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+<?php
+  include_once ("functions.inc");
+  $translation_file = "www";
+  $page_title = i18n_noop("KDE Ships KDE Applications 18.04.0");
+  $site_root = "../";
+  $version = "18.04.0";
+  $release = "applications-".$version;
+  include "header.inc";
+?>
+
+<?php
+  include "./announce-i18n-bar.inc";
+?>
+<h1>NOT OUT YET!</h1>
+<p align="justify">
+<?php print i18n_var("April 19, 2018. KDE Applications 18.04.0 are now released.");?>
+</p>
+
+<p align="justify">
+<?php print i18n_var("We continuously work on improving the software included in our KDE Application series, and we hope you will find all the new enhancements and bug fixes useful!");?>
+</p>
+
+<h3 style="clear:both;" ><?php print i18n_var("What's new in KDE Applications 18.04");?></h3>
+
+<h4 style="clear:both;" ><?php print i18n_var("System");?></h3>
+<p align="justify">
+<?php print i18n_var("The first major release in 2018 of <a href='%1'>Dolphin</a>, KDE's powerful file manager, features many  improvements to its panels:", "https://www.kde.org/applications/system/dolphin/");?>
+</p>
+<ul>
+<li><?php i18n("The 'Places' panel's sections can now be hidden if you prefer not to display them, and a new 'Network' section is now available to hold entries for remote locations.");?></li>
+<li><?php i18n("The 'Terminal' panel can be docked to any side of the window, and if you try to open it without Konsole installed, Dolphin will show a warning and help you install it.");?></li>
+<li><?php i18n("HiDPI support for the 'Information' panel has been improved.");?></li>
+</ul>
+<p>
+<?php i18n("The folder view and the menus have been updated as well:");?>
+</p>
+<ul>
+<li><?php i18n("The Trash folder now displays an 'Empty Trash' button.");?></li>
+<li><?php i18n("A 'Show Target' menu item has been added to help finding symlink targets.");?></li>
+<li><?php i18n("Git integration has been enhanced, as the context menu for git folders now displays two new actions for 'git log' and 'git merge'.");?></li>
+</ul>
+<p>
+<?php i18n("Further improvements include:");?>
+</p>
+<ul>
+<li><?php i18n("A new shortcut has been introduced giving you the option to open the Filter Bar simply by hitting the slash (/) key.");?></li>
+<li><?php i18n("You can now sort and organize photos by the date they were taken.");?></li>
+<li><?php i18n("The drag-and-drop of many small files within Dolphin became faster, and users can now undo batch rename jobs.");?></li>
+</ul>
+<p align="justify">
+<?php print i18n_var("To make working on the command line even more enjoyable, <a href='%1'>Konsole</a>, KDE's terminal emulator application, can now look prettier:", "https://www.kde.org/applications/system/konsole/");?>
+</p>
+<ul>
+<li><?php i18n("You can download color schemes via KNewStuff.");?></li>
+<li><?php i18n("The scrollbar blends in better with the active color scheme.");?></li>
+<li><?php i18n("By default the tab bar is shown only when needed.");?></li>
+</ul>
+<p>
+<?php i18n("Konsole's contributors did not stop there, and introduced many new features:");?>
+</p>
+<ul>
+<li><?php i18n("A new read-only mode and a profile property to toggle copying text as HTML have been added.");?></li>
+<li><?php i18n("Under Wayland, Konsole now supports the drag-and-drop menu.");?></li>
+<li><?php i18n("Several improvements took place in regards to the ZMODEM protocol: Konsole can now handle the zmodem upload indicator B01, it will show the progress while transferring data, the Cancel button in the dialog now works as it should, and transferring of bigger files is better supported by reading them into memory in 1MB chunks.");?></li>
+</ul>
+<p>
+<?php i18n("Further improvements include:");?>
+</p>
+<ul>
+<li><?php i18n("Mouse wheel scrolling with libinput has been fixed, and cycling through shell history when scrolling with the mouse wheel is now prevented.");?></li>
+<li><?php i18n("Searches are refreshed after changing the search match regular expression option and when pressing 'Ctrl' + 'Backspace' Konsole will match xterm behaviour.");?></li>
+<li><?php i18n("The '--background-mode' shortcut has been fixed.");?></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4 style="clear:both;" ><?php print i18n_var("Multimedia");?></h3>
+<p align="justify">
+<?php print i18n_var("<a href='%1'>JuK</a>, KDE's music player, now has Wayland support. New UI features include the ability to hide the menu bar and having a visual indication of the currently playing track. While docking to the system tray is disabled, JuK will no longer crash when attempting to quit via the window 'close' icon and the user interface will remain visible.
