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Qt for MCUs 2.12 LTS Released

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-mcus-2.12-lts-released

Published: December 15, 2025 06:00

Qt Group is pleased to announce the latest Long Term Supported release of Qt for MCUs 2.12 LTS. As communicated earlier this would be the final release of 2.x series, before we welcome 3.0 in 2026! This release concentrates more on performance and…

KDE PIM 2025 Sprint in Paris

https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2025/12/kde-pim-2025-sprint-in-paris.html

Published: December 14, 2025 18:42

This weekend, I attended the KDE PIM 2025 Sprint (AKA meeting) in Paris.First, what does PIM mean? Personal information management.Second, what does Personal information management mean? It's the software for managing email, calendar, address book,…

This Week in Plasma: Wayland screen mirroring and custom modes

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/12/13/this-week-in-plasma-wayland-screen-mirroring-and-custom-modes/

Published: December 13, 2025 00:01

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the team made significant progress on KWin’s Wayland screen support. Specifically, better mirroring and custom modes — both items on the “Known Significant Issues” page — have been implemented for…

Web Review, Week 2025-50

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2025/12/12/web-review-week-2025-50/

Published: December 12, 2025 17:32

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-50. Commoning open-source versus growth-hacking open-source Tags: tech, foss, licensing, community, commons Nice little post, indeed the license is not enough to base a decision on. You need to look at the…

KDE Ships Frameworks 6.21.0

https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.21.0/

Published: December 12, 2025 00:00

Friday, 12 December 2025 KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 6.21.0. This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner. New in this version Baloo…

KDE Ni! OS

https://cukic.co/2025/12/11/kde-ni-os

Published: December 11, 2025 21:00

At this year’s Akademy (the yearly conference and gathering of KDE), there were several talks about immutable Linux distributions born inside KDE. The first, and more covered in the news was KDE Linux, the distro with an officially sounding name. And the…

Setting up distributed compilations with sccache

http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/setting-up-distributed-compilations-with-sccache/

Published: December 11, 2025 11:20

I hate waiting for compilations. For day-to-day it may only be a minute or two, but once you start doing another task, the context switching distracts from what you were doing before and breaks everything up. Life is too short to be waiting for computers. …

Qt Creator 18.0.1 released

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-18.0.1-released

Published: December 11, 2025 11:06

We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 18.0.1! For remote build devices this release fixes a crash when auto-detecting tools, a temporary freeze during startup when a remote CMake tool is not accessible because the device is disconnected, and…

Krita 5.2.14 bugfix release!

https://krita.org/en/posts/2025/krita-5.2.14-released/

Published: December 11, 2025 00:00

Today we're releasing Krita 5.2.14. This is going to be the last bug fix release for 5.2. This release in particular contains many bug and usability fixes for Android. Touch-and-Hold Color Picker The color picker has been improved to make it look, feel and…

30 Reasons I ❤️ KDE Plasma

https://blog.broulik.de/2025/12/30-reasons-i-love-kde-plasma/

Published: December 9, 2025 08:00

KDE’s 30th birthday is coming up next year. For this year’s holiday season I therefore decided to compile a list of 30 reasons why I love KDE Plasma. It makes me so much more productive and work a lot more fun. While some of the items listed below aren’t…

There Is No “Commercial” Open Source – Only Open Source

https://toscalix.com/2025/12/09/there-is-no-commercial-open-source-only-open-source/

Published: December 9, 2025 07:00

Open source already includes commercial use by definition. The label “commercial open source” mixes copyright, licenses and business models, creates confusion, and helps disguise non‑open‑source licenses. If you care about the open source commons, avoid…

What I Learned, Loved and Lived at Akademy 2025

https://wiki.drquark.live/ComputerScience/Conferences/akademy2025

Published: December 8, 2025 10:00

After months of being completely consumed by my bachelor thesis and then giving myself some much needed rest, I finally have the time and headspace to sit down and write this post. And honestly, I have been waiting to write about this because Akademy 2025…

