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KDE Gear 25.12 Released For Shipping The Latest KDE Applications

Written by Michael Larabel in KDE on 11 December 2025 at 06:41 AM EST. 12 Comments
KDE Gear 25.12 is out today as the collection of the latest KDE desktop/mobile applications for running nicely on the Plasma 6 desktop.

KDE Gear 25.12 features a wide assortment of changes to its many bundled applications. Some of the changes standing out the most with KDE Gear 25.12 include:

- The Kate 25.12 text editor brings improved Git support.

- KDE's Photos image viewer now has a crop tool among its basic image editing features. It also now supports a number of gestures for better dealing with this image viewer both on the desktop and mobile devices.

- The Konqueror web browser adds export to PDF support at a high quality level.

- KDE's modern Falkon web browser adds a toggle for ad-blocker use.

- The Dolphin file manager now allows hiding files and folders from the Dolphin context menu. Trashed temporary files also no longer appear in the home's trash bin.

👁 Kate text editor on Plasma 6


More details on today's KDE Gear 25.12 feature release via KDE.org>

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