Users of KDE: Do you have a calendar on hand? Take it, find a red marker and go to February 2024. Well, it better be a pencil of the same color and that can be erased, because the date is not confirmed. But there is a proposal and we already have the first news about the launch of Plasma 6, the next update, no longer major, but "very major" of the graphical environment that was born as Kool Desktop Environment.
Week after week, Nate Graham publishes the news that has occurred in the project in which he collaborates, which is none other than KDE. Although they have not published anything on official accounts, yes It's on their schedule page. or programming, available in this link. There we see the different sections, such as Plasma 5, Frameworks 5 and KDE Gear 23.08, but now, above all of them, a new one appears: Mega release.
KDE to deliver a big mix of updates within 4 months
From the previous link we access this other, where we can see, under the text "This is a proposal", the following roadmap:
| Date | Releases |
| 8/11/2023: Alpha | Gear 24.01.75 plasma 5.80.0 Framework 5.245.0 |
| 29/11/2023: Beta1 | Gear 24.01.80 KDEPlasma 5.90.0 Framework 5.246.0 |
| 20/12/2023: Beta 2 | Gear 24.01.85 plasma 5.91.0 Framework 5.247.0 |
| 10/1/2024: Release Candidate 1 | Gear 24.01.90 plasma 5.92.0 Framework 5.28.0 |
| 31/1/2024 Release Candidate 2 | Gear 24.01.95 Plasma 5.93.0/Frameworks 5.249.0 |
| 21/2/2024: Private Tarball | Gear 24.02.0 plasma 6.0 Framework 6.0 |
| 28/2/2024: Public launch | Gear 24.02.0 plasma 6.0 Framework 6.0 |
Although all of the above has its importance, what interests us the most is the last thing, the public launch, since it marks the real date of when everything will be available, and the day they have proposed is February 28, 2024. Also the launch of the private tarball, since some third-party developers will begin working with it.
Whoever misses one of the three sixes, remember that Qt6 has been available for a long time, that it is separate, and that what KDE has to do with it is implement it, something that have already done in the "Unstable" version of KDE neon.
Are you looking forward to the time or fear of possible bugs?