KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta Release

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Here are the new modules available in the Plasma 6.8 beta:

kup: Backup scheduler for the Plasma desktop

Some important features and changes included in 6.8 beta are highlighted on KDE community wiki page.

Help stress-test the Union theming system

This releases marks the second half of the Union theming system’s public tech preview!

New in Plasma 6.8: Union now themes QtWidgets applications, such as Dolphin and Kate. Bear in mind this support is preliminary and you will encounter bugs. When you do, please report them here!

To test Union:

Make sure the union package is installed (name may differ depending on your distro)
Launch System Settings
In the sidebar, navigate to Colors & Themes → Application Style
Click “Breeze (Union)”
Click Apply

This will apply Union styling to both QtQuick and QtWidgets apps.

The intention is for these apps to look as similar as possible when styled with Union to how they look with Breeze — though any minor visual improvements should be considered intentional!

If you find any issues, make sure they’re Union-specific by running the app with the Breeze style to compare the two. If the issue is Union-specific, report it here!

KWin

KWin now depends on the plasma-wayland-protocols 1.23.0 release to provide fix for memory leak.

Everything else

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KDE Gear 26.08.1

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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:

kdeconnect: Fix orientation of an arrow within the plasmoid (Commit, fixes bug #524889)
kongress: Fix opening the room map from a talk (Commit)
okular: Fix a crash when saving documents (Commit, fixes bugs #477153 and #505130)

Distro and app store packagers should update their application packages.

26.08 release notes for information on tarballs and known issues.
Package download wiki page
26.08.1 source info page
26.08.1 full changelog

KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta Release

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Here are the new modules available in the Plasma 6.8 beta:

kup: Backup scheduler for the Plasma desktop

Some important features and changes included in 6.8 beta are highlighted on KDE community wiki page.

Help stress-test the Union theming system

This releases marks the second half of the Union theming system’s public tech preview!

New in Plasma 6.8: Union now themes QtWidgets applications, such as Dolphin and Kate. Bear in mind this support is preliminary and you will encounter bugs. When you do, please report them here!

To test Union:

Make sure the union package is installed (name may differ depending on your distro)
Launch System Settings
In the sidebar, navigate to Colors & Themes → Application Style
Click “Breeze (Union)”
Click Apply

This will apply Union styling to both QtQuick and QtWidgets apps.

The intention is for these apps to look as similar as possible when styled with Union to how they look with Breeze — though any minor visual improvements should be considered intentional!

If you find any issues, make sure they’re Union-specific by running the app with the Breeze style to compare the two. If the issue is Union-specific, report it here!

Everything else

View full changelog

KDE Ships Frameworks 6.30.0

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Wednesday, 9 September 2026

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 6.30.0.

This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner.

New in this version

Baloo

Apply clang-format on fileexcludefilters.cpp. Commit.
Exclude .snapshots folders from indexing. Commit.
[app] Skip content indexing in the extractor if onlyBasicIndexing is set. Commit. See bug #500665

Bluez Qt

Port away from ecm_add_qml_module's deprecated CLASSNAME arg. Commit.

Breeze Icons

Set missing fill="currentColor" for update-busy. Commit.
Add "tv" symlink to "video-television". Commit.
Add symlinks for text-x-shellscript. Commit.
Add symbolic mastodon icon. Commit.

Extra CMake Modules

List ECM sources explicitly instead of using GLOBS. Commit.
ECMInstalledLibraryCheck: add more separating linebreaks to generated files. Commit.
ExecuteKDEModules: add newer KDE modules to test. Commit.
ExecuteKDEModules: split off support for apple platform, document it. Commit.
ECMInstalledLibraryCheck: use $cond:string over $IF:cond,string,. Commit.
Add ECMInstalledLibraryCheck. Commit.
Ecm_generate_export_header: make VERSION optional, default to PROJECT_VERSION. Commit.
ECMSetupVersion: support version args in . and forms. Commit.
ECMSetupVersion: use final hex number in version header, not calculation. Commit.

