Jonathan Riddell has updated his spin of (K)Ubuntu that comes with the latest Git code of KDE's KWin and other packages via the new KDE Neon initiative for making it easy to try out KDE Plasma on Wayland.
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KDE Plasma 5.5.5 was released this morning as the latest monthly point release to the KDE Plasma 5.5 software stack.
Last week was the news about openSUSE making it easier to try out the very latest KDE packages. They've now upped that up a notch by making it easier to try out the KDE on Wayland experience using their Linux distribution.
To date most of the XDG-App talk for application sandboxing has been within the GNOME camp, but it's great to see a KDE developer is now looking at supporting this important technology outside of the GNOME space.
Shashlik is the KDE-aligned project for running Android apps on Linux outside of a traditional Android environment. A new version of this open-source project is now available.
The release schedule for the upcoming KDE Applications 16.04 bundle has been firmed up.
Not only was a new beta of digiKam 5.0 released today for ending out January, but KDevelop 5.0 Beta 2 has shipped as the first update to KDevelop 5 in several months.
The port of the digiKam digital camera software to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5 is nearing its stable release.
Following the news yesterday that KDE is incubating a new "KDE Neon" project, it's now been launched from FOSDEM this weekend in Brussels, Belgium.
Jonathan Riddell, the former Kubuntu release manager that was ousted from the project, will be announcing a "KDE Neon" incubator project this weekend at FOSDEM.
For KDE Ubuntu users wanting to run the latest upstream KDE software components without switching over to the 16.04 "Xenial Xerus" development repository, backports of the new packages have taken place for Kubuntu 15.10.
KDE Plasma 5.5.4 was released today as a bug-fix update to Plasma 5.5 as released in December. With this new point release there are fixes primarily for multi-screen users receiving notifications.
While Google's annual Summer of Code has been done for several months now, the KDE project published this weekend their final overview of all the progress that was made this past summer by these promising student developers.
The release of Krita 3.0 is coming closer with this weekend's release of a pre-alpha snapshot.
Version 2.0 of the KDE Partition Manager has been released.
While Plasma 5.5 was just released last month with many improvements and appears to be in great shape -- as outlined by Ken Vermette's big review of Plasma 5.5 -- even more great stuff is coming for Plasma 5.6.
KDE Frameworks 5.18.0 was released this weekend with the latest add-on components for complementing Qt 5.
While the KDE Akonadi PIM storage service has been criticized as being slow, among other complaints, it's continuing to be developed and improved upon in the Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5 world.
The KDE development team has announced their first Plasma 5 update of 2016.
As some more exciting news today in the KDE Wayland space besides the server-side decoration support is the release of the first KDE Plasma Wayland Live DVD/USB image.
KDE's Martin Gräßlin has announced a Christmas present to everyone looking forward to KDE on Wayland: support for server-side decorations.
KDE Applications 15.12 was officially released today as the last major KDE component update for 2015.
While many Linux distributions are in the process of stopping to support the KDE Plasma 4 desktop, FreeBSD isn't yet ready to make the move to the "KDE 5" packages.
Since last month Krita 2.9 Animation Edition has been in beta as the version of this KDE drawing program that supports animations and uses OpenGL 3 on the GPU for rendering. The second beta of it is now available.
Arch Linux developers have begun phasing out the KDE 4 desktop.
For those curious what KDE's Kdenlive non-linear video editor 15.12 update will bring when released next week, here's a look.
KDE developer Martin Gräßlin has laid out an idea for shifting games from running within desktop environments to instead their own Wayland server, or taking it even lower to having games interact directly with kernel mode-setting and input received via libinput.
KDE Plasma 5.5 has been officially released!
The second beta release of the major digiKam 5.0 overhaul is now ready for testing.
The KDE community has today announced the release candidate for KDE Applications 15.12.
New mock-ups of the KDE Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) for mobile devices are now available.
It's been a year and a half since the original KDE Frameworks 5 release and more KDE applications continue to be ported over to this modern framework alongside Qt5. The latest to be ported over is KTorrent.
Sebastian Kügler's latest KDE Wayland work has led him to discover that KScreen is now working on Wayland.
KDE developer Kai Uwe has written a blog post how he's working on a KDE Plasma setup to resemble Microsoft's Windows 8 "Metro" interface.
Following a successful Kickstarter campaign where the KDE-aligned Krita program raised €30,520, the first beta of Krita 2.9 Animation Edition is now available.
Just one day after the KDE Plasma 5.5 Beta is now the beta release of KDE Applications 15.12.
The beta was released today for KDE's Plasma 5.5 in preparation for the official update due out in December.
Bhushan Shah has shared the recent work he's been doing on KDE's KWin to have proper screenlocker integration on Wayland.
The KDE community has announced the release of Frameworks 5.16.0 as more than 60 add-on libraries to Qt.
KDE's Sebastian Kügler has been blogging about KDE Plasma on Wayland lately and some of the ongoing work. Today he shared some interesting performance numbers.
Plasma 5.5 is due out next month and with this update will come many new features.
KWin maintainer Martin Gräßlin has written a monthly status update concerning the state of KWin and KDE Plasma on Wayland.
For KDE users interested in the latest Wayland porting process, one of the big tasks currently being tackled is on Plasma's screen management handling.
While Jonathan Riddell stepped down as the Kubuntu release manager immediately following the Kubuntu 15.10 release and Kubuntu's post-15.10 future was portrayed as uncertain, the developers still with the project are focusing on making a great 16.04 "Xenial Xerus" release.
KDE e.V. yesterday released their last quarterly report to end out 2014, which offer a look at their finances for the past year. I've also taken the liberty to do a cursory comparison against the GNOME Foundation's finances for 2014.
The first beta of KDevelop 5.0 is now available. This huge update comes after more than a year of hard work and its code-base has been ported over to using Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.
Following Kubuntu release manager Jonathan Riddell leaving the project, the Ubuntu Communuity Council and Kubuntu have issued a joint statement.
With yesterday's Fedora 23: KDE vs. Xfce vs. GNOME vs. LXDE vs. MATE article that looked at the OpenGL graphics impact of different desktop environments on the new Fedora Linux release, what most people were talking about were the KDE results.
After Jonathan Riddell lost his leadership roles relating to Ubuntu, the future of Kubuntu became quite vague for after Kubuntu 15.10. Riddell has announced now that he's leaving Kubuntu.
Last week was the much-viewed blog post asking whether KDE 5 is stable enough for normal users. There were lots of responses in our forums and elsewhere. Now, KWin developer Martin Gräßlin has come out with a blog post with a rebuttal to some of the complaints regarding KDE 5.
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