Julius Künzel on KDE Blogs

New Craft cache 26.05 published

Julius Künzel — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000

A new Craft cache has been published about a week ago. The update has already been rolled out to KDE's CD and Windows CI with the update to Qt 6.11 beeing the most important change.

Changes (highlights)

General

We added updated our base image to build the Linux cache from AlmaLinux 8.10 to AlmaLinux 9.8. This implies a newer minimum required GLIBC.

We did inital work on MSVC 2026 support, but given that it is not supported by Qt 6.11, we did not complete it yet.

Blueprints

OpenSSL 3.6.2
Qt 6.11.1
New Qt modules QtGraphs and QtQuick3D
FFmpeg 8.1.1
FFmpeg is build with libass and x264 on MSVC now
tiff 4.7.1
libffi 3.5.2

About KDE Craft

KDE Craft is an open source meta-build system and package manager. It manages dependencies and builds libraries and applications from source on Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD and Android.

Learn more on https://community.kde.org/Craft or join the Matrix room #kde-craft:kde.org

New Craft cache 25.01 published

Julius Künzel and Hannah von Reth — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A new Craft cache has just been published. The update is already available for KDE's CD, CI (Windows/Android) will follow in the next days.

Please note that this only applies to the Qt6 cache. The Qt5 cache is in LTS mode since April 2024 and does not recieve major updates anymore. We highly recommend to port your Qt5 app packaged by Craft to Qt6 as soon as possible!

Changes (highlights)

General

We added CI for flake8, isort and black with the help of tox (which makes it easy to run them locally too) to all Craft repositories. To be able to do so we did a lot of best pratice cleanup beforehand like eg. removing star imports.

Craft Core

Drop support for MSVC 2017
Introduced a CraftBool helper. This allows handy things like self.subinfo.options.dynamic.withMyLib.asOnOff instead of 'ON' if self.subinfo.options.dynamic.withMyLib else 'OFF'
Fix: let the Meson build system respect the buildStatic option
Handle --enable-static --enable-shared in AutoToolsPackageBase instead of in every single blueprint
Python packages (Linux and Windows MSVC; macOS is work in progress):
- Build them ourself instead of using the pre-build binaries from pypi.org
- Use proper staging
- Allow to deploy/package them
Properly set Craft env when branch is switched (eg. with Craft Master in CI)

Blueprints

libjpeg-turbo 3.0.3
Multiple fixes for build of shared vs. static libs
libvpx 1.15.0
Add minGW 14.2 (not the default yet!)
7z 24.09
KShimgen 0.6.1
linuxdeploy-plugin-qt 2.0.0-alpha-1-20250119
qtkeychain 0.15.0

About KDE Craft

KDE Craft is an open source meta-build system and package manager. It manages dependencies and builds libraries and applications from source on Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD and Android.

Learn more on https://community.kde.org/Craft or join the Matrix room #kde-craft:kde.org

New Craft cache 24.10 published

Julius Künzel and Hannah von Reth — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A new Craft cache has just been published. The update is already available for KDE's CD, CI (Windows/Android) will follow in the next days.

Please note that this only applies to the Qt6 cache. The Qt5 cache is in LTS mode since April 2024 and does not recieve major updates anymore.

Changes (highlights)

Craft Core

Drop Python2 support
Require at least Python 3.9

Blueprints

Qt 6.8.0
FFmpeg 7.1
Kirigami Addons 1.5.0
KDE Frameworks 6.7.0
KDE Plasma 6.2.0
Removed snoregrowl
Removed ctemplate

About KDE Craft

KDE Craft is an open source meta-build system and package manager. It manages dependencies and builds libraries and applications from source on Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD and Android.

Learn more on https://community.kde.org/Craft or join the Matrix room #kde-craft:kde.org

New Craft cache 24.08 published

Julius Künzel — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A new Craft cache has just been published. The update is already available for KDE's CD, CI will follow in the next hours or days.

Please note that this only applies to the Qt6 cache. The Qt5 cache is in LTS mode since April 2024 and does not recieve major updates anymore.

Changes (highlights)

Qt 6.7.2
FFmpeg 7.0.1
llvm 18.1.8
boost 1.86.0
OpenSSL 3.3.1 (for Android too, which was still on 1.1.1v until recently)
CMake 3.30.0
Ninja 1.12.1
Removed qt-installer-framework (Windows)

About KDE Craft

KDE Craft is an open source meta-build system and package manager. It manages dependencies and builds libraries and applications from source on Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD and Android.

Learn more on https://community.kde.org/Craft or join the Matrix room #kde-craft:kde.org