KCalendarCore

Use QLocale for concatenating recurrence days. Commit.
Improve translation contexts for some of the recurrence descriptions. Commit.
Src/vcalformat.cpp - fix spelling typo in a comment. Commit.
Adapt recurrenceDescription unit tests to English translations. Commit.
Add Incidence::recurrenceDescription. Commit.
Fix Incidence::statusName property name. Commit.
Add translated enum names for Incidence::secrecy and Incidence::status. Commit.
Change parseScheduleMessage to take a QByteArray as input. Commit.
Add translated names for attendee status and role enums. Commit.
Fix tr() message context. Commit.
Expose Calendar and ScheduleMessage to python bindings. Commit.
Add translated error messages. Commit.

KCMUtils

Documentation fixes. Commit.
Fix documentation for SettingsStateBinding. Commit.
Fix docs for KQuickManagedConfigModule. Commit.
Kcmutils_generate_module_data: add missing var init, for safer usage. Commit.
Add missing EXCLUDE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE_AND_AT default variable declaration. Commit.
No longer explicitly include CMakeParseArguments. Commit.
Fix types in QML documentation. Commit.

KCodecs

[KEncodingProber] Fix signedness issues for mBestGuess index. Commit.
[KEncodingProber] Return 0.0 confidence if encoding signals wrong syntax. Commit.
[KEncodingProber] Clean up float constants and C-style static casts. Commit.
[KEncodingProber] Drop charlen tables from state machine models. Commit.
[KEncodingProber] Remove need for charlen table from MBCS probers. Commit.
[KEncodingProber] Remove some erroneously copied comment. Commit.
[KEncodingProber] Remove no longer used method. Commit.
[KEncodingProber] SBCS: Replace model pointer with reference. Commit.
[KEncodingProber] SBCS: Replace unbounded array pointer with span. Commit.
[KEncodingProber] Move sequence counter sum out of loop. Commit.
[KEncodingProber] Test for Cyrillic encodings (and Unicode reencodings). Commit.
[KEncodingProber] Test for ASCII only UTF-16 encoded texts. Commit.

KColorScheme

Kcolorschemetest: explicitly cast enum values to int for arithmetic ops. Commit.

KConfig

Add some missing CMake var initialization, for safer usage. Commit.
Kconfigcore: minor cleanups. Commit.
Fix tabNext() and tabPrev() default documentation. Commit.

KContacts

Add Matrix icon. Commit.

KCoreAddons

KFormat: Get current time in UTC. Commit.
Kfilesystemtype: identify a fuse mount by its name when the table cannot. Commit.
Kfilesystemtype: tell a fuse mount with a disk behind it from one without. Commit.

KDav

Fix DavItemMoveJob doc's \since specifier from 6.29 to 6.30. Commit.
Add dav MOVE job. Commit.

KFileMetaData

Reenable Qt 6.12 CI. Commit.
[PostscriptDscExtractor] Fix time offset parsing for Qt 6.12. Commit.
[PostscriptDscExtractor] Modernize QString usage. Commit.
[SimpleExtractionResult] Fix copy constructor. Commit.
[EmbeddedImageData] Remove some dead, unreachable code and data. Commit.
Fix a few nodiscard warnings for QFile::open. Commit.
[ExtractorPlugin] Allow alias names when matching extractor mimetypes. Commit. Fixes bug #522678
[kfilemetadata_dump] Provide information about cover images etc. Commit. See bug #500113
[FFmpegExtractor] Extract cover image from Matroska streams. Commit. See bug #500113
[FFmpegExtractorTest] Move test class declaration to implementation file. Commit.

