With [1]KDE Plasma 6.8 released earlier this week, KDE developers have begun working on more feature activity toward Plasma 6.9.

New this week is a overhauled weather widget. Plasma's weather widget is nicely redone with an improved layout and more information on the weather forecast obtained via Open-Meteo. Overall looks to be a solid design improvement over its older weather widget:

Another big ticket item for Plasma 6.9 is landing a re-engineered on-screen keyboard. The new Plasma on-screen keyboard includes the option of having a full-size keyboard, a Japanese flick keyboard, and distinct layouts not tied to system locales:

Plus there have been a number of bug fixes and other improvements for Plasma 6.9 as well as preparing for the Plasma 6.8.1 bug-fix point release. All the details on the exciting Plasma developments this week via [2]This Week in Plasma .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.8-Released

[2] https://blogs.kde.org/2026/10/17/this-week-in-plasma-new-weather-widget-and-on-screen-keyboard/