Wednesday, May 20, 2026

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.

Monday, May 18, 2026

Join KDE's Amharic translation effort!

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! 

Thursday, May 14, 2026

KDE Gear 26.08 release schedule

 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!

Friday, May 08, 2026

Send your talks for Akademy NOW!

Akademy 2026 (the annual world summit for KDE) is happening in Graz. Austria, Saturday 19th – Thursday 24th September. 


First of all, if you're reading this and thinking, "Should i go to Akademy?" 


The answer is [most probably] YES! Akademy has something for everyone, be it coders, translators, promoters, designers, enthusiasts, etc.


Now, with this out of the way, go and register at https://akademy.kde.org/2026/register/

 

After you have registered, you think which interesting talks will we have on the weekend?

 

And you know who has something to say? *YOU*


Yes, *YOU*. I'm sure you've been working on something interesting, or have a great idea to share.


*YOU* may think that your idea is not that great or the things you work on are not interesting, but that's seldomly the case when someone explains me their "boring" thing they've been working on, i always think "Wow that's great".


Ok, so now that I've convinced you to send a talk proposal, when better than *TODAY* to send it?


Yes I know the Call for Participation is open until the 17 of May, but by sending it today you make sure you don't forget sending it later and also [more important for me] you help those of us in the Program Committee not to worry when the final date starts approaching and we don't have lots of talks yet because you all prefer sending talks on the very last minute.


So stop reading and send your talk today ;-)