The last maintenance release of the 25.08 series is out with fixes to issues with clip pasting on projects with different fps, subtitle styles, image rendering, as well as problems with image sequences. This version also adds support for SVG file replacement and correctly checks for disk space when archiving among other improvements.
For the full changelog continue reading on kdenlive.org.
Meeting Link:
https://meet.kde.org/playback/presentation/2.3/13c9edf5ab7dc3a850feebda14fe5ed07fbe3577-1762448228740
We got together with the PenPot team’s leader, Pablo Ruiz, to discuss our updates and changes to migrate to PenPot from Figma.
One are of focus for this discussion was in the “sharing” aspect of the libraries built in PenPot. We have use cases where developers and designers need to interact with the graphical assets in a way that makes sense to each group.
We talked about working together in building a sharing model that helps both groups. We are hoping we can have things like:
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:
Distro and app store packagers should update their application packages.
We have a new release of Plasma Camera and Plasma Settings!
Plasma Camera changes:
Plasma Settings gained the ability to show all settings modules (for all platforms, such as desktop) under a toggle. It now supports the ability to show an "Apply" button for settings modules that do not want settings to save automatically. The header being misaligned on category pages is now fixed.
Visit /info/independent-releases-25-11 for the tarballs.
Please note: most Plasma Mobile software is now shipped under the Plasma or KDE Gear release cycles.
This post is about how we met KITE‘s team and visited some schools during our family visit trip in Kerala. For those who don’t know, KITE stands for “Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education”; they are in charge among other things of the GNU/Linux distribution for Kerala schools and training teachers to use it. GCompris is used a lot there, as it is the main software used in their ICT curriculum textbooks for classes I to IV. The widespread and official use of Free Software in Kerala schools really is an awesome model.
The connection with KITE happened thanks to Aiswarya’s sister’s husband, Karunraj K. He recently got hired by KITE, so even before going we knew we would try to meet some of their team. During some discussions with him, I understood they did some small customization to their GCompris package to fit their specific needs, but most importantly they added translations and voices for Tamil and Kannada languages. They need those with Malayalam and English as the Kerala state shares borders with Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, so they have many pupils in border areas speaking those languages. Of course my first reaction was to look for their sources to upstream those translations and voice files missing from our GCompris package. Sadly, after searching through their distribution and online, the sources were nowhere to be found, the only way to get them was to ask for it. This was one more motivation to get in touch with their team.
Karunraj invited us to visit KITE’s office of Kannur district, where we were warmly greeted by the local team. We met Surendran Aduthila (head of the local team), with whom we could start discussing several topics, including how to get their translation files. He made some calls to investigate the issue, and soon enough we got in contact with KITE’s CEO Anvar Sadath who invited us for a meeting at KITE’s headquarters in Trivandrum a few days later.
For this meeting, they also invited several team members from various districts involved in their GNU/Linux distribution and software development projects. First, I explained how important it is to publish their sources, especially for customized Free Software packages, ideally using both some public git repositories and the standard way to publish source packages for debian-based distributions. Using public git repositories could also help them to organize their work, and allow some external contributions. It seems they understood it clearly, and decided to follow this path.
I showed them for reference the French education forge portal, which includes a dedicated gitlab instance for teachers to host and share their projects (mostly software and tutorials), and a dedicated instance of matrix chat server for internal communications. They looked very interested, and discussed about how they could do something similar and reuse some of the educational content available from this forge. I also showed them the work from Primtux, the French GNU/Linux distribution for primary schools, which has a lot in common with their own distribution.
We discussed about how we could collaborate, like how it would be better for their translation team to work directly with us, or how we could develop some new activities together. We also discussed especially about how GCompris is used for children with special needs, and how the coming “GCompris-teachers” (a new side application we are working on, allowing teachers to create customized datasets and analyze pupils results) could be useful for this use case. And I spent some time with the head of their GNU/Linux distribution project, Abdul Hakeem, giving various tips, especially to improve their customized packaging of GCompris. And of course I could get those wanted translation and voice files from his computer, with all the necessary info to add them to our repositories 
Also, I gave them some tips about how to turn some of their in-house software into proper Free Software projects, as it is something they were interested to do but were missing some insights about how to proceed.
Finally, Aiswarya shared her experience with Kerala’s Free Software based education and how it helped her to build her career. Also, she helped me a lot during the meeting when translating some things to and from Malayalam was needed.
