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Tuesday, 24 March 2026

KIO S3 1.0.1

Carl Schwan  | Categories: Release
KIO S3 1.0.1 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
Tuesday, 24 March 2026

Marknote 1.5.2

Hunterx  | Categories: Release
Hello again! Welcome to another bugfix release. This update is highly recommended, as it tackles a few critical issues to keep the app running smoothly. Resolved a crash that occurred when creating your first notebook. Fixed an issue that prevented notebooks from being removed. Corrected a glitch allowing notes to be drag-and-dropped through quick sketches. Note sorting is functioning as intended now. Restored the undo and redo buttons when a single note is open. Added the "Clear" button to allow removing content from the quick sketches. Added several minor background improvements for better overall stability. Get Marknote We encourage everyone to update as soon as possible. You can grab the latest version via Flatpak, or your favorite package manager. Read More
Saturday, 21 March 2026

This Week in Plasma: Time Zone Offsets and Type-Ahead on the Desktop

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week several new features landed, in addition to a number of user interface improvements and some nice performance improvements and bug fixes. Check ‘em out: Read More
Saturday, 21 March 2026

Season of KDE 2026 - Improving mentorship.kde.org for better onboarding of new contributors

Aryan Rai  | Categories: SoK, mentorship
Greeting everyone! I am Aryan. I have only just started my open source journey and was glad to be a part of SOK program. I really learned a lot which I think I otherwise would have not. With this blog I will be sharing about the project I worked on and also my learnings and future endeavour. Read More
Friday, 20 March 2026

Marknote 1.5.1

Hunterx  | Categories: Release
Last week we released version 1.5 of Marknote, a fast and free alternative to existing slow and pay-walled note-taking apps. Today we announce a release that fixes some issues and improves a few things across the app. Read More
Friday, 20 March 2026

[SoK 2026] Appium Testing for Lokalize

Hey there! I'm Vishesh Srivastava, and this is the full write-up for my SoK 2026 project: adding Appium-based UI tests to Lokalize. So what's Lokalize? It's KDE's translation tool - the app translators use to work with PO files and manage translation projects. It already had unit tests, but no UI tests. So the goal of this project was to setup a UI testing framework using Appium. Read More
Friday, 20 March 2026

Season of KDE - Midterm Blog

Keshav-Nanda  | Categories: SoK, mentorship
Hello world! My name is Keshav Nanda and I had the opportunity to work with Scripty, a KDE bot that extracts translatable strings from various KDE applications and sends them to KDE translators. Read More
Friday, 20 March 2026

Season of KDE 2026 - Task - 3 Lokalize

Kumud  | Categories: SoK, mentorship
Progress Report — Midterm — SOK 26 Mentor: Finley Watson Project: Lokalize Week 1 Week one was basically just ensuring that I have a good understanding of the relevant code in the repository. I suggested a good approach would be to write a summary of the behaviour of the classes and functions involved. This turned out to work really well. Read More
Friday, 20 March 2026

Season of KDE 2026 - Task - 3 Lokalize

Kumud  | Categories: SoK, mentorship
Week 0 progress Report — SOK 26 I am Kumud, a third year student at IIT Roorkee, and I am working as a mentee under the guidance of Finley Watson for SOK 26. Read More
Thursday, 19 March 2026

Season of KDE 2026 - Lokalize Glossary Tab Improvements (Midterm)

Aditya Sarna  | Categories: SoK, mentorship
My name is Aditya Sarna, and I have been working on Lokalize, a translation software, as part of Season of KDE 2026. Along with my fellow mentee Jaimukund Bhan, I have been assigned to work on improvements to the Glossary tab, including both UI/UX enhancements and addressing a substantial list of bugs. Read More