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Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week something very special landed for Plasma 6.7: the ability to type characters not on your physical keyboard by pressing-and-holding the keys that it does have: Read More

It’s been a busy few months for the development team! We’ve been focusing heavily on turning Marknote into a much more robust knowledge base while keeping the interface as clean and distraction-free as possible. Today, we're releasing version 1.5, and it’s packed with major additions and quality-of-life improvements. Read More

The first release of KIO S3 is out! KIO S3 is a KIO worker that allows you to browse and manage files stored in Amazon S3 and S3-compatible storage services (such as Cloudflare R2, DigitalOcean Spaces, MinIO, and others) directly from Dolphin and other KDE applications. Read More

Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in KDE Apps"! Every week (or so) we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps. Office Applications Marknote Write down your thoughts It's been a busy week in Marknote again. Valentyn Bondarenko extensively reworked tables to fix rendering issues (office/marknote MR #143 and office/marknote MR #169). Read More

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This was another week of focusing on bug-fixing and UI polishing. Not massively flashy stuff, but critical for the long-term stability of the platform. Check out the work: Read More

I'm half-way through the Season of KDE 2026 and wanted to share the journey so far. I had subscribed to the kde-soc mailing list after I returned from IndiaFOSS'25, where I met KDE contributors who really encouraged me to join the community and told me that one can always learn while building. The first step, always, is to start. Then I got carried away with life until I saw "call to action" in my mailbox in January. It was about SoK'26. I had then recently set up Kubuntu and was in awe about what people can build out of passion and by collaborating with others. I felt mentorship was the way to get started. I explored the projects and found Task-3 under Lokalize as something that I can contribute to while learning new skills- programming in CPP, debugging, and exploring an old repo. Read More

Welcome to a new issue of "This WeekMonth in KDE Apps"! Every week (or so) we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps. It's been a while since the last issue, so I'll try my best to summarize all the big things that happened recently. Read More

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week, in addition to the typical post-Plasma-release bug-fix spree, folks started working on UI improvements and features. Two notable examples are highlighted in the title, and found below: Read More

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we released Plasma 6.6! So far it’s getting great reviews, even on Phoronix. 😁 Read More

Hey all! I'm CJ and I'm checking in with a midterm update on the Season of KDE task of automating data collection for the KDE promotional team. The first term of the two for this Season of KDE task has mostly been a learning experience of what does and doesn't work when it comes to scraping data from the web, laying down our toolset and approach to data collection. Read More