KGlobalAccel

Parse QKeySequence from QDBusArgument more carefully. Commit. Fixes bug #524700

KGuiAddons

Add geo: URI handler for Cartes. Commit.
Add support to pass along the unmodified geo: URI in an URL template. Commit.
Fix geo: URI query string encoding. Commit.
Reuse explicitly provided image data. Commit. Fixes bug #519651
Waylandclipboard: Check isInterruptionRequested in prepare read loop. Commit. Fixes bug #517743

KHolidays

Fix dates for 2083 (2026/27 A.D.). Commit.
Update Norwegian holidays based on official sources. Commit.
Update event date for Urs Aala-Hazrat. Commit.

KI18n

Add another test case for 0. Commit.

KIdletime

Include CMakeFindFrameworks only with APPLE. Commit.
Drop no longer used CMake variable. Commit.

KImageformats

Jp2: Fix new[] vs delete by not doing new[]. Commit. Fixes bug #525120
QRoundOrZero_T: fix possible assert in qRound. Commit. Fixes bug #524678
Autotests: Add non-standard HEIF image. Commit.
Heif: re-enable decoding of non-standard images. Commit. Fixes bug #495686
Add HEIC test files with crop transformation. Commit.
Heif: check crop values. Commit.
Jxl: Do not rewind after reading final frame. Commit.
Rgb: reject RLE start offsets that underflow the raster data. Commit.
Avif: Do not rewind in jumpToNextImage(). Commit.
Ossfuzz: call functions used in animations. Commit.

KIO

Bring KSycoca::setupTestMenu code here. Commit.
Copyjob: name the copy lists for what they hold. Commit.
KUrlNavigator: Set the frameShape to StyledPanel. Commit.
KDirModel: Pass UTC time to KFormat::formatRelativeDateTime(). Commit.
Drop duplicated explicit install() call on kio_help plugin. Commit.
KDirSortFilterProxyModel: Avoid creating QDateTime instance. Commit.
[ftp] Send commands in upper case consistently. Commit. Fixes bug #523927
Autotests: Run the http worker tests as part of the suite. Commit.
Http: Keep one network manager for the life of the worker. Commit.
KOpenWithDialog: fix pattern matching in filterAcceptsRow(). Commit. Fixes bug #524085
Previewjob: drop the synchronous cached-thumbnail lookups. Commit.
Desktopexecparsertest: fix typo in installation var. Commit.
Desktopexecparsertest: add missing quotes for a string definition argument. Commit.
Previewjob: make the previews in the order they were asked for. Commit.
File worker: reserve an entry for the fields it always carries. Commit.
Kcoredirlister: let the list of items grow instead of sizing it per batch. Commit.
Http: Keep a large request body out of memory. Commit.
Kmountpoint: Write the Latin-1 strings as literals. Commit.
Kmountpoint: add SupportsFileCloning for COW filesystems. Commit.
PreviewJob: Read cached thumbnails in bounded batches before generating. Commit.
Gui: Read and write the thumbnail cache in one place. Commit.
PreviewJob: add cachedPreview() for a synchronous cache-only lookup. Commit.
Kfileitemactions: test service menu submenu. Commit.
Kfileitemactions: fix submenu lifetime using main menu as the parent. Commit. Fixes bug #524239
Http: Report how far an upload has got, not what the answer weighs. Commit. Fixes bug #518511
Avoid MIME content-sniffing on slow filesystems. Commit.
Systemdprocessrunner: Handle when unit returns failure. Commit.
Don't show percent-encoded strings for items of desktop:/ IO worker. Commit. Fixes bug #522470
KIO: hand what a message carries over as it is within a process. Commit.
Properties: show how much room a folder takes up, not only its data. Commit. Fixes bug #457363
Jobtest: set the language the expected text is written in. Commit.
Filepreviewjob: Check remote-skip conditions before checking mimetype. Commit.
File: ask statx for the permission bits that are read from its answer. Commit.
File: let a folder with the setgid bit give a copied file its group. Commit. Fixes bug #399270
File worker: ask for the mount of the destination while looking at it. Commit.
File worker: create copy destinations relative to a pinned directory fd. Commit.
OpenURLJob: Stop reading BrowserApplication from kdeglobals. Commit.
KMountPoint: cache mount lookups by unique mount id. Commit.
Autotests: verify KFileCopyToMenu prunes missing recent destinations. Commit.
Autotests: test for non_existing directories removed. Commit.
Kfilecopytomenu: Limits max entries and removes unavailable links from the list. Commit.
Git-blame-ignore-revs: add code reorganization commits. Commit.
Kfileitemactions: reorder functions for better readability. Commit.
Openurljobtest: wait for the launched processes before ending a test. Commit.
Autotests: ask the mime database which type a test means. Commit.
Openurljob: open a shell script rather than refuse it as a program. Commit. Fixes bug #522948
Knewfilemenu: reorder execute functions to match the order they are called in slotActionTriggered. Commit.
Knewfilemenu: allow overriding system templates with local templates. Commit. Fixes bug #473991
Knewfilemenu: set application link title to not be misleading. Commit. Fixes bug #520949
Knewfilemenu: fix relative symlinks. Commit. Fixes bug #508444
RenameFileDialog: offer the rename operation of the last rename. Commit. Fixes bug #523932
RenameFileDialog: free what the dialog owns. Commit.
SlaveBase: do not take a missing total for a finished transfer. Commit.
DeleteJob: pass on the bytes its rmdir subjob reports. Commit.
Kio_file: delete a tree natively on unix, and report the bytes deleted. Commit.

