KDE on FreeBSD

Links:
KDE/FreeBSD initiative URL: https://freebsd.kde.org/
FreeBSD — KDE Community Wiki URL: https://community.kde.org/FreeBSD

Contact: KDE on FreeBSD Mailing List <kde@FreeBSD.org>

The KDE on FreeBSD project packages CMake, Qt, and software from the KDE Community, for the FreeBSD ports tree. The software includes a full desktop environment called KDE Plasma (for both X11 and Wayland) and hundreds of applications that can be used on any FreeBSD machine. The KDE team is part of desktop@ and multimedia@ teams, building the software stack to make FreeBSD beautiful and usable as a daily driver graphical desktop workstation.

Infrastructure

Qt6, PyQt6, and PySide6 were updated to 6.10.2. The ports for Qt 6.11.0 are available for testing in the development branch.

KDE Stack

KDE Frameworks, Plasma, and Gear release happen very regularly. KDE team lands these updates shortly after their upstream release.

  • KDE Frameworks ports were updated to 6.24.

  • KDE Plasma Desktop was updated to 6.6.3.

  • KDE Gear was updated to 25.12.3.

The recent Plasma update has revealed a bug in the FreeBSD implementation of timerfd(2) which causes high CPU usage in plasmashell. The bug has been already fixed in FreeBSD-CURRENT and merged to affected stable branches.

Related Ports

The KDE team maintains 730 ports and updates them all as needed. According to portscout 4% of ports are outdated.

Last modified on: April 13, 2026 by Max Brazhnikov