GoKawiilIn 2025, the Kdenlive team continued grinding to push the project forward through steady development, collaboration, and community support. Over the past year we’ve found a nice balance between adding new features, bug fixing, polishing the user interface, and improving performance and workflow, with stability taking priority over feature creep.
We relaunched the website with a new content management system, refreshed some content and the design, and restored historic content dating back to 2002. We also strengthened upstream collaboration with the MLT developers and contributed several improvements to OpenTimelineIO.
Here’s a look at what we've been up to and what is ahead.
RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS
As part of KDE Apps, we follow the KDE Gear release cycle, with three major releases each year—in April, August, and December—each followed by three point maintenance releases.
25.04.0
This release added a powerful automatic masking tool and brought the last batch of features from our last fundraiser.
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Background Removal The new Object Segmentation plugin based on the [SAM2][4] model allows to remove any selected object from the background. OpenTimelineIO We rewrote our OpenTimelineIO import and export function using the C++ library. Now you can exchange projects with other editing applications that support this open source file format. Waveform improvements Audio waveform generation got a 300% performance boost, along with a refactored sampling method that accurately renders the audio signal and higher-resolution waveforms for greater precision.
25.08.0
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