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Happy Birthday to us 🎂! KDE is 29!

Today KDE is 29 years old and we are celebrating kicking off our yearly #fundraiser. Donate and make KDE's wishes come true.

kde.org/fundraisers/...
Image "Konqi opens the magic box" by Arctaxia.
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This week in #KDE Apps, we have some quality-of-life improvements in Kate, basic HDR support in Krita on Wayland and touch improvements in Photos.

blogs.kde.org/2025/11/10/t...
List of branches in Kate with their latest activity Screenshot of easy effect which was recently ported to Kirigami NeoChat displaying shortcuts
November 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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We have nearly reached our first stretch goal! Will your donation push us into our fundraiser's next phase?

kde.org/fundraisers/...

And we have four more apps you can adopt:

- Kdenlive is KDE's powerful, full-featured video editor for aficionados and professional moviemakers

[Continued... >]
A screenshot of Kdenlive, showing previews of clips, the timeline and the color-correction tools.
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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The last maintenance release of the #kdenlive 25.08 series is here!

This update fixes issues with clip pasting in projects using different FPS, and subtitle styles. It also adds SVG file replacement and improves disk space checks when archiving.

kdenlive.org/news/release...

#videoediting #kde
November 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Timothée and Aiswarya Giet, contributors to KDE's #educational suite #GCompris, visit #Kerala ( #India ) on holiday, and end up helping local officials improve their #FreeSoftware setup, adding two new languages to #GCompris and getting featured in the press.

timotheegiet.com/blog/floss/g...
The Hindu newspaper cutting showing the headline: "French graphic artist and free software developer Timothée Giet visits KITE" Timothée talks to KITE officials. Timothée and Aiswarya pose with members of KITE (Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education) surrounding a monitor showing the words "Welcome Mr. Timothée Giet to KITE". Another newspaper cutting, but in Malayalam, a language unfortunately I can't read 😬, but there is a photo of Timothée looking on as kids work on computers in a school computer lab.
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6, versioned 6.5.2.:

kde.org/announcement...

This update fixes blurs and screencasts, solves a crash on #FreeBSD, improves usability and accessibility, and more.
KDE Plasma 6.5.2, Bugfix Release for November - KDE Community
Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6.
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November 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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KDE's GSoC report is out!

Read the full report to discover all the work mentees have carried out to improve, Krita, Kdenlive, Cantor, KDE Linux, Karton, and more.

mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-11...
KDE's ISO Image Writer let's you download images directly from the Internet and burn them in one fell swoop The GCompris educational suite of activities gets an editor so teachers can customise activities The mathematical frontend Cantor improves its support for Python The Karton virtual machine manager adds new features
November 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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"Adopt an App" is back! You can now show your love for your favorite apps through our fundraiser.

Pick an app, donate €50 or more, and tell us about your choice in the comments:

kde.org/fundraisers/...

You will appear as a supporter on the apps apps.kde.org page.
November 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Enjoy being creeped out? Check out our two Halloween special fundraiser horror stories 🦇 "Night of the Living Bed" and "The Colour out of Waste".

kde.org/fundraisers/...

#fundraiser #donations #halloween #FreeSoftware
In a dark dank ruinous bedroom, evil luminous eyes peer out from under the mattress... In a dead blackened wasteland, a dead tree stands as a haunting warning for unwitting travellers...
October 31, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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... And thus we have reached the season of witches, d[a]emons 😈 and zombie [procceses] 🧟!

Checkout KDE's fundraiser as it enters its spookiest 👻 phase yet, and help us ward of tech hobgoblins and proprietary waifs that threaten your rights and freedoms.

kde.org/fundraisers/...

#fundraising
Konqi cosplaying as Bernard Bernoulli and Konqi ghost art CC BY-SA leggy2fast
October 30, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Awesome fundraiser news: €53,000 raised!

Thanks to your generous support, we have reached our initial goal, and then surpassed it in a little over two weeks! We have set our next stretch goal and are now looking to raise €75,000 for the KDE Community.

kde.org/fundraisers/...

#fundraiser #donation
October 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Plasma 6.5.1 has been released.

A week on from the release of Plasma 6.5, this brings many corrections and improvements.

kde.org/announcement...
KDE Plasma 6.5.1, Bugfix Release for October - KDE Community
Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6.
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October 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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"This Week in KDE Apps" brings the news that #Krita improves its brushes color interpolation, #Itinerary simplifies the journey selection feature, Calligra Plan gets ported to Qt6, and #Kdenlive turbo-charges its audio editing module.

blogs.kde.org/2025/10/26/t...

#TWiKA #apps #FreeSoftware
October 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Donate €200 and get a signed copy of "Ada & Zangemann"!

Matthias Kirschner, the author, will be signing and personalising the books exclusively for donors to our fundraiser.

Help a great cause and get a great perk!

kde.org/fundraisers/...

Only five copies available!
Cover of the book "Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream", with the lanky tall Zangermann scowling down at the sassy Ada on her motorised skateboard Inside the book, we are treated to a view of the village where Zangermann and Ada live.
October 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Plasma 6.5 is out! Look forward to cool interface re-designs (rounded corners! Automatic smooth light-to-dark transitions!), features (smart KRunner searches! Pinned clipboard items!) and tons of usability and accessibility improvements:

kde.org/announcement...
October 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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digiKam, KDE's photo 📷 and image manager, reaches version 8.8.0.

