Building off the [1]KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta release earlier in May, a second beta was declared today in preparing for the Plasma 6.7 stable debut in mid-June.

KDE developers continue working toward releasing Plasma 6.7.0 on 16 June while today marks a second beta candidate to help facilitate last minute testing. Since the first beta, Plasma 6.7 added [2]some notification improvements and other refinements along with common bug fixing. Among the fixes were for some [3]possible crash fixes and KWin memory leak fixes .

As for what's new in Plasma 6.7 at large, there is [4]the new Plasma Big Screen UI for living room PCs and the like. There is also the new "Union" style engine is available as a technical preview, HDR improvements, various new Wayland protocols, other Wayland enhancements, much better CPU-based rendering performance, various fixes to benefit the NVIDIA Linux graphics driver stack, enabling overlay planes for Intel graphics, per-screen virtual desktop support, continued work around KWin on Vulkan, better direct scan-out handling for full-screen games, UI polishing, and more.

Downloads and more details on today's Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 release via [5]KDE.org .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.7-Beta-Released

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.7-Notifications-RDP

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.8-Intel-Xe

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.7-Beta-Big-Screen

[5] https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.6.91/