Akademy, Kdenlive, and Neon

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 15, 2025,
updated Sep 16, 2025

• Nate Graham ☛ Akademy 2025: something big is happening

  But basically, to me this year’s Akademy felt like it had a theme: “KDE is on the cusp of something big.”

  Here’s one example: at the very cool C-base hackerspace, I was talking with someone who mused that 15 years ago, Akademy was full of KDE hackers talking about the government one day using our software… and then fast-forward 15 years and our two keynote speakers are from the German government talking about using KDE’s software!

• Kdenlive ☛ Kdenlive in Berlin

  From the 3rd to the 5th of September, the Kdenlive team was reunited in Berlin for a sprint and to attend Akademy, KDE's annual conference. This was an occasion for us to meet in person since our team is spread across continents, and to join our forces to make Kdenlive better. And I must say this was one of the most productive sprints in Kdenlive's history!

  We were kindly hosted by c-base for our Sprint so a big thanks to the team for welcoming us there!

  Let's get into the details of what we did:

• The build servers keep on turning ….

  Despite the lack of posts (which we apologise for) the builds have continued to happen on the neon build servers. Packages for Plasma 6.4.5, coupled with KDE frameworks 6.18, and KDE release service 25.08.1 built on top of Qt 6.9.2 have just been released to the neon user archives. Live Image ISO’s and containers are available for download from the usual location.

  The builds will continue to happen for the foreseeable future and hope that everyone enjoys the latest and greatest KDE created software, if that’s your cup of tea.

Update

More from Akademy:

• Akademy 2025

  I was able to attend the talks at Akademy this year in Berlin! The last time I attended Akademy in person was in 2022, so it was really nice being able to come back and meet everyone again.

  I was unfortunately not able to attend BoFs (development meetings) due to having to leave early. I did attend some meetings a few months earlier however, you can read more in my Plasma sprint recap post.