Kirigami

Fix typo in documentation. Commit.
Remove wrong API documentation marker. Commit.
Pull TODO out of API documentation. Commit.
Fix \since syntax. Commit.
Fix documentation syntax in ScenePosition. Commit.
Fix documentation syntax in PagePool. Commit.
Fix documented QML import name. Commit.
Add missing \inherits to C++ types. Commit.
Mark SafeArea as internal. Commit.
Fix parameter name in documentation. Commit.
Add missing parameter marker in documentation. Commit.
Add missing full stops in documentation. Commit.
Remove non-functional link. Commit.
Remove * from QML API documentation comment. Commit.
Qml-format InlineViewHeader. Commit.
Qml-format LinkButton. Commit.
Fix type name in documentation. Commit.
Add explicit \inherits where needed. Commit.
ColumnView: better layout for pinned items. Commit.
ListItemDragHandle: stop the dropAnimation if one is still running. Commit. Fixes bug #517233
InlineMessage: Use smallSpacing for the label also on its right. Commit.
Typo--. Commit.
SwipeListItem: add a deprecated notice. Commit.
SwipeListItem: Don't make the content item overlap the icons. Commit. Fixes bug #518436
Forms/flat: Fix padding calculation for subtitle. Commit.
Flat/FormGroup: remove unused import. Commit.
Flat/FormGroup: make spacing around headings more like FormLayout. Commit.
Flat/FormGroup: simplify layout. Commit.
Flat/FormGroup: make header more accurate to FormLayout. Commit.
OverlaySheet: make the scrim darker. Commit. Fixes bug #447965
Fix Overlaysheet touchscreen behavior. Commit.
Drop unneeded AUTOMOC_MOC_OPTIONS. Commit.
FormGroup(cards): fix resize loop. Commit.
Drop explicit CMake settings duplicatd from KDECMakeSettings. Commit.
Include KDECMakeSettings/KDEFrameworkCompilerSettings early. Commit.
Remove duplicated KDEInstallDirs module include. Commit.
Forms: Explicitly specify individual paddings when setting padding. Commit.
Units::eventFilter: fix to react just to font change of app instance. Commit.
FormEntry: make it possible to get the inner spacing. Commit.
FormEntry: make spacing more consistent. Commit.
Finish making GlobalDrawer.isMenu behave the same everywhere. Commit.
ImageColors: de-flake test_extractColors. Commit.
Kirigami app template: use PROJECT arg with ecm_setup_version(). Commit.
FormEntry(flat): make sure the trailing area is actually fillHeight. Commit.
Add another safety check before automatically popping hidden pages. Commit.
FormEntry(flat) some minor fixes. Commit.
FormEntry(flat) some minor fixes. Commit.
FormEntry(all): rename forceExpanedContents with fullWidth. Commit.
Form: center contents only horizontally. Commit.
FormEntry (both): completely propagate Layout properties. Commit.
FormEntry(cards): fix the flipping of switches. Commit.
FormEntry (flat): reorganize the internal layout. Commit.
FormEntry: make links inthe subtitle clickable. Commit.
FormEntry: introduce forceExpandedContents. Commit.
Docs: Explicitly ignore basictheme_p.h in Platform documentation. Commit.
Docs: Suppress "can't link to index.html" warnings. Commit.
Docs: Don't generate documentation for private types. Commit.
Forms: Fix documentation of FormAlignmentGroup members. Commit.
Forms: Fix documentation of FormGroup type. Commit.
Docs: Ensure the Forms module is properly included in indices. Commit.
Icon: Don't try to load empty fallback icons. Commit.
Set implicitwidth at 3d gridunits only for cards layout. Commit.
Keep the ToolBarPageFooter menu inside the SafeArea. Commit.
Make the Page globalFooter page property a QQC2.Page type. Commit.
Keep ToolBarPageFooter buttons inside the SafeArea. Commit.

