Found the issue, kpmcore is 24.01.80 is broken, upstream added a few commits to fix the changes, but I decided to just revert the breaking commit:
https://invent.kde.org/system/kpmcore/-/commit/6e7efe97c29c4bdab38388a6931df379dd2a8d3b
You can test in live mode:

sudo pacman -U http://kaosx.tk/repo/kde-next/kpmcore-24.01.80-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst http://kaosx.tk/repo/kde-next/kpmcore-debug-24.01.80-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

and run the installer (or open the partitionmanager and create a fat32 512Mb EFI partition).

    demm Excelent. Smooth install. Now I just have to live with kmymoney not kf/qt 6 yet, and epsonscan2 not in the repos.

        chief Well I got epsonscan2 to work by editing the pkgbuild. I changed qt5 - qt6 and removed any depend that was not in the repos. I'm surprised it worked. 🙂))))

          A new ISO is up again, only change from the ISO from the 15th is a fix in kpmcore.

          5 days later

          Hello,
          if I install this ISO enabling the "next" repo I can go back to the "stable" branch when the Plasma 6 version will be released?

          I really want to upgrade to Plasma 6, but I'm wondering if I can install this ISO and keep it "forever" working on the repositories. I prefer not to install it now if I'll have to reinstall the stable version from scratch after the official release.

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            kaos_user if I install this ISO enabling the "next" repo I can go back to the "stable" branch when the Plasma 6 version will be released?

            Yes, once plasma 6 is released, remove the build & kde-next repo, after a few days, maybe one week of updating, you are fully on stable (in the beginning of removing those repo's, you will get a warning that a local package is newer, that disappears once all packaged have moved out of kde-next/build from that time).

                demm

                Thank you very much. I'm now on KaOS 6 as my main system. I noticed few installation bugs, should I report them somewhere?

                Bugs I found, briefly explained:
                1) On the login screen the language is always set to USA. It changes to the configured language (IT in my case) when typing the first character of the password
                2) The toggles in the "packages" tab of Calamares can be overlaid by the text
                3) Installing kdenlive from the welcome screen returns an error (kdenlive6 not found)
                4) The "about us" tab of the welcome screen doesn't scroll until the end. It's automatically pull back to half of the text. Maybe this is due to the translation which is longer than the original text.
                5) The italian translation of the "about us" tab of the welcome screen contains a lot of typos.

                Let me know how to proceed (open a new thread, explain in this thread, don't report until some kind of Beta you'll release or if you don't care at the moment) 🙂

                  For point 3, that is to be expected, you can't install any package from the kde-next repo, until you enable that.
                  Translations issue, please help on the KaOS Transifex pages.

                    demm I've corrected the typos and completed the italian translation in transifex. Just a last question: will I found the updated translation in the next ISO? Just for checking the "real on-screen output" and check the overall translation consistency

                      It will be on the next stable ISO for sure, probably not on the next test ISO linked here, Calamares Qt6 needs a lot of changes in translations.

                      7 days later

                      demm I'm running it, and it is good enough to be my daily driver. Kmymoney works, I'm using Dropbox in place of Megasync, and Google-Chrome in place of Brave. I'm satisfied with that combination. The only thing that doesn't work is gis-weather. Skanlite also doen't work, but epsonscan2, with some changes in the pkgbuild gets it to work. Excelent job, and Happy New Year.

                        Two things I have noticed with Beta 2 that I don't know if they are bugs or new in Plasma 6:1. You have to drag and drop apps to the panel if you want them there, 2. Dolphin "open Terminal Here" doesn't work, you have to manually open a terminal session and change directory to the directory you want to open a terminal in. Not stoppers really, but a bit annoying. Drag and drop has to be done carefully or the app is dropped to the Task Manager, "open terminal here" is, for me, only used to run makepkg -i, and for just two packages: epsonscan2 and gis-weather-git. I'm actually surprised that gis-weather actually works.My Desktop: https://scontent.ftpa1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/414978948_376926054693166_4946107137071340485_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p960x960&_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=c42490&_nc_ohc=vL0gV7bNbhcAX_20AQe&_nc_ht=scontent.ftpa1-2.fna&oh=00_AfCuMn7NTqLo-jKb-PqMfMdNshjPytKwSEWlHMuUr9ktlg&oe=659BCCC5

                        For any bugs in apps, make sure you can replicate with a new, clean user, if you can, best check upstream bug reports and see if they are already reported. It might be there are already patches available for bugs you found.

                        demm Yeah Interesting. I just read that. It seems, from the bug report, that symptoms may differ. The reporter indicates she/or he got some error message returned, I get nothing returned.

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