KDE News Archives

KDE Frameworks 5.6.0 was released a few days ago and Plasma 5.2 will be out later this month. Meanwhile, the KDE Applications release is coming out in April.

The first beta release of KDE Plasma 5.2 is now available ahead of its planned official release later this month.

Ahead of KDE Plasma 5.2 due out later this month is the release of KDE Frameworks 5.6.0.

In late November was when the MATE and Cinnamon editions of Linux Mint 17.1 were released while today finally marks the official availability of the KDE spin of Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca.

The beta for the upcoming Plasma 5.2 desktop shell is being tagged on Thursday.

In time to manage your digital camera photos this Christmas and New Year, digiKam 4.6.0 was officially released today.

Since 2007 there has been KO GmbH as a support and software service company built around KOffice/Calligra in their belief that the software was "getting ready for the big time", but seven years later the situation is not so good and KO GmbH is no longer handling Krita.

KDE Applications 14.12 was just released today with new features and fixes to more than one hundred KDE applications.

SuperX is a relatively young Linux distribution that tries to ship a polished KDE desktop experience.

KDE's Plasma 5.1.2 monthly bug-fix release is now available.

KDE's Krita graphics editing / digital painting program is now in beta for its upcoming v2.9 series.

Version 5.5 of the KDE Frameworks is out in time for the holidays.

KWayland was introduced last month with the KDE Plasma 5.1 release but it lacked the server-side code. With the upcoming release of Plasma 5.2, that will change with the server component to KWayland having been merged.

Version 4.5 of KDE's digital camera management software, digiKam, has been released.

KDE Plasma 5.1.1 is the November update to the next-gen Plasma desktop stack.

The latest monthly update to the KDE Frameworks libraries are now available. KDE Frameworks 5.4 continues adding on new functionality and fixes to these KDE add-on components used to form the next-generation KDE desktop experience.

KDE's Sebastian Kügler has written a lengthy blog post about some of the items that developers will hopefully accomplish in 2015 for Plasma 5.

Published last month were the plans by KDE developers to create Dynamic Window Decorations (DWD) as a hybrid between client-side and server-side decorations. Here's more information on this concept for improving window decorations.

For those wondering about display/log-in managers for KDE's Plasma 5, KDM was dropped.

Kubuntu's Jonathan Riddell has shared that "Kubuntu Vivid", a.k.a. Ubuntu 15.05 for the Vivid Vervet, will use Plasma 5 by default.

Yesterday there were "what if" articles about KDE using client-side decorations and Windows 10 components. On a serious note today, the same KDE parties involved, have proposed Dynamic Window Decorations (DWD) as an alternative/hybrid to client-side and server-side decorations.

KDE contributor and graphics designer Ken Vermette has penned an interesting series of KDE "What if..." articles where he talks about (and has some visual mock-ups) about what KDE might look like with client-side decorations along and separately if KDE were to use Windows 10 design components.

Martin Gräßlin has shared that as of today the libinput support has been integrated into KDE's KWin Wayland code.

Eric Hameleers of the Slackware project isn't happy right now with how the modularized KDE Frameworks 5 with Plasma 5 development is going and for the time being will not be making "KDE5" packages for Slackware.

As the first update to Plasma 5, the KDE community has today officially announced the release of Plasma 5.1.

The third monthly point release to the KDE Frameworks 5 stack is now available.

The Maui Project that's been focusing on a Wayland desktop, their own Wayland compositor, and other tasks has decided to adopt the KDE Frameworks 5.

The beta for KDE Plasma 5's second release is now available ahead of its planned launch in October.

KDE Applications 14.12 has a release date.

On Friday the second update to KDE Frameworks 5 was released.

Developers behind the KDevelop integrated development environment have released their final major update prior to focusing their resources on KDevelop 5 that will be built atop Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.

With this year's Google Summer of Code over, Antonis Tsiapaliokas shared a status update concerning the state of KDE's Plasma Active being ported to KF5.

Martin Gräßlin shared that work on KDE's KWin window manager for supporting Wayland is back to happening at full-speed.

The KDE Applications stack has been updated for KDE 4.,14 while the Plasma Workspaces and Development Platform are transitioning to Plasma 5 and Frameworks 5.

KDE's Konqueror web-browser is in need of a new maintainer and for some love to port it to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.

KDE has shipped their first update to KDE Frameworks 5.

The first release candidate to the upcoming KDE 4.14 release has shipped.

While not incorporating Plasma 5 and KDE Frameworks 5 (coming later this year will be a 4/5 mix release), the third beta to KDE 4.14 is now available.

KDE's Sebastian Kügler has provided an update regarding KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5 support for Wayland as an alternative to running on an X11/X.Org Server.

Being done as part of a Google Summer of Code project this year is porting KDE's Plasma Active to their newer technology stack.

Just days after the KDE Frameworks 5 release, the KDE development community is scoring an on-time release of the new Plasma 5!

The first beta of KDE with new releases for the applications and development platform is now available for the 4.14 release cycle.

While KDE Frameworks 5 was just released this week, there's already new features and functionality sought after for future revisions of this modularized set of next-gen KDE libraries.

KDE 4.14 code is getting ready while being worked on for a December debut is a mix of KDE4 and KF5 application code.

As a follow-up to the story from earlier about KDE Frameworks 5 being due out, the official release of KF5 ended up taking place this afternoon.

KDE Frameworks 5 is due out tomorrow on 8 July.

Incorporating months of development time, KDevelop 4.7 is now in beta and comes "packed with new features, lots of bug fixes as well as many performance improvement" for this KDE integrated development environment.

The team behind the KDE Improv ARM development board that was supposed to run Mer and be a great open-source piece of hardware is no more. The developers have sent out an email to their backers that they've thrown in the towel.

For those interested in bringing their software (or helping in port open-source software) to KDE Frameworks 5 and Qt5, Aleix Pol has written a semi-detailed overview covering the general steps involved.

Using KMail and Gmail together? Some nice improvements are ahead.