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KDE Frameworks has been branched

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jan 21, 2023

Two weeks ago KDE Frameworks 5 has been branched off as planned. Meanwhile we have also gotten the fallout of that on the CI under control, and so KDE Frameworks 6 development is entering its next phase.

All KDE Frameworks repositories (including the deprecated ones) have a kf5 branch now, all future KF5 releases will be made from that, the master branch will become KF6.

This means you need to pay special attention to submitting changes to the right branch, and/or backporting relevant changes from master to kf5 when applicable. If you landed changes in the past two weeks you might want to double-check they ended up in the kf5 branch as well.

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