KJobWidgets

Kjobcreator: Fix tab order. Commit.

KNotifications

Notificationtester: Add URL text field. Commit.

KParts

Remove some unused includes. Commit.

KQuickCharts

Add_qml_tests: initialize _extra_args variable in all cases. Commit.
Fix usage of misnamed KDE_INSTALL_DEFAULT_ARGUMENTS. Commit.
Controls/LegendDelegate: use tabular numerals for value. Commit.

KRunner

Remove left-overs of dropped ecm_setup_qtplugin_macro_names usage. Commit.

KService

Fix documentation syntax. Commit.

KSVG

Add missing EXCLUDE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE_AND_AT default variable declaration. Commit.
SvgItem: hold one texture for one picture, like FrameSvgItem does. Commit.

KTextEditor

Only show bracket match preview if the view is visible. Commit.
Vi-mode: Fix append to block for tabs. Commit.
Vi-mode: Fix cursor column swap with tabs. Commit.
Vi-mode: Fix operations in selection ranges with tabs. Commit.
Vi-mode: Fix success message for non-successful save commands. Commit. Fixes bug #473077
Vi-mode: Fix "save all" command for unnamed files. Commit.
Fix resolution for KateVi::Range debug operator. Commit.
Vi-mode: Implement filename registers. Commit.
Vi-mode: Fix yank highlight for blocks with tabs. Commit.
Vi-mode: Simplify method to detect waiting for characters. Commit.
Vi-mode: Refactor the method for leaving insert mode. Commit.
Vi-mode: Fix checks for setting user marks. Commit. Fixes bug #520734

KTextTemplate

No longer explicitly include CMakeParseArguments. Commit.
Make date/time filter locale-aware. Commit.
Make Context accessible to filters. Commit.

KUnitConversion

Fix inconsistencies in exponentiated units. Commit.
Check if toUnit is in this category before trying to convert. Commit.

KUserFeedback

User-feedback-manual.qdocconf template: fix outdated version variable use. Commit.
User-feedback-manual.qdocconf template: fix outdated URL. Commit.

