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Thursday, 11 December 2025

Today we're releasing Krita 5.2.14. This is going to be the last bug fix release for 5.2. This release in particular contains many bug and usability fixes for Android.

Touch-and-Hold Color Picker

The color picker has been improved to make it look, feel and function better. The most important change is for touchscreens: you can now press the screen with one finger and hold it in the same spot to bring up the color picker. This is enabled by default in all input profiles. If it doesn't happen for you, either reset your canvas input settings to the defaults or manually assign the One Finger Hold gesture like this:

New Color Picker Preview

Aside from that, the preview has also been changed from the rectangles side by side to a circle around the cursor. This gives better visibility to the colors you are picking and also means that your right hand won't obscure the preview if you're drawing on a screen tablet. If you don't like the way this looks, you can change the appearance of the circle in the settings or go back to a two-rectangles style preview instead. Except now you can choose whether you want them on the right like before, on the left or on top of the cursor. Additionally, the long-standing issue of the preview getting rotated and mirrored along with the canvas has been fixed. It will now show up in the same spot no matter how you spin it.

Changelog:

Beyond that, we have a ton of smaller usability fixes for touch, a new icon on MacOS and much more.

Special thanks to Freya Lupen, Stuffins, Joshua Goins in addition to the sponsored developers.

  • Fix brush preview outlines being aligned based on incorrect bounding box. (Bug 477164)
  • Don't require restart for touch painting change and Automatically detect touch painting
  • [android] Fix main window not showing document (Bug 488606)
  • Fix off-by-1 in BrushHud Deform Modes combobox (Bug 509741)
  • Double-click slider spin boxes to edit
  • [android] Disable long-press right-click emulation
  • Allow long-pressing to open context menus
  • Various error handling fixes on android so it tries to recover instead of asserting.
  • [android] Make IAP and supporter badge work again
  • Make curve autosmooth work with touch drawing (Bug 510363)
  • Make multi-clicking work with touch painting
  • Disable left-click kinetic scrolling on timeline (CCBug 474975)
  • Enable double and triple click with stylus when using vector tools.
  • Check whether the splash is valid (Bug 491279)
  • [android] Make main window fullscreen by default
  • [android] Don't exit fullscreen when pressing back
  • [android] Remove fullscreen toggle in status bar
  • Fix hidden brush editor titlebar (Windows + Android) (Bug 452804)
  • Add toggle eraser preset touch canvas input
  • Make sliders not show selection handles on Android
  • Properly calculate long-press slop distance
  • Make long-press context menus behave more cleanly
  • Make kinetic scrolling not delay long presses
  • Disable long-press on widgets they interfere with
  • Make popup menus appear at touch position
  • Make edit shapes tool work with touch drawing (Bug 511594)
  • [android] Enter fullscreen early to avoid flicker
  • fix Node::setChildNodes
  • fix histograms when adding a new filter layer
  • Fix various touch shortcuts with wrong actions (Bug 485161)
  • Make sampler preview not rotate/mirror with canvas (Bug 347799)
  • Implement one-finger touch and hold gesture
  • PythonPluginManager: Fix crash on Python 3.14
  • macos: update krita app icon to display in respect to system appearance
  • macos : make thumbnails of kra, krz and ora (Bug 493474)
  • Don't allow dragging layers onto their own canvas (Bug 512771)
  • Allow holding Ctrl to override drag on canvas
  • [android] Write to temporary file when saving (Bug 498257)
  • [android] Make shortcut input work properly
  • Fix crash when using a smudge brush (Bug 512243)

Download

Windows

If you're using the portable zip files, just open the zip file in Explorer and drag the folder somewhere convenient, then double-click on the Krita icon in the folder. This will not impact an installed version of Krita, though it will share your settings and custom resources with your regular installed version of Krita. For reporting crashes, also get the debug symbols folder.

[!NOTE] We are no longer making 32-bit Windows builds.

Linux

Note: starting with 5.2.11, the minimum supported version of Ubuntu is 22.04.

[!WARNING] Starting with 5.2.11 has updated the AppImage runtime, which is known to be incompatible with the old versions of AppImageLauncher. Developers of the AppImage runtime suggest to remove or update AppImageLauncher. See this report: Issue 121 More AppImage troubleshooting info is available here: FUSE

MacOS

Note: We're not supporting MacOS 10.13 anymore, 10.14 is the minimum supported version.

