We have just switched on the upgrade for KDE neon to rebase on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. We do this every two years and the 22.04 LTS base was getting increasingly crusty with old Pipewire causing problems and packages like Krita … Read More

Back from the fun of Akademy in Würzburg we can now get to the important task of testing Plasma 6.2 beta. It’s now in KDE neon testing edition which we build from the Git branches which will be used to … Read More

KDE Akademy is meeting this week in Würzburg. We just had a BoF session where we discussed..

Here at KDE neon tower we have been busy rebasing our KDE software builds from Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) to Ubuntu 24.04 (noble). This always takes longer than you’d think, mostly because it’s a moving target so we also have to … Read More

The new Ubuntu LTS was released in April, congratulations to all involved with that. I know Scarlett worked hard to get Kubuntu back into shape so do if that a try if you want a stable Plasma 5 desktop. In … Read More

The goal of KDE neon is to build all KDE’s software on a stable Ubuntu LTS base, we do it in an automated way and for the User edition have automated QA to deploy rapidly but safely. For the KDE … Read More

We’re a few weeks after the KDE 6 Megarelease and while many people have it working well there were too many problems in KDE neon’s rollout. We’ll be hosting two Open Door Chats on KDE meet tomorrow (Tue 16 April) … Read More

As many have noticed, Neon’s release of Plasma 6 was not without its problems. We would like to apologise for the totally unexpected packaging problems as “Testing Edition” and “Unstable Edition” had been working just fine without these issues. Of … Read More

Today KDE has made its biggest release ever, never before in the 25 year history of the project have we announced so many new products at the same time but it brings the newly refreshed base to keep our software … Read More

It’s high tension in Neon towers this week as the distro packagers have been given access to the source tars for Plasma 6 along with Frameworks 6 and KDE Gear 24.02. This means our cloud of build servers have been … Read More