diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2025-01-2025-03/kde.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-01-2025-03/kde.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c5cc1a3749 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-01-2025-03/kde.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +=== 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: KDE on FreeBSD Mailing List + +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 mailto:kde@FreeBSD.org[KDE team] is part of mailto:desktop@FreeBSD.org[desktop@], building the software stack to make FreeBSD beautiful and usable as a daily driver graphical desktop workstation. + + +==== It Goes to 6! + +The KDE ports have caught up with the current generation of upstream development and now deliver up-to-date KDE Frameworks 6, KDE Plasma 6, and KDE Gear. +Where possible, the default version of every KDE application has been updated to a recent one that uses KDE Frameworks 6. +Many Qt-based applications have also been updated to default to a Qt6 flavor. + +This positions FreeBSD alongside OpenBSD and Linux distributions with a modern KDE experience. + +Qt5 remains in the ports tree. +KDE Frameworks 5 remain in the ports tree for some consumers. +Qt5 reaches end-of-life from its upstream on May 26, 2025, so it is not recommended for use. +KDE Frameworks 5 is in a similar security-only maintenance mode. + +Thanks to makc@, arrowd@, and kenrap@ for landing this KDE update in ports. + +==== Infrastructure + +* CMake received several patch-level updates +* Qt and PySide (the Python bindings for Qt) were updated to 6.8.2