Plasma 6.2 this week entered its soft feature freeze ahead of the Plasma 6.2 stable release in October. The focus now is on bug-fixing for Plasma 6.2 and at the moment they are at 301 bug reports, which is their lowest amount going back to 2015. The KDE developers hope over the next month to drop that to less than 200 bug reports.

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly recap of all interesting KDE changes for the week. Besides the KDE Plasma bug stats, some of the other interesting KDE developments shared this week by Nate Graham include:

- The ability to block apps from inhibiting sleep and the screen lock.

- Newly-installed Plasma widgets are shown at the top of the grid view and receive a "New!" tag for the first hour.

- The plasma-apply-wallpaperimage tool now has a "--fill-mode" option.

- The KDE System Settings Accessibility page UI has been overhauled.

- KDE will once per year have a popup asking for donations. There is the ability to disable it for those interested.

- Many bug fixes.

More details on the KDE changes this week via [1]Nate's blog .



[1] https://pointieststick.com/2024/08/30/this-week-in-plasma-inhibiting-inhibitions-and-more/