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

The schedule is also available at:

• Calendar on Phabricator
• Google Calendar

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 Release Wed 2024-02-21 Wed 2024-02-28 Public release of Plasma 6.0 6.0.1 Release Tue 2024-03-05 6.0.2 Release Tue 2024-03-12 6.0.3 Release Tue 2024-03-26 6.0.4 Release Tue 2024-04-15 6.0.5 Release Tue 2024-05-21 6.0.90 Beta Tue 2024-05-23 Plasma/6.1 branched 6.1.0 Release Thu 2024-06-13 Tue 2024-06-18 6.1.1 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