KDE Gear/24.02 Release notes

New tarballs

isoimagewriter
khealthcertificate

Tarballs that we do not ship anymore

kopete
print-manager (now released as part of Plasma)

Tarballs have switched from being Qt5 based to Qt6-based

TODO

Tarballs which are needed as Qt 5 and Qt 6 Builds

These projects provide supporting functions to KDE apps so to ensure Qt 5 based KDE apps continue to function distros should build them twice, once with Qt 5 and once with Qt 6.

kio-extras
audiocd-kio
kio-zeroconf
libkgapi still needs a Qt 5 version for kio-gdrive and a Qt 6 version for pim bits.
libkcddb needs a Qt 5 version for k3b and a Qt 6 version for kio-audiocd.
libcompactdisc
kaccounts-integration
libkexiv2

Dependencies that need updated

Many dependencies used by our apps now need newer versions due to the switch to Qt 6, distros will now need to build these for Qt 6.

KDE Frameworks 6 (distros should ship both KF5 and KF6 packages for app compatibility) - released alongside this
Plasma 6 - released alongside this
gpgme - use latest releast
qca - use latest release
packagekit-qt - use latest release
grantlee- KTextTemplate and part of KDE Frameworks 6
libaccounts-qt - use Git master
signond - use latest release
signon-plugin-oauth2 and signon-ui - use Git master
kweathercore - use latest release
libquotient - use latest release
kdsoap6 - use latest release
kdsoap-ws-discovery-client - the kio-extras Qt 5 tar uses an internal static copy so no additional work is needed. the kio-extras Qt 6 tar needs the latest release of this built for Qt 6 https://jriddell.org/2023/11/07/kdsoap-ws-discovery-client-0-3-0/
qcoro - use latest release
futuresql - use latest release
kquickimageeditor - use latest release
qtkeychain - use latest release
pulseaudio-qt - use git master
libqaccessibilityclient - use latest release
polkit-qt - use git master
phonon and phonon-vlc - use latest release (note phonon-gstreamer should be dropped)
kuserfeedback - now part of KDE Frameworks