I didn't think I'd be at Akademy 2025

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/12/08/i-didnt-think-id-be-at-akademy-2025/

Published: December 8, 2025 00:30

The attentive reader will note that yes, Akademy happened in September already. Not the most prolific blogger. Not the most prolific contributor either. But I had already drafted much of this post two months ago, so let's get it out the door. I'll cut all…

KDE - End of Year Fundraiser 2025

https://cullmann.dev/posts/kde-end-of-year-fundraiser-2025/

Published: December 7, 2025 17:10

Like in the years before, KDE does an end of the year fundraiser campaign. Beside that Plasma will show some small popup to ask if you want to sponsor us with a donation. It looks like this year that is already going well, below the state as of today, 7th…

This Week in KDE Apps

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/12/07/this-week-in-kde-apps/

Published: December 7, 2025 13:10

A week full of fixesWelcome to a new issue of "This Week in KDE Apps"! Every week (or so) we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps. Our End of the Year fundraiser is still going on and we’ve raised more than €140,000 so far…

This Week in Plasma: Better hardware support

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/12/06/this-week-in-plasma-better-hardware-support/

Published: December 6, 2025 00:01

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week saw a bunch of user interface improvements and bug fixing, especially for the drawing tablets, printers, and monitors. Hardware is quirky! But of course that’s not all; check out the rest, too: …

Web Review, Week 2025-49

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2025/12/05/web-review-week-2025-49/

Published: December 5, 2025 11:59

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-49. Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow Tags: tech, valve, gaming, foss Don’t trust the title, it misrepresent the content in my opinion. Still the interview is interesting, it shows quite well all the…

KStars v3.8.0 is Released

http://knro.blogspot.com/2025/12/kstars-v380-is-released.html

Published: December 3, 2025 19:24

KStars v3.8.0 is released on 2025.12.03 for Windows & Linux. MacOS release is expected in one week due to build issue on KDE CI infrastructure.For Linux users, it's highly recommended to use the official KStars Flatpak hosted at Flathub. You can install…

Last Two Weeks in KDE Apps

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/12/02/last-two-weeks-in-kde-apps/

Published: December 2, 2025 21:11

Performance improvement in Krita, Trust and Safety in NeoChat and files actions in PhotosWelcome to a new issue of "This Week in KDE Apps"! Every week (or so) we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps. We are still doing our…

Boosting PySide with C++ models

https://www.basyskom.de/boosting-pyside-with-c-models/

Published: December 1, 2025 13:03

In a recent series of blog posts, we have demonstrated that Python and Qt fit together very well. Due to its accessibility, ease-of-use and third-party ecosystem, it is really straightforward to prototype and productize applications. Still, Python has one…

October/November in KDE Itinerary

https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2025/11/29/kde-itinerary-october-november-2025.html

Published: November 29, 2025 10:00

In the past two months since the last post, KDE Itinerary’s journey search UI got simplified, you got more control over deleting individual entries and altitude information is shown on the live status page when available, among many other things. New…

Kdenlive 25.12 RC Ready For Testing

https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/25.12-rc/

Published: November 29, 2025 06:00

The Kdenlive 25.12 Release Candidate is ready for testing. We made several changes to the user interface to improve your workflow, including a new widget docking system that makes rearranging panels much easier and more powerful, an enhanced audio display…

This Week in Plasma: lots of cool stuff

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/29/this-week-in-plasma-lots-of-cool-stuff/

Published: November 29, 2025 00:01

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week saw quite a lot of feature work and user interface polish for Plasma 6.6! Have a look: Notable New Features Plasma 6.6.0 There are now global actions for seeking forwards or backwards 5 or 30 seconds…

Web Review, Week 2025-48

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2025/11/28/web-review-week-2025-48/

Published: November 28, 2025 11:57

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-48. Open Source Power Tags: tech, foss, licensing, business, economics, politics, commons, criticism This debate around licensing, politics and making our FOSS efforts sustainable need to happen. It looks like…