KDE developer David Edmundson announces that the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.1 will be the last release to support the X11 display server, marking a significant shift towards Wayland as the default display protocol. The decision comes after years of development and improvement of Wayland support in KDE, with the team now confident in its stability and feature parity. This move will allow developers to focus resources on Wayland and modernize the desktop environment.
Background
X11 is a decades-old display server protocol that has been the foundation of Linux desktop environments, while Wayland is its modern replacement designed to address X11's architectural limitations and security issues. KDE Plasma is one of the most popular desktop environments for Linux systems.
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- Hacker News (RSS)
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- Jun 2, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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- 7.0 / 10