In the Arch Testing repo right now, and the announcement is here:
Quite a few changes and some new apps added to the KDE Gear portfolio. I’m happy that Kasts (podcast manager) is included in this release - no more builldng from the AUR once it hits the stable repos.
Now available in the stable repos, so update and receive whenever you wish 
Nice. There are quite a few apps I’ve never heard of 
anyone else got a 30-60 sec delay before any apps can be opened after reaching desktop after updating to this?
Not noticing a delay here, and certainly not 30+ seconds.
No delay on anything here that didn’t have a delay before, perhaps it was something else on your system that updated?
i got the updates this morning. fantastic!
audiotube, plasmatube, kasts and tokoton are really very good applications.
everything works really great
I was interested in trying out audiotube. Strangely, on both my wife’s computer and mine the video thumbnails don’t load at all leaving a lot of white space. Otherwise it works great. Hope this minor bug is fixed soon because it takes away from the aesthetics…
OK, I finally updated.
They actually made spectacle usable. I have stopped using it every time I have tried because it was so inefficient given the way I wanted to use it but now it actually works pretty well. I am going to give it another shot.
Neochat seems like a nice replacement for Element Desktop and will let me remove another Electron application.
plasmatube seems to not work for me at all. It’s default instance isn’t available and changing the default instance doesn’t seem to work.
Nothing else in there is really interesting to me personally but it good to see things moving forward on the apps side.
KDE Gear 23.04.1 is in the Arch repos for your delectation.
A full changelog is here:
KDE Gear 13.04.2 is in the Arch repos
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/23.04.2/
swh on Endeavour OS ~ 09:25:23
➜ checkupdates
akonadi 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
akonadi-calendar 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
akonadi-calendar-tools 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
akonadi-contacts 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
akonadi-import-wizard 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
akonadi-mime 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
akonadi-notes 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
akonadi-search 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
akonadiconsole 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
akregator 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
analitza 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
ark 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
audiocd-kio 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
audiotube 23.04.1-2 -> 23.04.2-1
baloo-widgets 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
calendarsupport 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
cantor 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
dbus 1.14.6-2 -> 1.14.8-1
dbus-glib 0.112-2 -> 0.112-3
dolphin 23.04.1-2 -> 23.04.2-1
dragon 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
elisa 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
eventviews 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
exiv2 0.27.6-2 -> 0.28.0-1
ffmpegthumbs 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
filelight 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
gperftools 2.10-1 -> 2.10-2
grantlee-editor 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
grantleetheme 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
gwenview 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
incidenceeditor 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
itinerary 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kaccounts-integration 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kaccounts-providers 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kaddressbook 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kalarm 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kalendar 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kalgebra 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kalzium 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kasts 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kate 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kblocks 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kbruch 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kcalc 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kcalutils 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kcolorchooser 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kdeconnect 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kdeedu-data 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kdegraphics-mobipocket 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kdegraphics-thumbnailers 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kdenlive 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kdepim-addons 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kdepim-runtime 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kfilemetadata 5.106.0-1 -> 5.106.0-2
kfourinline 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kgeography 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kget 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
khangman 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kidentitymanagement 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kig 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kimap 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kio-extras 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kitinerary 23.04.1-2 -> 23.04.2-1
kjournald 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kldap 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kleopatra 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kmahjongg 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kmail 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kmail-account-wizard 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kmailtransport 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kmbox 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kmime 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kmplot 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
knotes 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kolf 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
konsole 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kontact 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kontactinterface 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kopeninghours 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
korganizer 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kosmindoormap 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kpat 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kpimtextedit 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kpkpass 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kpmcore 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kpublictransport 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
kqtquickcharts 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
krita 5.1.5-9 -> 5.1.5-10
ksanecore 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
ksmtp 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
ktnef 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
ktouch 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
libakonadi 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
libgexiv2 0.14.0-4 -> 0.14.1-1
libgravatar 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
libkcddb 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
libkcompactdisc 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
libkdcraw 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
libkdegames 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
libkdepim 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
libkeduvocdocument 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
libkexiv2 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
libkgapi 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
libkleo 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
libkmahjongg 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
libksane 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
libksieve 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
liblouis 3.25.0-3 -> 3.26.0-1
libspiro 1:20221101-1 -> 1:20221101-2
liburing 2.3-1 -> 2.4-1
mailcommon 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
mailimporter 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
mbox-importer 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
messagelib 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
neochat 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
networkmanager-openvpn 1.10.2-2 -> 1.10.2-3
okular 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
palapeli 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
partitionmanager 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
pim-data-exporter 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
pim-sieve-editor 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
pimcommon 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
plasmatube 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
print-manager 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
signon-kwallet-extension 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
spectacle 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
step 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
tokodon 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
yakuake 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
zanshin 23.04.1-1 -> 23.04.2-1
Even if you are 10 years behind 
i must have gotten caught in a time warp 