New features: Importing and exporting tag hierarchies to text files; consistent color representation across macOS, Windows and Linux; enhancement tool to blur backgrounds; among more improvements.

www.digikam.org/news/2025-10...
eneral view of digiKam with previews of pictures across the top, a full size view of the selected image in the central pane, and the image's metadata in a pane on the right. A screenshot of the Tag Manager and the menu item that lets you export tags to a text file. Screenshot of the color management dialog showing a triangle of color. Screenshot of the new editor enhancement showing a selected element (a boar) in a picture.
October 20, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that the Application Dashboard gets a makeover, highlighted menu items get rounded corners, and the community celebrates 29 years of KDE kicking off its yearly #fundraiser push:

blogs.kde.org/2025/10/18/t...

kde.org/fundraisers/...
A screenshot of the Application Dashboard with a light gre background. Close up of a highlighted top menu item with rounded corners.
October 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Our #fundraiser is off to a flying start, and the fun has just begun! Next week, we're releasing #Plasma6.5.

One of our #birthday wishes is to continue delivering quality #freesoftware for the whole world to enjoy. Help us make it happen with your #donation:

kde.org/fundraisers/...
Konqi and Katie, the KDE dragons, are happily coding, creating the next generation of bleeding edge user-friendly free software. Konqi is sitting in a chair working on a laptop, while Katie is at a Keyboard + monitor integrated into a rack, also developing awesome new software.
October 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Happy Birthday to us 🎂! KDE is 29!

Today KDE is 29 years old and we are celebrating kicking off our yearly #fundraiser. Donate and make KDE's wishes come true.

kde.org/fundraisers/...
Image "Konqi opens the magic box" by Arctaxia.
October 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that the second beta for Plasma 6.5 is ready for testing, the Emoji Selector understands your language, and we also get a glimpse into what is coming to Plasma 6.6:

blogs.kde.org/2025/10/04/t...

#Plasma6 #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #desktop #emojis
A screen capture showing the Emoji Selector and someone typing int "cere"... for "cerezas" (cherries) into the search box. The Selector is already responding showing pictures of cherries, cherry blossom, a brain "cerebro", etc. A screenshot of a dialogue showing a map, allowing the user to select a geographical region for settings.
October 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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The LabPlot team completes its NGI Zero Core funded project!

labplot.org/2025/10/04/a...

Coming soon to #LabPlot: Python scripting, live data analysis, and a suite of 13 statistical hypothesis tests like t-Tests, ANOVA, Chi-Square and Mann-Whitney U Test.

labplot.org/2025/10/04/a...
Screenshot showing some of the new features implemented into LabPlot.
October 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Testers: get Plasma 6.5 Beta 2 now!

Plasma 6.5 will be officially released on October 21st, but today it enters its final testing phase.

kde.org/announcement...

If you want to help improve it, grab it and help us squash some bugs.

WARNING: This is Beta software and not considered stable.
Katie, KDE's pet dragon, is sitting in the corner of the Plasma desktop, correcting bugs on her laptop.
October 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that Plasma improves accessibility for colorblind users, you can set up slideshow wallpapers easier, and enjoy a more modern Add Connection dialog.

Plus tons of other stuff...

blogs.kde.org/2025/09/27/t...
A screenshot showing the improved page for colorblind users. The new modernized "Add Networks" dialogue. Same setting page for colorblind users as before, but showing how you can desaturate the colors.
September 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Whether you missed it or want to relive the excitement, you can now watch every moment from #Akademy2025. Talks, panels, keynotes, and more!

Watch now on your favorite platform:
PeerTube: tube.kockatoo.org/w/p/14aypZbV...
YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#KDE #Akademy #FOSS #OpenSource
2025
A PeerTube instance for the KDE Community, and like-minded folk and projects -- but you can upload non-KDE related stuff!
tube.kockatoo.org
September 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Symless becomes KDE's latest Supporter!

ev.kde.org/2025/09/22/s...

Symless makes the Synergy software that allows you to share your keybaord, mouse and clipboard across several machines, regardless of whether they are Windows, Linux or macOS.

Symless is now generously helping fund KDE.
Symless' logo
September 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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"This Week in Plasma" brings Plasma 6.5 beta to your desktop. May the bug-fix-a-palooza Begin!

Stuff to look out for include an even smarter KRunner, easier access to System Tray actions, and a more informative launcher menu.

blogs.kde.org/2025/09/20/t...

#Plasma6 #opensource #linux #freesoftware
A screenshot shows how KRunner recognizes number group separators (to indicate thousands, millions, etc.) and performs correct mathematical calculations despite them. A screenshot shows how right-clicking on the icon of a System tray widget brings up a menu that allows you to quickly access its actions. A screenshot shows KDE's app launcher menu showing a "No matches" message when it can't find what you are searching for (in this case "flugelhorns"). I mean, come on! You'll only find flugelhorns growing under dumbleberries in the early days of the month of Splinf, silly!
September 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM