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We are nearing the soft feature freeze for the 4.11 release, and that seemed like a good time to share some news. Plasma Workspaces 4.11 is going to significant for two reasons: It will be the last feature release in the 4.x series of Plasma Workspaces. Feature development will switch fully to the Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5 based Plasma Workspaces 2. We will be providing stabilization releases (bug fixes, translation improvements, etc.) for two years for the 4.11 release of KDE Plasma Workspaces.
Before going into more details, let me offer a preemptive clarification:
This does not effect, in any way, anything other than the code currently in the kde-workspace repository. Applications are not affected, kdelibs and kderuntime will continue on as they currently are (with kdelibs in a feature freeze of its own already). I fully expect there to be a 4.12 and likely a 4.13 release of the applications, and how long that goes on will be up to the application developers and release team.
With that out of the way, some details!
It seems the KDE devs have really learned their lesson from what was the disaster transition from KDE3 to KDE4. This plan for the transition from KDE4/QT4 to KDE5/QT5 seems eminently sane. It's heartening and refreshing to see developers that actually listen and take into consideration the concerns of their end users. I don't expect the transition to be totally pain free but the KDE team is clearly trying to minimize the hurt.
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