Plasma/Plasma 6.0 Release notes

New Tars

kglobalacceld
ocean-sound-theme
plasma5support

Tars Moved From Frameworks

These will now follow the Plasma releases and version numbers

kactivities
kactivities-stats
plasma-framework
kwayland

Tars Moved From KDE Gear

These need to be re-versioned to the lower 6.0

print-manager

Tars Moved From Independent Releases

wacomtablet

Dropped Tars

khotkeys
plasma-bigscreen
plank-player
aura-browser
plasma-remotecontrollers

We would welcome maintenance of Plasma Bigscreen to port it to Qt 6

Renamed Tars

kgamma5 is now kgamma

Qt 5 only

kwayland-integration remains Qt 5 only as its features have been moved into kwindowsystem, this is still released and should still be packaged for compatibility with Qt 5 apps.

Dependencies which need new versions

KDE bits

Phonon and Phonon-vlc - needs Phonon 4.12 and Phonon-vlc 0.1 which build for both Qt 5 and 6 at the same time
libqaccessibilityclient - needs 0.5.0 for Qt 6 (Qt 5 builds can be dropped)
kuserfeedback - needs 1.3.0 built for Qt 6 (and Qt 5 if you want it for Ruqola)
kirigami-addons - needs 0.11.75 built for Qt 6
polkit-qt-1 - needs new version built twice for Qt 5 and 6 - TODO release
plasma-wayland-protocols - use latest release 1.11

External Bits

Appstream - needs the unreleased 1.0, get it from Git
libaccounts-qt, signon-ui (also called signon-qt-ui) and signond - new release needed for Qt 6 - TODO release
PackagekitQt - use an up to date release built for Qt 6
SDDM - distros may want to consider packaging SDDM from Git for use with Plasma 6 alpha which has a Qt 6 port, this is not required but allows to use the latest theming

New Depedencies

xwaylandvideobridge - while not a strict dependency this allows for Screensharing Wayland apps

PAM configuration

To enable simultaneous password+fingerprint authentication on the lock screen, PAM configuration files need to be adjusted. The TL;DR version is to just copy the GNOME/GDM ones, which will now work for KDE's lock screen too. See https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kscreenlocker/-/merge_requests/163 for details.