Schedules/Plasma 6

Preamble

Plasma is the desktop developed by the KDE community. Version 6 of Plasma is being developed, built and shipped on top of Qt 6.

Further details for Plasma 6 can be found on the Wiki, a current list of open bugs at Bugzilla.

Status

Work for porting Plasma and KDE Frameworks based on Qt 6 is currently the focus of the development. If you're able to help, please have a look at the Phabricator Boards for KDE Frameworks 6 and Plasma 6.

You can keep track of the progress of porting Frameworks, Gear and Plasma to Qt 6. Note: That page is generated automatically from source code data. Please also note that not all projects listed on that page need to have a release based on Qt 6 before the first version of Plasma 6 can be released. The projects not using Qt 6 by the time of the first Plasma 6 release will simply ship the Qt 5 version.

Notes

• Plasma 6.0 will depend on Qt 6.6 and Frameworks 6.0 (and Gear 24.02 for libkexiv2)
• Initially releases will be 3 times a year as with Plasma 5
• Once distros agree stability has been found we can move to 2 releases a year
• 6.0 will be a coordinated "mega" release together with KDE Frameworks and KDE Gear .
• No scheduled LTS releases yet but those will come when distros find them useful

Future releases

Version	Post release Version	Type	Release Date	Comments
5.91.0 (Plasma 6.0 Beta 2)	Beta	Wed 2023-12-20
5.92.0 (Plasma 6.0 Release Candidate 1)	5.92.90	Release Candidate	Wed 2024-01-10	Create Plasma/6.0
5.93.0 (Plasma 6.0 Release Candidate 2)	5.93.90	Release Candidate	Wed 2024-01-31
6.0.0	?	Private Tarball Release	Wed 2024-02-21	Final tag from Plasma/6.0 branch, only urgent fixes approved by release mangler after the Tarball release, please
6.0		Release	Wed 2024-02-28	Public release of Plasma 6.0

History of releases

6.0 series
Version	Type	Release Date	Comments
5.90.0 (Plasma 6.0 Beta 1)	Beta	Wed 2023-11-29
5.80.0 (Plasma 6.0 Alpha)	Alpha	Wed 2023-11-08	Plasma Release Notes, Megarelease Announcement