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Happy Birthday to us 🎂! KDE is 29!

Today KDE is 29 years old and we are celebrating kicking off our yearly #fundraiser. Donate and make KDE's wishes come true.

kde.org/fundraisers/...
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See you tonight at 21:00 CET at the #Kdenlive Café.

We're looking forward to hear you feedback on the 25.12 RC and answering your questions.

meet.kde.org/b/far-twm-ebr
December 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The dragons may have all been adopted, but we give you the instructions on how to make your own!

Grab the instructions from the "thank you" page you see after donating:

kde.org/fundraisers/...

or directly download them from here:

kde.org/fundraisers/...

And get knitting!
November 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
We're back with 5 more apps up for adoption at our fundraiser:

- LabPlot: A powerful data analysis and visualization tool that accepts data in many formats.

- Okular: View all kinds of documents. Okular supports annotations, digital signing, and more.

kde.org/fundraisers/...
November 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
All dragons and kaijus have now been adopted!

kde.org/fundraisers/...

A big thank you to everybody for your generosity ❤️ !
The 10 dragons that will now enjoy a wonderful life with their new families.
November 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Fundraiser news: Adopt a KDE dragon!

10 KDE dragons turned up on our doorstep today looking for families to adopt them. Contribute €100 or more to our fundraiser and one of these amigurumi cuties will go and live with you!

kde.org/fundraisers/...
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Plasma is going all Wayland

After nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release (due early 2027) will be Wayland-exclusive.

Read the FAQ below to find out what this means for you and the future of KDE:

blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/g...
November 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
As the "Days of Much Spending" near, much of the Plasma-powered hardware has updated models and juicy offers for those of you in the market for new hardware.

We have updated our hardware page with the latest models and links to the stores where you can find the best deals.

kde.org/hardware/
November 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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🚀 New KDE SLIMBOOK VII
Celebrating 8 years with @kde.org with our most powerful edition:
🔹 AMD Ryzen 9 365 AI
🔹 AMD Radeon™ 880M
🔹 16” WQXGA display
🔹 Upgradable to 128 GB DDR5 RAM
🔹 Up to 8 TB NVMe 4.0 storage

💰 Launch + Black Friday: €1,029 (-€70)
slimbook.com/en/blog/news...
KDE Slimbook VII: 8 years after
Quality leap for the Linux community
slimbook.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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#Fundraiser news: 5 more apps added to the list of adoptable apps.

* Spectacle is Plasma's inbuilt screen capture app. It can snap pics, record videos, edit them, and will son be able to extract text from captured images.

kde.org/fundraisers/...

#FreeSooftware #OpenSource
November 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
#Fundraiser news: We reached our first goal of €50,000 in a week and have now surpassed our first stretch goal of €75,000. Our final stretch goal is to reach €100,000 before the end of year.

[Continued...]
Reaching the Inflection Point
Help us bring KDE’s software catalogue into the mainstream! We have just released Plasma 6.5, a stable, usable and accessible desktop environment that brings us closer to meeting the needs of private ...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Time to reveal the mystery!

With its iconic Uhrturm, lively historic centre and irresistible sweet treats, Graz, Austria, is the perfect place for #Akademy2026.

We will share the exact dates very soon. Stay tuned!
November 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Besides the Steam Deck, you’ll soon be able to cut your videos with Kdenlive on the new Steam Frame and the GabeCube (a.k.a. Steam Machine)!

All running on @kde.org Plasma of course!

#valve #steam #steamOS #steamdeck #kde #videoediting #kdenlive #videoediting
November 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Valve announces a desktop machine and VR goggles, both powered by KDE's Plasma desktop.

store.steampowered.com/sale/steamma...

store.steampowered.com/sale/steamfr...
November 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Plasma 6.5 was released three weeks ago. Time to talk about what it delivers.

* Better Waydroid integration
* A faster lock screen
* Halcyon and Folio, the two different interfaces you can choose from, improve blurs, navigation, and settings

And much, much more.

plasma-mobile.org/2025/11/10/p...
November 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This week in #KDE Apps, we have some quality-of-life improvements in Kate, basic HDR support in Krita on Wayland and touch improvements in Photos.

blogs.kde.org/2025/11/10/t...
November 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
We have nearly reached our first stretch goal! Will your donation push us into our fundraiser's next phase?

kde.org/fundraisers/...

And we have four more apps you can adopt:

- Kdenlive is KDE's powerful, full-featured video editor for aficionados and professional moviemakers

[Continued... >]
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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The last maintenance release of the #kdenlive 25.08 series is here!

This update fixes issues with clip pasting in projects using different FPS, and subtitle styles. It also adds SVG file replacement and improves disk space checks when archiving.

kdenlive.org/news/release...

#videoediting #kde
November 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Timothée and Aiswarya Giet, contributors to KDE's #educational suite #GCompris, visit #Kerala ( #India ) on holiday, and end up helping local officials improve their #FreeSoftware setup, adding two new languages to #GCompris and getting featured in the press.

timotheegiet.com/blog/floss/g...
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6, versioned 6.5.2.:

kde.org/announcement...

This update fixes blurs and screencasts, solves a crash on #FreeBSD, improves usability and accessibility, and more.
KDE Plasma 6.5.2, Bugfix Release for November - KDE Community
Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6.
kde.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
KDE's GSoC report is out!

Read the full report to discover all the work mentees have carried out to improve, Krita, Kdenlive, Cantor, KDE Linux, Karton, and more.

mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-11...
November 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
"Adopt an App" is back! You can now show your love for your favorite apps through our fundraiser.

Pick an app, donate €50 or more, and tell us about your choice in the comments:

kde.org/fundraisers/...

You will appear as a supporter on the apps apps.kde.org page.
November 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Enjoy being creeped out? Check out our two Halloween special fundraiser horror stories 🦇 "Night of the Living Bed" and "The Colour out of Waste".

kde.org/fundraisers/...

#fundraiser #donations #halloween #FreeSoftware
October 31, 2025 at 12:42 PM
... And thus we have reached the season of witches, d[a]emons 😈 and zombie [procceses] 🧟!

Checkout KDE's fundraiser as it enters its spookiest 👻 phase yet, and help us ward of tech hobgoblins and proprietary waifs that threaten your rights and freedoms.

kde.org/fundraisers/...

#fundraising
October 30, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Awesome fundraiser news: €53,000 raised!

Thanks to your generous support, we have reached our initial goal, and then surpassed it in a little over two weeks! We have set our next stretch goal and are now looking to raise €75,000 for the KDE Community.

kde.org/fundraisers/...

#fundraiser #donation
October 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM