Back in March at FOSSASIA in Bangkok, I got invited to visit the OpenKylin team in Shanghai. I mentioned it briefly at the end of that report, and here we are — the follow-up post.

Since the previous report two month ago, Itinerary got support for booking URLs, a newer foundation for its Android packages, and more detailed shared vehicle information.

New Features

Booking URLs

Some public transport services provide booking deep links together with their journey search results. That is, you can directly book the journey you have just searched in Itinerary or KTrip on the provider website, without having to search for the same journey again there. Both apps provide that option when available now.

Infrastructure Work

GBFS v3 support

The handling of shared vehicles in KPublicTransport recevied a rework to properly support the much more detailed modelling of vehicle types in newer GBFS versions. Since the early versions of GBFS this has evolved from a simple enum to a complex type describing all kinds of properties of the available vehicles.

As practically all systems supporting rental vehicles for first/last mile routing (OpenTripPlanner, MOTIS, etc) are based on the GBFS datamodel, being limited to an oversimplified set of fixed types was increasingly getting into the way and prevented using newer features of those backends.

Qt 6.11 upgrade for Android

There has been a long overdue update of the Qt version used for KDE’s Android apps. As noted previously this unfortunately means losing support for Android versions 8 and below. ARM32 builds have been discontinued in the process as well, assuming that devices capable of running Android 9 or higher would also be able to run ARM64 code.

There have also been various other fixes related to the Android platform integration:

• Notification interaction works properly again.
• Notification icons are now handled more in line of what Android does.
• Several issues related to safe area margins (ie. rounded screen corners and display cutouts) in Kirigami haven been fixed.

All of this also benefits all of KDE’s Android apps.

IATA SSIM flight schedules

Air France/KLM published their current flight schedule as open data, in IATA SSIM format. A newly built tool allows to convert that into a GTFS feed that Transitous can then consume, using Wikidata to provide translated airport and airline information.

Flight data isn’t new in Transitous, but this dataset is particularly interesting given its size. It’s not limited to Air France/KLM themselves, but also includes all (?) flights from their partner airlines. In total it’s nearly 400.000 flight patterns to almost 1.000 different airports. That essentially connects all currently disconnected public transport “islands” we have in Transitous.

The good news is that it’s holding up to that without a loss in performance, and door-to-door routing from e.g. Berlin to Tokyo actually works.

However, there’s a couple of reasons this isn’t rolled out yet and only available on the test instance:

• As with the already existing flight data, connectivity between flights and ground transportation is tricky. I’ve written about this years ago already, applying the same approach helps here as well. Additionally, we get terminal information in the SSIM data in some cases, which further improves this, especially at very large airports.
• We have no way yet to model check-in times in MOTIS, resulting in unrealistic transfer times from ground transportation to flights. It’s on the roadmap there, and also needed for services like Eurostar, or to model security checks at e.g. the Barcelona Sants station.
• As a side-effect of that the router also finds clever tricks to bypass minimum transfer times between flights.
• Inter-terminal transfers don’t seem to work reliably, probably because OSM routing doesn’t yield viable connections there. Unlike for railway stations in many countries, airport internals are unfortunately rarely mapped in detail in OSM yet.

For more details see also the discussion in PR 2090.

Events

Registration for this year’s Open Transport Community Conference in October in Bern, Switzerland, opened a few days ago. That’s as close as it gets to an Itinerary conference. If you are interested in attending better sign up quickly, many tickets were already gone after the first day.

Fixes & Improvements

Travel document extractor

• Added or improved travel document extractors for Condor and monbus.es.

This has been made possible thanks to your travel document donations!

Public transport data

• Improved parsing of trip and route names in OpenTripPlanner responses (bug 519906).
• Adapted to Deutsche Bahn journey query API changes, fixing missing departure and arrival times there.
• Added support for wheelchair accessibility information from MOTIS.
• Added support for querying free-floating rental vehicles from Entur.
• Removed accidental apostrophe in front of flags in the country selector.

All of this also directly benefits KTrip.

