KDE Gear 26.12 release schedule

This is the release schedule the release team agreed on

  https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_26.12_Schedule

Dependency freeze is in less than 3 weeks (November 5) and feature freeze one 
week after that. Get your stuff ready!

Help testing future Okular (if you use PDF files with embedded Audio or Video)

We just merged a code change in Okular master to use QtMultimedia instead of Phonon to play multimedia files.

 

This will be released in December. 

 

We did as much testing as we could but given the complexity of this feature it would be nice if users could test it as much as possible.

 

If you have PDF files with video or audio files it would be great if you could install this flatpak file https://invent.kde.org/graphics/okular/-/jobs/5052739/artifacts/raw/okular.flatpak (may be out of date in a few days, write a comment if you want to test and the file is no longer available).

 

You can install it with  flatpak --user install once downloaded (it should not conflict with neither your distribution installed Okular nor if you have a stable Okular flatpak installed) 

Then you can run it with  flatpak run --branch=master org.kde.okular

 

Once you do that do as much testing as you can with PDF files with embedded audio/video. If you find bugs (specially if they are regressions against the current version) please report the issues in bugs.kde.org 

Akademy-es 2026 ... in a campsite!

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!  

Qt Project Goals - call for submissions now open

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

KDE Gear 26.08 branches created

Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the KDE Gear 26.08 releases to them

Next Dates:  

•   July 16, 2026, 23:59 UTC: 26.08 Freeze and Beta (26.07.80) tarball creation
•   July 17 2026: 26.08 Beta (26.07.80) release
•   July 30, 2026, 23:59 UTC: 26.08 RC (26.07.90) tarball creation
•   July 31, 2026: 26.08 RC (26.07.90) Release
•   August 13, 2026, 23:59 UTC: 26.08 tarball creation
•   August 14, 2026: 26.08 packages released to packagers
•   August 20, 2026: 26.08 Release

https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_26.08_Schedule
 

Qt Contributors Summit 2026: Oslo - 27th to 30th October!

 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 reMarkable for hosting!

The KDE Qt5 Patch Collection has been rebased on top of Qt 5.15.19

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.