Plasma 6.6, 6.7 & 6.8 See Plenty Of Bug Fixing This Week
KDE released Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 this week while the current Plasma 6.6 stable series continues seeing fixes as does Plasma 6.8 for what will be the follow-on feature release to Plasma 6.7.
Across the board much of the KDE Plasma development this week was dominated by fixes:
- With the Plasma 6.6.6 point release there are some notable fixes such as for a possible KWin crash when a monitor is rapidly power-cycled, fixing a clipboard-related issue causing XWayland-based apps to lag or freeze after locking the screen, and other bugs.
- Plasma 6.7 fixes a bug where one could accidentally drag a window so far off a screen edge that in turn it could never be moved back. This bug was first reported in 2024 but now addressed for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release.
- Plasma 6.7 also fixes an issue with certain laptop hardware/firmware that could trigger "an infinite stream" of keyboard brightness on screen displays after closing the laptop lid.
- Plasma 6.8 will reduce the amount of visual flickering observed when Discover checks for updates.
- Plasma 6.8 has also fixed two more KWin crash scenarios around KWin's Overview effect.
More details on the KDE Plasma fixes this week via This Week in Plasma.
Across the board much of the KDE Plasma development this week was dominated by fixes:
- With the Plasma 6.6.6 point release there are some notable fixes such as for a possible KWin crash when a monitor is rapidly power-cycled, fixing a clipboard-related issue causing XWayland-based apps to lag or freeze after locking the screen, and other bugs.
- Plasma 6.7 fixes a bug where one could accidentally drag a window so far off a screen edge that in turn it could never be moved back. This bug was first reported in 2024 but now addressed for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release.
- Plasma 6.7 also fixes an issue with certain laptop hardware/firmware that could trigger "an infinite stream" of keyboard brightness on screen displays after closing the laptop lid.
- Plasma 6.8 will reduce the amount of visual flickering observed when Discover checks for updates.
- Plasma 6.8 has also fixed two more KWin crash scenarios around KWin's Overview effect.
More details on the KDE Plasma fixes this week via This Week in Plasma.