Frameworks/6.0 Release notes

New tars

kcolorscheme - Classes to read and interact with color schemes
kstatusnotifieritem - Implementation of Status Notifier Items
ksvg - A library for rendering SVG-based themes with stylesheet re-coloring and on-disk caching.
ktexttemplate - this was previously known as grantlee
kuserfeedback - previously standalone releases

Frameworks moved to Plasma

kactivities
kactivities-stats
kwayland
plasma-framework

Frameworks No Longer Shipped

These are considered obsolete for future development

kdesignerplugin
kdewebkit
kemoticons
khtml
kinit
kjs
kjsembed
kmediaplayer
kross
kxmlrpcclient
kdelibs4support

Oxygen Icons will be shipped standalone due to its large size and infrequent development and renamed to oxygen-icons

oxygen-icons5

Frameworks needing updated build dependencies

frameworkintegration - needs AppStream 1.0. It needs a current release of PackageKit for the Qt 6 library.
kguiaddons - should use plasma-wayland-protocols 1.12.0

Coinstallability

Only one version of extra-cmake-modules can be installed. The KF6 version is backwards compatible and should also be used for KF5 builds.

For Frameworks and other relevant libraries we aim for being able to install both a 5 and a 6 version without conflicts. However there are cases where this cannot be provided out of the box, e.g. because a Framework contains runtime parts that must only exist once. Some projects have build flags to disable such problematic parts that should be applied to the KF5 build:

kguiaddons: -DBUILD_GEO_SCHEME_HANDLER=OFF
baloo: -DBUILD_INDEXER_SERVICE=OFF
kglobalaccel: -DKF6_COMPAT_BUILD=ON
kwallet: -DBUILD_KWALLETD=OFF and -DBUILD_KWALLET_QUERY=OFF
kio: -DKF6_COMPAT_BUILD=ON
plasma-framework: -DBUILD_DESKTOPTHEMES=OFF (now releases with Plasma)

Icon packages should only ship the latest version

breeze-icons
oxygen-icons (released separately)