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Sponsor gives KDE Plasma 6.6 the LTS treatment

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Kubuntu 26.04 gets three years of fixes for the desktop, frameworks, and apps

The new "bullet-proof" KDE Software Initiative brings long-term fixes to Kubuntu – and other distros can take advantage of them too.

Announced late last week, the effort aims to provide "at least" three years of backported fixes for KDE Plasma 6.6 and the associated KDE Frameworks and KDE Gear apps. It is aimed at Kubuntu 26.04, the latest LTS release of Ubuntu's official KDE Plasma flavor, but other distros are free to pick up the maintained components.

This effectively makes Plasma 6.6, which debuted six months ago, a new LTS version of the desktop. As we reported back in May, Kubuntu 26.04 came with Plasma 6.6 – specifically, version 6.6.4. By July, that had been superseded by Plasma 6.6.6, which, as we said at the time, was intended to be the final...

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