Plasma 6.1 released with Explicit Sync, Triple Buffering for Wayland and much more
KDE Plasma 6.1 has been released today bringing with it plenty of exciting new features, some big and some small but there's plenty to enjoy.
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KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta released with Wayland Explicit Sync support
Time for testing, especially for those of you with an NVIDIA GPU as the KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta is now live with some new features.
KDE Plasma 6.1 will be able to sync keyboard RGB to your chosen accent colour
More work is ongoing for the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.1 release, and there's some fun stuff being added like the ability to sync your keyboard RGB lighting up to your Plasma accent colouring.
KDE Plasma app Ark gets support for self-extracting .exe archive files
In another of their regular update blog posts, KDE's Nate Graham has highlighted some recent new KDE Plasma features coming soon to the desktop.
3rd party KDE Plasma Global Themes and Widgets can lead to data loss
Uh oh. Seems there's been an issue lately with Global Themes for KDE, which has ended up causing a total wipe of data.
Plasma 6 lands in Arch Linux, KDE neon teething issues and Plasma 6.1 heating up
The dust is starting to settle now the huge KDE Plasma 6 release is out in the wild, with it beginning to land for more distributions but there's been some issues.
The future has arrived - KDE Plasma 6 desktop released
The KDE team announced "MegaRelease 6", a big upgrade that includes Plasma 6, Frameworks 6 and Gear 24.02 with tons of improvements to this popular desktop environment that's used on the Steam Deck for Desktop Mode.
Slimbook reveal the AMD powered Excalibur laptop and KDE Plasma 6 Slimbook
For all of you who keep asking for more AMD powered laptops, Slimbook have delivered with the brand new Excalibur which also has a KDE Slimbook counterpart.
KDE Plasma 6 hits initial funding goal
The KDE team are currently running a funding campaign to help bring in more monies to support Plasma desktop development, and thankfully well ahead of the Plasma 6 release they've managed to hit the initial goal.
KDE Plasma 6.0 Beta 2 is available for testing
Getting exciting now! We're closing in on the final release of KDE Plasma 6.0 with a second Beta now available for testing to ensure it's ready for your Linux desktops and eventually Steam Deck too.
HDR support for KDE Plasma 6 seems to be shaping up nicely
While it's far from finished, and still needs some manual effort to get properly working, HDR support for KDE Plasma 6 has made great progress.
KDE Plasma 6 - Beta 1 released
The KDE team continue sprinting towards to finish line of the Plasma 6 release next year, with a Beta release now available for the popular Linux desktop environment which is also used on Steam Deck.
Plasma 6 full steam ahead with only one showstopper left for Wayland by default
As the KDE team continue working full steam ahead towards Plasma 6, they're now down to a single showstopping bug for having Wayland by default.
KDE Plasma 6 goes Wayland by default, initial HDR gaming support
In another update on the progress of the upcoming KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment release, there's some fun details from Nate Graham.
KDE Plasma 6 gets a first Alpha release
Nearly 10 years after KDE Plasma 5.0, the launch of KDE Plasma 6.0 is approaching and a first "Megarelease - Alpha" is out now for testing.
KDE KWin may gain early HDR support for gaming
While HDR support is still not really there yet on Linux, there's a lot of movement on it now (and plenty of it thanks to Valve and work on Gamescope) but it seems KDE KWin may gain early initial support for it.
KDE Plasma 6.0 now scheduled for release 28th February 2024
The KDE team are hard at work to make the next major release of the KDE Plasma desktop environment, my current favourite desktop and the one used on the Steam Deck. Now, we actually have something of a proper roadmap to Plasma 6.0.
Plasma 6 optimized for Wayland gaming, plus compositor crash recovery
KDE developer Nate Graham has two quite interesting updates in regards to the upcoming Plasma 6 desktop release, including some fun optimizations landing.
KDE Plasma 6 to launch in February 2024
They've finally set a date! The big release of the KDE Plasma 6 desktop is now set to launch in February 2024.
KDE Plasma 6 gets double-click to open by default and other improvements
Something that has proven to be quite divisive in the Linux community for KDE Plasma users is single or double-click to open something, as Plasma 6 will default to double-click.