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

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

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

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

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

Today at KDE neon tower we are feeling cute. And sixy. We have an early-prototype-preview-no-stability-guaranteed Qt 6 package. This is in the KDE neon Unstable edition so if you run that you can just And you’ll have a digital clock. … Read More

Our beautiful desktop Plasma 5.20 has been released and with it the version bump in KDE neon User Edition to 5.20. To get it you can Download the installable ISO and run it on a virtual machine like Virtualbox or … Read More

A bad snapshot in KDE neon user edition today caused an incomplete build to get into user editions. If you are affected downgrade with sudo apt-get install libkwaylandserver5=5.19.5-0xneon+20.04+focal+build10 Sorry about that, we’ll add additional QA checks to prevent similar issues … Read More

KDE neon is our installable Linux with continuous integration and deployment. It’s based on Ubuntu who had a new Long Term Support Release recently so we’ve rebased it on Ubuntu 20.04 now. You should see a popup on your install … Read More

Here at KDE neon base camp we have been working on moving the base of our system to Focal, Ubuntu 20.04. If you’re interested in the mechanics you can see the status, and indeed help out, on our 20.04 workboard. … Read More