KDE today announced a significant investment into the project by Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund. KDE will be receiving €1,285,200 EUR (or roughly 1.5 million USD) over the years 2026 and 2027 to make some significant improvements into their software stack.

Over this year and next, the Sovereign Tech Fund will be investing over 1.2 million EUR into KDE to improve their infrastructure, implement more features for KDE Linux, enhance backup and restore features, and target a range of other functionality. The areas they will focus on include

* Improving KDE Plasma & KDE Linux QA Infrastructure

* Improving KDE Plasma’s Recoverability Mechanisms

* Implementing Factory Reset Functionality for KDE Linux

* Improving Security Infrastructure for Organisational Usage across KDE Plasma

* Improving Data Backup and Restore Systems

* Strengthening Configuration Management as Core Desktop Infrastructure

* Improving Network Shares Experience

* Building KDE PIM QA Infrastructure and an End-to-End Testing for IMAP4 and

WebDAV

* Supporting IMAP4rev2

* Supporting WebDAV Push Notifications

* Standardising Account Configuration

* Improving KDE PIM Suite Desktop Integration with Flatpak-Based Delivery

On [1]KDE.org is the official announcement today of this historic investment into KDE.



[1] https://kde.org/announcements/sovereign-tech-fund-invests-kde/