Plasma 6.8 soft freeze: preparation

[Arjen Hiemstra]

On Monday, 24 August 2026 17:36:39 Central European Summer Time Bhushan Shah 
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Tomorrow is soft-freeze for KDE Plasma 6.8! So far I am aware about at least
> request to add kup in Plasma release schedule, link for that discussion on
> plasma-devel mailing list [1]
> 
> Apart from that any other repository that we want to include in the 6.8
> release? Dependency wise, we will be depending on Qt 6.11  and KDE
> Frameworks 6.30.
> 
> Any objections? Thoughts?
> [1] https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasma-devel/2026-August/124064.html
> 
> Best Regards,
> Bhushan Shah

I'd like to make sure https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/
merge_requests/6970 is in as it makes new Union styles a lot more visible. 
It's mostly new code that shouldn't impact the existing functionality.

- Arjen