{"id":51903,"date":"2026-08-21T10:35:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=51903"},"modified":"2026-08-21T10:35:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:35:41","slug":"kde-gear-26-08-released-with-tons-of-new-features-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2026\/08\/kde-gear-26-08-released-with-tons-of-new-features-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"KDE Gear 26.08 Released with Tons of New Features & Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"

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KDE Gear 26.08, the new release of KDE’s official collection of applications, is available after four months of development.<\/p>\n

The new version of this KDE app collections includes many new features and improvements to the Dolphin file explorer, KDE connect, Kdenlive video editor, Konsole terminal emulator, and others.<\/p>\n

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Dolphin<\/h3>\n

The Dolphin file explorer app has been updated with a dedicated “Focus Other View<\/b>” action. It’s a replacement of “Switch between views with Tab key”, that moves the keyboard focus to the inactive split view. When there is no other view, split view is triggered instead.<\/p>\n

The Filter Bar now explicitly supports Plain Text, Glob, and Regular Expression matching, plus case-sensitive matching, while providing visual feedback for invalid patterns.<\/p>\n

When exploring files on your phone from Dolphin, you can now click on the new Open KDE Connect button<\/b> at the top of the window to open the KDE Connect app.<\/p>\n

Other Dolphin changes include new Close Tabs to the Left\/Right<\/b> context menu option to quickly close all tabs on one side from the current, new restore view properties to defaults button, ability to group files and folders independently, and directory-specific zoom level support when global view properties are disabled.<\/p>\n

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Dolphin filter bar now explicitly supports Plain Text, Glob, and Regular Expression matching<\/p><\/div>\n

KDE Connect<\/h3>\n

The KDE Connect app now supports for modifier keys as special keys, and supports sending the Meta key through its Remote Input\/Remote Keyboard feature.<\/p>\n

It added a KDE Connect Devices category to remote:\/<\/code>, making KDE Connect devices discoverable and accessible through KIO-based file managers, including the new Dolphin button mentioned above.<\/p>\n

Other changes include display battery and network information, connection timeouts to prevent port leaks, drag-and-drop fix on macOS, and support building against OpenSSL 4.0.<\/p>\n

KDenlive<\/h3>\n

The KDenlive video editor in the release has been updated with “Copy Selection to New Sequence”, “Replace Clip” context menu option, and duplicate clip action in timeline editing.<\/p>\n

It added gap detection, ability to insert timeline content at a specified timecode position, as well as moving tracks up\/down while keeping associated audio\/video tracks together.<\/p>\n

It as well added copy\/paste support for elements in the title editor, per-channel support to the Curves effect, WebP image-sequence support, 1366\u00d7768 profiles, as well as many other exciting new features.<\/p>\n

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Kdenlive title editor<\/p><\/div>\n

Konsole<\/h3>\n

The terminal app now has Kitty keyboard protocol support, which can be enabled and configured in profile settings.<\/p>\n

It improved hyperlink interaction by allowing to copy, open, and drag URLs detected through terminal escape sequences, while normal URL and color-filter hotspots gain copy and drag actions.<\/p>\n

It as well added the ability to paste using the right mouse button, badge overlay feature allowing a visual indicator\/badge to be displayed on a terminal\/session. And, user profiles can now automatically switch based on the system light\/dark theme.<\/p>\n

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Okular<\/h3>\n

The document viewer application features safer and more robust PDF signing. It now prevents saving, adding signatures, or selecting the current document while a signing operation is in progress.<\/p>\n

It improved handling of untrusted certificate roots and made warnings about untrusted signatures more noticeable. It also improved PGP certificate display and export handling and added support saving certificates as .asc<\/code> files.<\/p>\n

For annotations and text selection, it added a new Open<\/i> action for embedded files, copy and paste annotations support, and ability triple-click to select an entire line.<\/p>\n

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Other changes in KDE Gear 26.08 include:<\/p>\n