Android

We consider Krita on ChromeOS as ready for production. Krita on Android is still beta. Krita is not available for Android phones, only for tablets, because the user interface requires a large screen.

Source code

md5sum

For all downloads, visit https://download.kde.org/stable/krita/5.2.14/ and click on "Details" to get the hashes.

Key

The Linux AppImage and the source .tar.gz and .tar.xz tarballs are signed. You can retrieve the public key here. The signatures are here (filenames ending in .sig).

Tuesday, 9 December 2025

KDE’s 30th birthday is coming up next year. For this year’s holiday season I therefore decided to compile a list of 30 reasons why I love KDE Plasma. It makes me so much more productive and work a lot more fun. While some of the items listed below aren’t unique to Plasma, it’s the combination of all of those things that truly makes it the best desktop environment out there. Tell me, what are your top reasons?

Vertical christmas gift card with Konqi, KDE’s mascot dragon, christmas tree decoration
Konqi Christmas post card (CC-BY-SA-4-0 Timothée Giet)
  1. When I suspend my laptop, any video or music stops playing
  2. I can use three fingers on my touch pad to switch virtual desktops
  3. I get a notification when my wireless mouse is about to run out of juice
  4. I can middle-click a window on the task bar to close it
  5. I can have a sticky note in my panel for use as a scratchpad
  6. I can middle-click the notification icon to engage “do not disturb” mode
  7. There’s a handy little color picker widget for my panel
  8. I can throw my cursor into the corner of the screen to peek at my desktop
  9. I can keep any window always on top when I need to
  10. I can create a QR code of anything I copy to my clipboard
  11. When I take a screenshot, I can then just drag it to where I need it
  12. I can change the screen brightness by mouse wheeling the brightness icon
  13. I can drag a window to the top of the screen to maximize it
  14. I can send a window to different virtual desktops by using a global shortcut
  15. There’s a little live volume meter in each slider in the volume popup
  16. I can bring up a little magnifier window around my mouse cursor
  17. I can draw red lines on the screen using a desktop effect
  18. I can use the back/forward mouse buttons on the task bar to change music tracks
  19. When I wiggle the mouse, the cursor gets bigger and bigger, and there’s no limit!
  20. Night light comforts my eyes in the evening hours
  21. KRunner finds browser tabs in the mess of hundreds of tabs I have
  22. I can raise the speaker volume above 100% when needed
  23. I can wheel a window’s title bar to change its opacity to quickly compare stuff
  24. I can make the Copilot key on my keyboard actually do something useful
  25. I can use window rules to force apps to open exactly how I want
  26. I can add custom global shortcuts for almost anything
  27. System Monitor displays a tonne of info, including from my solar installation
  28. I can speed up playback of pretty much any video from Plasma’s Media Controller
  29. I can use Meta left click to move and Meta right click to resize a window anytime
  30. I can quickly access recent files opened in an app by right clicking its task bar entry

… and that is just Plasma, not even mentioning fantastic apps like the Dolphin file manager, Konsole, Kate editor, and of course KDE Connect. Another way to show your love for KDE is by donating to our Year End Fundraiser and maybe even adopt an app!

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Akademy is a special event for most of KDE people, it is opportunity for KDE developers, designers, users etc to meet and greet each other face-to-face. I have been attending most Akademies since year 2014. So of-course this year also I attended Akademy 2025 in Berlin. Last time I was in Berlin was right before pandemic happened, attending KDE Plasma Mobile Sprint in KDAB offices. It’s always lovely to visit this beautiful city!

Monday, 8 December 2025

Naïvely, I ran freebsd-update -r 15.0-STABLE install in my regular FreeBSD desktop. That was a mistake.

In principle freebsd-update is the way to update the installed system. In principle it works really smoothly, from binary release to binary release: it has a good manpage which tells you you can go from release to release. My FreeBSD laptop (which also runs Fedora 42 as more of a daily-driver OS) was running 14.3, so:

  • freebsd-update -r 15.0-RELEASE upgrade Fetch all the things.
  • freebsd-update -r 15.0-RELEASE install Install the new stuff.
  • reboot Smooth sailing.

That is the naive and optimistic thing to do.

If you spotted “make sure you read the announcement and release notes” in the manpage, good for you.

After the reboot, I was dropped into a shell where nearly every command I typed in resulted in

ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libsys.so.7" not found, required by "libc.so.7"

Good Bug Reports Help

Fortunately, Graham Perrin had already reported this with basically-the-same steps to get into trouble.

