Re: Dropping Qt5 CI Support at the End of September 2025 - Sunsetting Qt 5

Christoph Cullmann <[email protected]> Sat, 03 Jan 2026 23:22:57 +0000
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Hi,

created 

https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/repo-metadata/-/issues/36

to coordinate that a bit.

Everybody that wants to be involved, just CC yourself.

Greetings
Christoph
On Saturday, January 3rd, 2026 at 21:10, Ben Cooksley <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 4, 2026 at 8:41 AM Christoph Cullmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> 

> > Hi,
> > 

> > shall we then pull the plug for Qt 5?
> > 

> > Should I create an issue to coordinate that?
> 

> 

> Yep, lets go ahead with the removal of support.
> 

> Starting point would be identifying remaining projects and kicking off their archival?
> 

> > 

> > Greetings
> > Christoph
> 

> 

> Cheers,
> Ben
> 

> > 

> > 

> > 

> > On Sunday, December 28th, 2025 at 18:07, Christoph Cullmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 

> > >
> > 

> > >
> > 

> > > Hi,
> > >
> > 

> > > > El diumenge, 28 de desembre del 2025, a les 8:58:34 (Hora estàndard d’Europa
> > > > central), Ben Cooksley va escriure:
> > >
> > 

> > > > > On Sun, Dec 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM Albert Astals Cid [email protected] wrote:
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > El dissabte, 27 de desembre del 2025, a les 22:18:55 (Hora estàndard
> > > > > > d’Europa
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > central), Christoph Cullmann va escriure:
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > > Hi,
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > > given we soon start 2026: Would it be time to sunset the Qt 5 stuff on
> > > > > > > invent?
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > In July we said it would be in September and there was not a huge uproar,
> > > > > > so
> > > > > > doing it in January 2026 (6 months later than what we said) should be more
> > > > > > than enough.
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > Doing it == "closing the remaining Qt5 CI" and that's it i guess?
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > Or is there something else that needs to be removed?
> > >
> > 

> > > > > We'd also stop tracking trunk_kf5 / stable_kf5 for translation purposes as
> > > > > well?
> > >
> > 

> > > > That should come as a decision to archive the projects.
> > >
> > 

> > >
> > 

> > > Should that not also happen for projects that still continue to exist,
> > > like e.g. Frameworks with KF6 releases that now no longer need the trunk_kf5 / stable_kf5
> > >
> > 

> > > translation updates, as we do no new releases (beside perhaps a security backport)?
> > >
> > 

> > > Greetings
> > > Christoph
> > >
> > 

> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Albert
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > Cheers,
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > Albert
> > >
> > 

> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > Ben
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > > (beside the Qt patch collection)
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > > Greetings
> > > > > > > Christoph
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > > On Thursday, July 3rd, 2025 at 21:33, Albert Astals Cid [email protected]
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > wrote:
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > > > El dijous, 3 de juliol del 2025, a les 16:52:49 (Hora d’estiu d’Europa
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > > > central), Neal Gompa va escriure:
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM Albert Astals Cid [email protected]
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > wrote:
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > > > > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > > > > > While this has been discussed in various forums, it has not yet
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > been
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > > > > > the
> > > > > > > > > > main focus of any conversation.
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > > > > > We are planning to drop support for Qt5 CI on invent.kde.org at
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > the
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > > > > > end of
> > > > > > > > > > September 2025.
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > > > > > If you are still using Qt5 you have 3 months to move to Qt6 or you
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > can
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > > > > > try
> > > > > > > > > > to convince the powers that you need more time with a really good
> > > > > > > > > > reason.
> > > > > > > > > > Does this mean we've effectively stopped working on the Qt5 patch
> > > > > > > > > > collection and we're going to EOL the 24.08-qt5 runtime for
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > Flatpak in
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > > > > > September?
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > > > We do not have CI for the patch collection.
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > > > I will [try to[ continue doing the rebases for the patch-collection
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > until
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > > > Qt 5.15.19 gets released next year.
> > >
> > 

> > > > > > > > Best Regards,
> > > > > > > > Albert
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