KDE Gear/24.02 Release notes

New tarballs

isoimagewriter
khealthcertificate
mimetreeparser

Tarballs that we do not ship anymore

kopete
print-manager (now released as part of Plasma)

Tarballs have switched from being Qt5 based to Qt6-based

akonadi
akonadi-calendar
akonadi-calendar-tools
akonadiconsole
akonadi-contacts
akonadi-import-wizard
akonadi-mime
akonadi-notes
akonadi-search
akregator
alligator
analitza
angelfish
arianna
ark
audiocd-kio
audiotube
blinken
bomber
bovo
calendarsupport
colord-kde
dolphin
dolphin-plugins
dragon
elisa
eventviews
falkon
filelight
granatier
grantlee-editor
grantleetheme
gwenview
incidenceeditor
isoimagewriter
itinerary
juk
kaccounts-integration
kaccounts-providers
kaddressbook
kajongg
kalarm
kalgebra
kalk
kamera
kanagram
kapman
kapptemplate
kasts
kate
katomic
kbackup
kblackbox
kblocks
kbounce
kbreakout
kbruch
kcachegrind
kcalc
kcalutils
kcharselect
kclock
kcolorchooser
kcron
kdebugsettings
kdeconnect-kde
kde-dev-utils
kde-inotify-survey
kdegraphics-mobipocket
kdenetwork-filesharing
kdenlive
kdepim-addons
kdepim-runtime
kdf
kdialog
kdiamond
keditbookmarks
keysmith
kfind
kfourinline
kgeography
kget
kgoldrunner
kgpg
khangman
khealthcertificate
khelpcenter
kidentitymanagement
kigo
killbots
kimap
kio-extras
kiriki
kiten
kitinerary
kjournald
kjumpingcube
kldap
kleopatra
klettres
klickety
klines
kmag
kmahjongg
kmail
kmail-account-wizard
kmailtransport
kmbox
kmime
kmines
kmousetool
kmouth
knavalbattle
knetwalk
knights
knotes
koko
kolf
kollision
kongress
konqueror
konquest
konsole
kontact
kontactinterface
kontrast
konversation
korganizer
kosmindoormap
kpat
kpimtextedit
kpkpass
kpmcore
kpublictransport
kreversi
krfb
kruler
kshisen
ksirk
ksmtp
ksnakeduel
kspaceduel
ksquares
ksudoku
ksystemlog
kteatime
ktimer
ktnef
ktorrent
ktrip
ktuberling
kturtle
kubrick
kwalletmanager
kweather
kwordquiz
libgravatar
libkcompactdisc
libkdegames
libkdepim
libkgapi
libkleo
libkmahjongg
libksieve
libktorrent
lskat
mailcommon
mailimporter
markdownpart
mbox-importer
merkuro
messagelib
mimetreeparser
neochat
okular
palapeli
parley
partitionmanager
picmi
pimcommon
pim-data-exporter
pim-sieve-editor
plasmatube
qmlkonsole
skanpage
spectacle
svgpart
sweeper
tokodon
yakuake
zanshin

Tarballs which are needed as Qt 5 and Qt 6 Builds

These projects provide supporting functions to KDE apps so to ensure Qt 5 based KDE apps continue to function distros should build them twice, once with Qt 5 and once with Qt 6.

kio-extras: From 22.04 onwards it uses Qt6. A KF5-based tarball will be released separately for support of KF5-based KIO apps
audiocd-kio
kio-zeroconf
kio-gdrive
libkgapi still needs a Qt 5 version for kio-gdrive and a Qt 6 version for pim bits (it's co-installable except for the sasl plugin, which can be disabled for one Qt version via -DBUILD_SASL_PLUGIN=OFF (since 24.01.95/23.08.5 or 3f293301)
libkcddb needs a Qt 5 version for k3b and a Qt 6 version for kio-audiocd.
libcompactdisc
kaccounts-integration: a Qt5 build of the library part is needed for kf5-purpose and kf5-kio-gdrive. Use -DKF6_COMPAT_BUILD=ON to build that. Available since Beta 2
libkexiv2
ksanecore: Qt 6 build needed by Skanpage and Qt 5 build by Skanlite and others (libksane can be Qt 5 only for now as nothing uses it with Qt 6 but apps such as Digikam will be moving to Qt 6 soon)
libkdcraw still needs a Qt 5 build for e.g. Krita, kphotoalbum

Dependencies that need updating

Many dependencies used by our apps now need newer versions due to the switch to Qt 6, distros will now need to build these for Qt 6.

KDE Frameworks 6 - released alongside this, distros should ship both KF5 and KF6 packages for app compatibility see Coinstallability Frameworks 6 Release notes
Plasma 6 - released alongside this
gpgme - use latest releast
qca - use latest release
packagekit-qt - use latest release
grantlee - now renamed KTextTemplate and part of KDE Frameworks 6
libaccounts-qt - use the qt6 branch of Nicolas Fella's fork https://gitlab.com/nicolasfella/libaccounts-qt/
signond - use the qt6 branch of Nicolas Fella's fork https://gitlab.com/nicolasfella/signond/
signon-plugin-oauth2 and signon-ui - use Git master
kweathercore - use latest release https://jriddell.org/2023/11/29/kweathercore-0-8-0/
libquotient - use latest release
kdsoap6 - use latest release
kdsoap-ws-discovery-client - the kio-extras Qt 5 tar uses an internal static copy so no additional work is needed. the kio-extras Qt 6 tar needs the latest release of this built for Qt 6 https://jriddell.org/2023/11/07/kdsoap-ws-discovery-client-0-3-0/
qcoro - use latest release
futuresql - use latest release
kquickimageeditor - use latest release
qtkeychain - use latest release
pulseaudio-qt - use 1.4.0 release for KDE Connect
libqaccessibilityclient - use latest release
polkit-qt - use >= 0.175.0
phonon and phonon-vlc - use latest release (note phonon-gstreamer should be dropped)
kuserfeedback - now part of KDE Frameworks
ktextaddons - use a Qt 6 build of the current release https://download.kde.org/stable/ktextaddons/ Ruqola is the remaining Qt 5 user of KTextAddons and a Qt 6 version will be released soon and is considered in beta for now
kunifiedpush - Do NOT ship this, it requires KDE to set up a suitable server and none exists yet.
kdiagram - use latest release compiled against Qt 6 for KGantt used by PIM, also keep Qt 5 builds for e.g. Heaptrack and Calligra
kimageannotator and kcolorpicker - (For Gwenview, Spectacle no longer uses it), Qt 6 version now released although not yet integrated into Gwenview so drop for now