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Week 12 + Week 13: Everything merged, Final GSoC blog
https://ojasmaheshwari.github.io/b/2026/week-12-week-13-everything-merged-final-gsoc-blog
Published: September 3, 2026 20:15
Hello everyone! My Google Summer of Code project Font Subsetting in Poppler has technically been completed with this MR getting merged. Poppler now supports Font Subsetting and a new release is going to be out soon. Although the work has been rigorously…
SPDX Cryptographic Algorithm List: summer 2026 update
https://toscalix.com/2026/09/03/spdx-cryptographic-algorithm-list-summer-2026-update/
Published: September 3, 2026 11:34
This summer the SPDX Cryptography Group agreed on how to describe algorithm parameters, tightened its contribution and release processes, and opened the discussion on post-quantum cryptography. Where this report comes from This is an update of the work we…
Wayland pain points – Dwell Clicker
https://saueseb.wordpress.com/2026/09/02/wayland-pain-points-dwell-clicker/
Published: September 2, 2026 15:31
One known significant issue when going from X11 to Wayland was our KMouseTool being X11 only. KMouseTool implements a Dwell Clicker that that is an assistive technology designed for individuals who find traditional mouse clicking difficult, painful, or…
Qt AI Assistant Retires As We Invest in Agentic Development Tools
https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-ai-assistant-retires-as-we-invest-in-agentic-development-tools
Published: September 1, 2026 06:55
The Way Developers Use AI Has Changed When Qt AI Assistant was introduced, the state of the art in AI-powered software development was the single-turn prompt: select a block of code, ask for a test case, an explanation, or some boilerplate QML, and review…
This Month in KDE Linux: August 2026
https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/31/this-month-in-kde-linux-august-2026/
Published: August 31, 2026 21:15
Welcome to this edition of This Month in KDE Linux, dedicated to KDE’s next-generation operating system. Here’s how KDE Linux evolved in August: Data safety A major data safety project reached a state of usability! First, Hadi Chokr transformed users’ home…
Kdenlive 26.08.0 released
https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/26.08.0/
Published: August 31, 2026 18:05
We are happy to announce the summer release of Kdenlive 26.08. Continuing the efforts from the last version, the core team has been focusing mostly on stability - fixing bugs and crashes while also doing lot's under the hood improvements. This release…
Qt Extension 1.16.0 for VS Code Released
https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-extension-1.16.0-for-vs-code-released
Published: August 31, 2026 14:24
We're excited to announce the release of version 1.16.0 of the Qt Extension for Visual Studio Code! This release brings: QML Profiler and Trace Viewer to profile your QML applications directly from VS Code A new Welcome page with browsers for Qt examples…
KDE Connect redesign is ready for testing
https://tintotint.eu/programming/kde-connect2/
Published: August 30, 2026 00:00
And I think it’s pretty nice
This Week in Plasma: QtWidgets Apps Join the Union
https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/28/this-week-in-plasma-qtwidgets-apps-join-the-union/
Published: August 28, 2026 21:14
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week saw the first stirrings of support for QtWidgets-based apps in KDE’s new Union theming system, which is a very exciting milestone. But that’s not all! This week is also packed with UI improvements,…
Initial Release of Union QtWidgets
https://akselmo.dev/posts/union-qtwidgets/
Published: August 28, 2026 18:34
It has begun. After couple months of work, I have now finally managed to cobble together the QtWidgets side of Union. This means that your QtWidgets apps, such as Dolphin, KMail, Kate etc. can now use the Union CSS files as the source of their styling.…
Tickets in Transitous
https://jbb.ghsq.de/kde/2026/08/27/GTFS-Ticketing.html
Published: August 27, 2026 21:35
As you might already know, Transitous is a project that runs a public transport routing service that aims to work wold-wide. To make Transitous results more useful, there needs to be a simple way to book the individual sections of a multi-modal route. It…
Din ordkvot denna månad är slut
https://englich.wordpress.com/2026/08/27/din-ordkvot-denna-manad-ar-slut/
Published: August 27, 2026 08:55
Svenska språket uppfinns. “Hej! Här kommer en uppdatering av våra villkor! Du kan nu använda upp till två tusen ord i månaden med vår gratistjänst, sedan måste du uppgradera till Basic Plan för 129 kr/månaden. Ska du använda svenskan i jobbet kostar det…
