[websites/blogs-kde-org] content: Add Q2 2026 Digital Sovereignty blog post

Git commit 67eb30718e22c909fae0b7d4e1fd589d917743f9 by Nate Graham.
Committed on 06/08/2026 at 17:03.
Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'.

Add Q2 2026 Digital Sovereignty blog post

A  +3    -0    content/authors/kevinottens/_index.md
A  +88   -0    content/posts/digital-sovereignty/2026-q2/index.md

https://invent.kde.org/websites/blogs-kde-org/-/commit/67eb30718e22c909fae0b7d4e1fd589d917743f9

diff --git a/content/authors/kevinottens/_index.md b/content/authors/kevinottens/_index.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ca76fb48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/content/authors/kevinottens/_index.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+title: Kevin Ottens
+---
diff --git a/content/posts/digital-sovereignty/2026-q2/index.md b/content/posts/digital-sovereignty/2026-q2/index.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..59019f15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/content/posts/digital-sovereignty/2026-q2/index.md
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+---
+title: "This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty: Q2 2026"
+authors:
+ - nategraham
+ - kevinottens
+date: "2026-08-06T16:00:01Z"
+categories:
+ - Digital Sovereignty
+
+discourse: ngraham
+# newsletter: true
+# fediverse: "@[email protected]"
+#image: thumbnail.png
+#SOMETHING-slideshow:
+#- name: "After"
+#  url: IMAGE-after.webp
+#- name: "Before"
+#  url: IMAGE-before.webp
+---
+
+<!-- ![](thumbnail.png) -->
+
+<!-- {{< screenshots name="SOMETHING-slideshow" >}} -->
+
+<!-- {{< video src="something.mp4" >}} -->
+
+Welcome to the inaugural edition of *This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty!*
+
+This blog series will cover the work done throughout KDE’s software stack that’s funded by [the investment KDE received earlier this year from Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency](https://www.sovereign.tech/tech/kde).
+
+Commissioned work on a variety of projects has been done by KDE contributors working for [KDE e.V.](https://ev.kde.org) itself, as well as the [Techpaladin Software](https://techpaladinsoftware.com) and [enioka Haute Couture](https://haute-couture.enioka.com/en/) companies.
+
+This post will cover the work done in the second quarter of 2026. Let’s get into it!
+
+
+## Quality assurance and testing
+The bulk of the work consisted of getting KDE’s house in order when it comes to automated testing — ensuring things that are working stay working, and providing early warnings about incompatibilities from updated dependencies.
+
+The Sovereign Tech Agency’s investment in KDE included substantial funding for this work across KDE Plasma, KDE Linux, and KDE PIM, providing a strong technical foundation for all of the future funded work.
+
[suppressed due to size limit]
+
[suppressed due to size limit]
+
+
+## IMAP4 revision 2
[suppressed due to size limit]
+
+We had more good news on this front too. It turned out to be less work than expected, as our IMAP implementation is in a fairly good shape! It will free some time to go further on the QA and testing side.
+
+
+## Automatic account configuration
+Additional PIM topics included initial work to build a system for [automatically discovering and setting up resources](https://invent.kde.org/pim/pim-technical-roadmap/-/boards/11527?milestone_title=Quality%20and%20Large%20Organisation%20Improvements&label_name[]=epic%3Aaccount-autoconfig) based on nothing more than an email address and password. We already have partial support for this kind of magic in KMail, but it doesn’t go beyond configuring email; that will change soon!
+
[suppressed due to size limit]
+
+
+## WebDAV push notifications
[suppressed due to size limit]
+
+Ultimately this should lead to more targeted syncing when something changes on the server, reducing the network bandwidth requirements. It will also make your calendars sync with the server almost immediately instead of waiting for the next poll interval.
+
+
+## Network share handling
+On the Plasma side, work also began to overhaul [the way network shares are handled throughout KDE](https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/work_items/668). So far the work has concentrated on beefing up KDE’s FUSE-based network share mounting in a variety of ways.
+
+Perhaps the most notable way being explored is to create the FUSE mount in response to a request to access a file on a network location even if the user has not already accessed it from Dolphin. [This work is in progress](https://invent.kde.org/system/kio-fuse/-/merge_requests/90).
+
+Work is also in progress to [mount these FUSE mounts at a standardized and predictable path](https://invent.kde.org/system/kio-fuse/-/merge_requests/86), and to [surface them in the standard Places panel](https://invent.kde.org/system/kio-fuse/-/merge_requests/89) for ease of access.
+
+
+## Data integrity
[suppressed due to size limit]
+
+In addition, we put some work into improving KDE’s Kup backup system, in the form of UI improvements for [determining what gets included in backups](https://invent.kde.org/system/kup/-/merge_requests/52), and [modernizing the user interface of its Plasma widget](https://invent.kde.org/system/kup/-/merge_requests/53).
+
+
+## Configuration management
+Work began on an overhaul of KDE’s configuration management infrastructure in the form of [porting software to use the more modern KConfigXT system](https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/work_items/728). This system uses a declarative syntax with defined schemas, allowing KDE software’s available configuration options and default settings to be knowable without having to read the source code.
+
+This effort will eventually open up the possibility of writing a management app similar to GNOME’s DConf Editor tool that can offer administrators the ability to graphically visualize and change configuration options.
+
+
+---
+
+
+## Looking forward
+So it was a busy quarter of shoring up some of the foundations in KDE to lay the groundwork for future efforts. We’re very grateful for the Sovereign Tech Agency’s investment in KDE that made this possible! Once the QA efforts wind down, we’ll be in a great position to start working on the more user-facing elements of the investment.