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KDE's 6th Megarelease - Release Candidate 1

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jan 10, 2024,

updated Jan 15, 2024

Every few years we port the key components of our software to a new version of Qt, taking the opportunity to remove cruft and leverage the updated features the most recent version of Qt has to offer us.

KDE's megarelease is less than 50 days away. At the end of February 2024 we will publish Plasma 6, Frameworks 6, and a whole new set of applications in a special edition of KDE Gear all in one go.

If you have been following the updates here, here and here, you will know we are making our way through the testing phase and gradually reaching stability. KDE is making available today the first Release Candidate version of all the software we will include in the megarelease.

As with the Alpha and Beta versions, this is a preview intended for developers and testers. The software provided is nearing stability, but is still not 100% safe to use in a production environment. We still recommend you continue using stable versions of Plasma, Frameworks and apps for your everyday work. But if you do use this, watch out for bugs and report them promptly, so we can solve them.

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