Debian 11 "Bullseye" Begins Its Soft Freeze

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Debian 11 "Bullseye" Begins Its Soft Freeze

Debian 11.0 "Bullseye" is now under its soft freeze, one month after starting its build-essentials freeze...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Debian-11-Soft-Freeze

[Danny3]

Would this affect in any way the installation of KDE Plasma 5.21, which will be released in 2 days ?
I mean, if in the future I install Debian 11 and then KDE Plasma on top, will I get the latest version (5.21) or not because it was released after Debian soft freeze ?

[guara]

Would this affect in any way the installation of KDE Plasma 5.21, which will be released in 2 days ?

It is likely that KDE 5.21 will not be available for Bullseye. The tracker page on https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/plasma-desktop informs that the last version of plasma-desktop to land on Debian was 5.20.5.

[iamjustalittlefox]

Is systemD removed finally? Hope so

[Leinad]

Would this affect in any way the installation of KDE Plasma 5.21, which will be released in 2 days ?
I mean, if in the future I install Debian 11 and then KDE Plasma on top, will I get the latest version (5.21) or not because it was released after Debian soft freeze ?

According to this blog https://www.preining.info/blog/2020/...-for-bullseye/ , 5.20 is planned for next Debian Stable

[Sonadow]

Latest version available in Testing is 5.20.5.

5.21 is not going to be available unless there is a major change of plans.

And will probably skip Debian 11 and jump straight to 12.

[Danny3]

According to this blog https://www.preining.info/blog/2020/...-for-bullseye/ , 5.20 is planned for next Debian Stable

That's disappointing, I cannot really say that that Wayland was working fine for me before 5.21
Now, even if 5.21 it's in beta, it seems not to have any noticeable bugs on Wayland.

[archkde]

Those bugs currently of concern pertain to libgcrypt and libgcc-s1.

It's actually libcrypt, due to being split out of libc.

[waxhead]

Is systemD removed finally? Hope so

No it's not. What would you like to have instead? Sys-v, openrc, upstart, runit? Please let us know and explain why.

[Danielsan]

This version is so good that I decided to keep it to my son's laptop rather than using Testing as usual...