We are pleased to announce that the Plasma 6.3.5 bugfix update is now available for Kubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin in our backports PPA.

As usual with our PPAs, there is the caveat that the PPA may receive additional updates and new releases of KDE Plasma, Gear (Apps), and Frameworks, plus other apps and required libraries. Users should always review proposed updates to decide whether they wish to receive them.

To upgrade:

Add the following repository to your software sources list:

ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports

or if it is already added, the updates should become available via your preferred update method.

The PPA can be added manually in the Konsole terminal with the command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports

and packages then updated with

sudo apt full-upgrade

We hope you enjoy using Plasma 6.3.5!

Issues with Plasma itself can be reported on the KDE bugtracker [1]. In the case of packaging or other issues, please provide feedback on our mailing list [2], and/or file a bug against our PPA packages [3].

1. KDE bugtracker::https://bugs.kde.org
2. Kubuntu-devel mailing list: https://lists.u
3. Kubuntu ppa bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa

A bugfix release for Falkon containing crash fix, general fix and wayland fixes.

• Fix crash with bookmark toolbar (BUG: 501535)
• Fix editing SiteSettings and Cookies permissions
• Wayland: Fix issue that location bar can’t use input methods when locationcompleterview popups on wayland (By Signal Kirigami)
• Wayland: Fix tooltip in tabbar (by Signal Kirigami)

Over the years, the capabilities of QtQuick's TableView have evolved dramatically-from early custom implementations to well supported feature in Qt 6.8 and newer. In this article we explore the progression of QtQuick/QML's TableView, outline the limitations of early versions, and highlight newer features such as custom selection modes, header synchronization, and lightweight editing delegates. Check it out.

Continue reading Modern TableView in QML: What’s New in Qt 6.8 and Beyond at basysKom GmbH.

Over 180 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.

Today they all get new bugfix source releases with updated translations, including:

• cantor: Fix LaTeX typesetting (Commit, fixes bug #490644)
• dolphin: Fix restoring folders, tabs, and window state from previous run (Commit, fixes bug #502770)
• konsole: Fix search wrapping behavior at boundaries (Commit, fixes bug #396510)

Distro and app store packagers should update their application packages.

• 25.04 release notes for information on tarballs and known issues.
• Package download wiki page
• 25.04.1 source info page
• 25.04.1 full changelog

These past two days I attended the Qt World Summit 2025

It happened in Munich in the SHOWPALAST MÜNCHEN. The venue is HUGE,  we had around 800 attendees (unofficial sources, don't trust the number too much) and it felt it could hold more. One slightly unfortunate thing is that it was a bit cold (temperatures in Munich these two days were well below the average for May) and quite some parts of the venue are outdoors, but you can't control the weather, so not much to "fix" here.

The venue is somewhat strangely focused on horses, but that's nothing more than an interesting quirk.

Qt World Summit is an event for the Qt developers around the world and the talks range from showcases of Qt in different products, to technical talks about how to improve performance along others less Qt centric talks about how to collaborate with other developers or about "modern C++".

As KDE we participated in the event with a stand trying to explain people what we do (David Redondo and Nicolas Fella were more in the stand than me, kudos to them)

Talks for the videos will be published "soon" (or so I've been told). When that happens the ones I recommend you to watch are "Navigating Code Collaboration" by  LAURA SAVINO, "QML Bindings in Qt6" by ULF HERMANN and "C++ as a 21st Century Language" by BJARNE STROUSTRUP, but the agenda was packed with talks so make sure to check the videos since probably your tastes and mine don't 100% align.

All in all it was a great event, it is good to see that Qt is doing well since we use it for the base of almost everything we do in KDE. Thanks to The Qt Company and the rest of the sponsors for organizing it. 

It has been quite a long time since I attended any KDE sprint, last sprint for me was Plasma Sprint in Valencia, Spain before pandemic and personal life got in a way. Last month I had chance to attend Plasma Sprint 2025 in Graz, Austria. This was good opportunity for me to meet some of long time contributors to Plasma Mobile like Devin Lin and Luis, as well as other Plasma contributors to discuss some of technical details about my upcoming power management work.

The latest release now supports two additional LLMs for code completion and prompts: DeepSeek v3 for our friends in China and 3.7 Sonnet for fans of Anthropic’s coding skills. The new release includes also an enhancement for the /fix functionality. 

Tuesday, 6 May 2025. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6, versioned 6.3.5.

Plasma 6.3 was released in February 2025 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.

This release adds a month’s worth of new translations and fixes from KDE’s contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:

• Kcursorgen: Add QDebug include. Commit.
• Add missing includes. Commit.
• ApplicationsListPage: fix "Still Looking" indicator. Commit. Fixes bug #485379