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Kdenlive 26.08.0 released
Monday, 31 August 2026 | Farid Abdelnour

#Release
We are happy to announce the summer release of Kdenlive 26.08. Continuing the efforts from the last version, the core team has been focusing mostly on stability - fixing bugs and crashes while also doing lot's under the hood improvements.

This release comes with 11 crash fixes as well as improvements to the undo/redo stack for compositions and sequence creation. Work has also been done to modernize the codebase in the Qml loader for Clips and Compositions.

The majority of the new, nifty and shiny additions and enhancements in this release were made by new contributors! This seems to have become a tradition in 2026, and we couldn’t be happier about it.

Highlights
Timeline
Automatic Track Creation

Added functionality to automatically create audio tracks when adding a clip to the timeline in case there are not enough. Implemented by Vineet Tiwari.
Reorder Tracks

Added a long awaited ability to reorder tracks. Implemented by Vineet Tiwari.
Markers At Gaps

Added option to add markers at gaps between timeline clips. Implemented by Yash Bavadiya.
Playhead Snapping When Dragging

ALT + drag the time cursor (playhead) in the timeline ruler, it now snaps to nearby snap points like clip edges, guides, markers, and zone in/out. Implemented by Yash Bavadiya.
Copy Selection To New Sequence

It works similarly to "Create sequence from selection" except that it does not remove the clips from the original sequence and replace them with the new sequence clip. Implemented by Vineet Tiwari.
Clip Color Configuration

Added an option to configure colors for video, audio, title, image, and slideshow clip types.

Color Clip Configuration

Playhead/Mouse Zoom

Added a button in the Status Bar to toggle between zooming to the mouse cursor position or the playhead position. Implemented by the mrfantastic.
Multi-Clip Speed Changes

Added the ability to change the playback speed of multiple clips at once either by directly Ctrl + dragging in the timeline or by using the Clip Speed tool. Implemented by Vineet Tiwari.

Title Editor
Snapping

Added snapping in the Title Editor. Implemented by chocolateimage.
Rounded Corners

Rectangles now can have rounded corners. Also notice the draggable spinbox ability to change the radius. Implemented by chocolateimage.
Copy/Paste

Added the ability to copy and paste elements in the Titler. Implemented by chocolateimage.
Automatic Clip Replacement

Added option to automatically replace a title clip in the timeline with the new title clip being edited. Implemented by Eduardo Guedes.
Miscellaneous
Additive Soloing

Added the ability to do additive soloing in the audio mixer by shift clicking. Implemented by Patrick Williamson.
Adjustable Rotation Anchor

Added the ability to set the rotation anchor in the Transform effect. Implemented by Jean Baptiste Mardelle.
Other Noteworthy Changes

