First, minimal test ISO is uploaded for the October stable ISO release. Plan is to release in a week to ten days

This ISO features Plasma 5.22.90 from the [kde-next] repo, so it is not only a test for the ISO, but also an opportunity to preview the next major Plasma release.

There are some major changes in the installer again, biggest one is the option to select which bootloader to use (in a nice QML GUI). Keyboard & license page also have been complete redone, so thorough testing of the installer will be needed.

As always, early test ISOs are minimal, very few apps, just a web-browser, file manager, text editor, GUI package manager. The non-free Nvidia drivers are included since they are a big part of what needs testing.

Plan is to have Frameworks 5.87.0, KDE Applications 21.08.2, Plasma 5.23.0 and Linux 5.14.xx on the final ISO.

The ISO is using packages from the build repo, but that repo is not enabled, so if you decide to install, make sure to add the build repo to your pacman.conf.

Debug packages for Calamares are part of all ISOs, run Calamares with gdb if you encounter errors.
provide the installation log, if you encounter any issue at all

You can start Calamares from the Welcome app, or run it with:

sudo calamares -d

The install log will be created in the home directory of the Live user, see ~/installation.log. It is available after the install in the target system in /var/log/installation.log
If run from cli, make sure to pastebin the full output, since no installation.log will be copied then, though that log is more complete.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/kaos-test/files/iso/KaOS-2021.10.06-x86_64.iso
SHA256Sum:

308f6463ebd08e16dba30e13127010632a671bcbaa8499518688596a4fccd70c  KaOS-2021.10.06-x86_64.iso

On this ISO you will find:
Linux 5.14.9
systemd 249.4
gcc 10.3.0
Qt 5.15.2+
Frameworks 5.87.0
Plasma 5.22.90
KDE Applications 21.08.2
Calamares 3.2.44.3
Octopi 0.11.0 with sysinfo & cachecleaner tool

Known issues:

Version shown on the Welcome page is cut off, reads 2021.1 instead of 2021.10