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KDE's Supporting Members Newsletter
KDE's Supporting Members Newsletter
As the second quarter of 2025 wraps up, we celebrate the continued momentum powered by the KDE community’s creativity, collaboration, and passion.
This quarter saw significant progress across the KDE ecosystem. From steady progress on Plasma 6 to impactful community-driven events and developer sprints, we continue to advance our mission of creating free, user-friendly technology for everyone. Here’s a look at what we have achieved together in Q2.
Plasma 6.4 is here, and it feels even more like
/home, as it becomes smoother, friendlier and more helpful. It improves on nearly every front, with progress being made in accessibility, color rendering, tablet support, window management, and more.
For KDE ⚙️ Gear 25.04, no task is too small. Whether you’re managing personal files on your laptop or overseeing servers located thousands of miles away, KDE offers powerful tools to help you stay in control.
This update enhances performance, fixes bugs, and modernizes features for a more efficient and stable user experience.
This update has new developments over the past few months!
On 14 October, Microsoft will end support for Win10. This will turn hundreds of millions of computers that cannot upgrade to Windows 11 into security risks and eWaste. Yours may be one of them! But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?
We have created a new "for" page, this time "for Windows 10 exiles", in the context of the endof10.org campaign. In it, we explain how Linux with Plasma can help users escape the deranged cycle of having to buy a new computer every time Microsoft forces upgrades to its operating system.
During the last quarter, we represented KDE at various events and organized the Plasma Sprint.
This year, the Plasma Sprint happened in Graz, Austria, from 21 to 27 April. Here are some blogs to know what happened:
The KDE community will again participate in the Open Source Promotion Plan (OSPP), a program in which students can contribute to open source projects.
Another year, another successful Season Of KDE for 10 contributors!
KDE will mentor fifteen projects in this year’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC).
Techpaladin becomes an official KDE patron and contributes to our community’s funding.
With the release of the Lenovo Legion Go S gaming handheld, we’ve now got a real apples-to-apples comparison of how Windows 11 fares against SteamOS with KDE Plasma.
September 6th - 11th, 2025 at Technische Universität Berlin.
Register and join us in person at the TU Berlin or online!
Do you know someone who will be interested in Sponsoring Akademy?
KDE will participate at India FOSS, so don’t forget to join us in Bengaluru from 19 to 21 September 2025.
You can buy KDE’s Merchandise from CafePress and Freewear.