KDE Applications snaps are back — stable release

After a brief hiatus, I’m happy to announce that 100+ KDE Application snaps are back and released to stable, coinciding with the KDE Gear release today.

These snaps have been rebuilt with updated Qt6 and KF6 content snaps and are available now in the stable channel.

What’s new

Updated Qt6 and KF6 content snap — the underlying runtime has been refreshed, so all applications benefit from the latest framework updates.

arm64 is back — one of the things I’m most pleased about this cycle is the return of arm64 snap builds. KDE on arm64 hardware is a first-class citizen again.

KDE CI integration — snaps are now on KDE’s CI infrastructure, giving us much better visibility into build health and regressions going forward. CI-based deployment is still a work in progress, but the foundation is in place.

Highlights

A few notable releases worth calling out:

digiKam 8.8.0 — the powerful photo management suite is now in stable:

sudo snap install digikam

Haruna 1.7.1 — the KDE media player lands at version 1.7.1:

sudo snap install haruna

KPhotoAlbum 6.2.0 — the KDE photo album and viewer:

sudo snap install kphotoalbum

For any other KDE application snap, simply install from stable:

sudo snap install <snap_name>

Or if you already have a snap installed and want to update:

sudo snap refresh <snap_name>

The updated Qt6 and KF6 content snap will be pulled in automatically as a dependency.

Found a bug?

If something isn’t working as expected, please file it against the relevant snap on the KDE Bug Tracker or come find us on Matrix:

• KDE Snap discussion: #snaps:kde.org
• Kubuntu development: #kubuntu-devel:ubuntu.com

Thank you to everyone who tested during the beta cycle — your feedback made this release better.