KDE Gear 26.08 — “Enjoy Shiny Stuff”
Released 20 August 2026, KDE Gear 26.08 delivers four months of updates across KDE applications, focusing on usability, integration, and workflow improvements.
Okular
- Improved and streamlined PDF signing, with stronger security.
- Combined the separate backend and application settings dialogs.
- Triple-click now selects an entire line.
- Highlighted/underlined text is automatically included in associated annotation notes.
- Notes and inline comments can be copied and pasted, including between documents.
Dolphin
- Better KDE Connect integration when browsing files on a phone.
- Filter Bar (
Ctrl + I) now supports:- Plain-text filtering
- Glob patterns
- Regular expressions
- Files can be grouped independently of their sorting method.
- Tab context menu can close tabs to the left, right, or both sides.
Konsole
- Expanded Alt + click-and-drag functionality for recognized content.
- Files can be dragged directly into compatible applications.
- Links can be dragged into browsers or text editors.
- Email addresses and color values are also draggable.
- Example: dragging a color code into Krita can fill a layer with that color; dragging it into a text editor inserts its hexadecimal value.
Kdenlive
- Transform effect: rotation axis can be repositioned.
- Gradient Map: supports multiple gradient stops.
- Curves: individual curves can be adjusted independently.
- Timeline improvements include:
- Copying selections into new sequences.
- Automatic creation of required audio tracks.
- Track reordering.
- Different colors for video, images, titles, etc.
- Titler improvements:
- Copy/paste objects.
- Rounded rectangles.
- Snapping to screen edges, center, and other objects.
- Visual alignment guides.
Minuet
- Completely redesigned interface suitable for desktop and mobile.
- Improved home page and navigation.
- Exercises appear as cards with descriptions.
- New search filters exercises using translated names and descriptions.
- Exercise layouts make better use of narrow/mobile screens.
Availability
- KDE Gear 26.08 applications will become available through supported Linux app stores and distribution repositories.
- Availability depends on individual distributions and may lag behind the release announcement.
- Full KDE Gear 26.08.0 source code is available for manual compilation.
