KDE goes vroom 🚗! 2026 Mercedes-Benz CLA, the first car to run KWin, receives "Car of the Year" award. media.mercedes-benz.com/article/4cbc... KDE's Victoria Fischer explains how Mercedes uses Qt in its vehicles: youtu.be/pqJ-9SUPFwY Note that Victoria's bling is not official KDE merch... yet!

KDE Gear 25.12.1 is out! Includes tweaks and bugfixes for Dolphin, Kate, skladnik, and more. kde.org/announcement...

"This Week in KDE Apps" brings the news that Itinerary gets vector-based tiles that make maps much more detailed, NeoChat gets improvements across the board, and KDE gets a new whiteboard app called Drawy! blogs.kde.org/2026/01/04/t...

Thanks for participating in our fundraiser. You made it a great success! KDE will always be independent, user-funded and committed to the people. You can still donate by visiting: kde.org/donate/ Or help out by volunteering! Find out how at: community.kde.org/Get_Involved

Happy Holidays Everyone 🎄 !

Had a little friend arrive today, Keith! So glad I was able to donate and adopt this little guy! The Steam Deck introduced me to @kde.org and got me into Linux and thus closer to swapping over full time. This last year has definitely brought that goal closer, and I hope this next year completes it!

'Tis the season for giving 🎁, so KDE is releasing today KDE Gear 🎄 25.12. Loaded with incrementally improved apps and new features, KDE Gear 🎄 25.12 comes with new versions of Itinerary, Dolphin, Kate, and dozens of other apps and tools from KDE's software catalogue. kde.org/announcement...

Woohoo! Goal achieved! Our fundraiser has reached €100K well before the end of year deadline🎉. kde.org/fundraisers/... Thanks to all our generous contributors. You are truly the lifeblood of our community!

See you tonight at 21:00 CET at the #Kdenlive Café. We're looking forward to hear you feedback on the 25.12 RC and answering your questions. meet.kde.org/b/far-twm-ebr

The dragons may have all been adopted, but we give you the instructions on how to make your own! Grab the instructions from the "thank you" page you see after donating: kde.org/fundraisers/... or directly download them from here: kde.org/fundraisers/... And get knitting!

We're back with 5 more apps up for adoption at our fundraiser: - LabPlot: A powerful data analysis and visualization tool that accepts data in many formats. - Okular: View all kinds of documents. Okular supports annotations, digital signing, and more. kde.org/fundraisers/...

All dragons and kaijus have now been adopted! kde.org/fundraisers/... A big thank you to everybody for your generosity ❤️ ! The 10 dragons that will now enjoy a wonderful life with their new families.

Fundraiser news: Adopt a KDE dragon! 10 KDE dragons turned up on our doorstep today looking for families to adopt them. Contribute €100 or more to our fundraiser and one of these amigurumi cuties will go and live with you! kde.org/fundraisers/...

Plasma is going all Wayland After nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release (due early 2027) will be Wayland-exclusive. Read the FAQ below to find out what this means for you and the future of KDE: blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/g...

As the "Days of Much Spending" near, much of the Plasma-powered hardware has updated models and juicy offers for those of you in the market for new hardware. We have updated our hardware page with the latest models and links to the stores where you can find the best deals. kde.org/hardware/

🚀 New KDE SLIMBOOK VII Celebrating 8 years with @kde.org with our most powerful edition: 🔹 AMD Ryzen 9 365 AI 🔹 AMD Radeon™ 880M 🔹 16” WQXGA display 🔹 Upgradable to 128 GB DDR5 RAM 🔹 Up to 8 TB NVMe 4.0 storage 💰 Launch + Black Friday: €1,029 (-€70) slimbook.com/en/blog/news...

