KWin developer Martin Gr????lin works hard on porting KWin???s graphical effects to OpenGL ES, with the effects receiving many visual improvements in the process
KWin???s problematic "Shadow" and "Snow" effects are removed and await a better implementation in the future
Muon supports offline installation of packages and gains a .deb format thumbnailer plugin
Improvements are made to the artistic style formatter in KDevelop
A "Color Label Selector" is implemented in Digikam, which also sees an update of its internal libraw library which provides improved support for more cameras
Support for asynchronous SFTP downloading is implemented in kio_sftp
BlueDevil can now share files with an OBEX FTP server
Initial work on a user interface to control change tracking options in Calligra
Cirkuit gains options for manual and automatic backend selection
The functionality for creating a Table of Contents in Calligra Words is improved
The game dialog of Knights is redesigned
A large refactoring of the code for the KPatience game is done
Bug fixes in Kst, the Kipi plugins, Digikam, power management, kdelibs, the Plasma Desktop, KDE-PIM, Calligra/KOffice, Amarok, Kopete, and KTorrent
Plasma-addons, kdebase, kdelibs, the KDE Build Tool and KDE???s Qt copy (qt-kde) move to Git.