KDE: a very short report for 2024q2

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+=== KDE on FreeBSD
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+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[]
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+Contact: Adriaan de Groot <kde@FreeBSD.org>
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+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.
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+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.
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+==== Infrastructure
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+CMake was updated several times and is now version 3.29.5, nearly the latest upstream release.
+CMake in the ports framework now supports setting parallel-build for tests.
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+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.
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+Qt6 and the Python bindings for Qt, Pyside, were updated to version 6.7.1.
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+==== KDE Stack
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+KDE Gear, Plasma and Frameworks release happen very regularly.
+These updates arrive in the FreeBSD ports tree only piecemeal,
+dus to lagging work on compatibility and testing.
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+* 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
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+==== Related Ports
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+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.
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