Qt6 Linux & Open-Source News |
| Qt 6.12 Beta Released With Qt Quick 3D XR Apps Now Able To Run On 2D AR Glasses | Qt | 2026-06-12 |
| Zrythm 2.0 Alpha Released For Rewriting The Digital Audio Workstation In C++ & Qt/QML | Multimedia | 2026-05-31 |
| Sculpt OS 26.04 Can Finally Be Used To Self-Host For Developing/Building Genode | Operating Systems | 2026-05-11 |
| SolveSpace 3.2 3D CAD Tool Adds Qt Frontend, Experimental Web Version | Free Software | 2026-03-30 |
| Krita 6.0 Released With Qt6 Port & Better Wayland Support | KDE | 2026-03-24 |
| OpenShot 3.5 Released As One Of Their "Biggest Releases" Ever | Free Software | 2026-03-20 |
| digiKam 9.0 Leading Open-Source Digital Photo Manager Software Released | KDE | 2026-03-08 |
| Krita 6.0 Beta Released - Using Qt6 & Wayland Color Management Support | KDE | 2026-02-05 |
| Dank Fedora MiracleWM & Other Fedora 44 Changes Approved | Fedora | 2026-02-03 |
| Myrlyn 1.0 Released For Package Manager GUI Spawned By SUSE's Hack Week | SUSE | 2026-01-19 |
| Shotcut 26.1 Beta Video Editor Adds New Hardware Decoder Options | Multimedia | 2026-01-17 |
| KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta Released With Plasma Login Manager, Plasma Setup | KDE | 2026-01-13 |
| Budgie 11 Desktop Being Developed With The Qt6 Toolkit | Desktop | 2026-01-12 |
| Raspberry Pi OS 2025-11-24 Brings HiDPI Improvements, Wayland Enhancements | Raspberry Pi | 2025-11-24 |
| Intel Linux Setbacks, Linux Kernel Drama & Other Q3 Highlights | Hardware | 2025-09-30 |
| Qt 6.10 RC Available For Testing With Native PipeWire Audio Back-End | Qt | 2025-09-23 |
| GTK3 Version Of gconfig Merged For Linux 6.17 | Linux Kernel | 2025-08-06 |
| GTK3 Port Of The Kernel's gconfig Utility Appears Ready For Linux 6.17 | Linux Kernel | 2025-07-15 |
| Amarok 3.3 Released With The Music Player Ported To Qt6 / KDE Frameworks 6 | KDE | 2025-07-08 |
| AMD Strix Halo, Snapdragon X & Linux Graphics Were Most Popular This Quarter | Phoronix | 2025-06-29 |
| Linux Kernel's gconfig Finally Ported From GTK2 To GTK3 | Linux Kernel | 2025-06-24 |
| Qt 6.10 Beta Released With Native PipeWire Audio Backend For Qt Multimedia | Qt | 2025-06-17 |
| Framework 13 With Strix Point, Cheap RISC-V & Linux Kernel Happenings Topped April | Phoronix | 2025-05-01 |
| Amarok 3.3 Beta Released For Qt6-Powered KDE Music Player | KDE | 2025-04-13 |
| Qt 6.9 Released With Performance Work, Better Emoji Handling & Greater Visualizations | Qt | 2025-04-02 |
| KDE Plasma 6.3.1 Released With A Few Dozen Fixes For The Week | KDE | 2025-02-18 |
| KDE Plasma 6.3 Released With Improved Fractional Scaling & Other Enhancements | KDE | 2025-02-11 |
| Xfce 4.20, COSMIC Alpha & LXQt 2 Led Alternative Open-Source Desktops In 2024 | Desktop | 2024-12-30 |
| KDE Amarok 3.2 Music Player Released With Initial Qt6/KF6 Support | KDE | 2024-12-29 |
| KDE Enjoyed A Stellar 2024 With The Debut Of The Plasma 6 Desktop | KDE | 2024-12-26 |
| Qt 6.9 Beta Released With New Toolkit Features | Qt | 2024-12-17 |
| KDE Gear 24.12 Released With Many Improvements To KDE Apps | KDE | 2024-12-12 |
| Zrythm 1.0 Released For Powerful Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation | Free Software | 2024-11-21 |
| Genode-Based Sculpt OS 24.10 Introduces Multi-Monitor Support | Operating Systems | 2024-11-02 |
| Shotcut 24.10 Open-Source Video Editor Adds Initial AI Feature | Free Software | 2024-10-30 |
