First, minimal test ISO is uploaded for the September stable ISO release.

There are some known issues with Calamares and kpmcore 24.08 (see ), and the first ISO created locally showed the same as reported upstream, reverting one commit in kpmcore seems to have fixed this, but more testing is needed.
What also needs testing is the rework of the packagechooserq module, all 3 pages used (selecting packages, sound back-end & bootloader) were redone. Some issues found though, kirigami modules are randomly not found, please restart Calamares if you see a loading failed for any of these 3 pages.

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, especially the move to 560 will need attention from those who have the hardware to test this driver.

Plan is to have Frameworks 6.6.0, KDE Applications 24.08.1, Plasma 6.1.4 and Linux 6.10.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-2024.09.08-x86_64.iso
SHA256Sum:

413a6cc00c62db16a66c5220161aaa51a92bb80ced2596ac115a5eb1c2030624  KaOS-2024.09.08-x86_64.iso

On this ISO you will find:
Linux 6.9.9
systemd 253.24
gcc 13.2.0
Qt 6.7.2
Frameworks 6.5.0
Plasma 6.1.4
KDE Applications 24.08.0
Calamares 3.3.9
Octopi 0.16.2 with sysinfo & cachecleaner tool

Known issues:

The bottom progress-bar in Calamares reacts to mouse clicks & opens a virtualkeyboard (narrow)