=== KDE on FreeBSD

Links: +
link:https://freebsd.kde.org/[KDE/FreeBSD initiative] URL: link:https://freebsd.kde.org/[] +
link:https://community.kde.org/FreeBSD[FreeBSD -- KDE Community Wiki] URL: link:https://community.kde.org/FreeBSD[]

Contact: KDE on FreeBSD Mailing List <kde@FreeBSD.org>

The KDE on FreeBSD project packages CMake, Qt, and software from the KDE Community, for the FreeBSD ports tree.
The software includes a full desktop environment called KDE Plasma (for both X11 and Wayland) and hundreds of applications that can be used on any FreeBSD machine.
The mailto:kde@FreeBSD.org[KDE team] is part of mailto:desktop@FreeBSD.org[desktop@], building the software stack to make FreeBSD beautiful and usable as a daily driver graphical desktop workstation.


==== It Goes to 6!

The KDE ports have caught up with the current generation of upstream development and now deliver up-to-date KDE Frameworks 6, KDE Plasma 6, and KDE Gear.
Where possible, the default version of every KDE application has been updated to a recent one that uses KDE Frameworks 6.
Many Qt-based applications have also been updated to default to a Qt6 flavor.

This positions FreeBSD alongside OpenBSD and Linux distributions with a modern KDE experience.

Qt5 remains in the ports tree.
KDE Frameworks 5 remain in the ports tree for some consumers.
Qt5 reaches end-of-life from its upstream on May 26, 2025, so it is not recommended for use.
KDE Frameworks 5 is in a similar security-only maintenance mode.

Thanks to makc@, arrowd@, and kenrap@ for landing this KDE update in ports.

==== Infrastructure

* CMake received several patch-level updates
* Qt and PySide (the Python bindings for Qt) were updated to 6.8.2