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Akademy-es 2026 is happening October 23 to 25 in Camping Arco Iris (Villaviciosa de Odón, Madrid) For the 20th anniversary of the first Akademy-es, the organizers have chosen a campsite to do a slightly different event focusing on the community side of KD…

The Qt folks have taken inspiration in our successful KDE Goals and are starting the Qt Project Goals.

Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the KDE Gear 26.08 releases to them Next Dates: July 16, 2026, 23:59 UTC: 26.08 Freeze and Beta (26.07.80) tarball creation July 17 2026: 26.08 Beta (26.07.80) release July 30, 2026, 23:59 UTC: 26.08 RC…

This year Qt Contributor Summit will be held in Oslo during late October.

Commit: https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt/qt5/-/commit/aa749695075684f0c8585ede19e361f9accb4287 Commercial release announcement: https://www.qt.io/blog/commercial-lts-qt-5.15.19-released OpenSource release announcement: https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/a…

A contributor has recently started translating KDE to Amharic.

This is the release schedule the release team agreed on https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_26.08_Schedule Dependency freeze is in around 7 weeks (July 2) and feature freeze two weeks after that.

Akademy 2026 (the annual world summit for KDE) is happening in Graz.

I spent this week in Graz, the weekdays as part of the KDE Mega Sprint 2026 and Saturday attending Grazer Linuxtage 2026.

Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the KDE Gear 26.04 releases to them Next Dates: March 12 2026: 26.04 Freeze and Beta (26.03.80) tarball creation March 13 2026: 26.04 Beta (26.03.80) release March 26 2026: 26.04 RC (26.03.90) tarball cr…

This is the release schedule the release team agreed on https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_26.04_Schedule Dependency freeze is in around 7 weeks (March 5) and feature freeze one after that.

The folks at GNU/Linux València are organizing a Game Jam focused on Free Software Desktop Games.

This weekend, I attended the KDE PIM 2025 Sprint (AKA meeting) in Paris.

This is the release schedule the release team agreed on https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_25.12_Schedule Dependency freeze is in around 2 weeks (November 6) and feature freeze one after that.

Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the KDE Gear 25.08 releases to them Next Dates: July 10 2025: 25.08 Freeze and Beta (25.07.80) tag & release July 24 2025: 25.08 RC (25.07.90) Tagging and Release August 7 2025: 25.08 Tagging August 14 2…

If you are a developer and your KDE project is still based on Qt5 you should really really start porting to Qt6 now. https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-devel/2025-June/003742.html

This is the release schedule the release team agreed on https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_25.08_Schedule Dependency freeze is in around 2 weeks (July 3) and feature freeze one after that.

We have moved the deadline for talk submission for Akademy 2025 to the end of the month.

These past two days I attended the Qt World Summit 2025 It happened in Munich in the SHOWPALAST MÜNCHEN.

Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the KDE Gear 25.04 releases to them Next Dates March 13 2025: 25.04 Freeze and Beta (25.03.80) tag & release March 27, 2025: 25.04 RC (25.03.90) Tagging and Release April 10, 2025: 25.04 Tagging April 17,

This is the release schedule the release team agreed on https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_25.04_Schedule Dependency freeze is in around 3 weeks (March 6) and feature freeze one after that.

Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the KDE Gear 24.12 releases to them Next Dates: November 14, 2024: 24.12 freeze and beta (24.11.80) tagging and release November 28, 2024: 24.12 RC (24.11.90) tagging and release December 5, 2024: 24.12…

This is the release schedule the release team agreed on https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_24.12_Schedule Dependency freeze is in around 3 weeks (November 7) and feature freeze one after that.

This weekend "The KDE Alberts"[1] attended Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2024 in Sunnyvale, California.

If you're using Plasma/KWin 6 i suggest you disable the Morphing Popups effect, it has been removed for Plasma 6.2 https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/commit/d6360cc4ce4e0d85862a4bb077b8b3dc55cd74a7 and on X11 at least it causes severe redraw issues with…