KDE Gear/24.02 Release notes

New tarballs

• isoimagewriter
• khealthcertificate

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

• TODO

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
• audiocd-kio
• kio-zeroconf
• libkgapi still needs a Qt 5 version for kio-gdrive and a Qt 6 version for pim bits.
• libkcddb needs a Qt 5 version for k3b and a Qt 6 version for kio-audiocd.
• libcompactdisc
• kaccounts-integration

Dependencies that need updated

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 (distros should ship both KF5 and KF6 packages for app compatibility) - released alongside this
• Plasma 6 - released alongside this
• gpgme - use latest releast
• qca - use latest release
• packagekit-qt - use latest release
• grantlee- KTextTemplate and part of KDE Frameworks 6
• libaccounts-qt - use Git master
• signond - use latest release
• signon-plugin-oauth2 and signon-ui - use Git master
• kweathercore - use latest release
• libquotient - use latest release
• kdsoap6 - use latest release
• kdsoap-ws-discovery-client - build for both Qt 5 and 6 for kio-extras
• qcoro - use latest release
• futuresql - use latest release
• kquickimageeditor - use latest release
• qtkeychain - use latest release
• pulseaudio-qt - use git master
• libqaccessibilityclient - use latest release
• polkit-qt - use git master
• phonon and phonon-vlc - use latest release (note phonon-gstreamer should be dropped)
• kuserfeedback - now part of KDE Frameworks