{"id":883880,"date":"2026-10-16T03:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T03:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/883880\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T03:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T03:08:16","slug":"kde-turns-30-with-plasma-6-8-remote-upgrades-and-an-x11-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/883880\/","title":{"rendered":"KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, remote upgrades, and an X11 farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marking the 30th anniversary of software developer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/KDE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KDE<\/a> on October 14, the company released Plasma 6.8, debuted a movie, and retired Plasma\u2019s native X11 session support. <a href=\"https:\/\/kde.org\/announcements\/plasma\/6\/6.8.0\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The announcement from KDE<\/a> dubs the new Plasma 6.8 as the \u201c30th Anniversary Edition\u201d and describes the update as preparing Plasma for the future. Legacy X11 applications will still function via the <a href=\"https:\/\/wayland.freedesktop.org\/docs\/book\/Xwayland.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">XWayland compatibility layer<\/a>, and KDE applications will also continue supporting X11 under other desktop environments.<\/p>\n<p>After 42 years in service, the X11 protocol is losing another major desktop environment. Plasma will fully adopt the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wayland_%28protocol%29\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wayland<\/a> system and put support for starting new X11 sessions in Plasma to bed. Users opting to stay on Plasma 6.7 will keep their existing sessions for now. The move was expected, with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GNOME\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GNOME<\/a> officially <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gnome.org\/alatiera\/2025\/06\/08\/the-x11-session-removal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dropping X11 sessions by default in 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new Plasma 6.8 brings many improvements, including increased support for adding window decorations (like shadows and rounded corners) to third-party apps, and a more streamlined <a href=\"https:\/\/quantumproductions.info\/articles\/2026-05\/union-spring-2026-update\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Union theming system<\/a>. Other notable additions include <a href=\"https:\/\/invent.kde.org\/plasma\/kwin\/-\/merge_requests\/9472\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nvidia triple buffering<\/a> being enabled by default, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/KDE\/kup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kup backup integration<\/a> (KDE\u2019s backup utility\u2014now integrated into Plasma), and <a href=\"https:\/\/invent.kde.org\/plasma\/kscreen\/-\/merge_requests\/487\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">kscreenctl<\/a>, a command-line utility that allows power users to adjust display configurations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marking the 30th anniversary of software developer KDE on October 14, the company released Plasma 6.8, debuted a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-883880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}