Release notes: https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.04.2/ Now available in the snap store! Along with that, I have fixed some outstanding bugs: Ark: now can open/save files in removable media Kasts: Once again has sound WIP: Updating Qt6 to 6.9 and frameworks to 6.14 Enjoy everyone! Unlike our software, life is not free. Please consider a donation, thanks!
Snaps! I actually released last week 🙂 I haven’t had time to blog, but today is my birthday and taking some time to myself! This release came with a major bugfix. As it turns out our applications were very crashy on non-KDE platforms including Ubuntu proper. Unfortunately, for years, and I didn’t know. Developers were closing the bug reports as invalid because users couldn’t provide a stacktrace. I have now convinced most developers to assign snap bugs to the Snap platform so I at least get a chance to try and fix them. So with that said, if you tried our snaps in the past and gave up in frustration, please do try them again! I also spent some time cleaning up our snaps to only have current releases in the store, as rumor has it snapcrafters will be responsible for any security issues. With 200+ snaps I maintain, that is a lot of responsibility. We’ll see if I can pull it off. Life! My last surgery was a success! I am finally healing and out of a sling for the first time in almost a year. I have also lined up a good amount of web work for next month and hopefully beyond. I have decided to drop the piece work for donations and will only accept per project proposals for open source work. I will continue to maintain KDE snaps for as long as time allows. A big thank you to everyone that has donated over the last year to fund my survival during this broken arm fiasco. I truly appreciate it! With that said, if you want to drop me a donation for my work, birthday or well-being until I get paid for the aforementioned web work please do so here: GoFundMe Patreon Github Donorbox
I was just released from the hospital after a 3 day stay for my ( hopefully ) last surgery. There was concern with massive blood loss and low heart rate. I have stabilized and have come home. Unfortunately, they had to prescribe many medications this round and they are extremely expensive and used up all my funds. I need gas money to get to my post-op doctors appointments, and food would be cool. I would appreciate any help, even just a dollar! I am already back to work, and continued work on the crashy KDE snaps in a non KDE env. ( Also affects anyone using kde-neon extensions such as FreeCAD) I hope to have a fix in the next day or so. Fixed kate bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503285 Thanks for stopping by.
Very busy releasetastic week! The versions being the same is a complete coincidence 😆 https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.04.0 Which can be downloaded here: https://snapcraft.io/publisher/kde ! In addition to all the regular testing I am testing our snaps in a non KDE environment, so far it is not looking good in Xubuntu. We have kernel/glibc crashes on startup for some and for file open for others. I am working on a hopeful fix. Next week I will have ( I hope ) my final surgery. If you can spare any change to help bring me over the finish line, I will be forever grateful 🙂
Life: Last week we were enjoying springtime, this week winter has made a comeback! Good news on the broken arm front, the infection is gone, so they can finally deal with the broken issue again. I will have a less invasive surgery April 25th to pull the bones back together so they can properly knit back together! If you can spare any change please consider a donation to my continued healing and recovery, or just support my work 🙂 Kubuntu: While testing Beta I came across some crashy apps ( Namely PIM ) due to apparmor. I have uploaded fixed profiles for kmail, akregator, akonadiconsole, konqueror, tellico KDE Snaps: Added sctp support in Qt https://invent.kde.org/neon/snap-packaging/kde-qt6-core-sdk/-/commit/bbcb1dc39044b930ab718c8ffabfa20ccd2b0f75 This will allow me to finish a pyside6 snap and fix FreeCAD build. Changed build type to Release in the kf6-core24-sdk which will reduce the size of kf6-core24 significantly. Fixed a few startup errors in kf5-core24 and kf6-core24 snapcraft-desktop-integration. Soumyadeep fixed wayland icons in https://invent.kde.org/neon/snap-packaging/kf6-core-sdk/-/merge_requests/3 KDE Applications 25.03.90 RC released to –candidate ( I know it says 24.12.3, version won’t be updated until 25.04.0 release ) Kasts core24 fixed in –candidate Kate now core24 with Breeze theme! –candidate Neochat: Fixed missing QML and 25.04 dependencies in –candidate Kdenlive now with Galxnimate animations! –candidate Digikam 8.6.0 now with scanner support in –stable Kstars 3.7.6 released to –stable for realz, removed store rejected plugs. Thanks for stopping by!
