The second beta release of KDE's [1]Plasma 6.4 desktop is now available for testing ahead of the official release in June.

Following the [2]Plasma 6.4 Beta release from two weeks ago, Plasma 6.4 Beta 2 is out today with some additional fixes. With this second beta (KDE Plasma 6.3.91), there are fixes to XWayland and the Discover software among other Plasma fixes. The mentioned notable fixes in this new release include:

- Xwayland: Fix leaking normal key presses with keyboard layouts other than English

- Map xinerama index to Output by output name

- Xwayland: use output names to find the primary output

- Discover: rpm-ostree: Don't try to parse an empty version.

- Discover: rpm-ostree: Fix rpm-ostree driver registration.

- drkonqi: Fix minimum systemd requirement

- spectacle: Hide capture windows before deleting them when accepting.

More details on today's KDE Plasma 6.4 Beta 2 via [3]KDE.org .

At large, new modules with Plasma 6.4 include KWin-X11 and Aurorae. KWin-X11 split off the X11/X.Org specific code into its own package separate from KWin as it becomes more Wayland-focused for the eventual deprecation of X11 support and removal at a later point, likely for Plasma 7. Aurorae is new to Plasma 6.4 for the theme engine for KWin window decorations. Aurorae uses SVG or QML to render decorations and buttons.

In addition to these new modules, Plasma 6.4 is bringing a variety of Wayland improvements and other shiny new features. KDE Plasma 6.4 brings some nice usability improvements, various crash fixes, better pixel perfection with KWin, and other refinements.

The KDE Plasma 6.4.0 public release is expected on 17 June.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Plasma+6.4

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.4-Beta

[3] https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.91/