And based on that Matthew and Colin made a fix so that other people could first update their packages (e.g. pkg update on the system before using freebsd-update) to get the fixes in to the package-manager.

Good Workarounds, Also

In the same PR (Problem Report), Craig describes a workaround which almost worked for me. Because it’s a laptop, I needed a few extra steps. As an aside, /rescue is a directory where statically-linked rescue binaries live, which don’t suffer from shared-library misery.

  • /rescue/kldload if_ure Load the kernel driver for the USB-ethernet port.
  • /rescue/dhclient ue0 DHCP to get some network.

I have root-on-ZFS, and in single-user mode this comes up read-only, so switch read-only off. This is different from other (e.g. UFS, ext4) filesystems where mount -o rw,remount would be the thing to do:

  • /rescue/mount To check what the name is of the ZFS mounted on /
  • /rescue/zfs set readonly=off zroot/ROOT/default Make it read-write.

Edit 2025-12-17: Fixed typo’s in the path of the commands

After that, basically Craig’s steps:

  • cd /tmp
  • /rescue/fetch https://download.freebsd.org/releases/amd64/15.0-BETA2/base.txz Fetch the installation tarball.
  • cd /
  • /rescue/tar xzf /tmp/base.txz lib/libsys.so.7 Extract the missing library.
  • freebsd-update install This one is the “normal” dynamically-linked one, which works now the missing library is there.

Post-Upgrade Mucking About

Since there wasn’t anything especially configured or complicated on this machine, I reinstalled the package-manager with a hammer and then upgraded all the packages:

  • pkg-static install pkg Reinstall with a known-good tool.
  • pkg update Fetch all the things.
  • pkg upgrade Install all the things.

Somehow I’ve also gotten myself stuck in a “graphics driver causes kernel panic”, state. Which kind of limits the graphics side of things this week. Amusingly AMD GPU stability is listed as a release feature, but #391 and #393 issues tell a slightly different story. I’m glad of bz@’s proposed fix, although I’ll need to rebuild the kernel to try it (which literally means make buildkernel installkernel on FreeBSD, it’s that simple).

The attentive reader will note that yes, Akademy happened in September already. Not the most prolific blogger. Not the most prolific contributor either. But I had already drafted much of this post two months ago, so let's get it out the door. I'll cut all the paragraphs about fun social outings and focus on recapping stuff related to our Input Goal.

A special thank-you to Farid, of Kdenlive and KDE Goals coordination fame, who convinced me to take the trek when I thought perhaps I shouldn't cross the Atlantic twice in a year. I'm glad I went, tons of great sessions and conversations. Powered by your donations, KDE e.V. supported my travel costs and made it possible for me to coordinate with many KDE people in person. Thank you. Yes, you! Anyway.

Talking input

I met my fellow Input Goal co-initiator Gernot (Duha on Matrix) in person for the first time. Together, and alongside reports on the other KDE goals, we delivered our presentation summarizing one year of input improvements. The KDE community made some excellent progress since the goal was chosen, thanks to everyone who contributed towards it! At the same time, there is more work to do and we'd love to see further contributions. Watch the talk for more details.

Akademy 2025 - photos from the video of our "KDE Goals - One Year Recap" presentation

Our third Input Goal champion, Joshua Goins, had so much to report on improvements for drawing tablet users that he held an entire presentation on that particular topic.

One particular highlight for me was running into Dorota. She has been pushing for improvements to Wayland's input method protocols and had joined our input handling community on Matrix over the past year. Listening to Dorota's cross-desktop experience and plans was super interesting, and I was happy to see her coordinate with KWin maintainers over the course of Akademy. In the time since, some of Dorota's work was included in the latest upstream release of Wayland Protocols as experimental addition. Hopefully this will be further refined and standardized over time.

Andy Betts sat down with me to discuss the UI designs for touchpad gesture customization, following earlier back-and-forth with Natalie and Nate over the summer. Xaver Hugl provided some great feedback at Akademy about my ongoing patch series to implement stroke gesture support in KWin. He also proposed a change that will help with integrating config file support for gesture customization into KWin. This is all still in the works - full disclosure, I've been having somewhat of a hard time recently for unrelated reasons. It now has path simplification (for performance reasons) plus a nice stroke drawing visualization, but still lacking tests and such. Christmas time seems as good a time as any to pick up some slack and push this forward.

