Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the KDE Gear 25.08
releases to them
Next Dates:
If you are a developer and your KDE project is still based on Qt5 you should really really start porting to Qt6 now.
https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-devel/2025-June/003742.html
This is the release schedule the release team agreed on
https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_25.08_Schedule
Dependency freeze is in around 2 weeks (July 3) and feature freeze one
after that. Get your stuff ready!
We have moved the deadline for talk submission for Akademy 2025 to the end of the month. Submit your talks now!
https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2025q2/008217.html
These past two days I attended the Qt World Summit 2025
It happened in Munich in the SHOWPALAST MÜNCHEN. The venue is HUGE, we had around 800 attendees (unofficial sources, don't trust the number too much) and it felt it could hold more. One slightly unfortunate thing is that it was a bit cold (temperatures in Munich these two days were well below the average for May) and quite some parts of the venue are outdoors, but you can't control the weather, so not much to "fix" here.
The venue is somewhat strangely focused on horses, but that's nothing more than an interesting quirk.
Qt World Summit is an event for the Qt developers around the world and the talks range from showcases of Qt in different products, to technical talks about how to improve performance along others less Qt centric talks about how to collaborate with other developers or about "modern C++".
As KDE we participated in the event with a stand trying to explain people what we do (David Redondo and Nicolas Fella were more in the stand than me, kudos to them)
Talks for the videos will be published "soon" (or so I've been told). When that happens the ones I recommend you to watch are "Navigating Code Collaboration" by LAURA SAVINO, "QML Bindings in Qt6" by ULF HERMANN and "C++ as a 21st Century Language" by BJARNE STROUSTRUP, but the agenda was packed with talks so make sure to check the videos since probably your tastes and mine don't 100% align.
All in all it was a great event, it is good to see that Qt is doing well since we use it for the base of almost everything we do in KDE. Thanks to The Qt Company and the rest of the sponsors for organizing it.
Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the KDE Gear 25.04
releases to them
Next Dates
March 13 2025: 25.04 Freeze and Beta (25.03.80) tag & release
March 27, 2025: 25.04 RC (25.03.90) Tagging and Release
April 10, 2025: 25.04 Tagging
April 17, 2025: 25.04 Release
https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_25.04_Schedule
This is the release schedule the release team agreed on
https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_25.04_Schedule
Dependency freeze is in around 3 weeks (March 6) and feature freeze one
after that. Get your stuff ready!
