KDE Plasma 6.8 was released on October 14, 2026, coinciding with KDE's 30th anniversary. The update introduces built-in dwell clicker accessibility, Bikram Sambat calendar and Amharic keyboard support, enhanced system monitoring with per-CPU task assignment and VRAM load percentages, and continued improvements to remote desktop.
Background
KDE Plasma is one of the most popular Linux desktop environments, first released in 2000 as part of the KDE project. Version 6.x introduced a major Qt6-based rewrite, and 6.8 continues the incremental improvement cycle.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Oct 14, 2026 at 07:29 PM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10