diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2026-04-2026-06/kde.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2026-04-2026-06/kde.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e6851edabb --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2026-04-2026-06/kde.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +=== 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. + +==== Infrastructure + +CMake was updated to 3.31.12. + +Qt6 and PySide6 were updated to 6.11.1. +PyQt6 was updated to 6.11.0. + +Qt5 and PySide2 were updated to 5.15.19 KDE patch collection. +Upstream standard support for Qt5 is officially over. +This is the final update for Qt5. + +==== KDE Stack + +KDE Frameworks, Plasma, and Gear release happen very regularly. +mailto:kde@FreeBSD.org[KDE team] lands these updates shortly after their upstream release. + +* KDE Frameworks ports were updated to 6.28.0. +* KDE Plasma Desktop was updated to 6.6.6. +* KDE Gear was updated to 26.04.3. + +==== Related Ports + +A number of new KDE ports have been added. +Amarok, the classic KDE music player, has been reinstated and updated to 3.3.3. + +==== Sunsetting Qt5 ports + +Qt5 is still used by approximately 350 ports. +Although Qt5 is deprecated there is no definite date for its removal from the ports tree yet. +Still, the port for Qt5WebEngine which is based on very old Chromium with multiple vulnerabilities is scheduled for removal just before 2026Q4. +KDE team encourages maintainers to migrate their ports to Qt6, remove Qt5 flavors, and remove abandoned Qt5 software.