+Bugs regarding JuK autoplaying unexpectedly when resuming from sleep in Plasma 5 and handling the playlist column have also been fixed.", "https://juk.kde.org/");?>
+</p>
+<p>
+<?php print i18n_var("For the 18.04 release, contributors of Kdenlive, KDE's non-linear video editor, focused on maintenance:", "https://kdenlive.org/");?>
+</p>
+<ul>
+<li><?php i18n("Clip resizing no longer corrupts fades and keyframes.");?></li>
+<li><?php i18n("Users of display scaling on HiDPI monitors can enjoy crisper icons.");?></li>
+<li><?php i18n("A possible crash on startup with some configurations has been fixed.");?></li>
+<li><?php i18n("MLT is now required to have version 6.6.0 or later, and compatibility is improved.");?></li>
+</ul>
+
+<!-- TODO -->
+
+<h4 style="clear:both;" ><?php print i18n_var("Graphics");?></h3>
+<p align="justify">
+<?php print i18n_var("Our powerful document viewer <a href='%1'>Okular</a> gained support for HiDPI displays and Markdown language, and the rendering of documents that are slow to load is now shown progressively. An option is now available to share a document via email.", "https://www.kde.org/applications/graphics/okular/");?>
+</p>
+<p align="justify">
+<?php print i18n_var("<a href='%1'>Gwenview</a> image viewer can now open and highlight images in the file manager, zooming is smoother, keyboard navigation has been improved, and it now supports the FITS and Truevision TGA formats. Images are now protected from being accidentally removed by the Delete key when they are not selected.", "https://www.kde.org/applications/graphics/gwenview/");?>
+</p>
+
+<h4 style="clear:both;" ><?php print i18n_var("Utilities");?></h3>
+<figure style="float: right; margin: 0px"><a href="kate1712.png"><img src="kate1712.png" width="250" height="140" /></a></figure>
+<p align="justify">
+<?php print i18n_var("<a href='%1'>Ark</a>'s zip support in the libzip backend has been improved. <a href='%2'>Kate</a> has a new <a href='%3'>Preview plugin</a> that allows you to see a live preview of the text document in the final format, applying any available  KParts plugins (e.g. for Markdown, SVG, Dot graph, Qt UI, or patches). This plugin also works in <a href='%4'>KDevelop.</a>", "https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/ark/", "https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/kate/", "https://frinring.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/ktexteditorpreviewplugin-0-1-0/", "https://www.kde.org/applications/development/kdevelop/");?>
+</p>
+
+<h4 style="clear:both;" ><?php print i18n_var("Development");?></h3>
+<figure style="float: right; margin: 0px"><a href="kuiviewer1712.png"><img src="kuiviewer1712.png" width="250" height="115" /></a></figure>
+<p align="justify">
+<?php print i18n_var("<a href='%1'>Kompare</a> now provides a context menu in the diff area, allowing for quicker access to navigation or modification actions. If you are a developer, you might find KUIViewers' new in-pane preview of UI object described by Qt UI files (widgets, dialogs, etc) useful. It now also supports KParts streaming API.", "https://www.kde.org/applications/development/kompare/");?>
+</p>
+
+<h4 style="clear:both;" ><?php print i18n_var("Office");?></h3>
+<p align="justify">
