KDE cancelled Plasma LTS. Kubuntu bought it back.

Kubuntu 26.04.1 is out — but the release that matters is the one somebody paid to support properly. The Bullet-Proof KDE announcement The bit nobody funded Nate Graham on what a real LTS looks like Last year KDE retired the Plasma LTS product, and the reasoning was honest. Almost nobody shipped it — Kubuntu, essentially, and not Debian or openSUSE Leap. It only ever covered Plasma itself, not the KDE Frameworks underneath or the Gear applications on top.