diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2024-04-2024-06/kde.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2024-04-2024-06/kde.adoc new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..5aca5509dd3 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2024-04-2024-06/kde.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +=== 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 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. + +We missed a quarter, while the broader KDE community celebrated the KDE Megarelease of KDE Frameworks 6, KDE Plasma 6 and KDE Gear. +The latest software is still not available on FreeBSD, pending more testing and some integration work. + +==== Infrastructure + +CMake was updated several times and is now version 3.29.6, the latest upstream release. +CMake in the ports framework now supports setting parallel-build for tests. + +Qt5 is now on long-term support and updates only rarely. +An update to 5.15.14 and WebEngine to 5.15.17 was landed in May. + +Qt6 and the Python bindings for Qt, Pyside, were updated to version 6.7.2. + +==== KDE Stack + +KDE Gear, Plasma and Frameworks release happen very regularly. +These updates arrive in the FreeBSD ports tree only piecemeal, due to lagging work on compatibility and testing. + +* KDE Frameworks reached version 6.3.0 +* KDE Plasma 6 Desktop was updated to version 6.0.4 +* KDE Gear 6 has not yet arrived in the ports tree + +==== Related Ports + +The KDE ecosystem includes a wide range of ports -- most maintained by mailto:kde@FreeBSD.org[kde@], all building on a shared base of Qt and KDE Frameworks. +The mailto:kde@FreeBSD.org[KDE team] updates them all as needed. +This quarter the KDE team would like to thank mailto:tcberner@FreeBSD.org[Tobias C. Berner], mailto:arrowd@FreeBSD.org[Gleb Popov] and mailto:jhale@FreebSD.org[Jason E. Hale] again for keeping things up-to-date.