations, travel statistics and let you export and import all the data from Itinerary. (Carl Schwan, 25.04.0 — Link)

Calculator A feature rich calculator

Fixed the "History" action not working (Joshua Goins, 25.04 — Link)

Kaidan Modern chat app for every device

Version 0.10.0 and 0.10.1 of Kaidan were released! See the release announcement for the full list of changes.

Kongress Conference companion

Show the speaker's name for each event (Volker Krause, 25.04 — Link)

Kleopatra Certificate manager and cryptography app

Improved the dialog showing results of decrypt and verify operations (Tobias Fella, 25.04, Link)

Fixed a Qt6 regression that causes the dropdown menu for certificate selection to behave in unexpected ways (Tobias Fella, 25.04 — Link)

Improved the messages showing the result when decrypting and verifying the clipboard (Tobias Fella, 25.04 — Link)

NeoChat Chat on Matrix

Fixed web shortcuts not working (Joshua Goins, 24.12.1 — Link)

Improved how colored text sent by some other clients shows up (Joshua Goins, 24.12.1 — Link)

Stop NeoChat from crashing when sending messages (Tobias Fella, 24.12.1 — Link)

Okular View and annotate documents

Improved the look of banner messages (Carl Schwan, 25.04 — Link)

PowerPlant Keep your plants alive

Mathis redesigned various part of Powerplant and added a tasks view. (Mathis Brucher)

Other

More Kirigami applications are now remembering their size accross restart by using KConfig.WindowStateSaver. (Nate Graham, 25.04.0 — Skanpage and Elisa)

…And Everything Else

This blog only covers the tip of the iceberg! If you’re hungry for more, check out Nate's blog about Plasma and be sure not to miss his This Week in Plasma series, where every Saturday he covers all the work being put into KDE's Plasma desktop environment.

For a complete overview of what's going on, visit KDE's Planet, where you can find all KDE news unfiltered directly from our contributors.

Get Involved

The KDE organization has become important in the world, and your time and contributions have helped us get there. As we grow, we're going to need your support for KDE to become sustainable.

You can help KDE by becoming an active community member and getting involved. Each contributor makes a huge difference in KDE — you are not a number or a cog in a machine! You don’t have to be a programmer either. There are many things you can do: you can help hunt and confirm bugs, even maybe solve them; contribute designs for wallpapers, web pages, icons and app interfaces; translate messages and menu items into your own language; promote KDE in your local community; and a ton more things.

You can also help us by donating. Any monetary contribution, however small, will help us cover operational costs, salaries, travel expenses for contributors and in general just keep KDE bringing Free Software to the world.

To get your application mentioned here, please ping us in invent or in Matrix.

This release includes fixes for GreaseMonkey, VerticalTabs, Navigation bar (security icon), stability fixes, does not advertise the FTP support, fixes printing and more small fixes.

GreaseMonkey

1. Fixed loading of sites ending with *.user.js name. (BUG: 467459)
2. GreaseMonkey got a support for running scripts on sites through context menu. (BUG: 469855)

VerticalTabs

1. Enabled switching tabs with mouse wheel when the scrollbar is visible. (BUG: 394066)
2. Pinned tabs are now arranged vertically like a normal tabs in this plugin. (BUG: 452818)

Site security icon

Falkon now display more proper security icon in the url bar based on the state if the SSL certificate exceptions. (BUG: 420902)

Removed FTP support

The FTP support in Chomium and QtWebEngine which is based on it was removed a while ago. So with this update Falkon will not advertise to the system that it support FTP protocol and it will instead try to open other program to handle it. (BUG: 494222)

Others

And more:

• Fix printing to real CUPS printer. (BUG: 497051)
• Preferences: Fix crash when un/loading of plugins (BUG: 492023)
• Random fixes

Short changelog

• Do not advertise ftp support to the system (BUG: 494222)
• GreaseMonkey: Add support for context menu (BUG: 469855)
• GreaseMonkey: Check content type of url *.user.js (BUG: 467459)
• VerticalTabs: Fix tab switching with mouse wheel (BUG: 394066)
• VerticalTabs: Arrange pinned tabs vertically (BUG: 452818)
• Set security icon according to certificate error. (BUG: 420902)
• Preferences: Fix crash when un/loading of plugins (BUG: 492023)
• Fix printing to real CUPS printer (BUG: 497051)
• Random fixes

This release fixes some bugs. Have a look at the changelog for more details.

Changelog

Bugfixes:

• Fix displaying files of each message in appropriate message bubble (melvo)
• Fix sending fallback messages for clients not supporting XEP-0447: Stateless file sharing (melvo)
• Fix margins within message bubbles (melvo)
• Fix hiding hidden message part (melvo)
• Fix displaying marker for new messages (melvo)

Download

• Source code (.tar.xz) (sig signed with 04EFAD0F7A4D9724)
• Linux (Flatpak on Flathub)

Or install Kaidan for your distribution: