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KDE Plasma 6.5 Released With Rounded Bottom Window Corners, Better HDR & Much More

Written by Michael Larabel in KDE on 21 October 2025 at 05:51 AM EDT. 49 Comments
KDE Plasma 6.5 is out today as the newest major feature release for the Plasma 6 desktop. Plasma 6.5 brings many great improvements and continues further evolving this modern, Wayland-focused open-source desktop.

Plasma 6.5 brings rounded bottom window corners, automatic light-to-dark theme switching, KDE System Settings improvements, the hibernate option from the KDE login screen, various accessibility improvements, better HDR display support with a tweaked tone mapping curve, experimental Wayland picture-in-picture protocol support, various other Wayland enhancements, support for overlay planes for better efficiency, a new desktop grayscale option, and countless other small enhancements throughout the Plasma codebase.

👁 KDE Plasma 6.5


👁 Plasma 6.5


👁 KDE Plasma 6.5 grayscale


Downloads and more details on today's Plasma 6.5 official release via KDE.org.

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