Stable branches, including frameworks for Kubuntu LTS

[Rik Mills]

On 13/05/2026 12:24, Marco Martin wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 12:54 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 6:49 AM Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 5:45 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I am skeptical of the viability of this. Back in the days when we had
>>>> them, Kubuntu didn't ship the point releases anyway because the
>>>> updates policy for Kubuntu didn't make it easy for them to do it. And
>>>> I have seen no indication from *Kubuntu* that this would change
>>>> anytime soon.
>>>
>>> Kubuntu packagers confirmed that they can now get those point releases
>>> packaged as updates for the LTS
>>>
>>
>> Can we get them to say that in this thread? Because that is a *very*
>> new development indeed if it's true.
> 
> Scarlett, Rik, can you confirm this here.

I seem to be missing some of the beginning of this email chain, but it
has always been the case that we can SRU (Stable Release Update) point
releases that contain only bugfixes.

We have demonstrably done this for Plasma for example, updating that in
the 24.04 LTS all the way up to the final 5.27.12 [1]. In fact for 26.04
I am currently preparing the Plasma 6.6.5 point release that came out
yesterday for SRU to the main archive [2]. And we do other SRUs when
required on a case by case basis,

Likewise, if we can now have important extra point releases for fixes in
other main KDE components, then that can be also be done. Clearly as
Ubuntu is quite strict on updates in terms of verification and
paperwork, this will require some time and effort invested.

Rik Mills.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-desktop/+bug/2093184
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-desktop/+bug/2152276