Dropping Qt5 CI Support at the End of September 2025 - Sunsetting Qt 5

[Ben Cooksley]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 6:07 AM Christoph Cullmann <christoph at cullmann.io>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > El diumenge, 28 de desembre del 2025, a les 8:58:34 (Hora estàndard
> d’Europa
> > central), Ben Cooksley va escriure:
> >
>
> > > On Sun, Dec 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
> wrote:
> > >
>
> > > > El dissabte, 27 de desembre del 2025, a les 22:18:55 (Hora estàndard
> > > > d’Europa
> > > >
>
> > > > central), Christoph Cullmann va escriure:
> > > >
>
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
>
> > > > > given we soon start 2026: Would it be time to sunset the Qt 5
> stuff on
> > > > > invent?
> > > >
>
> > > > In July we said it would be in September and there was not a huge
> uproar,
> > > > so
> > > > doing it in January 2026 (6 months later than what we said) should
> be more
> > > > than enough.
> > > >
>
> > > > Doing it == "closing the remaining Qt5 CI" and that's it i guess?
> > > >
>
> > > > Or is there something else that needs to be removed?
> > >
>
> > > We'd also stop tracking trunk_kf5 / stable_kf5 for translation
> purposes as
> > > well?
> >
>
> >
>
> > That should come as a decision to archive the projects.
>
> Should that not also happen for projects that still continue to exist,
> like e.g. Frameworks with KF6 releases that now no longer need the
> trunk_kf5 / stable_kf5
>
> translation updates, as we do no new releases (beside perhaps a security
> backport)?
>

I'd have expected this to be the case.
Only active projects that are still working on porting should be left
following the discontinuation of Qt 5 support?


>
> Greetings
> Christoph
>

Thanks,
Ben


>
> >
>
> > Cheers,
> > Albert
> >
>
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
>
> > > > Albert
> > >
>
> > > Cheers,
> > > Ben
> > >
>
> > > > > (beside the Qt patch collection)
> > > > >
>
> > > > > Greetings
> > > > > Christoph
> > > > >
>
> > > > > On Thursday, July 3rd, 2025 at 21:33, Albert Astals Cid
> aacid at kde.org
> > > >
>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
>
> > > > > > El dijous, 3 de juliol del 2025, a les 16:52:49 (Hora d’estiu
> d’Europa
> > > > > >
>
> > > > > > central), Neal Gompa va escriure:
> > > > > >
>
> > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM Albert Astals Cid
> aacid at kde.org
> > > >
>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
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> > > > > > > > Hi everyone,
> > > > > > > >
>
> > > > > > > > While this has been discussed in various forums, it has not
> yet
> > > >
>
> > > > been
> > > >
>
> > > > > > > > the
> > > > > > > > main focus of any conversation.
> > > > > > > >
>
> > > > > > > > We are planning to drop support for Qt5 CI on invent.kde.org
> at
> > > >
>
> > > > the
> > > >
>
> > > > > > > > end of
> > > > > > > > September 2025.
> > > > > > > >
>
> > > > > > > > If you are still using Qt5 you have 3 months to move to Qt6
> or you
> > > >
>
> > > > can
> > > >
>
> > > > > > > > try
> > > > > > > > to convince the powers that you need more time with a really
> good
> > > > > > > > reason.
> > > > > > > > Does this mean we've effectively stopped working on the Qt5
> patch
> > > > > > > > collection and we're going to EOL the 24.08-qt5 runtime for
> > > >
>
> > > > Flatpak in
> > > >
>
> > > > > > > > September?
> > > > > >
>
> > > > > > We do not have CI for the patch collection.
> > > > > >
>
> > > > > > I will [try to[ continue doing the rebases for the
> patch-collection
> > > >
>
> > > > until
> > > >
>
> > > > > > Qt 5.15.19 gets released next year.
> > > > > >
>
> > > > > > Best Regards,
> > > > > > Albert
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
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