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The KDE community wishes you all a very Konqi New Year!

What are your KDE-related wishes for 2019? Tell us in the comments!

75 bugs solved a day, quickest bug fixed in 47 seconds, and a new Bug Janitor to clear stuff up: xyquadrat reports on the year in KDE bug triaging, looks at some numbers that show the Bugsquad's progress and talks about the squad's plans for 2019:

https://xyquadrat.ch/p/90ee4a56-3dfd-472d-80f9-41c27fe553b9/

KDE devs will soon be receiving the Librem 5 dev kits. Look forward to Plasma Mobile running on the hardware chosen for @Purism 's open and privacy-protecting mobile phone.

https://puri.sm/posts/2018-devkits-are-shipping/

.@kdeespana will be streaming a live show about KDE and artistic software tonight at 22:30. Spanish-speakers, don't miss the discussion about @krita, digiKam (version 6.0 coming out on Sunday) and more.

https://youtu.be/gZwx_jqE_ew

KDE Apps - The Movie: Discover all the cool features and goodies coming to a distro near you! ?

https://youtu.be/ALNRQiQnjpo

Applications 18.12 is out. Now you can annotate PDFs with a "typewriter" tool in Okular, see previews of ODF documents in Dolphin, and show emojis in Konsole. Apps 18.12 with many more features and improvements will be landing in your distro soon.

https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-18.12.0.php?site_locale=en

Get into the holiday spirit and treat yourself to @krita 4.17! (Out today)

https://krita.org/en/item/krita-4-1-7-released/

#Calamares needs translators! Calamares is the universal graphical installer that guides users through the installation of operating systems like Manjaro, KDE neon , Netrunner_os and many more. Become part of this project and help translate it:

https://calamares.io/calamares-seeking-translators/

Check out the #Plasma tutorial for power users in Linux Magazine issue 218. Available at your local newsstand or online at http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/

#KDE_Frameworks 5.53 is out. In this version we fixed the (ironic) crash in KCrash, added KWayland virtual desktop protocol, and improved the Baloo indexing engine amongst many other fixes and tweaks. Full release notes here:

https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.53.0.php

1... 2... 3D: Chris Rizzitello uses one Raspberry Pi to control and monitor two 3D printers simultaneously using KDE's @atelier : https://rizzitello.wordpress.com/2018/12/10/testing-two-printers-with-one-rpi/

@rommudoh ?♂️

Showing off #PlasmaMobile and new stickers at #QtWorldSummit2018.

We are in Berlin at Qt World Summit 2018. Come visit our booth and discover Plasma's cool features, shiny new KDE applications and the frameworks which make cross-platform development easier and faster.

https://www.qtworldsummit.com/2018/berlin/

Great news from the developers of Atelier and AtCore, the #FOSS 3D printing solution - a major new release is almost around the corner!

Changes will include a more polished UI, better error handling, and improved bed scaling.

https://rizzitello.wordpress.com/2018/12/05/atcore-atelier-dec-18-progress/

Join in the #bughunt and help make #Kdenlive the best Free and Open Source video-editing software! Regardless of your programming knowledge, you can help. The hunt starts Sunday at 10am CET.

https://dot.kde.org/2018/11/30/do-your-part-squash-bugs-kdenlive

Plasma Mobile coming to a Necuno phone ? near you! Check out the new open device that'll install KDE's mobile environment:

https://dot.kde.org/2018/11/29/necuno-mobile-open-phone-plasma-mobile