Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!

In the past two months since the previous report we added a new welcome screen, warnings about some potentially expensive mistakes and support for more data ...

Hi all! Just finished up the last bit of work for my Season of KDE task of automating data collection for the KDE promotional team.
Since the midterm blogpost I've been assigned no new tasks. That means my final deliverables are a follower/post count scraping…

Design, Graphics, and Code

Today we're releasing Krita 5.3.1 and 6.0.1.
This release mainly fixes an issue for Windows users: some applications, like Microsoft Windows Powertoys' Fancy Zones or the Google Drive plugin cause problems for Krita. These applications query all running applications…

pURL and SWHID are both software identifiers with similarities, but they are fundamentally different. pURL is assigned by a registry. SWHID is derived from the code itself. They are not competitors…

Welcome to the March 2026 edition of development news for KDE Linux, KDE’s up-and-coming general-purpose operating system. I’m going to try to publish one of these posts every month, so…

Explore the key CMake updates in Qt Creator 19, including enhanced dependency management, improved build tools, and new features for a streamlined development experience.

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Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!

Last week I attended this year’s FOSSGIS-Konferenz in Göttingen, Germany, focusing on public transport and indoor navigation topics.

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For the next digiKam releases, digiKam team needs photographs for digiKam and Showfoto splash-screens.

The last post regarding work on fixing Oxygen was a month and a half ago. With all that’s happened in between, it feels like so much more time has actually passed. With this post, I’d l…

Falkon Connect: The Roadmap Ahead (WebXDC, XSLT, and Daily Puzzles) In my previous post, I broke down the architecture of building Falkon Connect from scratch—turning the KDE Falkon browser into a decentralized XMPP client.

Explore how SWHID is applied in real-world scenarios to improve SBOMs, support Cyber Resilience Act compliance, and enable software traceability. Discover practical use cases across telecom and aut…

The latest Torizon Qt integration removes any friction to start and deploy your Qt project. A single unified template now supports both Qt Open Source and Qt Enterprise.

Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6.