Schedules/Plasma 6
Preamble
Plasma is the Desktop Environment 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.
General
Purpose
This page contains the release schedule for previous and future releases of KDEs Plasma 6. All information on this page is subject to change, e.g. if the quality of a release is deemed not good enough, it may be postponed on very short notice.
Strategy
The first release of Plasma 6 will be a coordinated release together with KDE Frameworks and KDE Gear [1].
After the initial release, it is planned to have 3 or more releases per year initially.
Once Plasma 6 has stabilized enough after its initial releases, there will be only 2 releases per year. The KDE community will try to align those releases with distribution releases. Due to the slower release schedule after the initial releases, there will be a lengthened Beta period, probably with weekly updates to the Beta. [2]
LTS releases
It has not yet been decided, whether LTS releases will be made in some way similar to the Plasma 5 release cycle. The demand by distributions and the added workload will have to be evaluated.
Stages of releases
To be decided, likely similar to Plasma 5 release cycle after the initial release of Plasma 6.0
Future releases
| Version | Type | Release Date | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.80.0 (Plasma 6.0 Alpha) | Alpha | Wed 2023-11-08 | |
| 5.90.0 (Plasma 6.0 Beta 1) | Beta | Wed 2023-11-29 | |
| 5.91.0 (Plasma 6.0 Beta 2) | Beta | Wed 2023-12-20 | |
| 5.92.0 (Plasma 6.0 Release Candidate 1) | Release Candidate | Wed 2024-01-10 | |
| 5.93.0 (Plasma 6.0 Release Candidate 2) | Release Candidate | Wed 2024-01-31 | |
| 6.0.0 | Private Tarball Release | Wed 2024-01-31 | Final tag from Plasma/6.0 branch, only urgent fixes approved by release mangler after the Tarball release, please |
| 6.0 | Release | Wed 2024-02-28 | Public release of Plasma 6.0 |
References
- ↑ Albert Astals Cid, "KDE+Qt6 releases schedule"
- ↑ Nate Graham, "Approved Plasma 6 proposal: change the release schedule".