| Zrythm Digital Audio Workstation Abandoning GTK For Qt6 | Free Software | 2024-10-04 |
| VirtualBox 7.1 Released With Improved UI, Wayland Clipboard Sharing | Virtualization | 2024-09-11 |
| KDE's Calligra 4.0 Office/Graphics Suite Released With Improved UI & Qt6 Port | KDE | 2024-08-27 |
| OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 Released With KDE Plasma 6 But Wayland Not Mature Enough | Operating Systems | 2024-07-20 |
| Radeon Developer Tool Suite Migrates To Qt6 | Radeon | 2024-07-01 |
| KDE's Cube Effect Now Launches More Reliably & Other Post-6.1 Plasma Fixes | KDE | 2024-06-22 |
| KDE's Amarok 3.0 Music Player Released After Six Year Hiatus - Now Ported To Qt5 | KDE | 2024-04-29 |
| Polychromatic 0.9 OpenRazer GUI Frontend Released With Port To PyQt6 | Hardware | 2024-04-24 |
| LXQt 2.0 Released For Qt6 Desktop Port, Greater Wayland Support | Desktop | 2024-04-17 |
| Qt Creator 13 Released For Enhancing Qt/C++ Development | Qt | 2024-04-04 |
| Qt 6.7 Released With Many Improvements For This Cross-Platform Toolkit | Qt | 2024-04-02 |
| Krita Looking More At GPU Acceleration & AI In 2024 | AI | 2024-03-14 |
| GStreamer 1.24 Released With Vulkan H.264/H.265 Decode & Many Enhancements | Multimedia | 2024-03-04 |
| KDE MegaRelease 6 Debuts For Plasma 6.0, KF6 & Gear 24.02 | KDE | 2024-02-28 |
| SDDM 0.21 Display Manager Released With Better Wayland Support, Qt6 Fixes | Desktop | 2024-02-26 |
| KDE Plasma 6.0 Ready For Release Next Week, Plasma 6.1 Seeing Early Feature Work | KDE | 2024-02-24 |
| KDE Megarelease 6 RC2 Available For Testing | KDE | 2024-01-31 |
| KDE Plasma 6.0 Release Candidate Available For Testing | KDE | 2024-01-10 |
| KDE Plasma Mobile 6 Porting Underway | KDE | 2023-12-14 |
| Lubuntu 24.04 LTS Aiming For Optional Wayland Session, Default in 24.10 | Ubuntu | 2023-12-10 |
| Canonical Releases Multipass 1.13 RC With Snapshots Support, Migrated To Qt6 | Ubuntu | 2023-12-08 |
| KDE Plasma 6.0 Beta 1 Released With Frameworks & Gear Updated | KDE | 2023-11-29 |
| KDE Is Down To Just One Wayland Showstopper Bug Remaining | KDE | 2023-11-25 |
| KDE Plasma 6.0 Alpha Released With KDE Frameworks 6 & KDE Gear Updates Too | KDE | 2023-11-08 |
| KDE Plasma 6.0 Approved For Fedora 40 - Including Dropping The X11 Session | Fedora | 2023-11-02 |
| FDBuild 0.1 Released To Make It Easier To Quickly Build Multiple Projects | Programming | 2023-10-12 |
| Qt 6.6 Nears Release With RC Offered Up For Testing | Qt | 2023-09-26 |
| KDE Plasma 6 Seeing Many Bug Fixes -- Including For The Plasma Wayland Session | KDE | 2023-09-23 |
| KDE Plasma 6.0 Lands More Performance Optimizations, Better Wayland Gaming Experience | KDE | 2023-09-16 |
| Fedora 40 Looks To Offer KDE Plasma 6 Desktop, Drop The KDE X11 Session | Fedora | 2023-09-13 |
| Qt 6.6 Wayland Compositor Handoffs Look Promising For More Robust Experience | Qt | 2023-09-11 |
| Linux 6.6-rc1 Released With EEVDF, AMD DBC & Intel Shadow Stack But No Bcachefs | Linux Kernel | 2023-09-10 |
| KDE Lands More Power Management Tuning, Behaves Better On Btrfs File-Systems | KDE | 2023-09-09 |
| KDE Frameworks 6 & Qt6'ed Gear Apps Will Release Alongside Plasma 6.0 In February | KDE | 2023-09-07 |
| Linux 6.6 Bringing Qt6 Port To "make xconfig" Interface | Linux Kernel | 2023-09-05 |
