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This Week in Plasma: 6.5 beta and start of the bug-fix-a-palooza
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Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!
This week we finalized the set of features and major changes in Plasma 6.5, and released the first beta. I’d encourage everyone to test it out! One of the best ways these days is via KDE Linux. Many other distros also offer “unstable” KDE repos and the like. Please do test. For the next month, the Plasma team will be focusing on bug-fixing, so let us know what the bugs are!
This week, the last few features landed, and we began The Great Plasma 6.5 Bug-Fix-a-Palooza...
From a colleague:
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David Edmundson ☛ Upcoming changes to Activities in Plasma 6.5
Activities' future is a bit unclear at the moment. It overlaps with functionality provided by other services and the user story for how it fits into the desktop is unclear at best. However we also have to acknowledge that some people use activities to create a workflow that works for them. Rather than taking a sledgehammer to the concept, we're performing a more surgical approach of working out what use-cases people are trying to fix at finding the best solution to deliver that.
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KDE Plasma 6.5 beta is out bringing KNightTime module, Wayland PiP support, and more
With the October 21 release date on the horizon, the KDE team has rolled out the Plasma 6.5 beta, introducing a range of improvements such as Wayland PiP support.
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KDE Plasma 6.5 is getting kwindowprop, a new xprop-like tool for inspecting windows
The KDE team is back to full development after slowing down for Akademy 2025, rolling out the usual mix of bug fixes and improvements.