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KDE Preps More Crash KWin Crash Fixes, New Feature Work For Plasma 6.5

([KDE] 6 Hours Ago KDE Mid-July)


KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development recap of all interesting things and fixes merged for the week to Plasma.

Summer holidays aren't lightening the Plasma 6.5 development activities as it's been another busy week working on new Plasma 6.5 features and further fixes for Plasma 6.4. Some of this week's KDE Plasma highlights include:

- Plasma 6.5 will now allow configuring rotatable dials on drawing tablets.

- When sharing the current WiFi network on Plasma 6.5, the WiFi password will be displayed too for easier connection experience.

- With the recently-introduced ability to change wallpapers between light and dark versions, Plasma 6.5 now is also adding a feature that makes use of the day/night cycle for the wallpaper light/dark switching too.

- Plasma 6.4.3 has fixed a KWin crash when Alt + Tab out of certain games. There is also another KWin crash while using a drawing tablet pen when an internal window closes.

- Plasma 6.4.3 also fixes a KWin memory leak.

More details on this week's KDE fixes and other feature work for Plasma 6.5 via [1]This Week in Plasma .



[1] https://blogs.kde.org/2025/07/12/this-week-in-plasma-tablet-dials-and-day/night-cycles/


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