Dolphin 26.08 and KIO, part two: what got faster and smaller
https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/27/dolphin-26.08-and-kio-part-two-what-got-faster-and-smaller/
Published: August 27, 2026 00:00
This is the second half of what changed in Dolphin 26.08. The first half is what you can see: the features, the behaviour changes, the bugs. This one is what you can measure. Dolphin does very little file work itself. It asks KIO, so the numbers below are…
Re-Introducing KQuickImageEditor: New Features and Design Philosophy
Published: August 26, 2026 19:06
KQuickImageEditor is an image editing library for Qt Quick applications. It was created by fellow KDE developer Carl Schwan. It can crop/mirror/resize/rotate images, it has undo/redo history, and it comes with QML components that make it easy to set up a…
Week 10 + Week 11: Subsetting for freetext annotations is merged
Published: August 26, 2026 09:39
Hello fellow KDE contributors and users! The Font Subsetting for FreeText annotations merge request got merged today and this means Poppler now supports font subsetting for FreeText annotations. You can try it out by using Poppler from the master branch or…
Dolphin 26.08, and KIO perf improvements
https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/26/dolphin-26.08-and-kio-perf-improvements/
Published: August 26, 2026 00:00
Dolphin 26.08 has been released. Here is more of what changed in it, and in the KIO framework underneath it. The version of KIO that shipped alongside Dolphin 26.04 was 6.25. The one that ships alongside 26.08 is 6.29, four framework releases and 294…
What’s Happening In KDE Remote Desktop – Improved Unattended Mode and More
Published: August 25, 2026 06:29
Remote desktop has been one of the weaker areas of the transition to Wayland. There's a lot of software written exclusively for X that has a direct Wayland equivalent. Within KDE, we already have a Plasma-native RDP and VNC solution for Wayland, but we're…
Sovereign Tech Fellowship for Freedesktop Tasks
https://blog.tenstral.net/2026/08/sovereign-tech-fellowship-for-freedesktop-tasks.html
Published: August 24, 2026 21:00
In 2025 I was honored to be selected for the first cohort of Sovereign Tech Fellows, a program by Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency to improve the resilience of the open source ecosystem by supporting maintainers directly (complementing their existing…
Tellico 4.2.2 Released
https://tellico-project.org/tellico-4-2-2-released/
Published: August 22, 2026 01:29
Tellico 4.2.2 is available, with some improvements and bug fixes. Improvements: Updated to automatically add default file extension (.tc) to save files with no extension. Removed gradient image files for entry templates, in favor of data URLs. Added…
This Week in Plasma: UI and Performance Improvements
https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/22/this-week-in-plasma-ui-and-performance-improvements/
Published: August 22, 2026 00:00
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week was heavy on improvements for both the user interface and also performance, helping Plasma 6.8 to shape up quite nicely: Notable new features Plasma 6.8 When using the system in a language other…
KDE Linux experiences
https://akselmo.dev/posts/kde-linux-experiences/
Published: August 21, 2026 15:49
I daily drove KDE Linux for almost a year and I liked it, but I'm also switching back to Fedora KDE. Here's my ramblings about it all. KDE Linux is the hot new Linux distro from KDE themselves. At the moment it uses Arch Linux as it's base but with heavy…
Final week: Wrapping Up My GSoC Journey
https://roshani-gsoc.bearblog.dev/final-week-wrapping-up-my-gsoc-journey/
Published: August 20, 2026 09:52
The last two weeks were spent polishing the mobile-friendly selection mode based on Marco Martin's review feedback, wrapping up the multi-select work that's been the focus since weeks 9 and 10. Selection Mode Refinements (!46)The first version of Selection…
OLE-Dispatch When Doing MFC/Qt Migration
https://www.kdab.com/ole-dispatch-when-doing-mfcqt-migration/
Published: August 20, 2026 08:32
OLE-Dispatch When Doing MFC/Qt MigrationMost people who have ever ported an application from MFC to Qt know that at some point they have to integrate a QWidget into an MFC part of the user interface. Or the other way around, but that's a different story.…
KDE Gear ⚙️ 26.08
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/26.08.0/
Published: August 20, 2026 00:00
A script element has been removed to ensure Planet works properly. Please find it in the original post. Okular Okular is KDE’s flagship document reader most commonly used for reading, signing, and annotating PDFs while also being an excellent eBook…