2026.11.01: TDE R14.1.7 released!

The Trinity Desktop Environment development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the TDE R14.1.7 release.

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TDE is a free/libre lightweight desktop environment intended for computer users preferring a lean and efficient experience. It is available for various Linux distros, BSD and DilOS. Low on system requirements, it is also an ideal choice for dated hardware, while still providing a fully usable desktop.

R14.1.7 is the seventh release of the R14.1.x series and probably the biggest maintenance release so far. Upgrading from R14.1.6 should be straightforward. Here are the key highlights of this version.

New Features & Enhancements
  • Konsole: added support for bracketed paste mode, SGR 1006 mouse reporting, SGR 58/59 underline colors, colon-separated sub-params in CSI/DCS, Select All/Paste Selection actions
  • Kicker taskbar: added support for scrolling with mouse wheel, 'Raise All/Lower All' for window groups, keyboard navigation in Kickoff search results, configurable menu button text color
  • Twin window manager: user 'noBorder' settings can override window defaults, 'Keep above/below' buttons in Laptop decoration, improved screen index validation and Xinerama handling
  • Konqueror: enhanced renaming mode in icon view
  • KCharSelect: new categories dock for easier table selection
  • KPDF: added support for AES-256 decryption and various fixes
  • Kuickshow: switched from imlib1 to imlib2, improved smooth resizing and reduce distortion on zooming
  • Ark: added 7-Zip fallback for RAR extraction, improved archive handling (TAR updates, format selection)
  • KMag: improved visibility of the selection window
  • KMail/KOrganizer: event attachments are now embedded by default and email check for removed accounts no longer happens
  • lzip support: added across tdelibs/tdebase and Krusader
  • xdg-desktop-portal-tde: file chooser portal now preserves filenames when saving
Critical Bug Fixes
  • TQt: mutex/data race in meta objects, incorrect width of multiple vertical panels on hi-DPI displays
  • Konsole: scrolling to first line/history size, OSC parsing with digit '9', multiline scroll-up issues
  • Core/Desktop: kdesktop menu not showing after resume from suspend (temporary workaround), artsd crash on login
  • Krusader: bzip2 detection, opening of compressed files, Ark: recursive RAR addition, RAR7 listing, duplicate TAR entries, archive format selection
  • Multimedia/Utilities: Kaffeine mute icon state, KSim crash when libsensors failed to load, Kopete crash after SSL failure
  • IPC/System: dbus-1-tqt 100% CPU usage caused by recursive dispatch, tdehw RAM exhaustion when reading lxcfs's large /proc/cpuinfo data
Compatibility & Toolchain Updates
  • Support for modern libraries: added OpenSSL 4 and raised minimum to OpenSSL 1.1, Python 3.15, libical 4, libpqxx 8, Poppler 26.06
  • Build System: dropped autotools support for Krusader and KVIrc; Kipi-plugins converted to CMake
  • Breaking Changes: Konsole bracketed paste behavior (multiline pastes wait for Enter), Kate DCOP setCursor now uses 1-based indexes, KOrganizer embeds attachments by default
Distro Support
  • Ubuntu: drop Oracular and add Stonking support
  • Fedora: drop version 42 and add version 44
  • Mageia: drop version 9 and add version 10
  • openSUSE: drop version 15.6
There are many more changes both under the hood and not visible to users, so please refer to the links below for a longer list and further details.
We would like to thank all the people who have contributed to the preparation of this release and we are looking forward for further contributions in future.

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