KDE Gear 25.08.1 has been released, featuring over 180 individual programs, dozens of programmer libraries, and feature plugins. This update includes numerous bug fixes and improvements across various components, such as Dolphin, Kate, Kdenlive, Kmime, and Umbrello, addressing issues like crashes, incorrect behavior, and missing features. The release also brings several enhancements to specific applications, including itinerary, kitinerary, kosmindoormap, and kpublictransport, to improve performance, stability, and user experience.

KDE Gear 25.08.1 released

KDE Gear 25.08.1 has been released, a major update that brings together over 180 individual programs, dozens of programmer libraries, and feature plugins. This release is part of the KDE Gear project, which aims to provide a comprehensive set of applications for various tasks.

Key Features and Fixes

The latest version includes numerous bug fixes and improvements across various components:

1. akonadi: Fixes issues with agent configuration, mail collection exposure, and special handling of mallinfo2.
2. akregator: Hides the "what's new" message in the first step of the application.
3. ark: Uses proper API to hide finished notifications for load jobs.
4. audiotube: Includes QDebug in video info extractors for logging purposes.
5. dolphin: Fixes crashes related to selection mode, folder icon chooser, and emptying sounds. Improves create folder functionality by using the selected directory.
6. dragon: Introduces a workaround for AMD texture problems.
7. elisa: Removes final references to Qt Graphical Effects.
8. eventviews: Shows grid and timelabels in Agenda View even without calendars.
9. ffmpegthumbs: Backports ffmpeg 8.0 build fixes to the 25.08 branch.
10. gwenview: Fixes fade-out bug in video player controls and invalid memory read when dismissing HudButtonBox.
11. itinerary: Improves rich text detection heuristics, applies flight journey query results correctly, and stores location identifiers accurately.
12. kaddressbook: Hides the "what's new" message in the first step of the application.
13. kate: Fixes infinite loop in git blame when using flatpak and ensures proper error handling.

Other Notable Changes

1. kdenlive: Removes deprecated references, fixes playlist clip reloading, render path resetting, and transform effect issues.
2. kitinerary: Extracts Finnair etickets, adds support for RegioJet seat reservations, and improves United Airlines parser.
3. kmime: Optimizes encoding of RFC 2047 strings and parses multipart parts correctly.
4. kmail: Hides the "what's new" message in the first step of the application.
5. kontact: Uses stable branch for stable version releases.
6. korganizer: Hides the "what's new" message in the first step of the application.
7. kosmindoormap: Retains amenities on all levels.
8. kpublictransport: Supports two new EFA modes for on-demand and long-distance buses.
9. ktorrent: Fixes issue of constantly writing to magnets files.
10. messagelib: Disables some tests.
11. umbrello: Prevents crashes when opening new files with modified documents.

For more information, visit the KDE Gear release page.