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What Has Been Brewing in KDE PIM Land?

Dominique Michel and arnaud chirat

In 2026, the Sovereign Tech Fund commissioned work to bring KDE software closer to readiness for large enterprises and public institutions. As part of this work, KDE PIM infrastructure had to be improved.

In this talk, we will cover the bug fixing and improvements we did around Akonadi resources and their protocol libraries. This will help all the applications using Akonadi to be at the forefront in term of protocol updates.

To get there, we also setup an end-to-end tests suite using Python. We will thus do a detour on how we structured those tests for better test data management and reduced flakiness. It will also show the bugs you can catch this way but not with unit tests.

If your life is stored in an IMAP and a DAV server, if you'd like things to be easier to configure, or if you'd like a better Flatpak experience for KDE PIM applications, then join us and rejoice! We'll tell you what you can expect to see in the next release.

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