Policies/Minor Point Release Policy

    From KDE TechBase

    KDE provides minor point releases approximately every month after a major point release of the main modules.

    As stable releases these are recommended to a wide user base who expect a high degree of stability. Changes should therefore be verifiable, reliable and regression free.

    These releases must only contain:

    • Fixes for severe bugs: security vulnerabilities, severe regressions from previous releases, data loss bugs
    • Fixes for bugs which are easy to verify
    • Updated translations
    • Updated manuals

    They must not contain:

    • API changes in public libraries
    • New strings

    In case you need absolutely new API or new strings to fix a important bug, approval from the relevant teams is needed.

    • For API changes in public libraries you need the approval of kde-core-devel
    • For new strings you need the approval of kde-i18n-doc