Plasma 6.8. When?

[alexsid]

Hi all!
Why Debian Sid is still using Plasma 6.7 not 6.8? Any obstacles? Any reasons for the delay?

[DeepDayze]

My belief is that Debian packaging team is waiting for the first bugfix release. Wish 6.6 or 6.7 was kept around in some legacy branch for those who want to keep the X11 session around as in 6.8 and beyond the X11 session support was dropped.

[alexsid]

My belief is that Debian packaging team is waiting for the first bugfix release. Wish 6.6 or 6.7 was kept around in some legacy branch for those who want to keep the X11 session around as in 6.8 and beyond the X11 session support was dropped.

There have been already 3 bug fix releases. 6.8.3 is active.

[DeepDayze]

My belief is that Debian packaging team is waiting for the first bugfix release. Wish 6.6 or 6.7 was kept around in some legacy branch for those who want to keep the X11 session around as in 6.8 and beyond the X11 session support was dropped.

There have been already 3 bug fix releases. 6.8.3 is active.

Hopefully soon then 6.8 will be coming into Unstable.

[devil]

Here is an excerpt from debian-qt-kde IRC:

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{Tageswechsel: Freitag, 16. Oktober 2026}
I plan to take a crack at Plasma 6.8 over the weekend.
Plan is to upload it to experimental first.
And then maybe with 6.8.2 or so we can consider that fpr unstable.
But I suppose not everyone will be happy about No-more-X11.
{Tageswechsel: Samstag, 17. Oktober 2026}
Yeahj I think we have to discuss, if we really want to ship no-more-x11 wih trixie or stay at 6.7
as we are facing properly freeze end of the year, there is not that mush time left
It would be just delaying the inevitable.
And I have no intention of staying on 6.7 forever because of it.
yes it is inevitable, but the question is if we really want to ship just the first version without X11 within forky and properly get a shitload of unhappy users
or give KDE more time to iron out wayland issues and ship wayland only with forky+1
I just see the issue, that KDE just learns how many users are still using X11 with plasma 6.8 :)
But nothing against 6.8 in experimental ;)
I'm not uploading 6.8 to exp if we are not planning to ship it in forky.
Maintaining 2 branches of KDE releases will be a mess and a lot of work.
I have not seen any further decision-making on this issue.