KDE Software Compilation 4.9 Officially Released

After six month of hard work, the KDE Software Compilation 4.9 is finally here, as announced by KDE e.V. and the developers behind the KDE project a few minutes ago, August 1st.

KDE Software Compilation 4.9 brings beautiful new features, lots of performance improvements, as well as various software updates.

Highlights of KDE Software Compilation 4.9:

• Improved Dolphin file manager with back/forward buttons and in-line file renaming;
• Improve Konsole terminal app with text selection using KDE Web Shortcuts;
• Improved KWin window manager;
• Deep integration of Activities throughout the Workspaces;
• Okular can now store and print annotations with PDF documents;
• Improved bookmarking, search, and text selection in Okular ;
• Added Last.fm support in Juk (includes scrobbling, cover-fetching and MPRIS2 support);
• Added support to group all off-line users in Kopete;
• Improved Kontact;
• Added Pairs, a new memory game;
• Added Rocs, a graph theory app;
• Improved Kstars;
• Upgraded KDE Games;
• Qt Quick improvements;
• Faster access of network shares (including NFS, SSHFS and Samba);
• Faster desktop search by fixed many annoying bugs in Soprano and Nepomuk;
• Stability and performance improvements.

For more details, please check the official announcement for KDE Software Compilation 4.9. Also, check out the screenshots attached below!

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