Itinerary app

• Fixed Itinerary showing an empty page when opening a file with it on a fresh installation.
• Fixed barcode scan mode on Android.
• Added support for Matrix SSO login.
• Fixed arrival platform display in journey search results.
• Show calendar icons/colors when available.
• Don’t load all reservation data when initializing the grouped statistics model. This improved performance of the first access to the My Data page.
• Be slightly more clever when to clear seat reservation from alternatives.

How you can help

Feedback and travel document samples are very much welcome, as are all other forms of contributions. Feel free to join us in the KDE Itinerary Matrix channel.

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!

This week the team continued getting Plasma 6.7 in great shape for release. So there was lots of focus on bug-fixing and UI polishing.

We’ve released the second beta of Plasma 6.7, jam-packed with the latest fixes. If you can, please install it and test everything! There are many options for doing so.

Notable UI improvements

Plasma 6.7

Made it impossible to accidentally drag a window so far off a screen edge that it couldn’t be moved back. (Vlad Zahorodnii, KDE Bugzilla #495635)

Uninstalling an application now removes it from the history section of all the various launcher widgets. (Christoph Wolk, KDE Bugzilla #437303)

Made auto-hide panels compatible with the “Switch desktop on edge > Always enabled” setting. (Francesco Panarese, KDE Bugzilla #370964)

The Application Launcher’s “All Applications” view now groups apps case-insensitively, so apps whose first letter is lowercase no longer get pushed into their own group. (Christoph Wolk, KDE Bugzilla #501788)

Clarified how the option to create a virtual screen works in the screen chooser dialog. (David Redondo, KDE Bugzilla #517296)

Plasma 6.8

The lock screen now fully respects the timeout value set by PAM on the underlying system, instead of adding its own mandatory delay on top of it. This means on systems with the delay set to 0, you can re-type your password immediately after getting it wrong. (Tobias Fella, plasma-desktop MR #3702 and plasma-workspace MR #322)

The lock screen now notifies you when the “Slow Keys” accessibility feature is turned on, just in case you’re failing to type your password and don’t know why. (Martin Riethmayer, plasma-desktop #3726 and plasma-workspace MR #6626)

Discover’s dialog about a Flatpak app being replaced by another one now reassures you that your data will be automatically transferred, and also warns you that favorites/shortcuts/etc. to the old app will have to be re-made manually. (Nate Graham, discover MR #1342 and discover MR #1343)

Reduced the amount of visual flickering when Discover checks for updates. (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, KDE Bugzilla #513220)

Notable bug fixes

Plasma 6.6.6

Fixed a case where KWin could crash when a monitor was rapidly power-cycled or some of its settings were rapidly changed. (Vlad Zahorodnii, KDE Bugzilla #520145)

Fixed a case where the kactivitymanagerd service could crash in the background. (Marco Martin, KDE Bugzilla #520595)

Fixed a clipboard-related issue that could make XWayland-using apps lag or freeze right after locking the screen. (Vlad Zahorodnii, KDE Bugzilla #520674)

Fixed an issue that could make the large text of the digital clock displayed on the lock and login screens look kind of jagged with certain specific fonts. (Filip Fila, KDE Bugzilla #516314)

Plasma 6.7

Worked around an oddly-specific issue in Qt that could make widgets break when enabled in the System Tray after having previously disabled them and then restarted the computer. (Tobias Fella, KDE Bugzilla #520144)

Worked around an issue with the hardware or firmware on specific laptops that could trigger an infinite stream of keyboard brightness OSDs after closing the lid. (Vitaly Repin, powerdevil MR #632)

Fixed an issue that could make a renamed file on the desktop visually disappear (it still existed, and could be accessed through Dolphin) while multiple Activities were in use, or move to another location when there was only one Activity. (Akseli Lahtinen, KDE Bugzilla #520633 and KDE Bugzilla #511920)

Fixed an issue that made it impossible to use a hardware key to authenticate to an 802.1x-protected network. (Katharina Bogad, KDE Bugzilla #520449)

Fixed an issue that made the Networks widget show the wrong icon for an OVS bridge network. (Ivan Perevalov, KDE Bugzilla #517384)

