KDE neon has Docker images which are great for easily testing out KDE software built from Git master, Git testing or releases without touching your host system. The images have just been updating to use KDE neon on the new … Read More
KDE neon: Jammy Porting Update
Jammy porting is happening at full pace. Almost all the packages are now compiled and that leaves ISOs to be built and upgrade to be tested. As with any software or engineering project there’s not much point in putting a … Read More
Neon: Maliit Keyboard Now Available on Wayland
We have updated the Maliit keyboard package to Maliit 2 and released it to Neon user edition. This gives a virtual keyboard which you can use, handy for convertible laptops with a removeable keyboard. It only runs when using Wayland … Read More
Stuck Updates Fix
When rolling out a new feature that lets you skip (offline) updates on boot-up earlier this week we have messed up and also brought in a nasty bug that prevents updates from applying. Unfortunately we can’t automatically rectify this problem … Read More
KDE neon now on Linux 5.8
Here at KDE neon we pride ourselves on giving you the latest from KDE built pronto and QAed and shipped to you with no questions asked. We also base on the stable Ubuntu LTS 20.04 release giving a generally stable … Read More
KDE neon 5.22 is Here
Plasma 5.22 was released yesterday and so the hard working continuous automation and continuous deployment guinea pigs at KDE neon compiled it all and bumped the version number and spun new installable ISOs and Docker images for you to try … Read More
KDE neon’s Qt is Now Built from KDE’s Git Branches
Recently KDE started to maintain a collection of patches for Qt 5. This is because Qt 5 came to end of life with Qt 6 now released (KDE Frameworks has started the slow process of moving to Qt 6). With … Read More
The End of LTS Edition
More than 3 years ago we had taken a step back from our Plasma LTS Edition. It never quite fit into way KDE neon works as a product, nor as a project. Plasma was caught in the past while the … Read More
Offline Updates are Here
A while ago we have talked to you about our plans to switch to offline updates, in an attempt at making the update experience more reliable. After some testing we have now rolled out the change to all editions. For … Read More
Offline Updates are Coming
For a very long time we’ve been paving the road for offline updates. We are excited to finally introduce the first step to the KDE neon Unstable Edition today and would love to hear your opinion in the forum. Unlike … Read More