Project Summary
KDE is a community of people dedicated to create a free and user-friendly computing experience.
KDE develops three pillars of software:
Plasma, one of the most popular desktop environments for Linux and BSD operating systems – adaptable to formfactors ranging from desktop PCs to smartphones.
A loosely connected set of applications.
KDE Frameworks which offer all necessary means to easily build all kinds of applications upon.
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 8,007 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in April, 1997
ending with its most recent commit 7 days ago
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Project Security
Vulnerabilities per Version ( last 10 releases )
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30 Day SummaryDec 29 2025 — Jan 28 2026
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12 Month SummaryJan 28 2025 — Jan 28 2026
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Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for Kdenlive )
Repository URL: https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive.git
Version: 25.11.70-20251024
- 2025-10-24
- Last Analyzed
- 476,643
- Lines of Code Analyze
- 7.92
- Defect Density
Defects by status for current build
- 1,205
- Total defects
- 894
- Outstanding
- 309
- Fixed
CWE Top 25 defects
| ID | CWE-Name | Number of Defects |
|---|---|---|
| 190 | Integer Overflow or Wraparound | 10 |
Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for Tellico )
Repository URL: https://invent.kde.org/office/tellico.git
Version: 4.4
- 2025-12-26
- Last Analyzed
- 416,290
- Lines of Code Analyze
- 0.95
- Defect Density
Defects by status for current build
- 649
- Total defects
- 388
- Outstanding
- 190
- Fixed
Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for CuteHMI )
Repository URL: https://invent.kde.org/sdk/cutehmi.git
Version: a4d485efcf9286077afdb8032b553077551c06cd
- 2026-01-30
- Last Analyzed
- 221,765
- Lines of Code Analyze
- 0.17
- Defect Density
Defects by status for current build
- 185
- Total defects
- 38
- Outstanding
- 136
- Fixed
CWE Top 25 defects
No top 25 CWE defects were found.