+<?php print i18n_var("The <a href='%1'>Kontact</a> team has been hard at work improving and refining. Much of the work has been modernizing the code, but users will notice that encrypted messages display has been improved and support has been added for text/pgp and <a href='%2'>Apple® Wallet Pass</a>. There is now an option to select IMAP folder during vacation configuration, a new warning in KMail when a mail gets reopened and identity/mailtransport is not the same, new <a href='%3'>support for Microsoft® Exchange™</a>, support for Nylas Mail and improved Geary import in the akonadi-import-wizard, along with various other bug-fixes and general improvements.", "https://www.kde.org/applications/office/kontact", "https://phabricator.kde.org/D8395", "https://micreabog.wordpress.com/2017/10/05/akonadi-ews-resource-now-part-of-kde-pim/");?>
+</p>
+
+<h4 style="clear:both;" ><?php print i18n_var("Games");?></h3>
+<figure style="float: right; margin: 0px"><a href="ktuberling1712.jpg"><img src="ktuberling1712.jpg" width="250" height="140" /></a></figure>
+<p align="justify">
+<?php print i18n_var("<a href='%1'>KTuberling</a> can now reach a wider audience, as it has been <a href='%2'>ported to Android</a>. <a href='%3'>Kolf</a>, <a href='%4'>KsirK</a>, and <a href='%5'>Palapeli</a> complete the porting of KDE games to Frameworks 5.", "https://www.kde.org/applications/games/ktuberling/", "https://tsdgeos.blogspot.nl/2017/10/kde-edu-sprint-in-berlin.html", "https://www.kde.org/applications/games/kolf/", "https://www.kde.org/applications/games/ksirk/", "https://www.kde.org/applications/games/palapeli/");?>
+</p>
+
+<h3 style="clear:both;" ><?php print i18n_var("More Porting to KDE Frameworks 5");?></h3>
+<?php print i18n_var("Even more applications which were based on kdelibs4 have now been ported to KDE Frameworks 5. These include the music player <a href='%1'>JuK</a>, the download manager <a href='%2'>KGet</a>, <a href='%3'>KMix</a>, utilities such as <a href='%4'>Sweeper</a> and <a href='%5'>KMouth</a>, and <a href='%6'>KImageMapEditor</a> and Zeroconf-ioslave. Many thanks to the hard-working developers who volunteered their time and work to make this happen!", "https://www.kde.org/applications/multimedia/juk/", "https://www.kde.org/applications/internet/kget/", "https://www.kde.org/applications/multimedia/kmix/", "https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/sweeper/", "https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/kmouth/", "https://www.kde.org/applications/development/kimagemapeditor/");?>
+<p align="justify">
+
+<h3 style="clear:both;" ><?php print i18n_var("Applications moving to their own release schedule");?></h3>
+<?php print i18n_var("<a href='%1'>KStars</a> now has its own release schedule; check this <a href='%2'>developer's blog</a> for announcements. It is worth noting that several applications such as Kopete and Blogilo are <a href='%3'>no longer shipped</a> with the Application series, as they have not yet been ported to KDE Frameworks 5, or are not actively maintained at the moment.", "https://www.kde.org/applications/education/kstars/", "https://knro.blogspot.de", "https://community.kde.org/Applications/18.04_Release_Notes#Tarballs_that_we_do_not_ship_anymore");?>
+<p align="justify">
+
+<h3 style="clear:both;" ><?php print i18n_var("Bug Stomping");?></h3>
+<p align="justify">
+<?php print i18n_var("More than 170 bugs have been resolved in applications including the Kontact Suite, Ark, Dolphin, Gwenview, K3b, Kate, Kdenlive, Konsole, Okular, Umbrello and more!");?>
+</p>
+
+<h3 style="clear:both;"><?php print i18n_var("Full Changelog");?></h3>
+
+<p align="justify">
+<?php print i18n_var("If you would like to read more about the changes in this release, <a href='%1'>head over to the complete changelog</a>. Although a bit intimidating due to its breadth, the changelog can be an excellent way to learn about KDE's internal workings and discover apps and features you never knew you had.", "fulllog_applications.php?version=".$version);?>