Fixed an issue that could make Plasma’s built-in remote desktop server lag or freeze when copying certain specific things in certain specific apps. (Paul Hoskinson, KDE Bugzilla #520175)

Fixed an issue that made it impossible to focus the Network Widget’s search field using Ctrl+F. (Akseli Lahtinen, KDE Bugzilla #515280)

Fixed an issue that made the buttons on the fingerprint enrollment dialog get misplaced. (Harald Sitter, KDE Bugzilla #515824)

Fixed an issue with the Breeze theming of GTK apps that made sidebar separator lines turn bright white with dark color schemes. (Levi Leal, KDE Bugzilla #484383)

Plasma 6.8

Fixed two issues that could make KWin crash or fail to evaluate mathematical calculations from the Overview effect. (Alexander Lohnau, KDE Bugzilla #519923 and KDE Bugzilla #483147)

Fixed an issue that made it impossible to open the panel context menu while already in edit mode. (Tobias Fella, libplasma MR #1468)

How you can help

KDE has become important in the world, and your time and contributions have helped us get there. As we grow, we need your support to keep KDE sustainable.

Would you like to help put together this weekly report? Introduce yourself in the Matrix room and join the team!

Beyond that, you can help KDE by directly getting involved in any other projects. 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.

You can also help out by making a donation! This helps cover operational costs, salaries, travel expenses for contributors, and in general just keeps KDE bringing Free Software to the world.

To get a new Plasma feature or a bug fix mentioned here

Push a commit to the relevant merge request on invent.kde.org.

After a few months of development, Marknote 1.6.0 is out!

This release is packed with new features. First of all, sub-folders are finally supported. This allows you to better organize your notes. This feature is still very new and at the moment, we don’t support creating these sub-folders in Marknote and you will need to create them in Dolphin or your preferred file manager. But we are planning to improve this further in future releases. Each notebook now also displays how many notes are stored inside.

Another big new change is that the command bar exposed by Marknote, now allows you to search for notes across all your notebooks.

If you feel fancy, we also added an optional background blur effect for the editor similar to what is also available in other KDE apps like NeoChat.

Finally, we made it easier to add emojis to your notes by adding emoji completions to the text editor.

This release also fixes various minor bugs; contains small refactoring and improves the state of the translations.

Packager section

You can find the package on download.kde.org (kirigami addons) and it has been signed with my GPG key.

The community bonding period is over, and coding started, so this feels like the right moment for a first blog post. I'm contributing to KeepSecret this summer as part of GSoC 2026, working on single-wallet UX and page navigation architecture.

What I did during community bonding:

->Close/dismiss button for entry detail panel

Before the Community Bonding Period:

Resolving three issues:

1. !17 (focus the search field when the Search action is triggered),
2. !18 (fix the "New Entry" dialog title, which was incorrectly saying "Create New Item") and
3. !20 (hides the sidebar when only one wallet exists, worked on the five layout states and cover edge cases like narrow windows with multiple wallets, single-wallet with an item open, and all three pages visible at once).

Week 1 plan:

This week, I'm working on Import/export: study existing wallet data structures in KeepSecret. Define file format and design the export flow.

Port KeepSecret's actions to the new org.kde.kirigami.actioncollection API from kirigami-app-components. This wasn't in the original proposal but it's a good addition, suggested by my mentor, notmart (Marco Martin) — it means users will be able to configure keyboard shortcuts for actions like "New Wallet" and "New Entry" through a standard KDE dialog.

More updates next week. The code is at invent.kde.org/utilities/keepsecret

GSoC 2026 KDE KeepSecret Kirigami Qt / QML

Today we're releasing Krita 5.3.2 and 6.0.2. This release fixes a number of issues with the text tool, and improves the Selection Action Panel significantly. Furthermore, Android now handles resource copying in the background, preventing a common crash on startup. In addition to that, many more bugfixes were made, including some by new contributors!

