KDE Frameworks

[grahamperrin]

… KDE's Plasma 5 release schedule page … says that Plasma 5.22 / KF5 5.82 is the supported combo until 5.23 is released. … Are we stuck with KF5 5.82 until October?

Without looking at edits in detail: maybe there was an error of omission during a recent edition of the page. I'll ask first in #freebsd-desktop (via Element/Matrix). I don't expect to find MartinR there, but someone in the room might have a good idea of what will be likely.

In the meantime, I imagine that we (users of FreeBSD) will be not far behind releases for other users of KDE Frameworks.

For reference, I'm glancing at the dates:

• <https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/5/5.80.0/>
• <https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/5/5.81.0/>
• <https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/5/5.82.0/>

– and:

• <https://www.freshports.org/x11/kf5-frameworks/#history> (meta port)
• <https://www.freshports.org/x11/kf5-frameworkintegration/#history> (workspace and cross-framework integration plugins)
• <https://www.freshports.org/x11/kf5-plasma-framework/#history> (plugin based UI runtime used to write user interfaces)

 

[astyle]

FWIW, there's noise that FreeBSD is actually behind OpenBSD when it comes to QT6... I'll want to explore that further.

 

[bsduck]

They may have Qt6 but they don't have KDE Plasma 5, and they still offered version 4 not that long ago

 

[grahamperrin]

… Are we stuck with KF5 5.82 until October?

The short answer in IRC:

… no.

Maybe the release schedule page was misinterpreted.

Given the history of updates, I should not worry about dates of future updates.

 

[astyle]

Please, does this relate to KDE Frameworks?

Yeah, QT is a dependency of Frameworks. There was noise about QT6 not having feature parity with QT5... and about QT6 having better Wayland support than QT5... Frameworks' versioning does follow QT's versioning.