KDE Leftovers: digikam, KDevelop, Kate, GSoC, and Akademy

• [digikam] Call to Test the Pre-Release of 5.6.0

  Once again a lot has been going on behind the scenes since the last release. The HTML gallery tool is back, database shrinking (e.g. purging stale thumbnails) is also supported on MySQL, grouping has been improved and additional sidecars can now be specified. Therefore the release of 5.6.0 will be (is already) delayed, as we would like to invite you to test all these features. As usual they are available in the pre-release bundles or obviously directly from the git repository. Please report any dysfunctions, unexpected behaviour or suggestions for improvement to our bug tracker.

• KDevelop runtimes: Docker and Flatpak integration

  On my last blog post I discussed about how some assumptions such as the platform developed on can affect our development. We need to minimize it by empowering the developers with good tools so that they can develop properly. To that end, I introduced runtimes in our IDE to abstract platforms (much like on Gnome’s Builder or Qt Creator).

• Kate 17.04.1 available for Windows

• GSoC - Community Bonding Period with Krita

• First month report: my feelings about gsoc

• My Akademy Plans

  The Akademy programme (saturday, sunday) is actually pretty long; the conference days stretch into feels-like-evening to me. Of course, the Dutch are infamous for being “6pm at the dinner table, and eat potatoes” so my notion of evening may not match what works on the Mediterranean coast. Actually, I know it doesn’t since way back when at a Ubuntu Developer Summit in Sevilla it took some internal-clock-resetting to adjust to dinner closer to midnight than 18:00.

Gaming News: Shogun, SteamOS, Dawn Of War III

• Total War: Shogun 2 & Fall of the Samurai released for Linux, port review and thoughts

  Total War: Shogun 2 is a strategy game set in feudal Japan during the 16th century. Japan is fractured into multiple clans, each fighting for power. Your task is to lead one of these clans and eventually become the new shogun of Japan. While Fall of the Samurai is set 400 years later in the 19th century.

• SteamOS updated, Valve drops AMDGPU-PRO for Mesa

  Valve haven't been sitting on their hands, as they have pushed out a fresh update for SteamOS that's currently in Beta. It's been a while and it's a good one.

• SteamOS Brewmaster 2.115 Update Comes With Linux 4.11 — “Biggest Ever SteamOS Update”

  Valve has pushed the SteamOS 2.115 update to brewmaster_beta after a long wait and called it a huge update. This release is based on the new Debian 8.8 and comes with all the security patches. Linux kernel has been updated to version 4.11 and a switch has been made from AMDGPU-PRO driver to the open source mesa driver.

• RadeonSI has a large patch set in Mesa-dev for ARB_bindless_texture, allows Dawn of War III to work on Mesa

• Dawn Of War III Coming To Mac & Linux In June

  Good news for Mac and Linux fans: Dawn of War III is headed your way. Lead your troops and eradicate the Eldar and Ork scum in the name of the God Emperor (or vice-versa). The releases are set to come out June 8th.

• Dawn of War III Coming To Mac and Linux

Galicia continues promotion of free software

The government of the autonomous region of Galicia (Spain) will continue to encourage the use of free and open source software solutions in the public and private sector. This week, the government published the ‘Free Software Plan 2017’, outlining 110 actions. In its ‘Plan de acción software libre 2017’, Galicia announces new initiatives to promote sharing and reuse of ICT solutions. The government is to share new software solutions, but will also emphasise the reuse of existing tools, pointing to Mancomún, the region’s software repository, the catalogue maintained by the Spanish central government’s Centre for Technology Transfer, and to the European Commission’s Joinup eGovernment portal.

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