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# KDE Plasma Gearing Up for its Next Release With Qt6-only Master Branch
- URL: https://itsfoss.com/news/kde-plasma-qt6/
- Published: 2023-03-01T10:12:06.000Z
- Updated: 2023-03-01T10:15:24.000Z
- Description: The master branch for Plasma is switching to Qt 6. It is time to wait for KDE Plasma 6!
- Author: Sourav Rudra
- Tags: Development Updates, News, #Import 2025-11-08 21:15

KDE is firing up development for the Plasma 6.0 release in a big way. 

Seeing that [KDE Plasma 5.27](https://itsfoss.com/kde-plasma-5-27-release/) was the last major release in the 5.x series and also the last one to use the Qt 5 framework. The upcoming release has a lot to stand up to.

With a recent notice, **a significant development shift** was announced that would affect all the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.x releases.

Let me take you through it.

**What is happening?:** The master branch for the Plasma repos was **made Qt 6-only**, seeing that Plasma 5.27 has already been shipped.

Though as a result, they are expecting some disruption to happen. **Nicolas Fella**, from KDE, has mentioned that:

> There will be disruption because of this. While we aim for getting a  
> basic workspace running as soon as possible non-essential functionality  
> might be broken for a while.

> Existing kdesrc-build setups will be switched to building Plasma from  
> the Plasma/5.27 branch to keep things building with Qt5\. Make sure your  
> .kdesrc-buildrc contains "branch-group kf5-qt5".

He has also said that; people can build the Qt6/master version by referring to the 'kf6-qt6' branch group.

You may go through the [official announcement](https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-devel/2023-February/001699.html?ref=itsfoss.com) to dive deeper.

**If you were wondering what is so special about Qt 6? Allow me to highlight the following:**

Qt is a cross-platform application development framework that has seen great success over the years. 

With Qt 6, **KDE Plasma has much to gain** as the framework contains **modern libraries/APIs**, a **new graphics architecture, better HiDPI support, and more**.

**Suggested Read** 📖

[Yay! Qt 6.0 has Released with Major Improvements!The Qt Company has officially announced their first release of a new major version, Qt 6\. It marks a major milestone for Qt and a great leap towards a modern graphics stack. Qt is a cross-platform application development framework for desktop, embedded, and mobile devices. Qt 5 has been a![](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/size/w256h256/2022/08/android-chrome-192x192.png)It's FOSS NewsAbhishek![](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/wordpress/2020/12/Qt-6-release.png)](https://itsfoss.com/qt-6-released/)

**When to expect?:** Currently, there is **no official release schedule for KDE Plasma 6.0; we** can wait and watch how the situation unfolds.

*💬 What do you expect with KDE Plasma 6 and Qt 6? Share your thoughts.*