diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2023-07-2023-09/kde.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-07-2023-09/kde.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0906eefa08 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-07-2023-09/kde.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +=== KDE on FreeBSD + +Links: + +link:https://freebsd.kde.org/[KDE/FreeBSD initiative] URL: link:https://freebsd.kde.org/[] + +link:https://community.kde.org/FreeBSD[FreeBSD -- KDE Community Wiki] URL: link:https://community.kde.org/FreeBSD[] + +Contact: Adriaan de Groot + +The KDE on FreeBSD project packages CMake, Qt, and software from the KDE Community, for the FreeBSD ports tree. +The software includes a full desktop environment called KDE Plasma (for both X11 and Wayland) and hundreds of applications that can be used on any FreeBSD machine. + +The KDE team (kde@) is part of desktop@ and x11@, building the software stack to make FreeBSD beautiful and usable as a daily-driver graphical desktop workstation. +The notes below describe *mostly* ports for KDE, but also include items that are important for the entire desktop stack. + +==== Infrastructure + +Qt5 is now on long-term support and updates only rarely. +There was an update to 5.15.10 in this quarter. +Qt6 is now updated with the regular upstream releases, with the 6.5.2 release landing at the end of July and 6.5.3 following later. + +CMake saw no updates this quarter, so we are now lagging by at least one minor release. +The changelog for the latest releases does not have much for FreeBSD, so there is no special reason to upgrade. + +package:sysutils/polkit[] and package:sysutils/consolekit2[] were both updated, bringing improved security policy and console handling to the FreeBSD desktop. +package:x11/sddm[] was updated to provide a better graphical login manager. + +package:multimedia/pipewire[] was updated to version 0.3.81. +This provides multimedia supprt for desktops such as KDE and GNOME. + + +==== KDE Stack + +KDE Gear releases happen every quarter, KDE Plasma updates once a month, and KDE Frameworks have a new release every month as well. +These (large) updates land shortly after their upstream release and are not listed separately. + +* KDE Frameworks reached version 5.110. The KDE Frameworks 5 series is winding down, although it will be six months or so before it enters long-term support upstream. +* KDE Plasma Desktop was updated to version 5.27.8. Just like frameworks, work on KDE Plasma 5 is winding down upstream in favor of KDE Plasma 6. +* KDE Gear updated to 23.08.1. + +==== Related Ports + +The KDE ecosystem includes a wide range of ports -- most maintained by kde@, all building on a shared base of Qt and KDE Frameworks. +The kde@ team updates them all as needed. +This quarter, for instance, tcberner@ and arrowd@ updated or fixed (much more than) this selection of ports: + +* package:astro/merkaartor[] +* package:devel/massif-visualizer[] +* package:finance/alkimia[] +* package:irc/quassel[] +* package:net-im/kaidan[] +* package:sysutils/bsdisks[] +* package:sysutils/k3b[] + +Thanks to jhale@, package:devel/qtcreator[] was updated to 11.0.3, providing another featureful integrated development environment for creating Qt and KDE applications. + +==== Deprecations + +Web browsers are huge, and have a considerable security surface. +The venerable package:www/qt5-webkit[] WebKit port has been slated for removal and consumers have been moved to WebEngine. +The fork of WebKit that we relied on is no longer actively maintained.