# Tellico collection manager marks 25 years since first release

> **Key takeaway:** Tellico, the KDE collection management application originally released as Bookcase 0.1 in November 2001, has reached its 25th anniversary with a retrospective published by lead developer Robby Stephenson.

**Published:** 2026-10-18T06:51:45+00:00 
**Source:** Planet openSUSE 
**Category:** distro-planet 
**Canonical URL:** https://fosswire.org/news/tellico-collection-manager-marks-25-years-since-first-releas.html 

## Summary
Tellico, a KDE application for organizing collections of books, music, films and other items, turned 25 this month. Lead developer Robby Stephenson traced the project's history from its 2001 launch as Bookcase through its renaming in 2004, adoption into KDE Extragear in 2009, and its most recent major release, Tellico 4.0, which migrated to Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6 in September 2024. Stephenson continues to maintain the project personally and uses it for his own collections.

## From Bookcase to Tellico 4.0
- **November 2001**: Initial release as Bookcase 0.1
- **September 2004**: Renamed to Tellico with version 0.12
- **September 2005**: Tellico 1.0 released
- **May 2009**: Moved to KDE Extragear, left Novell Forge hosting
- **September 2009**: Tellico 2.0, first KDE4 version
- **November 2016**: Tellico 3.0 on Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5
- **September 2024**: Tellico 4.0 on Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6
- **February 2022**: First Windows test build compiled

## Why it matters
Tellico's longevity demonstrates sustained maintenance of a niche but well-loved KDE application across four major Qt/KDE technology transitions. Its continued presence in KDE Extragear provides a user-friendly database tool for collectors who do not want to manage raw database structures.