Akademy-es 2026 is happening October 23 to 25 in Camping Arco Iris (Villaviciosa de Odón, Madrid)
For the 20th anniversary of the first Akademy-es, the organizers have chosen a campsite to do a slightly different event focusing on the community side of KDE.
There will still be of course talks, so remember you can submit one until this September 13th!
See you there!
The Qt folks have taken inspiration in our successful KDE Goals and are starting the Qt Project Goals.
The idea is to select goals that help focus on activities that we believe to be the most crucial for the near Qt future.
Since KDE uses Qt extensively some of you probably have good goals ideas for Qt.
Announce email: https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/interest/2026-July/040479.html
Wiki: https://wiki.qt.io/Category:Goals
Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the KDE Gear 26.08 releases to them
Next Dates:
This year Qt Contributor Summit will be held in Oslo during late October.
If you are a Qt contributor (developer, forum question answerer, promoter, etc) you should think of attending, it's always a great experience :)
More info in the announcement at https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-contributors-summit-2026-oslo-in-october
If you want to attend do not forget to register (the earlier the better for the organizing team) following the form at https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Contributors_Summit_2026
Thanks to The Qt Company for organizing this and also to for hosting!
Commit: https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt/qt5/-/commit/aa749695075684f0c8585ede19e361f9accb4287
Commercial release announcement: https://www.qt.io/blog/commercial-lts-qt-5.15.19-released
OpenSource release announcement: https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/announce/2026-May/000626.html
This was the last Qt5 release.
The KDE Qt5 Patchset Collection remains open in case something very very very very very
very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very
very critical is needed.
A contributor has recently started translating KDE to Amharic.
They are looking for people to help since translating KDE is a lot of work.
Please join the kde-l10n-am mailing list and introduce yourself if you are interested in helping!
This is the release schedule the release team agreed on
https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_26.08_Schedule
Dependency freeze is in around 7 weeks (July 2) and feature freeze two weeks
after that. Get your stuff ready!