Globally it was a very tight-scheduled session, but I think we could cover all the most important topics. I’m very happy of this meeting, and looking forward to future collaborations.
It was covered by the press, and an article was published in The Hindu newspaper the next day (original article behind a paywall).
Two days later, I was invited to Kannur district’s “IT MELA” (IT Fair), a yearly school event with some competitions on IT topics. On this day was the digital painting contest, which I was very interested to attend: pupils had one hour to paint an image on a given subject, using either Krita or GIMP and a mouse(!). Digital painting without a graphic tablet is super difficult, so I was very impressed to see what those pupils could achieve this way. There was also a Malayalam typing contest (using a special in-house software to track typing), and a web design contest. Again I was super impressed to see what some pupils could produce in one hour with pure HTML+CSS (no frameworks allowed).
This time again my visit was covered by the press, and the next day almost all local Malayalam newspapers had an article about it.
Finally, I had the chance to visit Kuttiattoor’s primary school where I made a little speech to pupils about the importance of Free Software in education. The teachers showed me the ICT “PLAYBOX” textbooks, and gave me an English hard copy of the book for class I.
I’d like to thank again all those who were involved in the meeting organization, the IT MELA visit and the school visit. And thanks a lot to our family in India for the support!
I finally have a good desktop computer for streaming, and I have been testing streaming KDE documentation work on Twitch (with occasional Silksong speedrunning) while using a bunny avatar.
It’s time to announce it: I now stream mondays to fridays at 8 PM UTC (5 PM UTC-3 / Brasilia time) on twitch.tv/herzenschein. Come and say hi, ask about KDE stuff there!
This year we again participated in Google Summer of Code and we had 12 successful projects.
Merkuro is a modern groupware solution and uses Akonadi as backend. This year we had two mentees working on Akonadi, and in particular on how the resources and their configuration dialogs interact with Merkuro on mobile.
Pablo Ariño worked on improving the memory usage of the Akonadi agents and resources. He did that by ensuring the configuration dialogs of the agents is moved to a separate plugin which is then loaded on demand by the application, instead of having the agents being GUI processes which handle their configuration dialogs directly.
Shubham Shinde worked on the UI side of things by writing the infrastructure for config dialogs to be written in QML. This is extremely important to get mobile optimized dialogs on mobile and is also a good occasion to clean the dialog code up. All the major code changes can be found on the following merge requests: Akonadi and KDE PIM Runtime.
Kdenlive brings you all you need to edit and put together your own movies. We had 1 project for KDE's full-featured video editor:
OSS-Fuzz is a program by Google were our code is fuzzed by them in search for vulnerabilities.
Since the end of GSoC, he has also added hardware acceleration to the playback and you can find more information about that on his blog.
GCompris is KDE's educational suite for children learning at home or school. It comes with around 200 activities to learn while having fun. The next iteration of the suite adds a teacher panel to follow the progress of children and provide customised exercises to focus on specific topics.
The Mankala engine is a project that was started during last year's GSoC. The project is still in review and is pending integration into KDE.
Krita is KDE's free and open source cross-platform application for creating digital art files from scratch.
Cantor is a powerful mathematical and statistical computing front-end within the KDE ecosystem. Two contributors worked on improving Cantor this year:
One of the current KDE Goals is to improve the long term sustainability of KDE by recruiting and keeping more newcomers.
KWin is an easy to use, but flexible, window manager and compositor for the KDE Plasma desktop. It controls how windows are drawn, moved, and displayed, handles input (keyboard, mouse, touch, etc.).
Yelsin 'Yorisoft' Sepulveda worked on adding game controller input support to KWin. By using input libraries like libevdev he was able to add a option in Plasma System Settings that enables awareness of game controllers and detects their input.
This was essential for adding features, such as:
The 2025 GSoC period is finally over for KDE. A big thank you to all the mentors and contributors who have participated in GSoC! We look forward to your continuing participation in free and open source software communities and in contributing to KDE.
Tuesday, 4 November 2025. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6, versioned 6.5.2.
Plasma 6.5 was released in October 2025 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a week’s worth of new translations and fixes from KDE’s contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:
View full changelog
In this blog post, we’re having a look at how we added support for custom server certificates to Qt WebEngine. This way an application can talk to a server using a self-signed TLS certificate without adding it to the system-wide certificate store.
Continue reading Qt WebEngine Custom Server Certificates at basysKom GmbH.
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