With plans to release next Tuesday (21 October), KDE developers this week have been putting the finishing touches on this next open-source desktop update. Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham says he thinks it's going to be "a pretty darn good release" when it officially debuts.

This week in Plasma is out with its latest issue written by Nate Graham. This week he and other Plasma developers focused on wrapping up Plasma 6.5 development. Plus celebrating the 29th birthday of KDE.

Meanwhile for Plasma 6.6 as the next desktop version there is now support in the Application Dashboard widget to configure it to follow the color scheme.

Plasma 6.6 is also making the highlights for top-level menu items slightly rounded:

Plus for Plasma 6.5 there has been many last minute bug-fixes, including various KWin crashes. There is also a fix for a visual issue around full-screen HDR content. Also in time for Plasma 6.5 were some enhancements for better handling of nested KWin sessions.

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



[1] https://blogs.kde.org/2025/10/18/this-week-in-plasma-plasma-6.5-is-nigh-and-kde-is-29-years-old-help-us-celebrate/