Qt Project Goals - call for submissions now open

The Qt folks have taken inspiration in our successful KDE Goals and are starting the Qt Project Goals.

The idea is to select goals that help focus on activities that we believe to be the most crucial for the near Qt future.

Since KDE uses Qt extensively some of you probably have good goals ideas for Qt.

Announce email: https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/interest/2026-July/040479.html

Wiki: https://wiki.qt.io/Category:Goals

KDE Gear 26.08 branches created

Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the KDE Gear 26.08 releases to them

Next Dates:  

•   July 16, 2026, 23:59 UTC: 26.08 Freeze and Beta (26.07.80) tarball creation
•   July 17 2026: 26.08 Beta (26.07.80) release
•   July 30, 2026, 23:59 UTC: 26.08 RC (26.07.90) tarball creation
•   July 31, 2026: 26.08 RC (26.07.90) Release
•   August 13, 2026, 23:59 UTC: 26.08 tarball creation
•   August 14, 2026: 26.08 packages released to packagers
•   August 20, 2026: 26.08 Release

https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_26.08_Schedule
 

Qt Contributors Summit 2026: Oslo - 27th to 30th October!

 This year Qt Contributor Summit will be held in Oslo during late October.

 

If  you are a Qt contributor (developer, forum question answerer, promoter, etc) you should think of attending, it's always a great experience :)

 

More info in the announcement at https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-contributors-summit-2026-oslo-in-october 

 

If you want to attend do not forget to register (the earlier the better for the organizing team) following the form at https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Contributors_Summit_2026 

 

Thanks to The Qt Company for organizing this and also to reMarkable for hosting!

The KDE Qt5 Patch Collection has been rebased on top of Qt 5.15.19

Commit: https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt/qt5/-/commit/aa749695075684f0c8585ede19e361f9accb4287

Commercial release announcement: https://www.qt.io/blog/commercial-lts-qt-5.15.19-released 

OpenSource release announcement: https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/announce/2026-May/000626.html

 

This was the last Qt5 release.

The KDE Qt5 Patchset Collection remains open in case something very very very very very 
very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very 
very critical is needed.

Join KDE's Amharic translation effort!

A contributor has recently started translating KDE to Amharic.

They are looking for people to help since translating KDE is a lot of work.

Please join the kde-l10n-am mailing list and introduce yourself if you are interested in helping! 

KDE Gear 26.08 release schedule

 This is the release schedule the release team agreed on

https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_26.08_Schedule

Dependency freeze is in around 7 weeks (July 2) and feature freeze two weeks 
after that. Get your stuff ready!

Send your talks for Akademy NOW!

Akademy 2026 (the annual world summit for KDE) is happening in Graz. Austria, Saturday 19th – Thursday 24th September. 

First of all, if you're reading this and thinking, "Should i go to Akademy?" 


The answer is [most probably] YES! Akademy has something for everyone, be it coders, translators, promoters, designers, enthusiasts, etc.


Now, with this out of the way, go and register at https://akademy.kde.org/2026/register/

 

After you have registered, you think which interesting talks will we have on the weekend?

 

And you know who has something to say? *YOU*


Yes, *YOU*. I'm sure you've been working on something interesting, or have a great idea to share.


*YOU* may think that your idea is not that great or the things you work on are not interesting, but that's seldomly the case when someone explains me their "boring" thing they've been working on, i always think "Wow that's great".


Ok, so now that I've convinced you to send a talk proposal, when better than *TODAY* to send it?


Yes I know the Call for Participation is open until the 17 of May, but by sending it today you make sure you don't forget sending it later and also [more important for me] you help those of us in the Program Committee not to worry when the final date starts approaching and we don't have lots of talks yet because you all prefer sending talks on the very last minute.


So stop reading and send your talk today ;-)