• Fix conversion of layers names passed to GMic (Bug 517975)
• Fix reversal of the layers when importing .kra as layers (Bug 514760)
• Fix font selection in qt6 and improve font dropdown.(Bug 515548)
• Fix text not getting selected when created on a normal layer (Bug 516006)
• Make keyframe selection change layer selection.
• Fix text shape not handling whitespace chars properly.
• Fix KisAnimationRenderingOptions not loading frameExportConfig.
• Several fixes for RGBE file loading.
• Check for export status of every animation frame and error out on QFile::copy failure, Improve KisAnimationRender error handling (Thanks, Raidon Chrome).
• Fix Selection Action Panel disappearing when toggling selection visibility (Bug 518633)
• Add a Selection Action Panel toggle to the selection tool options docker.
• Android: Copy assets without blocking main thread. This could take so long that Android thinks the application is not responding and prompts the user to terminate it.
• Several fixes to testing whether the file can be created when saving a document.
• Switch base image to Clang 21 on Windows.
• Fix number of pixels in A1 paper preset (Thanks, Ming-Chuan Lin).
• Add a context menu to the Selection Action Panel, and add these to the global menu bar too.
• fix segfault in PSD COS parser (Thanks, Arimil).
• Fix word selection when there's hard breaks present (Bug 518338).
• Prevent division by 0 in tool outline.
• Add buttons for italic and bold to font style.
• Fix toggle italic action.(Bug 518890)
• Fix font style-selection search algorithm in text properties docker. (Bug 518874)
• Several icons for python plugins and the crash logs were added (thanks, Arkady Flury).
• Fix warp transform preview not showing until first adjustment (Thanks, Ivan Valenzuela).
• Revert "Fix Transform and Move shortcuts conflicting Timeline arrow key actions" (Bug 515703).
• Create a qquickwidget based popup for handling popups with qquickwidgets, to improve the look and feel of the font dropdown.
• Fix freeze on opening a hi-dpi image with a vector layer (Bug 519785)
• Text: avoid potential assert when checking the text type.
• Text: fix a bunch of potential array index crashes by using a dedicated function.
• Don't move line origin if Alt is held at start (this interferes with users binding the Alt key to the line tool quick switch).
• Fix saving the title element on paths correctly. This broke some symbol libraries (Bug 520345).

Check out the release notes for a full overview of all the new features in Krita 5.3 and 6.0.

⚠️ Warning

A particularly annoying set of bugs with the layer docker crept in. We're releasing a fix as soon as possible. We recommend waiting for the fix.

⚠️ Warning

One again, we consider Krita 5.3.2 suitable for productive work; 6.0.2 is, because of the many changes from Qt5 to Qt6 more experimental.

Download 5.3.2

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.

• 64 bits Windows Installer: krita-x64-5.3.2-setup.exe

• Portable 64 bits Windows: krita-x64-5.3.2.zip

• Debug symbols. (Unpack in the Krita installation folder)

Linux

Note: starting with recent releases, the minimum supported distro versions may change.

⚠️ Warning

Starting with recent AppImage runtime updates, some AppImageLauncher versions may be incompatible. See AppImage runtime docs for troubleshooting.

• 64 bits Linux: krita-5.3.2-x86_64.AppImage

MacOS

Note: minimum supported MacOS may change between releases.

• MacOS disk image: krita-5.3.2-signed.dmg

Android

Krita on Android is still beta; tablets only.

• 64 bits Intel CPU APK

• 64 bits Arm CPU APK

• 32 bits Arm CPU APK

Source code

For source archives, please download one of the 6.0.2 archives and build with Qt5.

Download 6.0.2

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.

• 64 bits Windows Installer: krita-x64-6.0.2-setup.exe

• Portable 64 bits Windows: krita-x64-6.0.2.zip

• Debug symbols. (Unpack in the Krita installation folder)

Linux

Note: starting with recent releases, the minimum supported distro versions may change.

⚠️ Warning

Starting with recent AppImage runtime updates, some AppImageLauncher versions may be incompatible. See AppImage runtime docs for troubleshooting.

• 64 bits Linux: krita-6.0.2-x86_64.AppImage

MacOS

Note: minimum supported MacOS may change between releases.

• MacOS disk image: krita-6.0.2-signed.dmg

Android

Krita 6.0.2 is not yet functional on Android, so we are not making APK's available for sideloading.

