The #Akademy2026 Call for Participation is now OPEN!
Whether you're a developer, designer, contributor, or enthusiast, if you have a story, idea, or project to share, we want to hear from you.
📅 Deadline: 17 May 2026
Don’t miss your chance to speak. Submit here: akademy.kde.org/2026/cfp/
The colourful new Mankala board.
Falkon, KDE's web browser, showing the inbuilt chat feature on the left.
The Plasma welcome wizard working on a mobile phone.
Season of KDE 2026 brings improvements and new features to Lokalize, Marknote, and KDE's websites.
Plasma's first-run setup wizard can adapts to mobile screens, Falkon gets an in-built chat client and bookmark syncing, and Mankala gets a board re-design.
mentorship.kde.org/blog/2026-04...
KDE is at Grazer Linuxtage today and tomorrow!
Stop by our booth to chat with the community members, discover kool software and gadgets, and pick up some stickers!
www.linuxtage.at/en/
#FOSS #OpenSource
#Akademy2026 is calling, are you in? Registration is now OPEN!
Join the KDE community for inspiring talks, hands-on workshops, BoFs, and coding sessions.
This is where #FreeSoftware and #OpenSource move forward.
Register now: akademy.kde.org/2026/register/
#FOSS #TechEvent #Akademy
Time to mark your calendars!
🗓 19 to 24 September 2026
#Akademy2026 is coming to Graz, Austria!
Join us for a week of fun, ideas, collaboration, and community.
More details: akademy.kde.org/2026/
#Akademy #KDE #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #conference #TechEvent
A screenshot ot the Plasma 6.6 desktop showing, from left to right, the System Settings app, the Discover software manager, and a calendar in the lower right corner.
Plasma 6.6.4 released, bringing three weeks’ worth of new translations and fixes from KDE’s contributors. The bugfixes include:
* Fixing a Spectacle crash
* Improvements to blur plugins
* Better keyboard navigation in widgets
And much more...
kde.org/announcement...
A very art-farty image of some glasses with lots of out-of-focus icons on a screen in the background. Reflected on the lens of the glasses, you can see several rows of in-focus icon apps.
You've got the apps, we've got the showcase: Speak at the Linux App Summit
Calling all Linux app developers! Come to Berlin and show your apps to the world at the @linuxappsummit.bsky.social 2026.
CfP is live at:
linuxappsummit.org/cfp/
A detailed, definitely not flat, compass icon.
Three Oxygen widgets, from left to right and top to bottom: A folder showing previews of SVG images, an analog clock, the calendar widget
A button showing a faux-3D shiny hint.
The classic Oxygen theme back is (halfway) back on Plasma
Tastefully colorful icons, shadows, transparencies and shiny buttons are all part of the spectacular reimagined themes Air and Oxygen being painstakingly reconstructed from scratch by the designers.
filipfila.wordpress.com/2026/04/05/h...
It's fine. These things happen. It's just that two things happened at the same time. They were quickly solved. Creating a distro, or indeed any software, among many things, is a learning process, that is why we have alpha, beta, and release candidates before hitting production.
Kdenlive logo with 26.04 RC written under it
Kdenlive 26.04 Release Candidate is ready for testing. Help us make this a solid release. Grab it, give it a spin and let u know if you encounter any issues.
kdenlive.org/news/release...
#kdenlive #videoeditng #kde
KRunner, displaying the improved spell-checker.
Dolphin, showing a more explicit message explaining why an RPM cannot be installed.
On the plus side, KDE Linux users get friendlier feedback, better connectivity with Apple devices, and improved multi-language support.
pointieststick.com/2026/03/31/t...
#distro #Linux #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
"This Month in #KDELinux" brings the news that...
You should never deploy alpha software in production machines 😬! A systemd bug broke booting an updated system, a systemd update broke Discover, but the good news is everything has been sorted and hardened now.
pointieststick.com/2026/03/31/t...
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"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that you can now adjust your mike's sensitivity, sharing/casting screens in the chooser get backgrounds, Plasma's animations, vaults, and folder chooser dialogs get enhancements and improvements, and much, much more at:
blogs.kde.org/2026/03/28/t...
An "exploded" computer, showing all its modular parts on yellowy-orange background. Underneath you can see Framework's logo.
