Dolphin 26.08 and KIO, part two: what got faster and smaller
This is the second half of what changed in Dolphin 26.08. The first half is what you can see: the features, the behaviour changes, the bugs. This one is what you can measure.
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Dolphin 26.08, and KIO perf improvements
Dolphin 26.08 has been released. Here is more of what changed in it, and in the KIO framework underneath it.
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Dolphin 26.04 release
Sunday, 3 May 2026
I want to highlight a few changes that came to Dolphin 26.04 and add some nuance to the release announcement.
The the KDE Gear 26.04 release announcement mentions:
In version 26.04, Dolphin lets you add keyboard shortcuts to nearly any option in any menu, plugin or extension.
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Use `ripgrep-all` / `ripgrep` to improve search in Dolphin
Wednesday, 2 October 2024
In the next release of Dolphin, the search backend (when Baloo indexing is disabled) will be faster and support more file types, by using external projects ripgrep-all and ripgrep to do the search. Merge Request
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