Source code

• krita-6.0.2.tar.gz

• krita-6.0.2.tar.xz

md5sum

For all downloads, visit https://download.kde.org/stable/krita/6.0.2/ and click on "Details" to get the hashes.

Key

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

Krita 5.3.2/6.0.2 is here. Read on for a look at development news and the Krita-Artists forum's featured artwork from last month.

Development Report

Krita 5.3.2/6.0.2 Released

Krita 5.3.2/6.0.2 was released, containing various bugfixes and improvements from the nearly two months since 5.3.1/6.0.1.

Fixes Since Last Month

In the Text Properties docker there are now buttons to toggle Bold and Italic next to the Font Style chooser, toggling italics with Ctrl+I works properly the first time, and an issue where some fonts wouldn't allow choosing Regular style was fixed (bug; CCbug; change).

A freeze on opening a high PPI image with a vector layer was fixed, as well as the image progress bar getting stuck (bug; change 1, change 2).

Developments in the Unstable Builds

In Krita Next, the Selection Tools now have a tool option to Move Selected Content by dragging the inside of a selection. (wishbug; change by Ricky Ringler)

Wolthera has made some improvements to the Wide Gamut Color Selector. L*a*b* and YCbCr are converted to LCh (lightness, chroma, hue) instead of directly using their channels, meaning they are now able to map properly to the HSV-based selector layouts (change). Additionally, the static hue edge option is now implemented for when hue is shown in a bar instead of a ring (change).

Community Report

April 2026 Monthly Art Challenge Results

The winner of the "Microadventure" challenge is…

Join This Month's Art Challenge!

For May's theme, last month's winner has chosen "Animals and Patterns"

Featured Artwork

This month's featured forum artwork, as voted in the Best of Krita-Artists - March/April 2026:

Nominate and Vote For Next Month's Featured Artwork!

Participate in next month's nominations and voting to voice your opinion on the Best of Krita-Artists - April/May 2026.

Krita is Free - But You Can Contribute!

Krita is free to use and modify, but it can only exist with the contributions of the community. A small sponsored team alongside volunteer programmers, artists, writers, testers, translators, and more from across the world keep development going.

If this software has value to you, consider donating to the Krita Development Fund. Or Get Involved and put your skills to use making Krita and its community better!

Additional Changes

Krita Plus (Stable, 5.3.2/6.0.2):

• Preset Image Sizes: Correct the A1 at 300ppi preset to be 7016x9933px instead of 7008x9933, and the A1 600ppi preset to be 14031x19866px instead of 7008x11811. (change by Ming-Chuan Lin)
• File Formats: PSD: Fix a crash in text parsing. (change by Arimil)
• Text: Fix detection of hard breaks as a word boundary when selecting words. (bug; change by Wolthera van Hövell)
• SVG: Fix symbol libraries with title elements being mis-positioned when drag-and-dropped. (bug; change by Wolthera van Hövell)
• Transform Tool: Fix Warp transform preview being empty until modifying the transform. (bug, bug; change by Ivan Valenzuela)
• Line Tool: Don't move line origin when Alt is held at start of a line, only afterward. If the Activate Line Tool canvas input was assigned to Alt+Left Click, it would start off moving an empty line. (change by Carsten Hartenfels)
• Selection Actions Bar: Add actions to disable or configure the Selection Actions Bar to the Select menu and a right-click context menu on the bar itself. (change by Luna Lovecraft)
• General: Add icons for the Python plugin import, show log, and calligraphy increase/decrease angle/width actions. (change 1, change 2, change 3 by Arkady Flury)
• Android: Fix startup crash on Android 7. (bug; change by Carsten Hartenfels)

Krita Plus (Stable, 5.3.3/6.0.3-prealpha):

• File Formats: Avoid crash when export ICC profile has no TRC present, but colorants are. (bug; change by Wolthera van Hövell)

Krita Next (Unstable, 5.4.0/6.1.0-prealpha):

• File Formats: PNG: Use 72ppi when a PNG file has undefined resolution, instead of ending up with an undefined number around 60million that crashes Krita when attempting to adjust it. (bug; change by Ivan Yossi)
• General: Skip adding empty image updates into the updates queue, to prevent getting stuck if an update area is hugely miscalculated. (CCbug; change by Dmitry Kazakov)
• Linux Wayland: Color Management: Add a CIE color diagram to the OS-managed display color management settings. (change by Wolthera van Hövell)
• Windows: Fix file type names displayed in File Explorer. (bug; change by Elena Sagalaeva)

Nightly Builds

These pre-release versions of Krita are built every day.

