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Plenty of new shiny in the service of improved usability
The latest version of the KDE desktop - Plasma 6.7.0 - has arrived, bringing several shiny new functions – some of which have been a long time coming – and features the return of the popular Oxygen theme from KDE 4.Since the KDE 6 “megarelease” two and a half years ago, the project's developers have been very busy. Fresh Plasma releases have come thick and fast. It's fewer than six months since the release of KDE Plasma 6.6.0 back in February.
This rate of change matters, as a massive implementation change is coming: as the team announced in November last year, the plan is that KDE Plasma 6.8 will be Wayland-only. That means that this new release is the last to support X11. From some time early next year, KDE Plasma will be “Wayland or no way.”
There are already functional differences between Plasma on X11 and Plasma on Wayland, as the Dedoimedo blog described when reviewing Kubuntu 26.04 last month. (Dedoimedo is written by Igor Ljubuncic, who we interviewed at the 2023 Ubuntu Summit.)
