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FreeBSD 13.5 Beta 3 Drops KDE Packages From DVD ISOs
FreeBSD 13.5 Beta 3 is out this weekend in being the newest weekly development version leading towards next month's stable release to cap off the FreeBSD 13 series.
The KDE package removal from the DVD ISOs with FreeBSD 13.5 is due to a bit of odd timing as well as facing a battle of needing to fit within DVD size constraints. The commit dropping the KDE packages from the DVD ISOs explains: pkg-stage.sh: Remove kde entirely The package set for FreeBSD 13.5 comes from the 2025Q1 branch, which doesn't have the new x11/kde (aka KDE 6) port; but shipping x11/kde5 (which is still in the 2025Q1 branch) doesn't make much sense either since a few weeks after the release that will no longer be available in either "latest" or "quarterly" package sets.
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