What is the strategy when KDE Plasma 6 is released?

[Mirdarthos]

@gambler

But how can the users stay at the version 5.27.x when in stable branch the version 6.x is pushed.

Short version: you can’t.

Longer version:

It’s possible to install 5.27 with caveats. One of them being it will stop working sooner or later.

Edit:

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