| Fedora Workstation 39 Planning To Drop Custom Qt Theming | Fedora | 2023-08-23 |
| KDE Plasma 6 Wayland Session: "It's Been Working Great!" | KDE | 2023-08-09 |
| SDDM 0.20 Display Manager Released With Experimental Wayland Greeter | Desktop | 2023-06-23 |
| NsCDE 2.3 Released For Modern Desktop Looking Like The Old CDE | Desktop | 2023-06-16 |
| Qt 6.6 Beta Released With New Qt Graphs Module, Text To Speech Improvements | Qt | 2023-06-15 |
| KDE Plasma 6.0's Night Color Mode Will Work With NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver | KDE | 2023-05-27 |
| Qt 5.15 LTS Takes Another Step Closer To Retirement | Qt | 2023-05-26 |
| KDE Neon Unstable Now Building With Qt 6 Frameworks/Plasma | KDE | 2023-05-23 |
| Kdenlive 23.04 Open-Source Video Editor Released With Nested Timelines | KDE | 2023-04-24 |
| digiKam 8.0 Released With Expanded File Format Support, New OCR Tool | KDE | 2023-04-16 |
| LXQt 1.3 Released While Qt6 Porting Remains A Work-In-Progress | Desktop | 2023-04-15 |
| KDE Connect 2.0 Planning For Big Improvements | KDE | 2023-04-12 |
| Qt 6.5 LTS Released With Many Improvements | Qt | 2023-04-03 |
| Qt 6.4.3 Released With 300+ Fixes | Qt | 2023-03-16 |
| KDE Developers Continue Pushing More Plasma 6.0 Changes | KDE | 2023-03-04 |
| KDE Plasma Development Branch Switches To Qt6-Only | KDE | 2023-02-28 |
| Audacious 4.3 Beta Adds PipeWire Plugin, Restores GTK3 + Ships Mature Qt6 Support | Multimedia | 2023-02-11 |
| GStreamer 1.22 Released With Improved AV1 Support, Better WebRTC & AMD AMF Additions | Multimedia | 2023-01-23 |
| Qt 6.5 Beta Released With New Modules | Qt | 2022-12-22 |
| KDE Frameworks 5.101 Released - Development Now Focuses On KDE Frameworks 6 | KDE | 2022-12-10 |
| Qt 6.5 Adding Wayland Native Interface | Qt | 2022-12-09 |
| KDE Makes It Easier To Set Environment Variables, Fixes Vertically-Arranged Displays | KDE | 2022-11-12 |
| OBS Studio 28.1 Released With Various Fixes, Updated NVENC Presets | Free Software | 2022-11-01 |
| KDE Ends Out October With More Plasma 6.0 Planning, Plasma Wayland Fixes | KDE | 2022-10-29 |
| KDE Plasma 5.27 Planning To Be The Last Plasma 5 Feature Release | KDE | 2022-10-08 |
| Qt 6.4 Release Candidate Arrives With Added Modules For 3D Physics, HTTP Server | Qt | 2022-09-16 |
| Qt 5.15.6 LTS Open-Source Version Released | Qt | 2022-09-08 |
| OBS Studio 28.0 Released With 10-Bit & HDR Video Encoding, Qt 6 Ported | Multimedia | 2022-09-01 |
| OBS Studio 28 Beta 1 Brings 10-bit & HDR Video Encoding, Qt6 Toolkit | Free Software | 2022-08-03 |
| Linux x86 32-bit Is Vulnerable To Retbleed But Don't Expect It To Get Fixed | Linux Security | 2022-07-24 |
| Qt 6.4 Beta Released With HTTP Server & 3D Physics Modules | Qt | 2022-06-17 |
| KDE Plasma 5.25 Released With Wayland Improvements, Improved Gestures | KDE | 2022-06-14 |
| Qt 5.15.4 LTS Release Now Available As Open-Source | Qt | 2022-05-11 |
| LXQt 1.1 Released With XDG Desktop Portal Integration, Other New Features | Desktop | 2022-04-16 |
| Qt 6.3 Released With Improved Wayland Support, Qt Language Server Module | Qt | 2022-04-12 |
| Qt 5.15 LTS Support Extended An Additional Two Years - For Their Paying Subscribers | Qt | 2022-03-31 |
| The Qt Company Planning For Many Qt6 Enhancements This Year | Qt | 2022-03-07 |
| digiKam 7.6 Released With Enhanced AppImage Build, JPEG-XL Support | KDE | 2022-03-06 |
