The state of KDE on FreeBSD / root vulnerability...

[Hannes Hauswedell]

Hi everyone,

my main question is whether KDE on FreeBSD is affected by the infamous KDE 
root vulnerability.

I don't want to complain or anything, and I know it's all volunteer work (I 
did lot's testing back in the KDE4 porting efforts), but the current state of 
KDE on FreeBSD seems to be rather desolate to me right now. I have stopped 
reporting bugs years ago, because upstream wouldn't take them, because our 
versions are so outdated. Besides the annoyances of bugs, there now seem to be 
serious security problems and I wonder everyday whether KDE5 (or at least 
KDE4's app packages) are around the corner, or whether I need to migrate all 
my work away from KDE software as fast as possible.
And yes, I have looked at area51, but it doesn't seems to contain packages for 
any of the relevant apps (kmail, kate, kile, kdevelop...) and also I don't 
want to risk mixing packages on my work computers.

Of course I would love to stick with the KDE apps, but it would be really 
helpful right now to know if there is a plan/timeline for updates, or whether 
this is completely unknown right now.

Thank you,
Hannes