What recommended long-term-support stable version release channels are available for Plasma?

edit: According to AI, LTS is not provided. Was my AI answer accurate, and if so is there consideration of an initiative to implement an LTS channel?

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sho_hn 4 days ago | parent [-]

Canonical provides commercial support for Plasma on Ubuntu last time I checked :)

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The_President 4 days ago | parent [-]

After reading your reply, I plugged the exact question of my text into an LLM and it answered my question perfectly. Your answer was in the context of commercial support which wasn't in the question or answer.

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sho_hn 4 days ago | parent [-]

Well they're also famous for having an LTS version of Ubuntu as well (and coined the term), which I assumed you probably know with an LTS interest. But sorry I couldn't satisfy you!

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The_President 4 days ago | parent [-]

The distinct advantage of a KDE LTS support release is that it would be distro agnostic. Benefits being that it delegates maintenance and security updates for an LTS version to KDE away from the distro maintainers, and as a plus this provides greater appearance of continutity from KDE to the public.

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sho_hn 4 days ago | parent [-]

I think I got confused by your "release channels" bit in the original comment, because I thought you were asking for distros which ship and support the Plasma LTS release, but I guess you're asking more whether we have an LTS release?

We did in fact have versions marked as LTS in the Plasma 5.x generation, but the concept never quite worked that well practice (e.g. because distros generally shipped newer versions based on user demand and didn't really adopt the LTS releases, even for their own LTS distro releases, so the benefit calculation for them was different from your expectation) and we haven't kept them for the Plasma 6.x series. You can read some background here:

https://pointieststick.com/2025/05/01/notes-from-the-graz-pl...

It might come back some day in some form, but the discussion is ongoing.

	▲	The_President 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks for your detailed reply.