<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>RHEL 8.5 updated qt5 from 5.12 to 5.15. This
allowed us to update the KDE Plasma Desktop in epel 8 to the latest
version, per the update schedule[1].</div><div>That update is complete, tested and pushed to epel stable.</div><div><br></div><div>** New Versions</div><div>qt5 - 5.15 (5.15.2 mainly)</div><div>plasma - 5.23.3</div><div>kf5 - 5.88<br></div><div><br></div><div>** Known Bugs</div><div>- When running in Wayland (not X11), the start menu and notifications pop up in the middle of the screen instead of the side.</div><div><br></div><div>** Next Update</div><div>-
Per the update schedule[1], the KDE Plasma Desktop will remain stable
in EPEL for a year. That goes for both epel8 and the upcoming epel9.
Except for bugfixes, we do not expect any updates until RHEL 8.5 and
RHEL 9.1.<br></div><div><br></div><div>** Packages that were not updated</div><div>These packages still work, they just aren't at the latest versions.</div><div>- kpmcore and kde-partitionmanager</div><div>-- Newer versions of kpmcore need a newer util-linux (2.33.2) (RHEL8 has 2.32.1)</div><div>-- Newer versions of kde-partitionmanager need a newer kpmcore</div><div>- digikam</div><div>-- Newer versions of digikam need opencv with the DNN libraries. They are not compiled on the RHEL 8 version of opencv.</div><div>-- <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2007780" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2007780</a></div><div>- ktorrent and kf5-libktorrent</div><div>-- Newer versions of ktorrent and kf5-libktorrent need boost 1.71.0 or higher. RHEL 8 has 1.66.0<br></div><div><br></div><div>Troy<br></div><div><br></div><div>[1] - <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/EPEL#Update_Schedule" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/EPEL#Update_Schedule</a></div></div></div>