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Highlights from 2025

https://pointieststick.com/2025/12/28/highlights-from-2025/

Published: December 28, 2025 18:13

It’s been a few years since I did an end-of-year “highlights in KDE” post, but hopefully better late than never! 2025 was a big year for KDE — bigger than me or any of us individually. My focus these days tends to be on Plasma, so that’s mostly what I’ll…

Holiday Hacking 2025

https://blog.broulik.de/2025/12/holiday-hacking-2025/

Published: December 28, 2025 16:09

Like every year I took a couple of days off at the end of the year to wind down and spent some quality time with the family. Time just flies and it feels like the year had only just begun. I have also taken the time to revisit some of my work-in-progress…

8 years of “This Week in Plasma”

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/12/28/8-years-of-this-week-in-plasma/

Published: December 28, 2025 06:15

Happy holidays to all in the KDE universe who celebrate them! As 2025 draws to a close, I thought it would be a good time to take stock. “This Week in Plasma” began 8 years ago as a development report for KDE’s Usability & Productivity goal, which had just…

A font with built-in TeX syntax highlighting

https://rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/a-font-with-built-in-tex-syntax-highlighting/

Published: December 27, 2025 07:47

At the TUG2025 conference, I presented a talk about the development of a new colour font, which does automatic syntax highlighting for TeX documents/snippets. The idea was floated by CVR, and was inspired by a prior-art of HTML/CSS syntax highlighting font…

Web Review, Week 2025-52

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2025/12/26/web-review-week-2025-52/

Published: December 26, 2025 19:27

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2025-52. This is the last one of the year, hope you all had a merry xmas. Ethics Tags: tech, ethics Indeed I wish our profession would have a strong and binding set of ethics like doctors or lawyers. That wouldn’t…

Community Analysis: AGL BI Journey

https://toscalix.com/2025/12/23/community-analysis-agl-bi-journey/

Published: December 23, 2025 06:00

This article focuses on the community analysis of the Automotive Grade Linux Business Intelligence study. It explains which data was analyzed, why individuals were excluded, and how understanding teams and organizations helps correctly interpret metrics…

Haruna 1.7

https://haruna.kde.org/blog/2025-12-21-haruna-1.7/

Published: December 22, 2025 20:00

Haruna version 1.7.0 is released. playlist advanced sorting and grouping Windows version: haruna-1.7.0-windows-gcc-x86_64.exe haruna-1.7.0-windows-gcc-x86_64.7z Availability of other package formats depends on your distro and the people who package…

Qt for MCUs 2.8.4 is released

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-mcus-2.8.4-released

Published: December 22, 2025 11:55

Qt for MCUs 2.8.4 LTS has been released and is available for download. It's the last patch release in the MCU 2.8 Long Term Support series. This patch release provides bug fixes and other improvements while maintaining source compatibility with Qt for MCUs…

Happy Holidays 2025!

https://akselmo.dev/posts/happy-holidays/

Published: December 21, 2025 19:03

Happy holidays everyone. Consider this as your holiday card from me. I will be taking short break from KDE stuff for now, though I will be around. (I tagged KDE so that readers of planet have to see these, mwahaha.) And happy new year 2026, let's hope it…

Why doesn’t KMyMoney provide (old) binary versions

https://blog.bembel.net/2025/12/why-doesnt-kmymoney-provide-old-binary-versions/

Published: December 20, 2025 10:35

Lately, this question came up a few times on different channels and I felt to provide some background why things are the way they are. The question arose most likely, because the latest KMyMoney development snapshot downloaded had a problem and users using…

KDE PIM Sprint 2025 in Paris

https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2025/12/20/kde-pim-sprint-december-2025.html

Published: December 20, 2025 10:00

Last weekend I attended the annual(ish) KDE Personal Information Management (PIM) sprint in Paris, to discuss and work on KDE’s infrastructure and applications for dealing with email, calendars and address books. And since this involved travelling, there…

This Week in Plasma: ambient light sensor support

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/12/20/this-week-in-plasma-ambient-light-sensor-support/

Published: December 20, 2025 07:01

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week many KDE contributors wound down their activities in preparation for some well-deserved rest. But that didn’t stop the merging of some impactful work anyway! This will be 2025’s year’s last This Week…