Slimbook and #KDE Celebrate 8th Anniversary with KDE Slimbook VII #Linux Laptop 9to5linux.com/slimbook-and... @kde.org

#Fundraiser news: 5 more apps added to the list of adoptable apps. * Spectacle is Plasma's inbuilt screen capture app. It can snap pics, record videos, edit them, and will son be able to extract text from captured images. kde.org/fundraisers/... #FreeSooftware #OpenSource

#Fundraiser news: We reached our first goal of €50,000 in a week and have now surpassed our first stretch goal of €75,000. Our final stretch goal is to reach €100,000 before the end of year. [Continued...]

Time to reveal the mystery! With its iconic Uhrturm, lively historic centre and irresistible sweet treats, Graz, Austria, is the perfect place for #Akademy2026. We will share the exact dates very soon. Stay tuned!

Besides the Steam Deck, you’ll soon be able to cut your videos with Kdenlive on the new Steam Frame and the GabeCube (a.k.a. Steam Machine)! All running on @kde.org Plasma of course! #valve #steam #steamOS #steamdeck #kde #videoediting #kdenlive #videoediting

Valve announces a desktop machine and VR goggles, both powered by KDE's Plasma desktop. store.steampowered.com/sale/steamma... store.steampowered.com/sale/steamfr...

Plasma 6.5 was released three weeks ago. Time to talk about what it delivers. * Better Waydroid integration * A faster lock screen * Halcyon and Folio, the two different interfaces you can choose from, improve blurs, navigation, and settings And much, much more. plasma-mobile.org/2025/11/10/p...

This week in #KDE Apps, we have some quality-of-life improvements in Kate, basic HDR support in Krita on Wayland and touch improvements in Photos. blogs.kde.org/2025/11/10/t...

We have nearly reached our first stretch goal! Will your donation push us into our fundraiser's next phase? kde.org/fundraisers/... And we have four more apps you can adopt: - Kdenlive is KDE's powerful, full-featured video editor for aficionados and professional moviemakers [Continued... >]

The last maintenance release of the #kdenlive 25.08 series is here! This update fixes issues with clip pasting in projects using different FPS, and subtitle styles. It also adds SVG file replacement and improves disk space checks when archiving. kdenlive.org/news/release... #videoediting #kde

Timothée and Aiswarya Giet, contributors to KDE's #educational suite #GCompris, visit #Kerala ( #India ) on holiday, and end up helping local officials improve their #FreeSoftware setup, adding two new languages to #GCompris and getting featured in the press. timotheegiet.com/blog/floss/g...

Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6, versioned 6.5.2.: kde.org/announcement... This update fixes blurs and screencasts, solves a crash on #FreeBSD, improves usability and accessibility, and more.

KDE's GSoC report is out! Read the full report to discover all the work mentees have carried out to improve, Krita, Kdenlive, Cantor, KDE Linux, Karton, and more. mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-11...

"Adopt an App" is back! You can now show your love for your favorite apps through our fundraiser. Pick an app, donate €50 or more, and tell us about your choice in the comments: kde.org/fundraisers/... You will appear as a supporter on the apps apps.kde.org page.

Enjoy being creeped out? Check out our two Halloween special fundraiser horror stories 🦇 "Night of the Living Bed" and "The Colour out of Waste". kde.org/fundraisers/... #fundraiser #donations #halloween #FreeSoftware

... And thus we have reached the season of witches, d[a]emons 😈 and zombie [procceses] 🧟! Checkout KDE's fundraiser as it enters its spookiest 👻 phase yet, and help us ward of tech hobgoblins and proprietary waifs that threaten your rights and freedoms. kde.org/fundraisers/... #fundraising

Awesome fundraiser news: €53,000 raised! Thanks to your generous support, we have reached our initial goal, and then surpassed it in a little over two weeks! We have set our next stretch goal and are now looking to raise €75,000 for the KDE Community. kde.org/fundraisers/... #fundraiser #donation

Plasma 6.5.1 has been released. A week on from the release of Plasma 6.5, this brings many corrections and improvements. kde.org/announcement...

