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and Happy Birthday KDE 💙 It is a pleasure to announce the new Kraft version 2.1.0 today. Kraft is an free software app for effective invoicing and business document management on Linux desktops. It is specifically targetted to small business needs and ensures data privacy. The new version is the second release of the Kraft 2 generation. It continues to deliver on the goals we set at beginning of the year with Kraft 2: More formally correct documents to better match legal requirements. Moreover the file based storage backend for simplicity and privacy aware cloud support was continued. With that Kraft will be the perfect solutions for work teams. ...

With the start of the new year, I am very happy to announce the release of version Kraft 2.0.0. Kraft provides effective invoicing and document management for small businesses on Linux. Check the feature list. This new version is a big step ahead for the project. It does not only deliver the outstanding ports to Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6 and tons of modernizations and cleanups, but for the first time, it also does some significant changes in the underlying architecture and drops outdated technology. ...

A few days ago Volker Krause posted this blog about the Nextcloud conference - a very interesting read. One of the topics is the VFS (Virtual Filesystem-) API for the Linux desktop. Indeed that is a topic for us at ownCloud as well, and I like to share our perspective on it, discussing it in the scope of the free desktop. The topic is very important, as “syncing” of data from and to cloud storages has changed over time. From having all files mirrored from client to server and vice versa, it has now shifted to keep all files in the cloud, and have them as so called placeholders on the desktop. That means that most files on the client appear with size zero to save space, but the complete filesystem structure is available. ...