KDE News Archives

The KDE developer community has firmed up the schedule for the KDE Applications 16.12 release.

Plasma 5.8 was only released at the beginning of October but already there has been a number of Wayland improvements queuing up for the next milestone, Plasma 5.9.

KDE Plasma developers talked this week about their plans for the new development cycle and what they want the desktop to look like moving into 2017 and further ahead into 2018.

The 14th of October marks the KDE project's 20th birthday! In celebration, the last KDE 1.x release has been re-released with compatibility for the latest Linux distributions.

KDE Frameworks 5.27 is now available as the latest version of these add-on libraries from the KDE camp to complement Qt5 functionality.

This morning marks the release of the first Plasma 5 Long-Term Support release, Plasma 5.8.

One month after Kirigami's first public release, KDE Kirigami 1.1 is now available as the newest stable of this user-interface framework designed for mobile and convergent applications in Qt.

A KDE Advisory Board has been formed by KDE e.V. to provide greater insight and cooperation around this free software desktop environment.

The beta of the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.8 -- the first Plasma 5 long-term support release -- is now available for early testing.

KDE's Wayland approach is interested in only supporting one code path and as such is not interested in supporting NVIDIA's binary driver approach of using EGLStreams for supporting Wayland on their driver.

KDE Frameworks 5.26 was released this weekend as the newest version of these KDE add-on libraries to complement Qt.

KDE developers have decided to switch to Wayland by default for KDE Neon's unstable/developer OS.

KDE developers announced today the KDE Software Store, a Free-as-in-Freedom AGPL-licensed sharing platform.

The Simple Desktop Display Manager has released version 0.14 of their project that's used by Hawaii, some KDE installations, and more as the login/display manager.

KDE Connect is the interesting project for integrating notifications and more from your phone or other mobile device onto the KDE desktop. With KDE Connect you can receive smartphone notifications on your computer as well as using your phone as a remote control to the desktop.

While the support has been steadily improving, one of the more criticized areas of KDE Plasma 5 has been around the multi-monitor support with various bugs being present. Fortunately, improvements are on the way with KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS.

Today marks the latest monthly bug-fix release of KDE Plasma 5.7.

We haven't yet seen any official release announcement, but since yesterday a source package and AppImage binary have been out in the wild for KDE's KDevelop 5.0 integrated development environment.

KDE Applications 16.08 was released today as the newest bundle of KDE applications built atop KDE Frameworks 5.

There are several changes to KWin's OpenGL compositor support with the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.8 release.

Development on KDE Plasma 5.8 continues to move along with the feature freeze for it being next month. Plasma 5.8 when released in October is going to be the first Long-Term Support (LTS) release of Plasma 5.

The previously talked about KDE Kirigami UI framework has now experienced its first public release.

The first update following the major digiKam 5.0 release is now available. DigiKam 5.0 was the dramatic port to Qt5 and many other improvements/changes.

KDE Plasma 5.7 was advertised as having better multi-screen support, but it turns out there's still more work to do as various problems in the open-source Linux desktop stack are leading to a less than ideal experience.

KDE Frameworks 5.24.0 was released today as the newest version of these KDE libraries to go along with the recent release of Plasma 5.7.

After two years of development, DigiKam 5.0 has been released as the digital photography management software from the KDE camp that's now been ported to Qt5.

KDE Plasma 5.7 is now officially out there.

KDE Plasma 5.7 is scheduled to be released today.

There are a lot of Wayland support improvements to find in the upcoming release of KDE's Plasma 5.7.

KDE developers this week at Randa have ben working on improvements for KDE applications on Windows.

KDE developers quietly released the Plasma 5.7 beta on Thursday for offering a new glimpse at the experience ahead of its official debut in July.

KDE Frameworks 5.23 was announced today as the latest major update to this collection of add-on libraries complementing Qt5.

The first User Edition release is out for KDE Neon, which allows you to easily experience the latest Plasma stable experience and other updated KDE components.

KDE Plasma 5.7 continues to look more and more like it will be running reasonably well on Wayland with close parity to the KDE stack running on X11.

The latest KWayland feature in the pipe for the next KDE Frameworks 5 update is virtual frame-buffer support for its Wayland server.

It feels like it took an eternity in retrospect, but the Krita 3.0 release of this KDE sketching and digital painting program is now available.

The KDE Partition Manager, the promising disk partitioning application that's become a viable alternative to GParted, is up to version 2.2.

The latest KWin/Wayland hacking project by Martin Gräßlin is adding virtual keyboard support to KWin for the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.7 release.

Krita, KDE's incredible digital painting and illustration program, is getting very close to their major 3.0 milestone with today's availability of their release candidate.

KDE Frameworks 5.22 was released this week and with this frameworks update comes the addition of KWayland.

Martin Gräßlin's latest focus on KDE development has been improving the input device support under KWin, particularly for when it's acting as a Wayland compositor.

KDE's Project Neon has begun publishing daily images of the latest KDE Plasma stack powered atop Wayland rather than the X.Org Server.

The Plasma Mobile stack being developed by KDE is almost one year old but they've now decided to shift their OS architecture a bit instead of relying directly upon Ubuntu Touch.

The developers behind KDE's flagship digital painting and animation program have this morning announced the Krita 3.0 Beta.

Those working on the KDE Neon initiative for making it more easy to consume the bleeding-edge KDE software have today announced their User Edition Tech Preview.

The KDE community today announced the release of KDE Frameworks 5.21.0 as the latest version of these building blocks for building KDE and other Qt applications.

Krita 3.0 has made another step closer to being released with this weekend's alpha release.

After surveying developers and community users, KDE has come to a vision for the future and united around a single mission statement.

Better ownCloud integration is coming for Plasma 5.7.

KDE announced this morning the new Kirigami UI.