In more exciting news, KDE's new on-screen keyboard has seen a significant amount of work in the last few months. Aleix Pol's initial prototype for Plasma Keyboard was supercharged by Devin Lin, who also made it to Akademy but had to take off early. We decided to release Plasma Keyboard independently first, then integrating it into regular Plasma releases in 2026. This 0.1 preview release is now available, you can check if your distribution already ships it, or you can grab the nightly Plasma Keyboard Flatpak to test its latest state. Yes, even input methods will run just fine as Flatpaks.

Meanwhile, somewhere far away across the ocean, a remote partipant was going full steam ahead on another important piece in the input handling puzzle.

GSoC project: Game controller support in KWin

For this year's Google Summer of Code, Yelsin Sepulveda was accepted to improve game controller support in KWin with mentorship by Xaver Hugl and myself. After a strong start, Yelsin was forced to delay the second part of his project due to personal circumstance and Google did not agree to a deadline extension. However! With an excellent work ethic, Yelsin still continued to work on the project and brought it to completion regardless of Google's official approval. The result is an opt-in KWin plugin that's close to getting merged, and will:

  • Make KWin aware of game controllers in the first place,
  • Prevent system sleep on controller activity,
  • Emulate mouse and keyboard input when no other game (or app) uses the controller,
  • Deal with the Steam Controller's idiosyncratic "Lizard Mode".
  • Provide the foundation for future game controller customization in Plasma.

From the KDE side, we consider this GSoC project a resounding success. If you missed Yelsin's own posts on Planet KDE, his blog posts from mid September and early October cover a lot more detail.

Other exciting developments

Some presentations and conversations that I found particularly compelling, not focused on input.

Thanks to Bhushan Shah, Plasma now knows what made your system wake up from system sleep. Building on this, power management primarily for Plasma Mobile but also Plasma Desktop can improve even further, including the potential for scheduled background tasks and going right back to sleep.

Linux distros have been kind to KDE this year. Neal Gompa presented the Fedora KDE SIG's long-term efforts to ship a premium Plasma experience. Terrific work from these folks, this is now my current favorite distro suggestion for friends & family. Furthermore, Harald Sitter presented the Alpha release of KDE Linux, now happily chugging along on its way to becoming a Beta. This is what I hope to install on my parents' laptops one day. I took a banana from Harald in return for promising that I'll test it out myself. Didn't say when; nonetheless, the promise stands.

I was not expecting to find myself talking to GNOME contributors at Akademy, but Lorenz Wildberg from the GNOME Foundation's Board of Directors was a super interesting conversation partner. Long story short, both GNOME and KDE know about their respective shortcomings and are trying to learn from each other's experiences. Sometimes by adopting things that work, sometimes by taking a different route, sometimes just by focusing on our existing strengths and building on those. Either way, listening and reflecting will beat low-effort snark anytime. SDK evolution, contributor onboarding, governance, fun times.

Looking back and ahead

Yes, I lost a few weeks from getting a back injury soon after Akademy. The good news is that it's pretty much all healed at this point. But my contribution habits have remained out of whack since. I'm hoping to get this back on track asap, because I also really want to help KDE to reach the inflection point. Gamers, governments and many more people have something to gain if the Linux desktop breaks out of its niche into the mainstream. The tech industry has been disappointing to me on so many fronts. This here, though, is something I'm excited to see happening.

Sunday, 7 December 2025

Like in the years before, KDE does an end of the year fundraiser campaign.

Beside that Plasma will show some small popup to ask if you want to sponsor us with a donation.

It looks like this year that is already going well, below the state as of today, 7th December 2025.

KDE - End of Year Fundraiser 2025

I want to say to all that already donated: Thanks a lot!

I will not personally get any money from that, but I will benefit largely from the stuff KDE e.V. funds with it, like the infrastructure, some people working on our stuff and the very important sprints and conferences!

Keep the money flowing, money is not everything, but if you can not contribute in another way and you have some spare money, please consider a donation.

I wish you all a good end of the year :)

Discussion

Feel free to join the discussion at the Linux reddit.

A week full of fixes

Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in KDE Apps"! Every week (or so) we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps.

Our End of the Year fundraiser is still going on and we’ve raised more than €140,000 so far this month. Thanks to everyone who donated!

