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Saturday, 24 October 2026

This Week in Plasma: Fixing All the Bugs, PiP, and Performance

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma. And it’s going to be a big one, folks! This week, a familiar pattern played out: people upgraded to Plasma 6.8 and found all the bugs that nobody reported during the beta period, and the Plasma team worked incredibly hard to fix them! You’ll see the result below: tons of bug fixes. Read More
Friday, 23 October 2026

New Craft cache 26.10 published

KDE Craft 26.10 was just released, and yes, we just pick whatever month we currently have. This is one of the biggest releases we ever had, as it prepares the way to proper cross compilation. With a real implementation for target and host: architecture, platform and compiler. If you squint right you might already spot traces of Windows ARM and iOS. Read More
Saturday, 17 October 2026

This Week in Plasma: New Weather Widget and On-Screen Keyboard

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we released Plasma 6.8, but we didn’t stop there: work on Plasma 6.9 has been coming in hot and heavy, and there’s a lot to talk about! So let’s jump right in: Read More
Sunday, 11 October 2026

This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty: Q3 2026

Welcome to the latest edition of This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty! This blog series covers the work done throughout KDE’s software stack that’s funded by the investment KDE received earlier this year from Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency. Read More
Saturday, 10 October 2026

This Week in Plasma: Finishing Touches on 6.8

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week, Plasma contributors put the finishing touches on Plasma 6.8, which is due to be released early next week, on October 14th. Read More
Tuesday, 6 October 2026

My Notes from Akademy 2026

Siddharth Chopra  | Categories: Akademy
Writing this blog today feels a bit unreal. Six months ago, if you had told me I'd be attending Akademy in-person, 3000 miles from home - I probably wouldn't have believed you. And yet, here we are. Read More
Saturday, 3 October 2026

This Week in Plasma: 6.8 Beta 2; Keep Testing!

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week, Plasma 6.8 continues to pass through the bug-fixing process in preparation for its release on October 14th, including the release of a second beta version. So far we still don’t have many reported regressions, so again either Plasma 6.8 is amazing already, or else people aren’t testing it enough! Read More
Saturday, 3 October 2026

KDE Code Contributing: A layman-oriented tutorial

I always thought contributiong to a project should be easily understood. So I recorded the whole process and made this tutorial. I want every step to be as easily understood and as determenistic as possible. Read More
Thursday, 1 October 2026

This Month in KDE Linux: September 2026

Welcome to this edition of This Month in KDE Linux, dedicated to KDE’s next-generation operating system. September was a bit of a slow month for KDE Linux, the result of multiple contributors preparing for, attending, and recovering from Akademy 2026, and then later All Systems Go! 2026. Read More
Monday, 28 September 2026

My Second Akademy

Farid Abdelnour  | Categories: Akademy
As usual, crossing the Atlantic is tough for me. I'm just too tall, and the seats are, well... just too small. Not to mention the stress of receiving a message on the day of the trip saying that my flight had been moved four hours earlier! I dropped everything I was doing and ran to the airport, only to dicover that it was a mistake in the "system". Add to that the delays and the the risk of missing the connection... Lufthansa did not play well this trip but everything worked out in the end! Read More