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This Week in Plasma: New Weather Widget and On-Screen Keyboard

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/10/17/this-week-in-plasma-new-weather-widget-and-on-screen-keyboard/

Published: October 17, 2026 00:00

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we released Plasma 6.8, but we didn’t stop there: work on Plasma 6.9 has been coming in hot and heavy, and there’s a lot to talk about! So let’s jump right in: Notable new features Plasma 6.9 The…

KDE Gear 26.12 release schedule

https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2026/10/kde-gear-2612-release-schedule.html

Published: October 16, 2026 22:15

This is the release schedule the release team agreed on  https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_26.12_ScheduleDependency freeze is in less than 3 weeks (November 5) and feature freeze one week after that. Get your stuff ready!

Web Review, Week 2026-42

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/10/16/web-review-week-2026-42/

Published: October 16, 2026 11:09

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-42. The importance of communities around software Tags: tech, foss, licensing, community, ethics, governance Good reminder that licensing is only one signal. The governance is what matters for Free Software…

Help us test Kdenlive

https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/october-testing/

Published: October 16, 2026 08:30

Kdenlive development for the 26.12 release is very active, and we would like to request some feedback regarding two of the upcoming features. Title Editor One of the feature is related to the title editor. Our title editor has always been functional but…

KDE Documentary

https://vizZzion.org/blog/2026/10/kde-documentary/

Published: October 15, 2026 14:32

For more than 20 years, I’ve been part of the KDE community, one of the largest and most impactful Free and Open Source software community world-wide. Yesterday, KDE turned 30 and this went accompanied with the premiere of the KDE documentary.As former…

Tagoross releases its first open content package on AI openness

https://toscalix.com/2026/10/15/tagoross-releases-its-first-open-content-package-on-ai-openness/

Published: October 15, 2026 11:00

Tagoross published its first open content package, one day after KDE turned thirty. Two good days in a row Yesterday was a great day for me. KDE turned thirty years old. The KDE documentary, published to celebrate the anniversary, was delightful. Today is…

Qt Creator 21 Beta2 released

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-21-beta2-released

Published: October 15, 2026 08:49

We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 21 Beta2.

Thirty Years of KDE

https://blog.cornelius-schumacher.de/2026/10/thirty-years-of-kde.html

Published: October 14, 2026 12:28

When I joined KDE in 1999 I already thought of it as a mature project. I used the KDE desktop every day, and I was delighted with what it could do and how it felt. I had no idea that this would be one of the most impactful decisions of my life, or where it…

Some room to play

https://nuno-icons.com/2026/10/14/some-room-to-play/

Published: October 14, 2026 09:34

So... a bit of news. KDAB have just published a video featuring me talking about design, QML, and something I keep coming back to: what happens when the tools we use to make software become more capable, while the interfaces we build with them seem to…

Plasma 6.8

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.8.0/

Published: October 14, 2026 00:00

Celebrating thirty years of KDE Plasma 6.8 is released on a very special day: KDE’s 30th birthday. Today we celebrate three decades of the KDE community providing the world’s greatest free and open-source software. Plasma 6.8 is no exception, offering…

Kdenlive 26.08.2 released

https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/26.08.2/

Published: October 13, 2026 18:45

The second maintenance release of the 26.08 series is out with the usual batch of stability fixes and workflow improvements. Highlights include improved project handling and ability to set the frame count to start at 1 in the Dynamic Text filter which is…

ICFK 2026: Calligraphy Festival

https://rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com/2026/10/12/icfk-2026-calligraphy-festival/

Published: October 12, 2026 11:58

This year’s edition of International Calligraphy Festival Keralam was yet another great experience, consisting of workshops, demonstrations and talks surrounding calligraphy & typography, much like the last time. Eminent calligraphers of about a dozen…

This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty: Q3 2026

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/10/11/this-quarter-in-kde-digital-sovereignty-q3-2026/

Published: October 11, 2026 00:01

Welcome to the latest edition of This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty! This blog series covers the work done throughout KDE’s software stack that’s funded by the investment KDE received earlier this year from Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency.…

QML Quick Editor: my QtCreator extension has been integrated

http://renaudguezennec.eu/posts/release_qmlsample/

Published: October 10, 2026 13:00

Great news for the community! The integration of QML Quick Editor into Qt Creator is now 100% complete. The plugin is officially available, bringing native workflow integration directly to your development environment. Give it a try, and let us know what…

This Week in Plasma: Finishing Touches on 6.8

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/10/10/this-week-in-plasma-finishing-touches-on-6.8/

Published: October 10, 2026 00:00

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week, Plasma contributors put the finishing touches on Plasma 6.8, which is due to be released early next week, on October 14th. A lot of the work was behind the scenes, and that’s why this week’s update…

Web Review, Week 2026-41

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/10/09/web-review-week-2026-41/

Published: October 9, 2026 11:31

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-41. Wherein the slopbros won’t stop Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, web, commons, ethics This is a rant yes but well deserved. Those companies selling giant LLMs are just DDoSing everyone……

Akademy 2026

https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/akademy-26/

Published: October 9, 2026 08:00

In September, I traveled to Graz, Austria, to attend KDE's annual conference - Akademy, which also marked KDE's 30th birthday this year. Unfortunately I fell sick and was not able to celebrate as much as I would have liked. I wasn't able to attend the…