KDE Plasma Desktop (all the /plasma5- ports) was updated to 5.23.5 at the start of the year. Since this happened very shortly after quarterly was branched, this was MFH’ed. The long-term-support release 5.24 landed mid-february. The FreeBSD ports do not stick to LTS releases, and will follow the regular release schedule. 5.24.3 landed on schedule in March.

KDE Gear (the collection of KDE libraries and applicatious outside of the Frameworks and Plasma Desktop groups) was updated to 21.12.1 and MFH’ed. Monthy releases landed as well: 21.12.2 in February.

KDE Frameworks have a monthly release cadence, so 5.90 landed in January, 5.91 in February and 5.92 in March.

KDE PIM currently does not support Contacts stored in a Google account because Google has changed the available REST API.

astro/kstars received its regularly scheduled updates.

deskutils/kalendar was updated. It has now reached the 1.0 stage.

deskutils/kodaskanna was added to the ports tree. It is a simple QR-code scanner for the desktop.

deskutils/latte-dock is an alternative launcher for use in KDE Plasma Desktop and other environments. It was updated to 0.10.7 as part of its monthly releases.

devel/okteta, an editor and viewer for binary data, was updated to 0.26.7, a regular bugfix release.

graphics/digikam, the digital photography manager, was updated to 7.6.0. (Thanks Dima Panov)

graphics/kf5-kimageformats has a new option enabling libheif and HEIC support.

graphics/kontrast was added to the 'accessibility' category. This is a tool for checking color-combinations (e.g. for a website) for sufficient contrast and readability.

graphics/krita was updated to the next big release, Krita 5. (Thanks Max Brazhnikov)

lang/kross-interpreters was fixed for Ruby 3. (Thanks Yasuhiro Kimura)

sysutils/plasma5-discover was updated to resolve some denial-of-service bugs in KDE infrastructure.

www/falkon was updated. After a two-year wait, a new release of the KDE web browser built on Qt WebEngine (itself a wrapper around Chromium internals) arrived upstream and in ports.

x11/plasma5-plasma-workspace now can properly edit login and account information.

devel/qtcreator was updated to version 6. A new versioning model has been introduced by upstream, so this will now jump by major release number regularly. (Thanks to Florian Walpen)

irc/quassel was updated. Quassel is a distributed IRC client (think of it as your own personal IRC bouncer).

misc/tellico was updated. Tellico is a "collection manager", for instance collections of books, music, stamps, or FreeBSD releases.

net-im/nheko was updated. This is one of a dozen Matrix clients available in the ports tree.

archivers/7-zip is the preferred tool for dealing with 7zip files; this affacts KDE applications that work with archives (like archivers/ark). We would like to thank makc@ for stewarding that update.

devel/libphonenumber has bi-weekly updates to chase the exciting world of telephony details.

graphics/poppler was updated to version 22.01. This version requires C++17, which pushes a number of consumers to the newer C++ standard as well. Most consumers were fixed in advance.