Updated effects with text (GPS Text, Dynamic Text, Timer) to allow for more font properties. Implemented by Bernd Jordan.
Rectangular alpha mask is now animatable. Implemented by Jean Baptiste Mardelle.
Added ability to use math expressions in effects values. Implemented by Jean Baptiste Mardelle.
Drawbox and Delogo effects use the newly implemented feature to draw a rectangle directly on monitor. Implemented by Jean Baptiste Mardelle.
Added the frei0r Color Enhance effect. Implemented by Bernd Jordan.
Added option to add rendered video to project bin in the Render Widget. Implemented by Jaimukund Bhan.
Multi-cam Editing: Added functionality to insert clips to timeline using the clip's timecode from their metadata (if they contain it). Implemented by Jaimukund Bhan.
Ability to open video, audio, image files from file managers or CLI environments with Kdenlive. Implemented by Yash Bavadiya.
Added webp support for image sequences. Implemented by Farid Abdelnour.
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Full Changelog
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Fix crash selecting keyframe in time remap. Commit.
Add appdata changelog. Commit.
Fix full project reset on unsaved profile change by using .kdenlive temp extension. Commit.
Fix(monitor): guard ruler tick count against divide-by-zero freeze. Commit.
Fix corner radius input not updating when dragging. Commit.
Fix timeline clip deletion when toggling proxy on reversed clips. Commit. Fixes bug #523788
Use dissolve as default transition. Commit.
Switch default transition to luma, now that the transparency issue is solved in MLT. Commit.
Fix transform resize with side hanles and forced ratio. Commit. Fixes bug #516921
Fix possible crash in project opening when discarding autosave file. Commit.
Resolve video import and profile loading failures on paths with diacritical marks. Commit. Fixes bug #513899
Fix duplicate clip only duplicating one clip. Commit.
Fix allowing 0 length composition causing crash. Commit. See issue #2218
Fix crash on time remap title clip. Commit. Fixes bug #523277
Disable LV2 and Libplacebo. Commit.
Ensure attached picture stream are not incorrectly marked as video. Commit. Fixes bug #523268
Add blacklisted effects back in. Commit.
Notify when speech recognition finishes. Commit. Fixes bug #509977
Add duplicate clip action in timeline. Commit. Fixes bug #435319
Squashed commit of the following:. Commit.
Updating the About Kdenlive window with the core team members and other contributors. Commit.
Remove left-over kddockwidgets version include. Commit.
Remove left-over KF version includes. Commit.
Fix auto-keyframe generation and interaction across monitor scenes (Corners, Geometry, etc.). Commit.
Fix replacing titles longer than default duration. Commit.
Add option to replace the timeline clip when adding a new title. Commit. Fixes bug #498136
Remove unwanted spaces. Commit.
Move Clip Marker with mouse. Commit. Fixes bug #406887
Port ClipThumbs parentClip to var to resolve dependency and load Timeline. Commit.
Fixc thumbnails not correctly adjusting after dar change. Commit. Fixes bug #522252
Use same QQmlEngine for monitors and timelines. Commit.
Fix minor typo. Commit.
Ensure we always return a screen for secondary monitor. Commit. See bug #522261
Fix render test suite. Commit.
Fix splash screen. Commit.
Curves: add per-channel tab support using avfilter.curves. Commit.
Add XML files for Steve Harris' SWH Plugins. Commit.
Harden malicious params detection, don't load renderpresets 4 times on render dialog opening. Commit.
Fix incorrectly marking proxy param as always safe when it shouldn't. Commit.
Rename and reposition Replace Timeline Clip action. Commit.
Fix more QML warnings and enable qmllint in CMake. Commit.
Fix a bunch of unqualifed access QML warnings. Commit.
Anchor right side of list label to truncate text. Commit.
Copy & paste elements in title editor. Commit.
Improve message on no audio device. Commit.
Use QJSEngine instead of MLT to evaluate effect parameters math operations. Commit.
Allow math expressions in effects values. Commit.
Fix typo. Commit.
Make Rectangular alpha mask use keyframes. Commit. Fixes bug #521165
Fix typo. Commit.
Fix misplaced condition breaking components debug export. Commit.
Fix selecting items in titler changing item properties. Commit.
[CD] Only create Appx with MSVC. Commit.
[CD] Add job to build binary with MSVC. Commit.
Make monitor scene type available in qml. Commit.
Fix timer should display audio thumbs when switching between bin clip or changing streams in clip monitor. Commit.
Cleanup more monitor code and fix unqualified access warnings. Commit.
Refactor time zoom properties of monitor ruler. Commit.
Mark most TimelineWaveform properties as required. Commit.
Fix binding loop warnings with TimelineWaveform. Commit.
Remove root.captureRightClick hack. Commit.
Snapping is an integer, not a bool. Commit.
Fix crash deleting speed in speed change dialog. Commit.
Revert aac default bitrate to previous value (fix render test suite). Commit.
Cleanup duplicate method. Commit.
Cache clip start timecode so that we don't always query the producer, show error message on failure. Commit.
Add 'Return playhead to start position on stop' setting. Commit. Fixes bug #519449
Update effects with text (GPS Text, Dynamic Text, Timer) to allow for more font properties. Commit.
Fix end of timeline playing inconsistencies. Commit.
Fix crashing debug message. Commit.
Fix warnings in Qml monitor overlays. Commit.
Cleanup unused qml file. Commit.
Fix more unqualified access warnings in Qml. Commit.
Cleanup frameSize property in monitor qml. Commit.
Use a single QmlEngine for all timeline widgets. Commit.
Fix shadowed property, unqualified access warnings etc. Commit.
Fix timeline vertical scrolling on document opening. Commit. See bug #520944
Fix undefined variable. Commit.
Call K.Core.triggerAction and K.Core.actionText directly. Commit.
Use K.Core.getCurrentFps() directly. Commit.
Fix another bunch of unqualified access warnings in QML. Commit.
Read from K.UiUtils.smallestReadableFont directly. Commit.
Read from K.KdenliveSettings.uiDebugMode directly. Commit.
Cleanup unused file. Commit.
SubtitleModel: trim all leading and trailing whitespaces on adding. Commit.
Add webp support for image sequences. Commit.
Make audio / video bitrate adjust on profiles that support it, increase audio bitrate range. Commit. See bug #520750
Fix lin...