Note that there are currently no Qt6 builds for Android.

Get the latest bugfixes in Stable Krita Plus (5.3.3/6.0.3 prealpha): Linux Qt6 Qt5 — Windows Qt6 Qt5 — macOS Qt6 Qt5 — Android arm64 Qt5 – Android arm32 Qt5 – Android x86_64 Qt5

Or test out the latest Experimental features in Krita Next (5.4.0/6.1.0-prealpha). Feedback and bug reports are appreciated!: Linux Qt6 Qt5 — Windows Qt6 Qt5 — macOS Qt6 Qt5 — Android arm64 Qt5 – Android arm32 Qt5 – Android x86_64 Qt5

I have been tinkering with Helix editor lately since I quite like it.

It's a fun little editor. Can recommend for those who like modal editing. I do not know if it'll ever replace Kate editor for me, but I'm challenging myself to try new tools, just for the fun of it.

With Helix, I've used this git tool called gitu that is rather quick and easy to work with. Though I still use lazygit for more complex tasks.

Main pain point for me has been how to use some of these tools like gitu within Helix. Lazygit could be done with some magic, but I was never really satisfied with it.

I also tried Zellij for terminal multiplexing and running commands between two splits and so on. It was a bit cumbersome to get it to work as I wanted, since Zellij has tons of features I'll never need. This also caused my fingers to get entangled since I had to remember all sorts of shortcuts. Just not for me.

In Konsole terminal, there is a shortcut for splitting views easily and automatically to a fitting size. I use it a bunch. But because I'm lazy, I would have to press the shortcut, go to the other splitview, type the command for other tool, do things and then close commands. I wanted something a bit more automated.

I found that Konsole can be set to allow scripting over dbus commands: Scripting Konsole.

So I made myself a little shell script that I placed in my path: konsole-split.sh!

Here's what it does:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# In konsole settings, make sure
# - run all konsole windows in single process is disabled
# - enable the security sensitive parts is enabled

if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
    echo "Command is missing!"
    exit
fi

# Split the view automagically. We can use MainWindow_1 since we have only one process
qdbus6 "$KONSOLE_DBUS_SERVICE" /konsole/MainWindow_1 org.kde.KMainWindow.activateAction split-view-auto >/dev/tty

# Get the session of the current terminal window
CURRENTSESSION=$(qdbus6 "$KONSOLE_DBUS_SERVICE" "$KONSOLE_DBUS_WINDOW" org.kde.konsole.Window.currentSession) >/dev/tty

# Run the given arguments as a command in that session
qdbus6 "$KONSOLE_DBUS_SERVICE" /Sessions/"${CURRENTSESSION}" org.kde.konsole.Session.runCommand "$@" >/dev/tty

It's really simple, but now I can use this in my helix config like this:

[keys.normal."+"]
b = ":sh git log -L %{cursor_line},+1:%{buffer_name}" #This is git log for a line, also useful, kinda like git blame
s = ":sh konsole-split.sh 'exec scooter'" # Scooter is a search and replace in multiple files tool, very handy
g = ":sh konsole-split.sh 'exec gitu'"

In practice, what happens is:

1. In helix, i press +

2. Then I select the command, in this case gitu, so g

3. Konsole splits itself automatically to a comfortable size

4. It then gets the session of that new split

5. And runs the gitu command with exec

   • So if the execution stops/fails, it just closes the split instantly

This works really well for my needs, and I was surprised to see how simple it was to create something like this. I think the error handling when command does not work could be better, but oh well, works for me for now.

Let me know if you do anything similar or have any improvement ideas! :)