The first big KDE release of 2025 is just around the corner. Plasma 6.3 will be hitting desktops in about a month. Meanwhile, we need testers to try out the beta and submit bug reports so we can work on making it perfect.
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If you are new, I would advise you installed separately. Having to versions of Plasma at the same time, sounds like asking for lots of problems.
I am not sure how you would do it in Fedora, but in Arch you can just enable the kde-unstable repos and update and the software manager will drag in the the beta software. When you are done (or when the final Plasma 6.3 comes out), you disable the repo mentioned above, update again and it will install the stable packages, overwriting the beta packages.
Check to see if you can do something similar in Fedora.
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Note that the Fedora people are now packaging the 6.3 beta, you’ll hear about it on their Fedora-specific channels I’m sure.
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Yup, you’ve got it!
Plasma 6.3 Beta is now on the Kubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” development release daily Live ISO.
https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Live_Images#Kubuntu_25.04_"Plucky_Puffin"_development_release
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When enabling kde-unstable, don’t forget (like I did) to also enable core-testing and extra-testing as stated in the Arch Wiki
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Not needed. This is not Plasma 5 to 6.
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Will KDE 6.2.90 and 6.2.91 show up as an update on Fedora 41 or will Fedora 41 go straight to KDE 6.3?
The last KDE update I did on Fedora 41 was to 6.2.5 but as I monitor Bodhi for there being a update for fc41 for 6.2.90 I don’t see any. I do see one here for Fedora 42:
6.2.90 for Fedora 42
I am not sure. These kind of questions would be best addressed to Fedora distribution managers on Fedora forums. They will know what they intend to do in detail. KDE does not have a say in what each distro does.
I kind of figured with Fedora being so popular there’d be lots of Fedora users in here that would know, not necessarily that it’s a KDE project question. I asked in fedoraforum.org but no answer yet. I’ll ask in fedoraproject
you don’t have to use Fedora to know that, 6.2.90 is beta software available in Fedora’s beta channels for testing, so Fedora 41 will go straight to 6.3 according to its release schedule.
Yeah. just as a heads up, the official Fedora Project discussion site is https://discussion.fedoraproject.org, so that’s where your most likely to see engagement from folks who are working on (or close to) core project stuff like packaging decisions.
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We typically do not ship preview releases as updates to stable releases. So we intend to update Fedora Linux 41 to KDE Plasma 6.3.0, but not 6.2.9x releases.
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