While [1]KDE Plasma 6.5 beta released this week , KDE developers have been busy landing last-minute minor features and fixes into this next desktop release.

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly recap to summarize all the interesting Plasma developments for the week. There were yet more Wayland enhancements and fixes and a number of other smaller changes worth mentioning for Plasma 6.5:

- Plasma 6.5 squeezed in text insertion point tracking in the zoom effect on Wayland.

- Fortigate is now a VPN vendor supported by Plasma 6.5's VPN plug-in.

- KRunner is smarter around performing mathematical calculations when given numbers with group separators.

- More improvements to make Wayland window activation/raising work better. These are various fixes to the input activation code for KWin.

- Enhanced communication integration between the Discover app and Flatpak installation/update handling.

- The desktop at the top of KWin's Overview effect now enjoys a nice fade-in / fade-out.

- Drag-and-drop now works with a stylus on Wayland.

- Fixed an issue that could cause input methods to stop working with X11 apps on Wayland.

- KDE Frameworks 6.18 fixes improper thread use for the SVG rendering pipeline.

- A new command-line tool "kwindowprop" is added that is similar to X11's xprop tool for dumping window properties.

- Qt 6.10 is adding support for graphics reset notifications that KWin can use to behave better when GPUs/drivers aren't running well.

Plasma 6.5 is working its way toward the stable release in late October. More details on the Plasma 6.5 changes this week via [2]Nate's blog .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.5-Beta-Released

[2] https://blogs.kde.org/2025/09/20/this-week-in-plasma-6.5-beta-and-start-of-the-bug-fix-a-palooza/