+</p>
+
+<h4>
+<?php i18n("Spread the Word");?>
+</h4>
+<p align="justify">
+<?php print i18n_var("Non-technical contributors play an important part in KDE's success. While proprietary software companies have huge advertising budgets for new software releases, KDE often depends on word of mouth."); ?>
+</p>
+
+<p align="justify">
+<?php print i18n_var("There are many ways to support the KDE Applications 18.04 release: you can report bugs, encourage others to join the KDE Community, or <a href='%1'>support the non-profit organization behind the KDE Community</a>.", "https://relate.kde.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=5"); ?>
+</p>
+
+<p align="justify">
+<?php i18n("Help us spread the word on the social web. You can submit stories to news sites like Reddit, Facebook and Twitter; upload screenshots of your new set-up to services like Snapchat, Instagram and Google+; or create screencasts and upload them to YouTube, Blip.tv, and Vimeo, or stream them live over Twitch!"); ?>
+</p>
+
+<p align="justify">
+<?php i18n("Remember to tag your posts and uploaded materials with the <i>KDE</i> moniker, as this makes them easier to find and gives the KDE Promo Team a way to analyze coverage for the KDE Applications 18.04 release."); ?>
+</p>
+
+<!-- // Boilerplate again -->
+
+<h4>
+  <?php i18n("Installing KDE Applications 18.04 Binary Packages");?>
+</h4>
+<p align="justify">
+  <em><?php i18n("Packages");?></em>.
+  <?php i18n("Some Linux/UNIX OS vendors have kindly provided binary packages of KDE Applications 18.04 for some versions of their distribution, and in other cases community volunteers have done so. Additional binary packages, as well as updates to the packages now available, may become available over the coming weeks.");?>
+</p>
+
+<p align="justify">
+  <a name="package_locations"></a><em><?php i18n("Package Locations");?></em>.
+  <?php i18n("For a current list of available binary packages of which the KDE Project has been informed, please visit the <a href='http://community.kde.org/KDE_Applications/Binary_Packages'>Community Wiki</a>.");?>
+</p>
+
+<h4>
+  <?php i18n("Compiling KDE Applications 18.04");?>
+</h4>
+<p align="justify">
+  <a name="source_code"></a>
+  <?php i18n("The complete source code for KDE Applications 18.04 may be <a href='http://download.kde.org/stable/applications/18.04.0/src/'>freely downloaded</a>. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the <a href='/info/applications-18.04.0.php'>KDE Applications 18.04.0 Info Page</a>.");?>
+</p>
+
+<h4>
+  <?php i18n("Supporting KDE");?>
+</h4>
+
+<p align="justify">
+ <?php i18n("KDE is a <a href='http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html'>Free Software</a> community that exists and grows only because of the help of many volunteers that donate their time and effort. KDE is always looking for new volunteers and contributions, whether it is help with coding, bug fixing or reporting, writing documentation, translations, promotion, money, etc. All contributions are gratefully appreciated and eagerly accepted. Please read through the <a href='/community/donations/'>Supporting KDE page</a> for further information or become a KDE e.V. supporting member through our new <a href='https://relate.kde.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?id=5'>Join the Game</a> initiative. </p>");?>
+
+<?php
+  include($site_root . "/contact/about_kde.inc");
+?>
+
+<h4><?php i18n("Press Contacts");?></h4>
+
+<?php
+  include($site_root . "/contact/press_contacts.inc");
+  include("footer.inc");
+?>