Kraft 2.1.0 Release

and Happy Birthday KDE 馃挋 It is a pleasure to announce the new Kraft version 2.1.0 today. Kraft is an free software app for effective invoicing and business document management on Linux desktops. It is specifically targetted to small business needs and ensures data privacy. The new version is the second release of the Kraft 2 generation. It continues to deliver on the goals we set at beginning of the year with Kraft 2: More formally correct documents to better match legal requirements. Moreover the file based storage backend for simplicity and privacy aware cloud support was continued. With that Kraft will be the perfect solutions for work teams. ...

October 22, 2026 路 2 min 路 348 words 路 Me

Kraft 2.0 Announcement

With the start of the new year, I am very happy to announce the release of version Kraft 2.0.0. Kraft provides effective invoicing and document management for small businesses on Linux. Check the feature list. This new version is a big step ahead for the project. It does not only deliver the outstanding ports to Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6 and tons of modernizations and cleanups, but for the first time, it also does some significant changes in the underlying architecture and drops outdated technology. ...

January 6, 2026 路 2 min 路 332 words 路 Me

Kraft Version 1.2.2

Kraft (Github) is the desktop app making it easy to create offers and invoices quickly and beautifully in small companies. It is targetted to the free desktop and runs on Linux. This is the release announcement of the new Kraft version 1.2.2. This is a small service release that fixes a few bugs and CI issues. Right after this release, the branch with significant changes for Kraft 2.0 will be merged to master. These changes will make Kraft ready for sharing documents across private file clouds and with that enable use cases for distributed use via internet, along with other significant feature updates. ...

October 1, 2024 路 1 min 路 128 words 路 Me

Kraft Version 1.1

Kraft (Github) is a desktop utility making it easy to create offers and invoices quickly and beautifully in small companies. Today we are releasing Kraft Version 1.1 with significant improvements for users and the Krafts integration with latest software such as cmake and KDE. It received updated dutch translations in UI and also for the manual. The application icon was fixed, and some cmake related fixes were done that make Kraft working with different versions of Akonadi that are available on different distributions. ...

September 16, 2023 路 2 min 路 236 words 路 Me

Kraft Version 1.0

It is a pleasure to announce that Kraft Version 1.0 was released last week. What is Kraft? Kraft is free software to create office documents like offers and invoices in an efficient way. It runs on the Linux desktop and suits small businesses of all kinds. After countless releases with version numbers 0.x, Kraft finally goes with version number 1.0 with this release. It is in production at several companies since many years, and with this release it got many more improvements that make it a really mature product. ...

December 27, 2022 路 2 min 路 409 words 路 Me

Kraft Version 0.98

We are happy to announce the new Kraft version 0.98 that is available for download. Kraft is software for the Linux desktop to handle quotes and invoices in the small business. This is a version packed with bugfixes and also new features. The most important fixes were in the area of the catalog handling: Based on bug reports from the community the catalog window was completely reworked. Drag and drop of items in the catalog, the sorting and reordering of items are now working properly and as planned. ...

May 23, 2022 路 1 min 路 199 words 路 Me

Kraft Version 0.95

The authors are happy to announce the new release 0.95 of Kraft. Kraft is free desktop software for managing office documents like quotes and invoices in the small enterprise for the Linux desktop. Kraft Version 0.95 With version 0.95 we do a big step forward in the way of generating documents: Until now (more than fifteen years!) Kraft uses the ReportLab python library to create high quality PDF documents. While this has served us well, it has always been cumbersome to adopt the template for users needs. ReportLab uses a XML format as the template which has a bit of a steep learning curve and is not really easy with syntax. ...

August 28, 2020 路 2 min 路 391 words 路 Me

Kraft Version 0.90

This blog is to inform that Kraft, the Qt and KDE based desktop software to manage documents like invoices and quotes in your small company was released in version 0.90 recently. Followup Documents A great new feature is the completely reworked handling of so called follow-up documents. Kraft has this feature to help dealing with docs that follow on a certain kind of predecessor doc in the business flow, such as an invoice follows on an offer once the work has been finished. ...

December 31, 2019 路 3 min 路 459 words 路 Me

Kraft Version 0.82

A new release of Kraft, the Qt- and KDE based software to help to organize business docs in small companies, has arrived. A couple of days ago version 0.82 was released. It mainly is a bugfix release, but it also comes with a few new features. Users were asking for some new functions that they needed to switch to Kraft with their business communication, and I am always trying to make that a priority. ...

October 19, 2018 路 2 min 路 231 words 路 Me

Kraft Version 0.81 Released

I am happy to announce the release of Kraft version 0.81. Kraft is a Qt based desktop application that helps you to handle documents like quotes and invoices in your small business. Version 0.81 is a bugfix release for the previous version 0.80, which was the first stable release based on Qt5 and KDE Frameworks5. Even though it came with way more new features than just the port, it鈥檚 first release has proven it鈥檚 stability in day-to-day business now for a few month. ...

June 17, 2018 路 1 min 路 142 words 路 Me