Getting back to all that's new in the KDE App scene, let's dig in!

PIM Applications

Akonadi Background service for KDE PIM apps

Tobias Leupold fixed a compatibility issue with MariaDB 12.1 (25.12.0 - pim/akonadi MR #310)

Carl Schwan optimized some maintenance routines from Akonadi; this also fixes an issue when running on SQLite (25.12.0 - pim/akonadi MR #299).

KMail A feature-rich email application

Andreas Hartmetz fixed a bug where mail filters would be deleted in some situations (25.12.1 - pim/kmail MR #164).

Graphics Applications

Photos Image Gallery

Noah Davis added a setting that allows enlarging small images. Without this option the minimum zoom level is 100% (26.04.0 - graphics/koko MR #251).

Creative Applications

Krita Digital Painting, Creative Freedom

Luna Lovecraft fixed a crash that occurred when the window was too small to fit a selection actions panel (graphics/krita MR #2548) and also fixed the selection panel blinking when making a new selection (graphics/krita MR #2551).

Wolthera van Hövell split the character and paragraph properties, making it more intuitive to apply text transformations to just one character or to a whole paragraph (graphics/krita MR #2470).

Joshua Goins fixed a crash in the Krita plugin manager when using Python 3.14 (graphics/krita MR #2451).

Utilities Applications

Calculator A feature rich calculator

Devin Lin cleaned up the sidebar and removed some custom code.

MobileDesktop

Recorder Audio recorder

Tobias Burnus made his first contribution to KDE and fixed an issue where the list of audio input sources contained duplicated entries (25.12.0 - utilities/krecorder MR #62).

Kate Advanced text editor

Leia uwu fixed a crash in the project tree view (25.12.0 - utilities/kate MR #1950).

Keysmith Two-factor code generator for Plasma Mobile and Desktop

Shubham Arora fixed an issue where the account name could overflow when it was too long (25.12.1 - utilities/keysmith MR #171).

BeforeAfter

…And Everything Else

This blog only covers the tip of the iceberg! If you’re hungry for more, check out Nate's blog about Plasma and be sure not to miss his This Week in Plasma series, where every Saturday he covers all the work being put into KDE's Plasma desktop environment.

For a complete overview of what's going on, visit KDE's Planet, where you can find all KDE news unfiltered directly from our contributors.

Get Involved

The KDE organization has become important in the world, and your time and contributions have helped us get there. As we grow, we're going to need your support for KDE to become sustainable.

You can help KDE by becoming an active community member and getting involved. Each contributor makes a huge difference in KDE — you are not a number or a cog in a machine! You don’t have to be a programmer either. There are many things you can do: you can help hunt and confirm bugs, even maybe solve them; contribute designs for wallpapers, web pages, icons and app interfaces; translate messages and menu items into your own language; promote KDE in your local community; and a ton more things.

You can also help us by donating. Any monetary contribution, however small, will help us cover operational costs, salaries, travel expenses for contributors and in general just keep KDE bringing Free Software to the world.

To get your application mentioned here, please ping us in invent or in Matrix.

Saturday, 6 December 2025

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!

This week saw a bunch of user interface improvements and bug fixing, especially for the drawing tablets, printers, and monitors. Hardware is quirky!

But of course that’s not all; check out the rest, too:

Notable UI Improvements

Plasma 6.6.0

You can now Alt+click/double-click on desktop items to see their properties, just like you can in Dolphin. (Méven Car, plasma-desktop MR #3349)

When a printer runs low on ink for multiple cartridges simultaneously, all the messages about this are now condensed into a single notification, instead of showing a separate notification for each low ink cartridge. (Mike Noe, print-manager MR #291)

System Settings’ Drawing Tablet page now makes it more obvious when the lack of configurable pad buttons is due to a missing driver. (Joshua Goins, plasma-desktop MR #3234)

Spectacle now offers a Cancel button in the rectangular region overlay, so you can get out of it without having to press the Esc key. (Taras Oleksyn, bug #490980)

Locking the screen from the Application Launcher widget now closes it before locking so it’s not somewhat awkwardly left open after you unlock. (Christoph Wolk, bug #508725)

On distros that make you authenticate to toggle the feature to set the date and time automatically, closing the authentication window without authenticating no longer makes the page complain about an error. (David Edmundson, bug #501966)

