KDE is turning 28! 🎉 Want to join the global celebration? Host a meetup in your city and connect with the community.

Find out how: community.kde.org/28th_birthda.

Let’s celebrate together!


28th birthday - KDE Community Wiki
Students in Nepal Celebrating Plasma Release
Students in China Celebrating Plasma Release

Plasma 6.2 is out — Welcome to the "Let's get Creative🖌️" edition!

Check out the inbuilt tablet configuration, improved HDR and color management, enhanced , cool visual design upgrades, granular power controls, and much more.

kde.org/announcements/plasma/6

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An artist and konqi painting the new desktop onto a canvas
Full screenshot of Plasma 6.2 with several utilities open: System Settings, Discover, and System Monitor
The color blind configuration page in System Settings
The power management widget showing power configuration

KDE Neon has been rebased on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS! Find out more about the changes and upgrades:
blog.neon.kde.org/2024/10/10/k

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KDE's Plasma desktop showing upgrade of KDE Neon 6.1 to version Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

"This Week in KDE Apps" is out!

In this week's episode we enhanced the accessibility of a bunch of our most popular apps; released new versions of KleverNotes, KPhotoAlbum; and improved the performance and usability of KDE Connect, Kate, Konqueror, @tokodon and more.

blogs.kde.org/2024/10/13/this-

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Happy Birthday to us 🎂🎉! KDE is 28 years old today!

Join us and hold a KDE birthday party in your city. Fill in the wiki, meet up with your friends and celebrate 28 years of collaboration, free software and altruism!

community.kde.org/28th_birthda

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28th birthday - KDE Community Wiki
Konqi is excited and happy, as he has a birthday cake with a candle that says "28"! Happy birthday Konqi!

Want KDE to be around another #28, 50, 100 years? You can make it happen!

KDE is an open and accepting community and we welcome everybody willing to lend a hand. You can contribute too! Get started by visiting this:

community.kde.org/Get_Involved

Note we also have 2 community dedicated to helping everybody become an active contributor:

kde.org/goals/

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Get Involved - KDE Community Wiki
KDE''s Goals
A bunch of dragons, all different colors and displaying different skills: painting, writing, coding, documenting...

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The "Streamlined Application Development Experience" goal aims to lower the barrier for those who aspire to develop KDE software:

invent.kde.org/teams/goals/str

The "KDE Needs You! 🫵" goal wants to increase the number of people who become core contributors to a level that will ensure KDE becomes sustainable as it grows:

invent.kde.org/teams/goals/con

These goals are aimed at you! Find out what skills you can help with, check who you should talk to, and become an active KDE contributor today!

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Development · Boards · Teams / KDE Goals / Streamlined Application Development Experience · GitLab
Development · Boards · Teams / KDE Goals / KDE Needs You · GitLab
"KDE Goals" official logo

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We also need funding 💶 to keep the gears turning! Please support us with a donation:

kde.org/donate/

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Donate and support KDE
The KDE dragons Katie and Konqi stand on either side of a pot filling up with gold coins. Donate!

KUnifiedPush: KDE's efficient way of delivering notifications to your apps

KUnifiedPush, KDE's client library for the UnifiedPush protocol, has reached version 1.0.0. KunifiedPush provides a way to deliver notifications instantly to multiple apps on your devices even if the apps are not running.

Ideal for social media, weather and instant messaging apps, it will also contribute to improving the battery life on your mobile devices.

blogs.kde.org/2024/10/19/kunif

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A screenshot of Plasma's Settings showing the page where you can configure the notification server.

"This week in KDE Apps" is out!

We migrated more apps to Qt6, made Dolphin more optimized for mobile, added many new features to Tokodon, and much more.

Read all about it at

blogs.kde.org/2024/10/20/this-

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Thumbnail ot the article. Dolphin mobile, user list management in Tokodon and more

"This week in KDE Apps" is out!

This week's changes and improvements cover a wide range of applications, from audio apps (including the classic Amarok, which is making a comeback) to Kate getting improvements to its integrated Git features.

Read all about it at blogs.kde.org/2024/10/27/this-

Thumbnail of the post: Paiting rewrite in KleverNotes, duration sort in Dolphin, and more

Our End of Year Fundraiser is live! Donate and keep the dark armies of tech-ghouls 🧟 at bay!

kde.org/fundraisers/yearend202

And just in time for 🎃, Konqi and Katie bring you the most nightmarish tales from the realms of proprietarysoftwareland.

All based on true stories¹!

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¹ Kinda.

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The KDE dragons are ready for Halloween! Konqi is Shaun from "Shaun of the Dead" and Katie is Buffy, the Mighty Vampyre Slayer.