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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

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

Eight weeks ago I was nervously setting up a Hugo project I'd never touched before, reading through someone else's merge requests trying to understand what I was supposed to build on top of. Today, mentorship.kde.org is a meaningfully better place for anyone trying to find their way into the KDE community. That's a good feeling. Read More

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

Hi everyone, Aviral here :) I have been a past contributor to the KDE ecosystem for a few projects like Okular and Spectacle. KDE was the first organisation I ever worked with in my open source journey and now I am very excited to share the update of my Season of KDE 2026 project. 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

Hey everyone! I'm Onat, and I'm a bit past the halfway mark of my Season of KDE 2026 journey. Here's what I've been working on! For reference, here are some relevant links: 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

Hey there! I'm Vishesh Srivastava, and we're at the halfway mark of my SoK 2026 project — writing Appium-based UI tests for Lokalize. I was a bit late for the halfway mark, but we're still on track. Read More