Clipboard widget no longer shows you QR codes for non-text items
ability to type characters not on your physical keyboard by pressing-and-holding the keys that it does have. This requires plasma-keyboard package to be installed.
Plugging in a USB printer now shows only one notification about it, not two.
The reset button in System Settings’ SDDM configuration page now resets a few more things it had missed in the past. (Horraaahhh SDDM is not dead and KDE still supports it.)
Implemented a fix in Plasma code to prevent Electron apps’ System Tray icons from all following each others’ settings.
Reduced CPU and GPU load for full-screen windows (also known as “direct scan-out”) for screens using more fractional scale factors.
If you happen to have multiple GPUs and any of them don’t actually support OpenGL 3D acceleration, this no longer prevents the more capable ones from providing 3D acceleration.
In case of digital Clock if multiple time zones are added then the time difference between the time zones is now displayed.
Users can now reverse the ordering of items in the System Tray widget.
KDE Discover now sorts app lists by number of reviews by default. A Pity that it is still not recommended to use with systems running pacman
The currently-active task in a grouped task tooltip now has bold text, to help you pick it out.
Labels for Bluetooth devices in the System Tray widget have been re-arranged so that you can always see the battery level no matter how long the device name is.
KWin Crashes
Reduced CPU and GPU load for full-screen windows (also known as “direct scan-out”) on screens without the pointer on them - In plasma 6.6.4
Added support for “3D LUTs” in KWin, which reduces resource usage on GPUs that support color pipelines in hardware. - In plasma 6.7
In Plasma 6.7 and onwards support for Background Apps portal has been introduced. Is expected to help GNOME apps running in KDE.
Improved the up-scaling feature for screen content when using KWin’s Zoom effect.
The printer widget will now display the number of active and queued print jobs.
Applications, like xdotool that use XWayland, which have the need to send synthetic keyboard and mouse events are now identified easily. Also applications to which such access is given is also listed and those accesses can now be revoked easily.
KDE Discover now handles instances where it is launched without internet connection much more gracefully. Still a pity that it is not recommended to use it with Arch and pacman.
Starting with Plasma 6.7 a new cross-desktop standard “Projects” folder has been implemented, which should be visible under the $HOME directory of users.
Improvements and bug fixes in automatic screen brightness feature, KDE Discover handles firmware update, KDE-Connect display of low battery notification for the phone, NVidia graphics handling with KDE, and many more.
Apologies for missing out the intermediate updates. Was traveling and had some high priority tasks to complete.
When HDR mode is available, ICC profile can now be used.
For AMD laptops with adaptive backlight modulation capability, the intensity of the adaptive backlight modulation capability, is now controllable. It can be turned off too.
In Plasma 6.7, the sensors which show temperature in Info Center will now show the temperature based on the system settings. Previously it used to default to Celcius. Helpful for people in North America and those of the scientific mind (read Kelvin fan boys).
Bug Fix - In Plasma 6.7, if the user has the configured the same flatpak repo twice, then KDE Discover will show only the application name once.
In Plasma 6.7, if you are using Kickoff application launcher then apps listed in the launcher can be removed by simply dragging them outside of the launcher.
Bug Fixes - In Plasma 6.6.5 sometimes the power button used to just vanish. This was fixed.
Bug Fixes - For computers having multiple GPUs, sometimes freezes and stutters were observed. That has been fixed.
In Plasma 6.7 performance is improved if CPU based rendering is used, for example for QT and KDE apps.
Plasma 6.7 beta is now out. Expected that Plasma 6.7 will be released post Jun/Jul - 2026. If everything goes according to plan.
Visibility of the Plasma On screen keyboard is now configurable based on user inputs.
Fix in Plasma 6.7 - “Hide from Screencast” option also prevents the window from static screenshots. There is option for “Hide from screen recordings” too that is coming
In the upcoming Plasma 6.8, under System Settings > Network, the WiFi band for the access point/hot spot can now be set as automatic.
In the upcoming Plasma 6.7 KDE Discover now groups items on its “Installed” page into categories by default. How I wish KDE Discover were able to work seamlessly with pacman.
In upcoming plasma 6.7 Gwenview is now set to be Plasma’s default SVG viewer, so these files won’t open with GIMP by default anymore.
Bug fixes - Plasma crash when restarted using systemctl restart --user plasma-plasmashell.service on systems with multiple screens and multiple panels. Coming in Plasma 6.6.6
Bug Fixes - Plasma crash when switching Activities using the Activity Pager widget on systems with multiple screens. Coming in Plasma 6.6.6
Many more bug fixes and features that are coming down the path.
Changes coming up. This week was mostly about bug fixes.
Plasma 6.7 is still planned to be released in Jun-2026.
In the upcoming plasma 6.7 the starred items in clipboard are not cleared when clear history or clear cupboard is used. Starred items will have to be manually cleared. Not sure how the user base is going to react to this change.
Fixes for KDE Discover in Plasma 6.8
Bug Fixes for Plasma 6.6.6
Fixed memory leaks in KWin in Plasma 6.7
For plasma 6.8 support for Intel Xe driver was added to the System monitor app.