@frame.work becomes a KDE Patron and joins the growing list of companies and organizations that support KDE's work and projects.
ev.kde.org/2026/03/27/f...
Krita's splash screen showing Kiki, Krita's mascot , painting a marina on a tablet while on a boat at sea.
Brush curve editor with nodes.
Color overlay example.
An image showing how you can use a "fish lens" template to create a stunning perspective effect.
Krita 6 (and 5.3) released! Two #art #apps for the price of one!
Look forward to Wayland color management (for Krita 6); an overhauled text tool with direct on-canvas editing, wrapped text and text-on-path capacity; a new #comic panel assistant; and so much more 🖌️.
krita.org/en/posts/202...
If you only knew the power of the Arc Side...
Darth Vader, in a menacing stance threatens: "I HAVE ROUNDED THE CORNERS — PRAY I DON'T ROUND THEM ANY FURTHER." Nuff said.
In today's issue of "This Week in Plasma", Mr. Vader says...
blogs.kde.org/2026/03/21/t...
#FreeSoftware #desktop #Plasma6 #OpenSource #RoundCorners
"SteamOS 3.8.0 Preview: Second Clutch" is out
This preview version is for the Steam Deck preview channel, comes with Plasma 6.4 and runs on Wayland by default.
www.steamdeck.com/en/news
Congrats on an awesome release 👣!
Blue themed background based off GNOME 50 default background and the next "GNOME 50"
🚨 We are pleased to announce the release of #GNOME 50. You can read about what our contributors have been working on in
release.gnome.org//50/
We take the chance of this new release to thank our contributors who have made this happen!
Let us know what you think! ❤️
#linux
... And you have to enable it, meaning you can turn it off.
This screenshot shows a section of KDE's Discover software management system, displaying a number for update size.
A menu from KDE's terminal app Konsole displaying the different kapsules the user has set up and can now choose from.
Two terminal windows showing Podman running in a Fedora kapsule on the left and Docker running in an Ubuntu Kapsule on the right.
Want to know how KDE Linux is going? Check out "This Month in KDE Linux"
pointieststick.com/2026/03/14/t...
Updates in Discover; #Kapsule is ever more integrated with KDE's other software; #Kup, KDE's backup tool, now comes preinstalled...
... And much more!
Also new is that you can download and install alternative sound themes and that we reduced CPU and GPU load for full-screen windows on screens using more fractional scale factors, and much more!
blogs.kde.org/2026/03/14/t...
"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that...
You can use long-presses on your regular keyboard to access alternative glyphs—just like on your phone, e.g. press and hold down [$] and a popup appears that let's you choose between €, £, ¥, ¢, ₹.
blogs.kde.org/2026/03/14/t...
And Plasma's keyboard framework gets diacritics.
merritt.codes/blog/2026/03...
General view of Marknote showing an article about Miami with a header photo.
Screenshot showing the link popup that allows you to insert internal wiki-style links with cross-notebook lookup.
Source code mode shows you the raw MarkDown of your note.
In similar news, Marknote 1.5.0 is out and is packed with new features!
Marknote is turning into a robust knowledge base while keeping the interface as clean and distraction-free as possible.
blogs.kde.org/2026/03/13/m...
Screenshot of Plasma's System Setting showing the S3 configuration dialogue.
It’s now possible to access files in Amazon's S3 storage (or any compatible services) from Dolphin and any other KDE app! We just released the first version of KIO S3, which bridges to S3 for all KIO-powered apps.
blogs.kde.org/2026/03/13/i...
Screenshot of the new schedule view in Merkuro.
A Marknote note with... tables! So awesome.
Another successful week for the KDE app ecosystem. With a first release of Glaxnimate as part of KDE, more improvements regarding Marknote and much more!
KDE will be at FOSSASIA Summit 2026 in Bangkok!
Come by our booth on 9–10 March 2026 and talk to community members, check out devices and software, and grab some stickers.
Learn more summit.fossasia.org
#FOSSAsia #FOSSEvent #FOSS #TechEvent
KDE is at SCaLE 23x! Come visit our booth, talk to community members, check out gadgets and software, and grab some stickers!
www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
#SCale23x
