Plasma 6.6, 6.7 & 6.8 See Plenty Of Bug Fixing This Week
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- News link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.7-Beta-2-Week
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KDE released [1]Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 this week while the current Plasma 6.6 stable series continues seeing fixes as does Plasma 6.8 for what will be the follow-on feature release to Plasma 6.7.
Across the board much of the KDE Plasma development this week was dominated by fixes:
- With the Plasma 6.6.6 point release there are some notable fixes such as for a possible KWin crash when a monitor is rapidly power-cycled, fixing a clipboard-related issue causing XWayland-based apps to lag or freeze after locking the screen, and other bugs.
- Plasma 6.7 fixes a bug where one could accidentally drag a window so far off a screen edge that in turn it could never be moved back. This bug was first reported in 2024 but now addressed for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release.
- Plasma 6.7 also fixes an issue with certain laptop hardware/firmware that could trigger "an infinite stream" of keyboard brightness on screen displays after closing the laptop lid.
- Plasma 6.8 will reduce the amount of visual flickering observed when Discover checks for updates.
- Plasma 6.8 has also fixed two more KWin crash scenarios around KWin's Overview effect.
More details on the KDE Plasma fixes this week via [2]This Week in Plasma .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.7-Beta-2
[2] https://blogs.kde.org/2026/05/30/this-week-in-plasma-6.7-beta-2-released/
Across the board much of the KDE Plasma development this week was dominated by fixes:
- With the Plasma 6.6.6 point release there are some notable fixes such as for a possible KWin crash when a monitor is rapidly power-cycled, fixing a clipboard-related issue causing XWayland-based apps to lag or freeze after locking the screen, and other bugs.
- Plasma 6.7 fixes a bug where one could accidentally drag a window so far off a screen edge that in turn it could never be moved back. This bug was first reported in 2024 but now addressed for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release.
- Plasma 6.7 also fixes an issue with certain laptop hardware/firmware that could trigger "an infinite stream" of keyboard brightness on screen displays after closing the laptop lid.
- Plasma 6.8 will reduce the amount of visual flickering observed when Discover checks for updates.
- Plasma 6.8 has also fixed two more KWin crash scenarios around KWin's Overview effect.
More details on the KDE Plasma fixes this week via [2]This Week in Plasma .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.7-Beta-2
[2] https://blogs.kde.org/2026/05/30/this-week-in-plasma-6.7-beta-2-released/