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
Plasma 6.0 is currently in its Release Candidate phase, no new features will be added, but bugs will continue to get fixed before the final release.
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 [1]
- 6.0 will be a coordinated "mega" release together with KDE Frameworks and KDE Gear [2].
- No scheduled LTS releases yet but those will come when distros find them useful
The schedule is also available at:
Release mangler: Jonathan Riddell
Releases Cycle
- Repo and Soft Feature Freeze: On the Thursday two weeks before beta is repo and soft feature freeze. List of git repositories fixed and major features merged.
- Beta version: Thursday following the corresponding KDE Frameworks release (which is usually released on the second saturday of a month).
- One week after beta release we'll try a beta test day where we encourage everyone to install and test the beta.
- .0 tagged on Thursday three weeks after the Beta, released on following Tuesday
- Bugfix tags/releases are made on Tuesdays in a Fibonacci sequence of weeks (1, 1, 2, 3, 5)
Dependencies
| Plasma Version | Qt Version | KDE Frameworks Version |
|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | 6.6 | 6.0 |
| 6.1 | 6.6 (or 6.7?) | 6.4 ? |
Future releases
| Version | Post release Version | Type | Tar Date | Release Date | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.93.0 (Plasma 6.0 Release Candidate 2) | 5.93.90 | Release Candidate | Wed 2024-01-31 | ||
| 6.0 | 6.0.80 | Release | Wed 2024-02-21 | Wed 2024-02-28 | Public release of Plasma 6.0 |
| 6.0.1 | Bugfix Release | Tue 2024-03-05 | |||
| 6.0.2 | Bugfix Release | Tue 2024-03-12 | |||
| 6.0.3 | Bugfix Release | Tue 2024-03-26 | |||
| 6.0.4 | Bugfix Release | Tue 2024-04-15 | |||
| 6.0.5 | Bugfix Release | Tue 2024-05-21 | |||
| 6.0.90 | 6.1.80 | Beta | Tue 2024-05-23 | Plasma/6.1 branched | |
| 6.1.0 | Release | Thu 2024-06-13 | Tue 2024-06-18 | ||
| 6.1.1 | Bugfix Release | Tue 2024-06-25 | |||
History of releases
| 6.0 series | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | Type | Release Date | Comments |
| 5.92.0 (Plasma 6.0 Release Candidate 1) | Release Candidate | Wed 2024-01-10 | Megarelease Announcement |
| 5.91.0 (Plasma 6.0 Beta 2) | Beta | Wed 2023-12-20 | Megarelease Announcement |
| 5.90.0 (Plasma 6.0 Beta 1) | Beta | Wed 2023-11-29 | Megarelease Announcement |
| 5.80.0 (Plasma 6.0 Alpha) | Alpha | Wed 2023-11-08 | Plasma Release Notes, Megarelease Announcement |
References
- ↑ Nate Graham, "Approved Plasma 6 proposal: change the release schedule".
- ↑ Albert Astals Cid, "KDE+Qt6 releases schedule"