Apps launched from the Favorites view of the Kickoff, Kicker, and Dashboard widgets are now added to the “Recent Apps” section. (Christoph Wolk, bug #449834 and bug #435356)

Did a pass over several pages in System Settings to make sure they follow the KDE Human Interface Guidelines more closely. (Nate Graham, plasma-desktop MR #3309)

You’re no longer allowed to try to change the usernames of logged-in users, since this doesn’t work anyway. (Nate Graham bug #469665)

You’re now warned about the potential consequences if you try to disable the System Tray’s built-in Notifications widget, since those consequences may not be obvious. (Nate Graham, plasma-workspace MR #6044)

System Tray settings page showing a warning about disabling the Notifications widget

Notable Bug Fixes

Plasma 6.5.4

Fixed an issue that made the Orca screen reader’s “learn” mode speak too much and send extraneous keystrokes to apps. (Nicolas Fella, bug #512189)

Fixed an issue that could occasionally cause a crash when charging your system after the critical battery level notification appeared. (Anthony Fieroni, powerdevil MR #594)

Fixed an issue that made the screen turn black with certain older monitors directly connected via an analog VGA cable. (Xaver Hugl, bug #512146)

Fixed another source of the issue that made desktop icons move to the wrong screen of a multi-screen arrangement on login. (Błażej Szczygieł, bug #512381)

Fixed an issue that made it impossible to configure certain buttons of the Wacom Pen Pro 3D stylus. (Joshua Goins, bug #511488)

System Settings’ Drawing Tablet page now does a better job of handling weird tablets that say they have two styluses when they really only have one. (Joshua Goins, bug #508084)

Fixed an issue that made Plasma inaccurately warn that your printer was low on ink when it sent an unexpected ink level code but wasn't actually low on ink. (Mike Noe, bug #512602)

Fixed an issue that made the Task Manager widget’s “Forget recent [thing]” menu items unreliable for certain apps. (Méven Car, bug #480276)

Fixed a visual glitch in the Track Mouse effect when using a high DPI scale factor. (Xaver Hugl, bug #510029)

Plasma 6.6.0

Fixed an issue that made the Task Manager widget’s “Forget” action for specific files only take effect after Plasma was restarted. (Christoph Wolk, bug #503840)

Frameworks 6.21

Fixed an issue that could crash the open/save dialogs when you double-clicked on a column header while in Details mode. (David Edmundson, frameworks-kio MR #2070)

Fixed an issue that could make popups invoked from folders on the desktop misbehave when created from symlinks. (Lluc Simó Margalef, bug #479350)

Frameworks 6.22

Fixed an issue in the Quick Launch widget that made icons start dragging after right-clicking them. (Jonathan Marten, bug #384009)

Other bug information of note:

Notable in Performance & Technical

Plasma 6.6.0

Implemented support for for per-DRM-plane color pipelines. (Xaver Hugl, kwin MR #6600)

Plasma now re-checks the battery level after waking from sleep, which handles the case of the battery draining (or charging) while asleep in such a manner that it would be appropriate to show or hide a notification about the battery level. (Ramil Nurmanov, powerdevil MR #592)

How You Can Help

Donate to KDE’s 2025 fundraiser! It really makes a big difference. Believe it or not, the fundraiser has topped €100,000! And that’s just for the fundraiser itself; the yearly donation pop-up has also raised another €100k in just the past five days (!!!).

It’s kind of amazing. This money will help keep KDE strong and independent for years to come, and I’m just in awe of the generosity of the KDE community and userbase. Thank you all for helping KDE to grow and prosper!

If money is tight, you can help KDE by directly getting involved. Donating time is actually more impactful than donating money. Each contributor makes a huge difference in KDE — you are not a number or a cog in a machine! You don’t have to be a programmer, either; many other opportunities exist.

To get a new Plasma feature or a bugfix mentioned here, feel free to push a commit to the relevant merge request on invent.kde.org.

Friday, 5 December 2025

A new version of Plasma Camera and Plasma Settings have been released

We have a new release of Plasma Camera and Plasma Settings!

Plasma Camera changes:

  • Fix compile with libcamera 0.6.0 (MR)
  • New translations

Plasma Settings changes:

  • Fix issues with loading pages in some KCMs (MR)
  • Respect kiosk restrictions in modules model (MR)

Visit /info/independent-releases-25-12 for the tarballs.

Please note: most Plasma Mobile software is now shipped under the Plasma or KDE Gear release cycles.