KDE developer Nate Graham known for his weekly development summaries characterized this week as "the floodgates started opening! Amazing stuff has been landing left and right every day this week!"

If GNOME 3.38 isn't your cup of tea, you may be interested in trying out the beta of the forthcoming KDE Plasma 5.20 desktop.

KDE Frameworks 5.74 is out as the latest monthly update to this collection of KDE libraries complementing the Qt5 tool-kit.

Akademy 2020 took place virtually this week as the annual gathering of KDE developers.

KDE has kicked off the new month with some interesting improvements.

KDE's Plasma 5.20 desktop picked up a number of new features this week.

KDE applications finally have the ability to keeping their window positions preserved when closed and then re-launched.

KDE developers remain very busy tacking new features onto Plasma 5.20 and other improvements for polishing their desktop.

KDE has shipped their latest collection of applications with newest feature updates.

Getting KDE's Wayland session into shape remains a priority for developers this year and it's looking like the support should be quite slick come Plasma 5.20.

Even with everything going on in the world around the coronavirus and warm summer temperatures, KDE developers continue making improvements on their desktop stack, including around Wayland support.

KDE Plasma 5.20 is bringing an important feature in further closing the gap between Wayland and X11 feature parity... Finally there will be working screen recording and screencasting on Wayland for compatible applications.

DigiKam 7.0 is out for this KDE/Qt-aligned open-source photography manager solution.

This week KDE developers have seen a lot of bug and regression fixes materialize for Plasma and other components.

In recent months KDE's Konsole terminal emulator has been seeing a lot of new features while even more are in the works.

Several months have passed since there was any news to report on KDE Frameworks 6 but the coronavirus pandemic as well as Qt uncertainties have not caused KF6 development to slow down for this next-generation set of KDE add-on libraries complementing Qt.

While KDE Plasma 5.19 is already in fairly good shape with regards to its Wayland session, Plasma 5.20 is looking to offer even better support for this native Wayland environment along with many other enhancements.

It took the GNOME/Ubuntu side until Canonical developer Daniel van Vugt picked up a 4K display with Intel graphics for various 4K/Intel graphics optimizations to be discovered and continue to be addressed for the GNOME desktop. Now on the KDE side, well known contributor Nate Graham recently picked up a new laptop with HiDPI display and there he has been working to resolve a number of lingering high DPI issues on the KDE front.

KDE developers remain very active with improving this open-source desktop environment even amid the coronavirus pandemic.

KDE has completed its transition to its own self-hosted GitLab instance for Git hosting and other developer services for handling of bug reports and merge requests.

KDE developers remain as busy as ever, especially when it comes to fixing bugs.

Longtime KDE developer David Edmundson has issued a call for help in porting work for Plasma 6.0.

At the start of 2020 well known KDE developer Nate Graham who publishes the weekly status reports on their desktop environment posted a 2020 KDE roadmap of sorts. Now being half-way through the year, here is a look at how that roadmap is looking with what items have been completed, what is still being tackled, and what is looking less likely to be accomplished.

KDE developers continue making much progress on enhancing their desktop through this pandemic and the nice summer weather.

Krita 4.3 is out today as the latest major feature release for this popular digital painting program. More than one thousand issues were fixed in this release plus introducing plenty of new functionality.

QML Online is a Qt/QML adaptation for the web powered by EmScripten / WebAssembly.

Given this week's successful launch of Plasma 5.19, KDE developers have begun focusing more work on Plasma 5.20 as the desktop's next feature release.

The KDE community has released Plasma 5.19 on schedule this morning.

It's another busy week in the KDE land from their Wayland session finally supporting middle-click paste to Konsole now able to display image thumbnail previews when hovering over filenames with this KDE terminal emulator.

Shipping one week from today is KDE Plasma 5.19 and among many other improvements is also significantly enhancing its Wayland support.