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I am going to tell the story of fixing a very high priority bug that was 15 years old. Arguably the worst KIO bug. In September 2011, against KDE 4.7, someone opened bug 281270: "When copying files to a removable disk, speed and progress reflect copying to the local cache not to the disk itself". The report notes the copy notification showed about 50 MB/s to a USB 1.1 device, which cannot go faster than 12 Mbit/s. The reporter had asked a kernel developer, Alan Stern, what was going on, and summed up his answer: Read More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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