KDE Gear ⚙️ 26.04
"KDE at 30" edition
Thursday, 16 April 2026
KDE has been around for 30 years! Many of KDE's projects are also mature and consolidated: Okular is 21 years old, KOrganiser is 23, and Kdenlive is 24.
Other projects are young and upcoming, like NeoChat, Merkuro and AudioTube, as our community is constantly churning out new ideas and turning them into products for you to enjoy.
Today, we bring you new versions of many of these apps, old and new. Read on and discover all the features and improvements that will soon land on your desktop.
KDE relies on your support to continue producing top-notch free software for at least another 30 years 😉. You can help by becoming a contributing member, or with periodic or one-time donations using the form on this page.
Dolphin
Dolphin is KDE's file/folder browser manager, which also lets you connect to remote file systems and manage code repositories.
In version 26.04, Dolphin lets you add keyboard shortcuts to nearly any option in any menu, plugin or extension.
Say you find yourself often switching the order of files between order by name and order by date created. Make a shortcut and re-order with ease.
Personal Information Management
KDE's Personal Information Management software covers everything to do with email, contacts, calendars, etc.
Merkuro Calendar now boasts a re-designed schedule view and event editor. They now look more modern and show more relevant information in a more attractive way.
The venerable KOrganizer calendaring app integrated into Kontact has had a facelift and is both tidier and more informative.
Itinerary helps you plan your trips, manages all your tickets and reservations, and helps you not get lost when travelling. This new version improves its dialogs and has added new information for when travelling around Switzerland.
Kdenlive
Kdenlive is KDE's full-featured video editor.
In 26.04, you will find animated previews in Compositions that show you what a transition does even before you apply it.
Another feature you'll find useful is that you can now mirror the monitor to an external display. This will let you see the clip in the usual interface, but also on a second screen as a larger view.
A few smaller tweaks include
- a timeline context menu that directly imports a clip to the project, adding it to the clicked position
- an option to always zoom on the mouse position instead of the timeline playhead
- automatic generation of audio thumbnails for sequences
- dropping a transition to the timeline will automatically adjust its duration to the above/below clips
- you can now change the speed of multiple clips at the same time.
Full changelog here
Where to get KDE Apps
Although we fully support distributions that ship our software, KDE Gear 26.04 apps will also be available on these Linux app stores shortly:
If you’d like to help us get more KDE applications into the app stores, support more app stores and get the apps better integrated into our development process, come say hi in our All About the Apps chat room.
Note that packages of this release might not be available on all distributions at the time of this announcement. Package download wiki page
Compiling KDE Gear
The complete source code for KDE Gear 26.04.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Gear 26.04.0 Info Page.
About KDE
KDE is an international technology team that creates free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE’s products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development. KDE software is translated into more than 60 languages and is built with ease of use and modern accessibility principles in mind. KDE’s full-featured applications run natively on Linux, BSD, Windows, Haiku, and macOS.
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