KDE Plasma 6.4 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New

posted by Marius Nestor on Jun 17, 2025,
updated Jul 13, 2025

KDE Plasma 6.4 introduces a major UI revamp for the Spectacle screenshot utility, support for per-virtual-desktop custom tile layouts, the KWin-X11 easy-to-use and flexible X window manager, a new HDR calibration wizard, and the Aurorae theme engine for KWin window decorations.

It also features support for controlling whether a window has a titlebar and frame from its Task Manager context menu, support for fully disabling system tray icons from apps that lack an internal setting for this preference, and support for applying sound themes with a double-click.

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Original Post:

• Plasma 6.4 - KDE Community

  A new version of Plasma is here, and it feels even more like /home, as it becomes smoother, friendlier and more helpful.

  Plasma 6.4 improves on nearly every front, with progress being made in accessibility, color rendering, tablet support, window management, and more.

  As this is going to be a long read, let’s get right into it…

More Updates:

• KDE Plasma 6.4 Released, This is What's New - OMG! Ubuntu

  This is fourth major update in the Plasma 6 series and it’s a stacked one that adds to the sizeable set of improvements the KDE Plasma 6.3 release served up earlier this year. This release uses Qt 6.8 and KDE Frameworks 6.14.

  Developers who’ve spent the past few months beavering away to bring KDE Plasma 6.4 to the masses are billing this update as “smoother, friendlier and more helpful”, noting it contains changes across key areas like colour management, accessibility, and more.

• KDE Plasma 6.4 Desktop Environment Released, This Is What’s New

  Over four months after its previous major Plasma 6.3 release, followed by five minor updates, the last one being Plasma 6.3.5, the KDE desktop environment, beloved by many, has just rolled out the much-anticipated Plasma 6.4.

  One of the standout features in this update is enhanced tiling support, which now allows users to set up different window layouts for each virtual desktop. Need a clean two-pane setup for work? A centered arrangement for media? No problem—Plasma adapts to your preferences seamlessly.

• KDE Plasma 6.4 Released with Redesigned Screenshot Tool [Ubuntu PPA] | UbuntuHandbook

  For KDE Plasma users, the new 6.4 release of this Linux desktop environment is out today!

  Except the major 6.0, KDE Plasma usually rolls out new feature releases every 4 months. And Plasma 6.4 is the new update since February, which improved color rendering, tablet support, and the built-in screenshot tool.

XDA:

• KDE Plasma's big 6.4 update makes setting up your home in Linux a lot comfier

  There's a big war going on right now between Microsoft and the Linux community. While neither side is making direct blows at the other, both of them are fighting to win over the hearts and minds of Windows 10 users. Despite its end-of-life date rapidly approaching in mid-October, Windows 10 is still the most dominant Microsoft operating system, with Windows 11 lagging slightly behind. As such, a lot of people are going to be left high and dry in terms of security updates in four months time, and both sides wants to convince you that either Windows 11 or Linux is the way to go.

  One of the companies that joined the fight on the side of the Linux community is KDE. A few weeks ago, it made a blog post claiming that "Windows 10 exiles" would have a better time using Plasma than Windows 11. Not long after, some people switched to Linux and installed KDE Plasma, and a new update for the app was released that made things even more comfortable.

GoL:

• KDE Plasma 6.4 brings improvements for accessibility, colour rendering, tablet support and more

  KDE Plasma 6.4 has arrived bringing lots of modern enhancements to my favourite Linux desktop environment, and what's used on SteamOS / Steam Deck Desktop Mode.

KDE:

• KDE Plasma 6.4 launches, bringing better window management, improved KRunner, and more

  KDE Plasma 6.4 has finally arrived, bringing improvements to tools like KRunner, Spectacle, better window management, and more.

The Register:

• KDE Plasma 6.4 ships with major usability improvements

  The second of three KDE point releases planned for 2025 is here, with more tiling options, accessibility improvements, and much more.

  KDE Plasma 6.4.0 brings improved handling of window tiling, refinements to its dark mode, tweaked widgets and notifications, better sorting of search results from the built-in Krunner tool, a revamp to the screenshot tool Spectacle, among other things. The full changelog is nearly 3,500 lines long, so this is a significantly different release.

  It's only about four months since we covered the release of version 6.3. That arrived one year after the long-awaited release of Plasma 6.0, a full decade after Plasma 5. After such a long time, the release schedule for 6.x feels rapid, as if the team is enjoying working on the fresh new version. There is a pre-planned release schedule, which indicates that Plasma 6.5 should arrive around October.

LWN:

• KDE Plasma 6.4 released

  The KDE Project has announced the Plasma 6.4 release. New features include more flexible tiling features, improvements to the Spectacle screen capture utility, a number of accessibility enhancements, and much more. See the changelog for a complete list of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes.

Late:

• KDE Plasma 6.4 is out

  KDE Plasma 6.4 was released this week. However, I did not have the chance to make a video about it until now, leaving everyone wondering: what's new in this update, anyway?

  But fear not: today I'll tell you about everything that's new in this update, talking about - in this order: the shell, window management, krunner, widgets, apps, settings and accessibility. There's a lot to cover today!

Steven Vaughan-Nichols:

• Your jump from Windows 10 to Linux gets easier with KDE Plasma 6.4

  For the last few years, my favorite Linux desktop interface has been Linux Mint Cinnamon. However, that adoration doesn't mean I can't appreciate other Linux desktops.

  For example, when the KDE Community recently released KDE Plasma 6.4, I decided to give it a try on my openSUSE Tumbleweed machine, a Dell XPS 8300 with a 3.4GHz Intel Core i7-2600 processor, 16GB DDR3 RAM, and a 1.5TB 7200 rpm hard drive from 2011. That machine can run Windows 10 (you can forget about Windows 11), but it works fine with Linux. Tumbleweed, the SUSE community rolling desktop Linux release with the latest Plasma 6 interface, runs well.

Planet KDE:

• KDE Plasma 6.4.1, Bugfix Release for June - KDE Community

  June 2025. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6, versioned 6.4.1.

  Plasma 6.4 was released in June 2025 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.

  This release adds a week’s worth of new translations and fixes from KDE’s contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include...

BB (Bobby Borisov):

• KDE Plasma 6.4.1 Desktop Environment Released

  Only a week after Plasma 6.4 was released, the KDE team rolled out version 6.4.1, the first bugfix update to its 6.4 series.

Late addition:

• KDE Plasma 6.4 Is Out Now With Colorful New Features

  Four months after the release of 6.3, the KDE team has announced the full release version 6.4 of the Plasma desktop environment. It's bringing several brand-new features and improvements for KDE fans like myself.

  Let's start with the most colorful new features. First, Plasma's KRunner application, which I've enjoyed putting to use lately, has a new color-oriented feature: type in any hex code and KRunner will show you a little sample of that color. If you happen to know the official CSS or SVG name of a color, you can type that too, and KRunner will identify and show it to you.