KWallet

Properly handle when the portal fails to open the wallet. Commit.
Remove unused variable. Commit.
Remove some default function args. Commit.
Ksecretd: Remove unused method parameters. Commit.
Remove leftovers from KSecretsService. Commit.
Ksecretd: Remove unused sessionTimeout parameter from pamOpen. Commit.
Ksecretd: Remove wrong comment. Commit.
Remove unused WId parameter from sync(). Commit.
Drop KSecretD::sync. Commit.
Ksecretd: Fix Completed argument when dismissing collection creation. Commit.
Ksecretd: Drop appId. Commit.
Drop defunct Leave Open option from kcfg. Commit.
Ksecretd: Remove unused force parameter from internalClose(). Commit.
Ksecretd: Drop CloseCancelled handling. Commit.
Remove unneeded KSecretD::networkWallet. Commit.
Drop unneeded KSecretD::doCloseSignals. Commit.
Ksecretd: Drop unused walletOpened signal. Commit.
Ksecretd: Make sure collection is reported as unlocked after PAM unlock. Commit. See bug #459287
Ksecretd: Make parameter names consistent. Commit.
Ksecretd: Drop unneeded intermediate function. Commit.
Drop long-time commented out code. Commit.
Add missing KWALLET_BUILD_DEPRECATED_SINCE in cpp file. Commit.
Add desktop file for kwalletd. Commit.
Run clang-format. Commit.
Drop dead CMake code for tests. Commit.
Deprecate Wallet::requestChangePassword(). Commit.
Deprecate Wallet::lockWallet(). Commit.
Deprecate Wallet::sync(). Commit.
Ksecretd: Remove unused force parameter from close(). Commit.
Ksecretd: Drop KWalletSessionStore. Commit.
Drop unused handleSession from ksecretd. Commit.
Drop Close When Idle handling from kwalletd. Commit. Fixes bug #524500
Propagate locked status from backend to kwalletd. Commit.
Add formatting commit to ignore list. Commit.
Drop isPath handling. Commit.
Drop unused function. Commit.
Fix logic errors in internalOpen. Commit. Fixes bug #524373. Fixes bug #524592
Autotests: fix dependency version var name. Commit.
Fix memory leaks in kwalletd. Commit.
Add Leave Manager Open to kcfg file. Commit.
Export kcfg file in CMake config. Commit.
Drop pseudo access control for wallet. Commit.

KWidgetsAddons

KColorMimeData: guard against a null QMimeData pointer. Commit.
KMessageDialog: clean-up left-over KF5 times show event handling. Commit.

KWindowSystem

Remove outdated & unused CMakeFindFrameworks include. Commit.

KXMLGUI

Aboutkde: use better shadow for Konqi. Commit.
Fix broken toolbars after second edit w/ multiple KXMLGUIClients. Commit. Fixes bug #442179
Mark more pimpl parent pointers as const, consistently be first member. Commit.

Modem Manager Qt

Do not use CMAKE_MODULE_PATH variable before it is created. Commit.
Remove usage of no longer existing QT_DEFINITIONS CMake variable. Commit.
Remove Qt4-times unused subdir CMakeLists.txt file for D-Bus support. Commit.

Network Manager Qt

Drop Q_FLAGS/Q_ENUMS on non-QObject/gadget types. Commit.
Port away from deprecated Q_FLAGS. Commit.

Oxygen Icons

Fixes. Commit.
More fixes. Commit.
Bug fixing. Commit.
Missing icon sizes. Commit.
Minor bug fix. Commit.
Add go-parent-folder icons for Bug 524878. Commit.
Minor fix i hope to a rendering bug. Commit.
Another derivative icon. Commit.
More bug fixing. Commit.
Bug fixing. Commit.
New size and clean up, the symbolic needs to point to point to a correct version of the icons for how its used in plasma, renaming on the applet to the correct linked version would be more optimal IMO. Commit.
Miss commit fix. Commit.
New icon for KDebugSettings. Commit.
Small improvements. Commit.
More sizes. Commit.
Just for testing. Commit.
Aparently forgot to submit the source svg. Commit.
32X32 AND 22X22 OF KTIMER ICON VERSIONS. Commit.
Improvement in visibility. Commit.
New icon. Commit.
Renaming. Commit.
Missed an icon raster. Commit.
Fixing a bug and removing the faoux backlight. Commit.
New ktimer icon still missing the small sizes. Commit.