Draft for Plasma 6.7 schedule (was: 6.6 schedule)

[Martin Riethmayer]

Hi again,

sorry, I copied the subject of the mail over and forgot to change "6.6" 
to "6.7"...

Martin

Am 15.12.25 um 10:14 schrieb Martin Riethmayer:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> with the holiday season coming up, I'd like to propose a schedule for 
> Plasma 6.7 before that.
> 
> Plasma 6.7 might be a bit special, as it's the last version with X11 
> support [3], and there was the question raised, if some extra bug-fix 
> releases should be scheduled for 6.7, i.e. making 6.7 the first LTS 
> release for Plasmas 6.X series?
> 
> This could be a possible schedule with 2 additional bugfix releases:
> 
> 6.6.80        2026-04-23 (repo and soft feature freeze)
> 6.6.90    Beta 1    2026-05-07
> 6.6.91    Beta 2    2026-05-21
> 6.7.0    TAR    2026-06-04
> 6.7.0    Release    2026-06-09
> 6.7.1        2026-06-16
> 6.7.2        2026-06-23
> 6.7.3        2026-07-07
> 6.7.4        2026-07-28
> 6.7.5        2026-09-01
> 6.7.6        2026-10-27
> 6.7.7        2027-01-26
> 6.7.8        2027-06-22
> 
> 
> Things to note:
> 
> - The schedule is based on the 3-releases-a-year model, thus I aimed for 
> 6.7.0 to be about 4 months after 6.6.0 (scheduled for 2026-02-17).
> It's also based on the release of the "best matching" frameworks 
> release, which influences the date of Beta 1 (i.e. Beta 1 "will usually 
> happen on Thursday following the corresponding KDE Frameworks 
> release" [1] ), which could in turn make 6.7 depend on FW 6.26. Those 
> two kind of influence each other.
> 
> - Required Qt version could remain at Qt 6.10, or could probably use Qt 
> 6.11 which is currently scheduled to be released in March 2026[2].
> 
> - I have not taken into consideration any release schedules of 
> distributions
> 
> - The Blog post "Goig all-in on a Wayland future" [3] says "The Plasma 
> X11 session will be supported by KDE into early 2027", which kind of 
> implies at least one extra release (6.7.7). I've added another one 
> (6.7.8) by Fibonacci-sequence (i.e. 21 weeks after 6.7.7) in my 
> proposal, but this is just for showing the date. I'm not aware of any 
> formal decision how many extra bug-fix releases will be made, so this is 
> up for discussion if it should be reduced to less or extended to even 
> more bug-fix releases. Also, it might be worth discussing if it's good 
> to put an official "LTS" label on it, or to give an assurance like for 
> Plasma 5.27 ("In case of urgent bugfixes or security issues, another 
> release might be made")[4].
> 
> Let me know your thoughts on this, I'm happy to adjust the schedule or 
> (if no objections come) to put it on the wiki and the phabricator calendar.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> [1] https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_6#Beta
> [2] https://wiki.qt.io/QtReleasing
> [3] https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/going-all-in-on-a-wayland-future/
> [4] https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_5#Future_releases