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KDE Ni! OS – Plasma Login Manager teaser

https://cukic.co/2026/01/13/kde-ni-os-plasma-login-manager

Published: January 13, 2026 18:35

KDE Ni! OS is a custom flavour (configuration, not a separate distribution) of NixOS that showcases KDE software. It builds on NixOS with the aim to reimplement the same features other popular immutable distributions have, while providing a first-class KDE…

KDE Plasma 6.5.5, Bugfix Release for January

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.5.5/

Published: January 13, 2026 00:00

Tuesday, 13 January 2026. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6, versioned 6.5.5. Plasma 6.5 was released in October 2025 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience. This release adds a month’s worth of…

KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta Release

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.5.90/

Published: January 13, 2026 00:00

Here are the new modules available in the Plasma 6.6 beta: plasma-login-manager plasma-keyboard plasma-setup Some important features and changes included in 6.6 beta are highlighted on KDE community wiki page. View full changelog

2025 Musically Wrapped

https://euroquis.nl/blabla/2026/01/13/wrapped-2025.html

Published: January 12, 2026 23:00

I have a paper calendar. It hangs on the wall. I draw things on it, like 🎜 Kladderadatch, to remind me where to go of an evening (or this afternoon). At the end of the year, with that calendar and my ticket history from Doornroosje (a music podium in…

Game Jam for Free Software Desktop Games

https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2026/01/game-jam-for-free-software-desktop-games.html

Published: January 11, 2026 11:46

The folks at GNU/Linux València are organizing a Game Jam focused on Free Software Desktop Games.  You can see the details here: https://itch.io/jam/lliurejam  Maybe we could take the opportunity to try to revive a bit the very very very dormant KDE Games…

Updated Tellico Handbook

https://tellico-project.org/updated-tellico-handbook/

Published: January 10, 2026 22:50

Online publication of the documentation for many of KDE applications has been updated to docs.kde.org. Tellico’s current handbook can be found there.

KJournald Update January 2026

https://cordlandwehr.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/kjournald-update-january-2026/

Published: January 10, 2026 18:19

A surprising long time passed since my last status update about KJournald. So it’s time again to shed some light on the recent changes. KJournald is a KDE project that provides graphical browsing UI for journald log databases. For those who never heard the…

I love KDE too much to retire! Snap beta releases trickling in. Stay tuned.

https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/i-love-kde-too-much-to-retire-snap-beta-releases-trickling-in-stay-tuned/

Published: January 10, 2026 16:54

A short but sweet note to say I am coming out of my short retirement to help with snaps again. My time is extremely limited, however we are working hard on getting snaps on CI and I have some newer snaps in –beta trickling in for testing. You must install…

This Week in Plasma: car of the year edition

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/01/10/this-week-in-plasma-car-of-the-year-edition/

Published: January 10, 2026 00:01

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! Let’s thank Lubos Krystynek, Rafal Krawczyk, and John Veness for stepping up to help with this week’s issue. Thanks, guys! This week, the first car running KWin won the “Car of the Year” award. Yes, really —…

Web Review, Week 2026-02

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/01/09/web-review-week-2026-02/

Published: January 9, 2026 18:32

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-02. How Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem Tags: tech, foss, community, ecosystem, github Github is definitely entrenched by now. Students and beginners hardly look for projects outside of…

QtNat – Open you port with Qt

http://renaudguezennec.eu/index.php/2026/01/09/qtnat-open-you-port-with-qt/

Published: January 9, 2026 17:38

QtNat is a lightweight C++ library built with Qt 6 that simplifies NAT port mapping using UPnP (Universal Plug and Play). It is designed to help developers easily expose local services to external networks without requiring manual router configuration for…

KDE Ships Frameworks 6.22.0

https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.22.0/

Published: January 9, 2026 00:00

Friday, 9 January 2026 KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 6.22.0. 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…

Events in December 2025

https://carlschwan.eu/2026/01/08/events-in-december-2025/

Published: January 8, 2026 22:00

December was quite an eventful month for me, with over 4,000 km travelled by train. This was in part caused by the holidays and visiting family, but also by the KDE PIM sprint in Paris and the 39th Chaos Communication Congress. KDE PIM sprint in Paris From…

KDE Gear 25.12.1

https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.12.1/

Published: January 8, 2026 00:00

Over 180 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear. Today they all get new bugfix source releases with updated translations, including: dolphin: Allow migration for users…