Plasma/Plasma 6.0 Release notes

Required Qt Version

Plasma 6 requires Qt 6.6. The Plasma 6 alpha release does not yet enforce this.

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

This needs 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 1.0 is needed for Qt6 support. This means current main branch for now since 1.0 is not released
• kdsoap Qt5/Qt6 is not fully coinstallable
• libaccounts-qt, signond, signon-plugin-oauth2, and signon-ui are need changes for Qt6 support. MRs are pending. Meanwhile a fork of libaccounts-qt, signond, signon-plugin-oauth2, signon-ui can be used
• Enabling libproxy in Qt: https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/494754. This can/should already be enabled in the build options downstream. Without it KIO/KDE apps doesn't handle proxy config
• 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
• xdg-utils needed a change to support KDE_SESSION_VERSION=6. A new release is needed

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.

Coinstallbility

Please review the Frameworks/6.0_Release_notes for coinstallability with KDE Frameworks 5. Distros can ship both KF5 and KF6 versions of Plasma Framework, the KF5 version should be built to not have clashing files.

• plasma-framework: -DBUILD_DESKTOPTHEMES=OFF