You are currently using the same versioning scheme for stable and beta, except that beta uses greater numbers. Now, in debian I have a watch file that is a combination of url + regexp to keep an eye on new releases. Unfortunately for kasts it reports the beta version, and so I ignore it, and so I don't know when there's a real new release. Since it is impossible to distinguish them via a regexp, would it be possible to change the naming scheme for beta? Like calling it beta123.123.123 or 123.123.123beta or something similar?
Sorry to close this bug report right away, but there is literally nothing I can do: this is the versioning scheme for the entirety of KDE (gear) which includes more than a hundred packages. The whole release procedure is fully automated, and I wouldn't even know how to do a release manually. :-) So if you would like to request a change, please do so against KDE gear itself. PS: I do agree up to a certain point that the current versioning scheme can cause unwanted problems, because I had similar issues with a beta release with a higher number blocking the automated flathub package update of the stable version.
You can use https://release-monitoring.org/project/326638/ to monitor releases. It also knows how to distingiush between regular and prereleases
That link illustrates the problem: Latest version 24.01.80 which is NOT the latest version :D I will ask to the other kde maintainers how they deal with this issue.
I see now that I am supposed to look at the detailed long list of things, not the main summary. Thing is that here: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/kasts it permanently looks like it's on an old version.