"This Week in KDE Apps" brings the news that #Krita improves its brushes color interpolation, #Itinerary simplifies the journey selection feature, Calligra Plan gets ported to Qt6, and #Kdenlive turbo-charges its audio editing module. blogs.kde.org/2025/10/26/t... #TWiKA #apps #FreeSoftware

Donate €200 and get a signed copy of "Ada & Zangemann"! Matthias Kirschner, the author, will be signing and personalising the books exclusively for donors to our fundraiser. Help a great cause and get a great perk! kde.org/fundraisers/... Only five copies available!

Plasma 6.5 is out! Look forward to cool interface re-designs (rounded corners! Automatic smooth light-to-dark transitions!), features (smart KRunner searches! Pinned clipboard items!) and tons of usability and accessibility improvements: kde.org/announcement...

digiKam, KDE's photo 📷 and image manager, reaches version 8.8.0. New features: Importing and exporting tag hierarchies to text files; consistent color representation across macOS, Windows and Linux; enhancement tool to blur backgrounds; among more improvements. www.digikam.org/news/2025-10...

"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that the Application Dashboard gets a makeover, highlighted menu items get rounded corners, and the community celebrates 29 years of KDE kicking off its yearly #fundraiser push: blogs.kde.org/2025/10/18/t... kde.org/fundraisers/...

Our #fundraiser is off to a flying start, and the fun has just begun! Next week, we're releasing #Plasma6.5. One of our #birthday wishes is to continue delivering quality #freesoftware for the whole world to enjoy. Help us make it happen with your #donation: kde.org/fundraisers/...

Happy Birthday to us 🎂! KDE is 29! Today KDE is 29 years old and we are celebrating kicking off our yearly #fundraiser. Donate and make KDE's wishes come true. kde.org/fundraisers/...

"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that the second beta for Plasma 6.5 is ready for testing, the Emoji Selector understands your language, and we also get a glimpse into what is coming to Plasma 6.6: blogs.kde.org/2025/10/04/t... #Plasma6 #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #desktop #emojis

The LabPlot team completes its NGI Zero Core funded project! labplot.org/2025/10/04/a... Coming soon to #LabPlot: Python scripting, live data analysis, and a suite of 13 statistical hypothesis tests like t-Tests, ANOVA, Chi-Square and Mann-Whitney U Test. labplot.org/2025/10/04/a...

Testers: get Plasma 6.5 Beta 2 now! Plasma 6.5 will be officially released on October 21st, but today it enters its final testing phase. kde.org/announcement... If you want to help improve it, grab it and help us squash some bugs. WARNING: This is Beta software and not considered stable.

"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that Plasma improves accessibility for colorblind users, you can set up slideshow wallpapers easier, and enjoy a more modern Add Connection dialog. Plus tons of other stuff... blogs.kde.org/2025/09/27/t...

Whether you missed it or want to relive the excitement, you can now watch every moment from #Akademy2025. Talks, panels, keynotes, and more! Watch now on your favorite platform: PeerTube: tube.kockatoo.org/w/p/14aypZbV... YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?lis... #KDE #Akademy #FOSS #OpenSource

Symless becomes KDE's latest Supporter! ev.kde.org/2025/09/22/s... Symless makes the Synergy software that allows you to share your keybaord, mouse and clipboard across several machines, regardless of whether they are Windows, Linux or macOS. Symless is now generously helping fund KDE.

"This Week in Plasma" brings Plasma 6.5 beta to your desktop. May the bug-fix-a-palooza Begin! Stuff to look out for include an even smarter KRunner, easier access to System Tray actions, and a more informative launcher menu. blogs.kde.org/2025/09/20/t... #Plasma6 #opensource #linux #freesoftware

Visit our booth today and tomorrow at IndiaFOSS 2025! Decorate your computer with kool stickers, chat with KDE contributors, test new stuff and join our community! fossunited.org/indiafoss/2025 #FOSS #India #KDE #TechEvent

Today is Plasma 6.5 Beta test day (1)! KDE is Looking for daring testers willing to try out the upcoming version of Plasma. kde.org/announcement... WARNING: Plasma 6.5 is BETA software and not ready to be used in production. Testers only!