| Commercial-Only Qt 5.15.3 LTS Now Released As Open-Source | Qt | 2022-03-03 |
| Qt 6.3 Alpha Released With New Qt Quick Compiler For Commercial Customers | Qt | 2022-01-14 |
| LibreOffice 7.3 Alpha 1 Tagged With More Open-Source Office Suite Improvements | LibreOffice | 2021-10-30 |
| Qt 6.2.1 Released With 200+ Bug Fixes | Qt | 2021-10-27 |
| Lumina Desktop 1.6.1 Released With Theme Improvements While Bigger Improvements Planned | Desktop | 2021-10-04 |
| Qt 6.2 LTS Released With Qt6 Now Aiming To Be Ready For Widespread Adoption | Qt | 2021-09-30 |
| LibreOffice Lands Initial Code For Qt6 Toolkit Support | LibreOffice | 2021-09-29 |
| Qt 6.2 LTS Will Nearly Be At Feature Parity To Qt 5.15 | Qt | 2021-09-02 |
| Qt 6.2 Beta Released As The First Qt6 LTS Release Moves Closer | Qt | 2021-07-06 |
| Qt 6.2 Alpha Released With Many More Modules Ported From Qt5 | Qt | 2021-06-23 |
| Qt 6.1.1 Released With 150+ Bug Fixes | Qt | 2021-06-08 |
| Qt 6.2 Enters Feature Freeze With More Qt5 Modules Ported To Qt6 | Qt | 2021-06-07 |
| Qt Multimedia Prepares For Qt 6 With Rewritten GStreamer Backend, Other Big Changes | Qt | 2021-05-27 |
| Qt 6.1 Released With More Modules Ported To Qt6 | Qt | 2021-05-06 |
| The Qt Company Publishes 2021 Roadmap | Qt | 2021-04-27 |
| Qt 6.0.3 Released With Another ~40 Bug Fixes | Qt | 2021-03-31 |
| Qt 6.1 Beta 2 Released, Qt-Project.org Called For Revival | Qt | 2021-03-21 |
| Qt 5.15.3 LTS Released With 200+ Bug Fixes, But Only For Commercial Customers | Qt | 2021-03-04 |
| Qt 6.1 Beta Released With Porting More Modules To Qt6 | Qt | 2021-03-02 |
| Qt 6.0.1 Released With Over 200 Bug Fixes | Qt | 2021-02-03 |
| Qt 6.1 Feature Freeze Now In Effect | Qt | 2021-02-01 |
| The Qt Company Is Tomorrow Moving Qt 5.15 To Its Commercial-Only LTS Phase | Qt | 2021-01-04 |
| Qt 6.0 Officially Released | Qt | 2020-12-08 |
| Qt 6.0's 3D Renderer Is Much Improved But More Work Remains | Qt | 2020-11-30 |
| Qt 6.1, Qt 6.2 Expected To Come Sooner With Tightened Release Cycles | Qt | 2020-11-27 |
| Qt 6.0 RC1 Takes Flight - Qt 6.0 Should Be Here By Mid-December | Qt | 2020-11-25 |
| Qt 5.15.2 Released With Another 176 Bug Fixes | Qt | 2020-11-20 |
| Qt 6.0 Beta 4 Released | Qt | 2020-11-10 |
| Qt 6 To Ship With Package Manager For Extra Libraries | Qt | 2020-10-28 |
| Qt 6.0 Beta Released For This Big Toolkit Update | Qt | 2020-10-20 |
| Qt 6.0 Alpha Released | Qt | 2020-10-06 |
| Qt 6.0 Development Host/Target Changes Announced | Qt | 2020-09-11 |
| Debian's Qt Maintainers Stepping Down Ahead Of Qt 6.0 | Debian | 2020-08-18 |
| Qt 6.0 Gets A Release Date With An Initial Release Schedule Published | Qt | 2020-04-27 |
| Qt Developers Discuss Theoretical Clang-Based Tool For Porting Qt5 Code To Qt6 | Qt | 2020-04-23 |
| Qt 5.15 Reaches Beta | Qt | 2020-02-28 |
| Qt 5.15 Feature Development Is Over For This Last Step Of The Qt5 Series | Qt | 2020-02-11 |
| Systemd Will Be Working To Improve Out-Of-Memory Linux Handling With Facebook OOMD | systemd | 2020-01-08 |
| KDE Frameworks 6 Progresses By Porting Code Away From Deprecated Functions | KDE | 2019-12-29 |
| Qt 5.14 Released With Better HiDPI, Lots Of 3D Work Ahead Of Qt 6 Next Year | Qt | 2019-12-12 |
| Qt Shader Tools Looks To Become Official Qt6 Module | Qt | 2019-12-11 |
| ChamferWM Still Appears To Be The Most Capable Vulkan-Powered X11 Tiling Window Manager | Vulkan | 2019-12-10 |
