At Akademy 2025 this year, I had the privilege of giving a talk about a big picture topic close to my heart, and you can watch it here: For those who prefer reading over watching and listening, I’ll give a quick summary: I believe that the challenges facing the world today present an opportunity for […]
Talk at Akademy 2025 — minding the big picture: opportunity from chaos
Category: KDE
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I can not unfortunately test the beta as I can not even login after reboot. Typing my credentials lead to a new loop of password prompt.
KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta Highlights
- Release Timeline
- Beta released: Thursday
- Stable release expected: 21 October
- New Features
- KNightTime: Schedules dark/light cycles and adjusts screen color temperature by time of day.
- Rounded Bottom Corners: Default window design update.
- GPU Underlays: Resolves a 22-year-old feature request.
- Wayland Enhancements: Picture-in-picture, pointer warping, and more.
- Improved Functionality
- Configurable tablet dials and touch rings in Plasma settings.
- Enhanced Sticky Notes usability when placed in a panel.
- Clipboard entries can now be marked as favorites that will be permanently saved for easy access in the future.
- Availability
- Beta downloads and details available via KDE.org.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/09/20/this-week-in-plasma-6.5-beta-and-start-of-the-bug-fix-a-palooza/
- Release Timeline
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Over 180 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Today they all get new bugfix source releases with updated translations, including:
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Today I have something very exciting to share: the Alpha release of KDE Linux, KDE’s new operating system! Many of you may be familiar with KDE Linux already through Harald Sitter‘s 2024 Akademy talk about it (slides; recording), or the Wiki page, or its web page on kde.org. For everyone else, let me briefly explain: […]
Announcing the Alpha release of KDE Linux -
“Plasma 6.5 brings this initial Setup Wizard as complementary to their existing Welcome Center and allows for initial user creation for OEM installs of the operating system and similar purposes. Beyond user creation it can also be used for typical first-run settings like selecting the keyboard layout and time zone selection.”
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Nice icons of the right click menu.
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There is currently no release notes available.
Edit: official release announcement
https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-06-30-8.7.0_release_announcement/
